Updated 7 September 2026 · 6 cities
Greece
Greece has no single scale for administrative fines, so every figure has to be traced to its own statute — and the one that dominated these pages could not be traced at all.
6
cities covered
€2,000
highest fine (Athens)
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Sorted by the highest fine each city publishes.
CityWhat catches tourists thereLocal rulesMax fine
AthensAthens is governed less by city ordinances than by the law protecting its antiquities, which is national, and by a traffic code rewritten in 2025.+16€2,000CorfuGreece regulates the beach and the ruins nationally, so most of what applies on Corfu is the same law as on Crete — including the figures that do not agree with each other.+14€2,000CreteCrete’s rules are Greek national law plus two things specific to the island: the Samariá gorge, and a pink beach people keep taking home in their pockets.+16€2,000RhodesRhodes is a medieval walled town inside a beach island, so the archaeological rules and the beach rules apply in the same square kilometre.+14€2,000Santorini & MykonosTwo islands with one problem: too many people in too small a caldera, which is why the rules here are caps and charges rather than fines.+16€2,000ThessalonikiThessaloniki is a working city rather than a resort, and its newest rule is aimed at landlords: short-term rentals are being restricted hard.+14€2,000