Rethymno scores 67 out of 100 for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 85,609 people.
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.
Municipalities in Rethymno
5 places, by overall safety
All municipalities, largest first
- 72RethymnoΡέθυμνο55,525
- 53MylopotamosΜυλοπόταμος14,363
- 76Agios VasileiosΆγιος Βασίλειος7,427
- 76AmariΑμάρι5,915
- 55AnogeiaΑνώγεια2,379
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
Neighbouring regional units
Questions people ask
Is Rethymno safe?
Rethymno (Ρέθυμνο) scores 67 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat for 2021–2024. That works out to about 304 property offences and 77.1 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Rethymno safe at night?
Rethymno is among the lower-crime areas of Greece, and the usual precautions — well-lit streets, valuables out of sight — are enough after dark.
How does Rethymno compare with the rest of Greece?
Rethymno scores 67 out of 100 for overall safety, on a scale where 50 is the Greek national offence rate.