Greece — Regional Market index

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The **Greece regional market index** lists the seven Greek settlements that meet the
co-location screening framework's composition gates under the current 2026-08-07 dataset —
the smallest country entry among the fifteen European countries the framework's newest data
build covers. The seven markets span the length of the Greek mainland and two islands, from
Thrace in the northeast to Crete in the south, rather than clustering around a single
metropolitan core.
The **Greece regional market index** lists the seven Greek markets that meet the co-location
screening framework's composition gates under the current 2026-08-07 dataset — the smallest
country entry among the fifteen European countries the framework's newest data build covers. The
seven markets span the length of the Greek mainland and two islands, from Thrace in the northeast
to Crete in the south, rather than clustering around a single metropolitan core.

## Coverage

No rank or score is published for any market in this table. Every market below qualifies
under the framework's Regional Market composition gate — a hypermarket anchor paired with at
least two of {hardware, price club, lifestyle, electronics, sport} across the market's
co-location clusters. Full methodology: [[about-regional-markets-system|Regional Markets
Intelligence System]].
No rank or score is published for any market in this table. Every market below qualifies under
the framework's Regional Market composition gate — a hypermarket anchor paired with at least two
of {hardware, price club, lifestyle, electronics, sport} across the market's co-location clusters.
Full methodology: [[about-regional-markets-system|Regional Markets Intelligence System]].

The metropolitan reference point recorded for each market is the nearest major metropolitan
centre in the framework's continental reference set — a distance measurement, not a claim
that the market functions as a commuter suburb of that centre. Two markets, Gerakas and
Elefsina, genuinely sit within a short range of Athens; the remaining five reference points
run from 103 to 220 kilometres away, including one cross-border reference (Plovdiv, Bulgaria,
for Alexandroupolis) and one that crosses open water to the Greek mainland (Kanali, on
Corfu, referenced against Patras).
centre in the framework's continental reference set — a straight-line (crow-flies) distance
measurement, not a drive-time or commuting estimate. It is not a claim that the market functions
as a commuter suburb of that centre. Two markets, Gerakas and Elefsina, genuinely sit within a
short range of Athens. The remaining five reference points run from 103 to 220 kilometres away,
including one cross-border reference (Plovdiv, Bulgaria, for Alexandroupolis) and one that crosses
open water to the Greek mainland (Kanali, on Corfu, referenced against Patras).

## Markets

This table is a country-specific view of the continental
[[atlas-top-400-europe|Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe]] set. No rank or score is published
for any market.
[[atlas-top-400-europe|Top 400 Regional Markets — Europe]] set. No rank or score is published for
any market.

| Market | Metropolitan reference | km | T1 | T2 | T3 |
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| [[gr-evros-alexandroupolis|Alexandroupolis]] | Plovdiv (Bulgaria) | 171.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [[gr-corfu-kanali|Kanali]] | Patras | 219.8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |

## Retail and Civic Anchors

Sklavenitis, a Greek hypermarket chain comparable to Walmart or Kroger, anchors all seven
clusters — the only chain present in every entry. Praktiker (hardware) and Kotsovolos
(electronics) each appear in five of the seven; IKEA (lifestyle) anchors the two markets with the
smallest catchments, Chania and Kalamata. Civic infrastructure varies by market: the two
Athens-area entries (Gerakas, Elefsina) draw on dense metropolitan hospital networks, while
Chania, Kalamata, Volos, and Kanali each anchor around a named regional university.

## AEC Data Coverage

Climate, seismic, and wildfire-hazard data has been computed for two of the seven clusters to
date — Gerakas and Alexandroupolis. Both sit in a Csa (hot-summer Mediterranean) climate zone,
with materially elevated seismic hazard (0.18–0.20g peak ground acceleration) and high-to-very-high
wildfire exposure. Coverage for the remaining five clusters — Volos, Chania, Kalamata, Kanali, and
Elefsina — is pending in the current dataset build; see [[gis-data-overview|GIS Data Overview]]
for the AEC data pipeline.

## See also

- [[atlas-top-400-europe]] — the continental European Top 400 table this page filters