Are unisex changing rooms and toilets really common across Europe?

I don’t recall seeing any unisex toilets in Greece. I didn’t use any changing rooms, so I don’t know about those.

I’m in Finland at the moment and there are some mixed sex toilets, I have used one today at the Modern Art Museum. All very clean with full cubicles with basins in them. I have no problems with this. The same situation at the Vasa museum in Stockholm.

In the UK of course, the mixed sex, private toilet cubicles with a bank of mixed sex sinks outside the toilets in an open communal area is found in many schools, which is why my research was focused on them.

India is leading the way academically studying unisex toilets in schools. India has now instructed schools toilets have to be single sex.
Here’s a study linking unisex school toilets to rapes of girl pupils:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014292125000030

The problem with this set up is men like to spend a look of time in the sinks looking at women in cubicles or they pleasure themselves in the cubicles knowing women are outside.
Glass toilet doors that go frosted when you close were given awards in Japan. Then men realised they could frighten lone women by not closing the door properly.

Lived & worked in Paris for 3 years, frequently travelled in France from age 14 to age 60.

I’ve seen ONE public loo, by a train station, which was either mixed or used the same entrance for men & women.

That was in 1975 (I did not enter).

Anecdotally Ive been told by Frenchwomen & by Brits living in France they hated them & were at risk there, & that they’ve been phased out.

I live in France and teach at a business school. The building was recently renovated and 2 sets of unisex toilets installed (both had cubicles and urinals.)
Within a week, there were so many complaints that they had to change them to male and female ones. (So 2 useless urinals in what are now the
“women’s only” ones!
Both male and female students were very uncomfortable with the unisex set up.

The school director told us it was a legal requirement to have unisex toilets. Not sure if that is true but to be fair, I suspect they may have been less controversial had they just had cubicles and not urinals. I personally don’t really care about the unisex idea but found it pretty grim for the female students to have to walk past a row of male students peeing in urinals to get to the cubicles and the boys were equally unhappy with the set up!

In Italy in campings sand swimming pools I've always found segregated facilities. I can't exclude that mixed sex might have been built more recently, but it's not the norm.

In Catalunya , Northern Spain, mixed changing village, inadequate doors o cubicles. No signage on showers or toilets, inevitably leading to people going into the wrong ones. Not safe for women or children. Men and boys towered over the cubicle doors. Horrible experience.
where I live swimming pool changing rooms strictly segregated, with cubicles and open changing areas, plus changing areas including cubicles for men plus children or women plus children. Showers separate. Sometimes disabled men come in with their mothers or carers, who should at least use the cubicles. And the single sex area often used by older children of both sexes despite there being a perfectly good section for them. But generally safe for women and girls.

You beat me to it. I was going to mention the Oodi set-up. The cubicles are so brightly lit you provide a shadow show through the frosted glass to people in the communal handwashing area. There’s far less privacy for users (mainly women) who need to rearrange clothing to use the toilet. Jumpsuit fans beware!

usually cubicles or stalls.

the ones at beaches can be very airy, gaps almost knee high at the bottom and also a large gap at the top above head height.

Hamburgs recently upgraded state of the art Alster Swimming Center has mixed sex changing rooms. There are cubicles, but some users, both male and female, change in the public areas - bits on display for all to see. Quite shocking at times as school swim groups also walk through the public areas to access their changing rooms. But when I have mentioned this to German friends they think I am a hung up American.

Showers are single sex but without any partitions and very open to the public area so people walking past can see users in the areas nearest the corridors.

Gender recognition and self ID rules are very pro trans in Germany. But they do also offer gender neutral facilities in most facilities - though not at the Alster Swim Center.

When you say mixed sex...do you mean lots of individual cubicles?

I've read reports of voyeurism and pervey behaviour in around mixed sex changing cubicles on Barcelona's beaches. Elsewhere in Barcelona I've not come across mixed sex toilets anywhere. Of course small establishments tend to have a couple of single occupancy rooms - but in most places even these are marked as being for 'Male' and for 'Female'.

Sounds a very discomforting experience.

very mixed in the netherlands
the temporary seasonal stalls on beaches tend to be mixed sex.
many premises have male and female separate but it's not uncommon to have a row of mixed sex stalls with communal handwashing.

I was in a shopping centre in Norway where the toilets were unisex, but had clearly previously been men’s and women’s (not floor to ceiling).

I realised that people knew which had been the men’s and which had been the women’s, and aligned to that, separating themselves regardless of the new signage.

In the central library in Helsinki the toilets are mixed sex, the set up is: a huge room with washbasins in the middle, individual cubicles with a floor to ceiling frosted glass door, you can’t see into the cubicles but you can see a vague outline so it will be apparent if someone is collapsed on the floor, there’s also a small washbasin in each cubicle.

I've not been to Berlin, but the impression i've always had is of louche seediness...with its history of libertinism during the Weimar Republic ( one of the many dark under-bellies of Nazism), and now its reputation as a major 'queer' centre - with sex clubs, prostitution etc

I've experienced two mixed sex toilets. One in Berlin and one in Copenhagen.
Berlin: large room with two cubicles - the type that you usually find in single sex facilities with partition walls and gaps above/below the door - urinals and basins in the main area.
Copenhagen: separate cubicles with solid walls and floor to ceiling doors, communal hand washing facilities.

Both in art galleries, both absolutely stank and made me very uncomfortable. Berlin was the worst I genuinely felt very vulnerable as a man came in to use the urinal while I was in the cubicle and I had to walk past him to wash my hands.

I haven’t seen mixed sec facilities anywhere I’ve travelled in Europe. Apart from places where there’s a single loo, of course.

Even if they were totally the norm, though, they never have been here. And I don’t want them.

I have only ever seen one mixed sex toilet when in Europe and that was in a ski resort in France. It was absolutely awful. I couldn’t let DD go on her own like I could in other restaurants. There were several men peeing with the door open, one with his backside hanging out. The toilets were covered in piss so had to wipe it before lifting DD into it. Absolutely disgusting.

The separate sex saunas in Scandinavia are quite different from Germany and Austria - I’ve heard Scandinavians express shock at being expected to sauna naked with the opposite sex in German-speaking countries.

But as pp said, even in those countries the changing is separate so the mixed sex part is very limited and also very public, so it’s more difficult for men to get creepy than if there are hidden corners etc.

Most of the w/c I encountered in Iceland were mixed sex.

Changing rooms were single sex.

No mixed sex changing in Scandinavia! We also have separate public saunas for women and men or separate times in the same facilities, since we sauna naked or in just a towel.

Most toilets are still also single sex, but the places where the idiot woke brigade are most active (eg theatres) have sometimes taken down the signage now, to the discomfort of most and pleasure of a few.

Other than one toilet in say a cafe, not at all. Even at German spas/saunas where you sit in a sauna without clothing, there are separate changing areas and toilets for women and men.

And yet we are constantly told by some posters who are very dismissive of single sex provisions that Sweden and other Scandinavian countries have mixed sex communal changing rooms and that we are all just prudes to want single sex provisions.