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Driving in Greece

The licence plates you will see on the road in Greece, how to read them, and what a car from abroad needs.

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Speed limits

Default limits for cars, unless signs say otherwise, as on the signs at border crossings.

In towns
50 km/h
Outside towns
90 km/h
Expressways
110 km/h
Motorways
130 km/h

Before you drive

Vignette and tolls
There is no vignette. Motorways are toll roads, and the only ones apart from the Aktio–Preveza undersea tunnel; a few motorways, such as the A52, are free.

Rules and prices change. Check the official site before you travel.

GR

Country code

Cars registered here show the country code GR. Plates carry it on the blue EU band, which counts as the country sign: no separate oval sticker is needed in the European Economic Area, and the plate is also valid in other countries of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. A car from abroad shows its own country code at the rear in the same way.

Reading the plates

Plates carry an area code that shows where the car was registered: 194 codes across 55 prefectures. For example:

AI-1234
Area codes on the mapAll area codes

Plates you will see

  • ABE-1234

    Standard · Current

Plate formats and history of Greece

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