Hitchhiking from Thessaloníki
The best-evidenced place to start hitchhiking out of Thessaloníki is about 22.8 km east of the centre. Show this spot on the map. 13 logged rides there average 4.4 out of 5, with a typical wait around 30 minutes.
16 of 16 hitchhikers who logged a ride starting in Greece said they would accept that ride again. See the data and its limits
Hitchhiking to Thessaloníki
Recent reviews mentioning Thessaloníki
41.1265, 22.55172
Longest time I've ever had to wait for a ride out of ~200 rides.Tried hitching at 5PM on Thursday for an hour but had to give up and set up my tent. Continued trying to hitch at 10AM on Friday and it took 3 hours until I finally got picked up by a Macedonian trucker going to Thessaloniki.
Other than that, I had two truckers stop who were only going 10km, which I said yes to... But they apparently changed their mind and didn't want me to get in. One of them just didn't have space for my bag, but I don't know what the reason is for the other one unless he just didn't like the look of me.
―VagrantEntity
40.60239, 22.69807
If you want to come here just follow Google Maps. I figured the instructions on the wiki were misleading.―LJIsTooShort
40.62291, 20.98626
After waiting in the town I walk hitchhiked more towards the border. Got extremely lucky with a lift to Thessaloniki.―LJIsTooShort
40.73732, 23.0079
I got dropped of on the highway the evening before and walked here in the morning. The fence at the tollstation is broken and its easy to access the highway up a small slope.The workers greeted me back nicely and i got a ride in no time by a truck to Romania.
At the border we got X-Rayed and my guitar was inspected and played by the police:)
―SamuRai
40.94493, 26.20491
Not much traffic off season. Mostly Turkish cars with 34 area code. Many trucks with 16.I needed to go to Sofia so i tried to go east with sign Bulgaria and west with Sign Thessaloniki. Sometimes both while standing in the middle and turning for cars/trucks.
Going to Turkey should be possible since i got offered rides by truck drivers.
The police were really chill only checked my Passport and told me they have to kick me out if someone reports me and chatted with me about traveling while doing their checks. The checkpoint and police presence probably made the drivers not stop for me.
1 male
―SamuRai
41.00845, 21.35647
Non much traffic but I was lucky enough to catch a truck to Thessaloniki―Kira
40.72705, 22.71446
Not bad space for stopping and nice place to sleep near by the abandoned tools but it's very hard to get here from Thessaloniki, probably the best way is to hitchhike here. There is a bus but it's a ghost bus that exists only on Google maps and as it was already dark I don't think that hitchhiking would work well. At the end I had to WALK HERE FOR OVER 18 KILOMETERS which took me around 4 hours and I got here around 4 am... But except for that I think it's not a bad spot for going to North Macedonia―Autostopeks
40.70718, 23.19091
Good spot for getting to Thessaloniki, behind the tools. On parking right next to the tools there are toilets that looked like they were for free but I haven't tested them so I can't guarantee that―Autostopeks
40.72623, 23.69356
Right after tools, great spot and both tools staff and police that passed (that was the first time I saw them on highway in Greece by the way) didn't care about me hitchhiking here. I quickly got ride to the next tools close to Thessaloniki―Autostopeks
40.68384, 22.94155
Shitty spot to hitchhikeIt’s hard for people continuing to Bulgaria to notice youto notice you
―Anonymous
40.70644, 23.19204
There is a gap in the fence to get to the highway after the toll station.Its also possible to walk to the rest stop.
1 male
―SamuRai
40.74715, 23.07635
Tried to get to the toll station by buses but two scheduled busses didnt drive.Tried to hitch a ride until the bus 91 came.
―SamuRai
40.37962, 23.92139
Traffic from Mt Athos and PeninsulaGood space to stop
No shade during the day
2 males
―SamuRai
40.06107, 23.43231
very nice stop. hitschiked at 7 am―Anonymous
40.69558, 22.84493
It was a little bit anoying for us to get there, and it was a bit scary because we had to Acceleration lane but someone stopped very soon and took us to Edesse :)―Anonymous
40.70718, 23.18891
Asked a albanian truck driver if he could take me to turkey. First he refused, but after his break he came back and offered to drop me off in front of the border near Alexandroupoli. Didnt even need to jump the fence like another reviewer mentioned, theres a big hole nowadays.―KaeptnBub
41.12834, 23.44539
Lots of room to stop in the emergency lane, but 2 different police cars pulled over and told me off for standing on the highway, but eventually I got taken all the way to Thessaloniki. Just hope no police come past.―Mattalackion
40.64039, 22.92977
Stand on the Path between the Bike lane and the street and leave some room for Cars to stop―Snowbite
40.69535, 22.8451
quite hard to get here bc not a single app was right about the bus timetable, ended up taking bus 51 (none of the others were coming) which was an unsafe walk to this spot so maybe be a bit more patient with the busses―suruh
40.70718, 23.18891
My plan was to ask the Turkish truck drivers and if not successful move to the toll station. Asked the first Turkish truck driver and he dropped me at the border ! Tesekurler Fethi! He also share his meal with me.―cavalierrustique
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