Overall score
Use the Piraeus profile to compare port-driven energy demand, housing cost framing, and air-quality exposure alongside regional peers such as Athens and Patras.
Overall61/100
Affordability55/100
Air quality48/100
Energy64/100
Greece / Southern Europe
Piraeus City Intelligence
Piraeus is the main port city of the Attica region with a maritime and ferry-transport profile, dense rail and metro access toward central Athens, and an industrial and shipping employment base. Piraeus is a southern europe city of about ~170K in Greece. On the composite city-intelligence score, Piraeus sits below the indexed median, with practical gaps to close (61/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- ~170K
Image credit: Image: Rakoon / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
Overall city intelligence
Mixed61/100
Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.
Data confidence
Directional
Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.
Verified utility layers
See country hub
Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.
Piraeus data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 61/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 55/100 | Piraeus's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies. |
| Air Quality | 48/100 | Piraeus's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated. |
| Energy | 64/100 | Piraeus's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Safety | 64/100 | Piraeus's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available. |
| Internet Speed | 63/100 | Piraeus's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references. |
| Climate Risk | 66/100 | Piraeus's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity. |
| Resilience | 66/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Emergency and public safety in Piraeus
Local public safety guidance for Piraeus, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Piraeus, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Greece emergency profile, which currently lists no verified national contacts.
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Piraeus
Healthcare context for Piraeus, with national-level information from Greece where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Piraeus, see the Greece healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Piraeus
Local mobility context for Piraeus, with national-level context from Greece where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Piraeus, see the Greece transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Piraeus. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Piraeus
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Piraeus will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Piraeus air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Piraeus modules
City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.
Cost of Living in Piraeus
Piraeus's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality in Piraeus
Piraeus's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy in Piraeus
Piraeus's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety in Piraeus
Piraeus's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed in Piraeus
Piraeus's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk in Piraeus
Piraeus's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Cost of living in Piraeus
Cost of living estimates for Piraeus — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.
Visual guide to Piraeus
Source-attributed visual context for Piraeus using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.
Weekend trip planning guide for Piraeus
Weekend trip planning checklist for Piraeus — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.
Nearby weekend places from Piraeus
Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.
Estimate a monthly budget for Piraeus
Estimate a monthly budget for Piraeus using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Piraeus
Plan a trip budget for Piraeus using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Nearby cities from Piraeus
Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Piraeus. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.
Nikaia, Greece
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Athens, Greece
Same region · about 8 km from Piraeus. Explore Athens's city intelligence profile.
Peristeri, Greece
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Acharnes, Greece
Same region · about 19 km from Piraeus. Explore Acharnes's city intelligence profile.
Kalamata, Greece
Same region · about 169 km from Piraeus. Explore Kalamata's city intelligence profile.
Volos, Greece
Mountain cluster · about 169 km from Piraeus. Explore Volos's city intelligence profile.
Patras, Greece
Same region · about 171 km from Piraeus. Explore Patras's city intelligence profile.
Larissa, Greece
Same region · about 217 km from Piraeus. Explore Larissa's city intelligence profile.
Chania, Greece
Same region · about 272 km from Piraeus. Explore Chania's city intelligence profile.
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Interpretation
Use the Piraeus profile to compare port-driven energy demand, housing cost framing, and air-quality exposure alongside regional peers such as Athens and Patras. Its standout dimensions are climate risk (66/100) and energy (64/100). The area most worth watching is air quality (48/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Greece country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Piraeus appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.