Athens

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Numbeo's Safety Index puts Athens at 45/100 for crime — that makes it read sketchier than Greece's national picture overall (73/100 vs 82/100).

Verified Jul 12, 2026Confidence high
73Sketch Score

City page · part of Greece

The one number a country page can't give you

What people who actually live in Athens report

Numbeo aggregates thousands of resident-submitted perception surveys into a per-city Crime Index (higher = worse) and its inverse, a Safety Index — the only real city-granularity crime signal feeding this page, alongside Greece's national advisory, political, health, and police-trust data.

Crime Index

55.0

Safety Index

45.0

Source: Numbeo, user-submitted →

Sub-scores

Same real inputs as Greece's national page, with crime swapped for Athens's own Numbeo number above.

100advisoryConsensus
60Political Stability
56Police Trust
76Health
45Crime
90LGBTQ+

Legal status (national law)

Legal since 1951; equal age of consent since 2015+ UN decl. sign.

Source: Wikipedia — LGBTQ rights by country →

Pack this, know this

The little things that trip people up

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Plug & voltage

C / F · 230V

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Driving side

right

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Emergency

police: 100 or 112 / ambulance: 166 or 112 / fire: 199 or 112

How this compares to Greece

Numbeo's Safety Index puts Athens at 45/100 for crime — that makes it read sketchier than Greece's national picture overall (73/100 vs 82/100).

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