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Power adapters for Greece
Do you need a voltage converter for Greece?
We needed none. Greece runs 230V at 50Hz on Type C/F sockets, and every charger we carried in July 2026 was rated 100 to 240V, so a plug adapter, which changes only the pins, was the whole of the question.
Greece runs 230 volts at 50 hertz, on the round-pin sockets the standards call Type C and Type F. The chargers we carried in July 2026 — phones, tablet, laptop, camera — were all rated 100–240 V on the casing, so none of them needed a voltage converter. The difference between a plug adapter, which changes only the shape of the pins, and a converter, which changes the voltage, was the whole of the question for us.
One naming collision causes more confusion than the electricity does. The Greek wall socket's "Type C" is the European round-pin standard, and it has nothing to do with USB-C. A search for a "Type C adapter" returns both.
One of our chargers needed no adapter at all. Its mains cord was removable, and we replaced it with a European figure-of-eight lead — the C7 connector, in the non-polarized version, because the polarized one has a squared-off side that does not seat in an unpolarized socket — which went straight into the Greek wall. The other hub went in through a plain plug adapter. The family charging kit has how the two were split.
A hub with its own AC outlets passes mains voltage through to whatever is plugged into it, so the 100–240 V question applies again to anything on its far side. Ours fed a 100-watt charger rated for both voltages, and that is as far as our record goes.
Common questions
Type C and Type F — the round two-pin Schuko standard.
If it is rated 100 to 240V on the casing, the voltage is not a problem. Ours all were, in July 2026, and ran on plug adapters.
We cannot rank it, but one of ours had one: its cord was swapped for a European figure-of-eight (C7) lead, and it went straight into Greek walls in July 2026 with no adapter.