Athens
Athens, Greece: the weather, the air, the distance to the coast and what a month costs, each with its source. This page assesses no one.
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A year here
8 of 12 months have a mean temperature inside 10–26 °C, a band we chose and apply to every city alike. Thirty-year normals from NASA POWER, measured at this city’s own coordinates.
- Jan1297
- Feb13107
- Mar16129
- Apr191511
- May252015
- Jun302520
- Jul332823
- Aug322723
- Sept282420
- Oct231916
- Nov181512
- Dec14119
Each cell: average daily high, monthly mean, average daily low, in °C. These are averages of daily values over 2001–2020, not records — the hottest day is higher and is not shown.
How near the sea is
5.6 km
Straight-line distance from this city’s coordinates to the nearest coastline, computed from Natural Earth 1:10m Physical Vectors — Coastline (ne_10m_coastline) v5.1.2 at 1:10,000,000. Natural Earth is public domain, and anyone can download the same file and get the same number.
It is a distance and not an access. A city 8 km from the coast across a mountain ridge is not 8 km from the sea in any sense you would use, and the figure says nothing about what is on that coast — a container terminal and a bay give the same number. The coastline is the outline of the dataset’s land, so a river wide enough to separate land counts as coast.
Air through the year
Athens, 2025: PM2.5 averaged over 10 reference monitor(s) within 25 km. The World Health Organization’s guideline is 5 µg/m³ and its first interim target is 35.
- Jan19
- Feb16
- Mar13
- Apr12
- May12
- Jun10
- Jul12
- Aug12
- Sept12
- Oct11
- Nov15
- Dec14
How this city rates
- Safety
- 98 / 100measured
- Healthcare
- 87 / 100measured
- Air quality
- 73 / 100measured
A month here, for a reference household
Reference household: two adults aged 38 and 37, a one-bedroom home, no children.
Residence fees and health cover are those of EU/EEA free movement (register after three months). The low, middle and high figures are the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles where a publisher states them; each line says who published it.
illustrative Money figures on this page are illustrative unless the figure names its publisher. The illustrative ones are arranged so the shape is right — a larger flat costs more than a smaller one, and the expensive cities are the expensive ones — and they are accurate in nothing. Do not plan on them.
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| Line | P25The lower quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall below it. Read it as the cheaper end of what is realistic, not as a bargain you can count on. | P50The middle of the estimate range: half the observations fall below it and half above. It is the figure to read first — not a promise, but the most representative single number we have. | P75The upper quartile of the estimate range: a quarter of observations fall above it. Budget against this one if you want room to be wrong. | Basis |
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| Rent, 1-bedroom | €455 | €650 | €845 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureAthens, observed 2 October 2026 |
| Electricity, gas and fuel* | not published | €111 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή (ELSTAT) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2025.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household in Attiki in 2025 — 1,616,673 households of 2.3 people on average, as the same table states — per household per month, Household Budget Survey 2025, Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή. Purchases only: ELSTAT publishes purchases and receipts in kind separately and only purchases are used. Every household, renting or owning. The region stands in for the city. |
| Water, sewerage and waste* | not published | €28 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή (ELSTAT) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2025.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household in Attiki in 2025 — 1,616,673 households of 2.3 people on average, as the same table states — per household per month, Household Budget Survey 2025, Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή. Purchases only: ELSTAT publishes purchases and receipts in kind separately and only purchases are used. Every household, renting or owning. The region stands in for the city. |
| Internet and phone* | not published | €81 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή (ELSTAT) More about this figurePer householdMeasured in 2025.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: The average private household in Attiki in 2025 — 1,616,673 households of 2.3 people on average, as the same table states — per household per month, Household Budget Survey 2025, Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή. Purchases only: ELSTAT publishes purchases and receipts in kind separately and only purchases are used. Every household, renting or owning. The region stands in for the city. |
| Groceries* | not published | €360 | not published | Average of published figuresPublished by Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή (ELSTAT) More about this figureAdults: 2 · children: 0Measured in 2025.An average of what surveyed households actually spent — not a price anyone is charged, and it carries whatever mix of tariffs, dwellings and consumption those households had.Whose spending this is: Per person, per month, from the average household in Attiki in 2025 — a household of 2.3 people, which is the figure the same table publishes beside the bill. Household Budget Survey, Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή. It is what households paid for food and non-alcoholic drinks, purchases only: ELSTAT publishes this line as purchases and receipts in kind separately, and only the purchases figure is used, because a receipt in kind is not money the reader will spend. Restaurants and cafes are a different COICOP division and are not in it. The region stands in for the city, and a child is charged the same as an adult, because the survey states one figure per person and no split by age.This is the survey’s average person. Food has strong economies of scale, and the publisher states one figure per person and no split by household size — so a larger household is charged here as though each member shopped alone.413.76 EUR a month per household ÷ 2.30 people per household, both published by Ελληνική Στατιστική Αρχή (ELSTAT) |
| Transport | €168 | €240 | €312 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureAdults: 2 |
| Health cover* | €0 | €0 | €0 | Published figurePublished by Υπουργείο Υγείας — Ν. 4368/2016 More about this figureA premium or rate the state sets.Per member, by age bandMeasured in 2026.A price the publisher states is in force, not a statistic about a market.What this price is for: Per person, any age: an EU citizen who is not directly or indirectly insured and holds documents legitimising stay in Greece, and family members (spouse, minor or dependent children), has free access to public health structures — «έχουν το δικαίωμα της ελεύθερης πρόσβασης στις Δημόσιες Δομές Υγείας» (Ν. 4368/2016 art. 33 παρ. 1, 2(α)). The public tier only, not EOPYY-insured cover; an AMKA is required (παρ. 3); a means-tested co-payment on medicines may be set by joint ministerial decision (παρ. 5), not read. A reader who keeps cover from another state is outside this scope, and the residence right of a non-working EU mover still asks for comprehensive sickness insurance (Π.Δ. 106/2007 art. 7).This is the price the publisher charges, so there is no range: the low and high figures are the price itself. |
| Schooling (state schooling) | €0 | €0 | €0 | Illustrative — nothing measured this More about this figureChildren: 0 |
| Building or service charge | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Statutory levies and licences | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Residence permit renewals | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Domestic help | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePer household |
| Household and leisure baseline | not held | not held | not held | Held by nobody More about this figurePeople: 2 |
| Total | not published | €1,470 | not published | This total does not include Building or service charge, Statutory levies and licences, Residence permit renewals, Domestic help and Household and leisure baseline, which nobody publishes for this city. It is the sum of what we hold, not of what the household will pay.No low or high total, because the spread of these lines was never published: Electricity, gas and fuel, Water, sewerage and waste, Internet and phone and Groceries. Everything else here is either a measured range or an exact price. |
– = not published by the source
Routes we hold for Greece
- EU/EEA free movement (register after three months) — Checked against the law
- Digital nomad visa and residence permit (Z.1 / I.8) — Draft — not checked by us yet
- Residence permit for people with sufficient means (type I.8) — Draft — not checked by us yet
Every requirement, as its rule states it, is on the page for Greece
Provenance
Rule set 1.58.0-2026-10-11 · read on 26 October 2026. Every figure on this page was computed by the engine from versioned rule files. No language model produced any number here, and translation happens only after the calculation.
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