--- title: "Podares to Thessaloniki – 2 ways by car, taxi | Mixroutes" description: "Podares to Thessaloniki is 113 km. Fastest: undefined in 0 min. Cheapest: undefined from –. Real timetables, prices labelled live, quoted or estimated." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/podares-to-thessaloniki" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/podares-to-thessaloniki.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- # How to get from Podares to Thessaloniki [Plan it for your day](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Podares&to=Thessaloniki) [Thessaloniki to Podares](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/thessaloniki-to-podares) **Fastest:** –\ \ **Cheapest:** –\ \ **Distance:** 113 km\ as the crow flies\ **Departures today:** 0\ 2 ways, Thu 29 Oct\ ## 2 ways to travel 113 km apart. Times are the timetables for Thu 29 Oct, planned from 08:00; every price says whether it is live, the operator's fare or our estimate. We add nothing to any fare. best$280 cheaper than a cab and about as quick. - [**Drive** best 2h 41m$12–17 Estimated Likely no visa needed for Greece 152 km · fuel only](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Podares&to=Thessaloniki) - [**Taxi** 2h 41m$245–335 Estimated Likely no visa needed for Greece one-way cab](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Podares&to=Thessaloniki) Data: [Roads © OpenStreetMap contributors, routed by OSRM](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) · [Places from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · [All credits and licences](https://www.mixroutes.com/credits) ## Before you go Borders, permits, official travel advice and disaster alerts for the places on this route, as their sources publish them. Entry rules are shown for a passport from North Macedonia; the planner lets you pick yours. - **Likely no visa needed for Greece** · North Macedonia passport (assumed) [Check rules](https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/greece/entry-requirements) Visa rules: [Passport Index data](https://github.com/imorte/passport-index-data) (MIT, 17 Feb 2026); always check the official entry rules. ## Departures today Timetable data via Transitous and the operators' own GTFS feeds. Live delays arrive when an operator publishes a real-time feed. ## Questions people ask How long does it take to get from Podares to Thessaloniki? The fastest way is by car: about 2h 41m door to door. The straight-line distance is 113 km. What is the cheapest way from Podares to Thessaloniki? Drive is the cheapest, from $12. That figure is an estimate from the operator's fare bands, not a live quote. How far is Thessaloniki from Podares by road? About 152 km, roughly 2h 41m of driving in normal traffic. Fuel alone costs around $12–17; tolls and parking are extra. ## In Thessaloniki Second-largest city in Greece Thessaloniki is the capital and largest city of the administrative region of Central Macedonia, and the second-largest city in Greece. It is the largest city of Northern Greece, with over 300,000 in the city proper and slightly over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, the capital of the geographic region of Macedonia, and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace. It is also known in Greek as i Symprotévousa, literally "the co-capital", a reference to its historical status as the "co-reigning" city of the Byzantine Empire alongside Constantinople. [The Thessaloniki guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/thessaloniki) Worth your time - Roman Forum Excavations and an interesting museum underneath. - Rotunda Started life as a Roman temple of Zeus, built by Caesar Galerius, and is almost as old as the Pantheon in Rome. - Saint Demetrios Constructed in the mid-7th century on the ruins of a Roman bath complex, in honor of Demetrius, a Roman officer who was imprisoned and martyred here in 303 AD. - Waterland Free bus service starting at the city centre. From Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA) [Hotels in Thessaloniki Compare prices on Hotels70](https://www.hotels70.com) ## More routes - [Kochi to Bengaluru](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-bengaluru) - [Kochi to Chennai](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-chennai) - [Kochi to Thiruvananthapuram](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-thiruvananthapuram) - [Kochi to Munnar](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-munnar) - [Kochi to Alappuzha](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-alappuzha) - [Kochi to Kozhikode](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kochi-to-kozhikode) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/podares-to-thessaloniki, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt