Athens, upon arrival, can be a challenging city due to the lack of a common language and alphabet.
The most common tool for navigating the city is a mobile phone with an internet connection.
However, it’s possible that our phone, for one reason or another, doesn’t have internet access, such as:
We forgot to enable roaming before leaving our country (required by some phone providers)
Our plan doesn’t cover roaming (a surprise that has happened to me personally)
We’re coming from outside Europe and roaming is prohibitively expensive.
In these situations, it would be ideal to know where to find free Wi-Fi to reply to messages and emails, download maps, and check the location of our hotel.
This list includes the most well-known establishments that provide free and open Wi-Fi, which are:
Some international food chains like McDonald’s and local chains like BreadFactory
Some cafes and bakeries like La Pasteria, 12oz, and Apollonion
Some international supermarket chains like LIDL and local chains like AB Bassilopoulos and Massoutis
Many bank branches
Some metro stations of tourist interest, in their main halls, such as Syntagma, Acropolis, Omonia, Piraeus, Neratziotissa, and Doukissis Plalentias (currently being installed in all stations)
Large stores like Public, Plaisio, and Hondos Center
Large department stores like Leroy Merlin and Praktiker
Some parks and public squares.
All shopping malls (although there aren’t any in the center of Athens)
Some clothing chains, such as Terranova, Zacret, Zara, H&M, JD, Adidas, Guess, Cosmos Sports, Marks & Spencer, Intersport, and Slam Dunk.
Stores like Pull&Bear and Nike may ask for your name and email address.
Eleftherios Benizelos International Airport
Gas stations like AVIN
Libraries and cultural centers like Stavros Niarchos
And more that we found while wandering the streets…
In addition, the vast majority of cafes and restaurants have their own Wi-Fi, protected by a password, so you can order a coffee and ask for the password.
We know that other providers of free Wi-Fi hotspots exist online, but unfortunately, they are not up to date.
If you find free Wi-Fi hotspots during your trip that are not on this list, please let us know and we will add them.
To access this collection of points of interest, you need an offline map app.
In addition, most cafes and restaurants have their own password-protected Wi-Fi, so you can order a coffee and ask for the password. We recommend OrganicMaps because it’s lightweight, fast, open source (it doesn’t spy on you), and supports large files. For more information, you can visit our FAQ section for maps and audio guides.
You can find the map of open wifis at this link.
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