Thessaloniki gives new meaning to the word nightlife. Whether you start with dinner and then hit the clubs, or begin with a couple of drinks and then make your way to one of the many bouzoukia (clubs specializing in Greek music played on bouzoukis,), the city is sure to keep you entertained until the early hours. Clubs offering live music are located in the area of the airport. Drinks cost 10€ while a bottle of whiskey costs 120€.

Popular nightclub piano bar, and dancing are located in all the city of Thessaloniki Drinks cost about 6€.

A lot of the city's Nightlife evolves around Mylos an old windmill that has been converted to a complex of clubs and restaurants.

In the summer, virtually all of Thessaloniki's best bars and clubs shut down. Some immediately reopen branches along a section of the road leading east along the coast, about a mile before the airport. This, plus the fact that new or newly decorated and renamed venues are constantly opening while others go out of fashion and close, makes it virtually impossible to recommend any with certainty.

Thessaloniki has many theatres and some one hundred cinemas, some of which are open-air for pleasant summer viewing.