Sources & methods

greecead is an independent, unofficial directory. It is not affiliated with the Greek National Tourism Organisation, any ministry, or any booking platform. It lists what open data says exists; it does not rate, rank or sell anything.

Where the data comes from

Every stay comes from OpenStreetMap, extracted on 25 October 2026 with the Overpass API: all objects in Greece tagged tourism=hotel, guest_house, hostel, apartment, motel, chalet or camp_site.

The data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). This directory is a derived database and is shared on the same terms: please keep the attribution “© OpenStreetMap contributors” if you reuse it.

How it was cleaned

15,639 objects came out of the extraction; 1,933 had no name and were set aside.
Of the 13,706 named objects, 3,332 carry an explicit address (a street or a town in OpenStreetMap, or a town deduced from a neighbour within 3 km) and get their own page. The others are only counted.
Names: the English name when one exists, otherwise the name transliterated into Latin letters; the Greek name is kept alongside.
Phone numbers: Greek mobile numbers (+30 6…) were removed because they may be personal. No e-mail address is stored. Links to map services, messaging apps, social networks and booking platforms were dropped.
Regions: each point is placed in one of the 13 regions (OpenStreetMap boundaries, admin level 5). Towns with fewer than three charted stays keep a page but are hidden from search engines.

Maps and photographs

Coastlines are drawn from Natural Earth (public domain), cut along the regional boundaries. The interactive maps use OpenStreetMap tiles. Photographs are from Wikimedia Commons; each carries its author and licence:

City of Naxos — Sergio Alvarez, CC BY-SA 2.0
Building in Plaka, Athens, Greece — Julian Lupyan, CC0
Chania - Venetian harbor 2 — Lapplaender, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Chora, Folegandros, Greece — Etienne O. Dallaire, CC BY 4.0
Corfu Old Fortress R02 — Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), CC BY 3.0
Aghia Sofia church — JimDim, CC BY-SA 4.0
Elea Port (Plaža Zagrafou), Sitonia, Grčka - panoramio — vujas, CC BY-SA 3.0
"Dem Himmel näher" - die Meteora-Klöster. 12 — Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0
Γεφυρι Κοκκορη — ChrLoukop, CC BY-SA 4.0
"Als Mittelpunkt der Welt" sahen die Menschen in der Antike Delphi. 04 — Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0
Flickr - ronsaunders47 - A LOAD OF BOLLARDS.. — Ronald Saunders from Warrington, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0
Mesta alley — Dimitris Eleftheriou, CC BY-SA 4.0
Messolonghi - Aitoliko Lagoon — Dimosthenis Eleftheriadis, CC BY-SA 4.0
Prespa Lake National Pustec — Albinfo, CC BY-SA 3.0
Rhodes old town Greece 6 — Norbert Nagel, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany, CC BY-SA 3.0
Kos harbour from Neratzia castle — יובל מדר, CC BY-SA 3.0
Chania - Venetian harbor 2 — Lapplaender, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Corfu Old Fortress R01 — Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), CC BY 3.0
202610 The Venetian Harbour of Rethymno 05 — Jonashtand, CC BY-SA 4.0
View of Mykonos from the Old Port, 2024 — Julian Lupyan, CC0
Detail venetian fortress harbour eastern part and dam Heraklion — Jebulon, CC0
A ships wheel in a hotel lounge area in Fira, Santorini (2601220458) — bongo vongo, CC BY-SA 2.0
House in Christos Rachon — JoraK, CC BY-SA 4.0
House, Epar. Od. Mikonou, Mykonos, Greece (53495595647) — Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0
Beach between Tripotamos and Langomandra 01 — Kritzolina, CC BY-SA 4.0
Church of the Virgin Mary Pantanassa - Monastiraki Square, Athens, 20240531 1631 9845 — Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0
Metsovo Greece — DimitrisP67, CC BY-SA 4.0

What we do not claim

No ratings, reviews, prices or availability are shown, because none exists in the source. A listing can be wrong, closed or out of date: check with the property. Climate figures on the Island Month Dial come from published normals cited on that page.

Who writes

The travel journal is written by our editors. The directory itself is built from data, not written by hand.

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