Greece: 1 scheme to know about before you drive in.
Hersonissos has one driving restriction on our books: the Κυκλοφοριακές ρυθμίσεις και ωράριο τροφοδοσίας καταστημάτων στον Λιμένα… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-23, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-22.
Limenas Chersonisou — the beach resort that English-speaking visitors call Hersonissos — closes eight named street segments to traffic every evening of the summer season, and the rule is unusually easy to state: from 1 May to 31 October, between 18:00 and 05:00, they are pedestrian streets.
Outside that window the same streets reopen as ordinary one-way or two-way roads, and the decision spells out the direction each of them takes when it is open, which is why this is a navigation fact rather than a sign to be read on arrival.
The streets are the ones a visitor actually walks down: three consecutive lengths of Agias Paraskevis, the resort's bar and restaurant spine, together with Daidalou, Sanoudaki, Oulof Palme, a length of 25is Martiou and one unnamed connector, all of them between the old harbour and the main road. 🔑 Who may still drive in is a short list and a visitor is not on it: permanent residents who hold a parking space, owned or rented, permanent residents using a parking card, business owners with a parking space, and the ambulance, fire, police and refuse services.
There is no tourist permit, no day pass and nothing to buy — the decision creates no charge of any kind.
What it creates instead, for anyone delivering to a shop, is a timetable: supply runs are confined to 07:00–10:00 in the morning and 16:00–18:00 in the afternoon, and during those windows a supply vehicle — and only a supply vehicle — may stop where stopping is otherwise banned. ⚠️ The most important thing on this page is a limit on it.
The instrument published here approves only the part of the traffic study that falls on the MUNICIPAL road network; its own title says so, and the table it prints is headed "municipal roads that do NOT affect the national network".
The municipality's public consultation of January 2025 proposed a second and larger set of pedestrian streets — Minoos, Evangelistrias, Papadogiorgi, 28is Oktovriou, Emmanouil Marangaki, Giampoudaki, Michail Aspetaki, Machis Kritis and more — in the table headed "municipal roads that DO affect the national network", along with a 30 km/h limit on the old national road through the resort.
None of that is in this gazette issue, and we have not found it approved anywhere else.
So a driver in Hersonissos should expect to meet more pedestrianised street than this record can source, and should treat the eight segments below as the part that is certainly in force rather than as the whole of it. ⚠️ One further difference between the proposal and the act is worth carrying, because it runs both ways: the consultation pedestrianised Agias Paraskevis from Machis Kritis to Solomou and said nothing about 25is Martiou, while the published decision does the opposite.
The published decision is the one that governs, and it is the one quoted here.