Telephone communications in Greece are well developed, and you can talk on a mobile phone in almost any corner of the country.

Main telephone companies in Greece:

OTE, Vodafone, Cosmote, Wind.

• You can purchase SIM cards at any company office if you have a foreign passport.
• You can top up your balance at any peripter (kiosk).
• You can pay for your phone at automatic machines, in online stores, post offices, via the Internet.

Subscribers of large Russian telephone operators can use roaming in Greece.

To make calls from Greece, you can use special calling cards for payphones.

The card costs €5 and usually includes more than 210 minutes of talk time.

You can buy such cards at any peripter, in many supermarkets.

Instructions on how to make calls using the card can be found on the card itself.

EMERGENCY TELEPHONES IN GREECE

Emergency numbers Greece

Police 100

Tourist police 171

Fire 199

Ambulance 166

Pharmacies 107, 14944

Hospitals 106, 14944

Ahepa (hospital) - information 2313.303775, call center 2313.303110, 2313.303111, 2313.303310

Central Post of Greece (ELTA)

Apellou 1, Athens. Call center 800-11-82000 & 210 3353777- 210 3353100

Telephone codes cities in Greece

• Greece: 30
• Athens: 210
• Crete: 28
• Heraklion (Crete): 281
• Rethymno (Crete): 2831
• Rhodes: 2241
• Rhodes City (Rhodes Island): 22410
• Corfu: 2661
• Corfu Town (Kerkyra) (Corfu Island): 26610
• Thessaloniki: 2310
• Santorini: 22860
• Kassandra (Chalkidiki): 23740
• Sithonia (Chalkidiki): 23750

How to call from Greece to Russia

• From landline: 00 - 7 (Russian code) - your city code - phone number
• From mobile: +7 (Russian code) -495 (Moscow code) - phone number

From mobile to mobile, as in Russia: +7-926-1234567

How to call from Russia to Greece

• From landline: 8 - beep - 10 - 30 (Greek telephone code) - telephone number
• From mobile: +30 - 2810 - phone number

Telephone communication has been an inseparable companion of humanity for more than a century. We are so accustomed to the constant ability to make a call that without a phone we feel like we have no hands. Often going on a trip, tourists think: how to call their relatives from Greece? Or how to call from Russia to a Greek hotel to clarify booking information? This is quite simple to do; you only need to know the telephone code of Greece and the rules of international dialing, which we will describe in detail in today’s material.

Greece code for international calls

International dialing codes are used to make calls abroad. Each country has its own individual digital set that allows you to connect to local communications. If the subscriber you need is in the Greece region, then the country code will have the following value: +30.

But knowing the international combination is not all the components of how to call Greece. The dialing procedure also depends on the specific destination city and the method of making the call: landline and mobile phone use different connection methods.

How to call Greece from Russia

International communication implies access not only to a country, but also to a specific city or mobile operator. Therefore, in order to call Greece from Russia, you need to put together a long numerical formula. Moreover, the composition of this formula changes depending on what type of communication is used by both the calling and receiving parties. Below we will look in detail at how to call a subscriber in Greece from Russia.

From mobile to mobile phone

The easiest way to make a call is to use a cellular connection.

To call Greece on a mobile phone, you need to know the international code of Greece and the mobile number itself. The number combination will look like this:

+30 – number of the called subscriber

From mobile to landline

In this case, in addition to international code country, you need to additionally know the city code. Telephone codes Greek cities are presented in the table below.

Dialing formula for making a call to general view looks like this:

+30 – area code – landline phone number

From landline to mobile

Dialing international numbers from landline and office phones contains more nuances.

First, you need to dial digital combination to access an international communication line. For Rostelecom, Russia's largest operator, this code has a value of 8-10. For other suppliers the combination varies. Let's present several popular regional operators in the table.

If your supplier is not among the companies listed, then contact the company managers to clarify the code.