🇬🇷Cost of Travel in Greece (2026): Daily Budgets for 3 Cities
The ruins you learned about at school, a drowned volcano with villages on its rim, and a northern city that quietly cooks better than anywhere else in the country. Cheap by eurozone standards, and late-running in the best way.
Daily budgets in Greece
The cheapest city in Greece is Thessaloniki, at $55–110 a day mid-range per person; the priciest is Santorini, at $120–260 — about 129% more for the same style of trip.
| City | Budget / day | Mid-range / day | Comfort / day | Cheap meal | Mid-range hotel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thessaloniki | $35–65 | $55–110 | $100–200 | $4–7 | $55–105 |
| Athens | $40–80 | $70–130 | $130–230 | $4–8 | $70–130 |
| Santorini | $70–160 | $120–260 | $220–470 | $6–11 | $140–320 |
Per person in US dollars, flights not included. Mid-range is each guide's researched figure and includes a mid-range room; budget and comfort scale it by 0.6 and 1.8, so treat those as rough. How we work these out.
Plan a trip across Greece
Set the nights you'd spend in each city. Per person, before flights; each night counts one day of that city's daily budget.
Cities
🇬🇷Athens
GreeceTwenty-five centuries of history under a hill you can see from almost anywhere in the city. Scruffier and far more alive than the ruins suggest, and one of the cheapest capitals in the eurozone.
🇬🇷Santorini
GreeceA drowned volcano with villages balanced on the crater rim. The most photographed island in Greece, the most expensive, and — if you plan around the crowds rather than into them — still worth it.
🇬🇷Thessaloniki
GreeceGreece's second city: Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman layers stacked on a seafront promenade, a student population that keeps it up late, and the best food in the country. Almost no tour groups.
Head to head
Two cities side by side — costs, best months and what you'd do in each.