Pinakates (Greek: Πινακάτες) is a mountain village in the Magnesia regional unit, Greece.

The village of Pinakates is first mentioned in the Modern Geography of Greece (Γεωγραφία Νεωτερική περί της Ελλάδο = Geografia Neoteriki peri tis Ellados) by Daniil Filippidis and Grigoriou Konstantas (Vienna 1791).

At that time, the village comprised about 100 houses, but surely it was built much earlier.

One of the main benefactors of this school was a business man from Pinakates, Ioannis G. Sarafopoulos.

The isolated position on the mountain side kept the village well preserved, but also almost caused its downfall.