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This is where the editorial team of visitBerlin gives tips and personal recommendations from their city. Insider tips for events, discoveries from the neighbourhoods, news from Berlin: we have written down what we like.

October 2025 in Berlin

Festival of Lights — © GettyImages, Foto: Yannick Tylle

A month full of highlighs

Each year, October in Berlin puts us under its spell anew. In addition to the beginning of autumn, you can look forward to many major events this month.

Our series

Weekend tips in Berlin

TGIF! We have the best insider tips for city explorers, concert goers, exhibition visitors and sports fans on all 52 weekends.  

Preview

What happens this month? We have compiled the most important events for you.

New Openings

What's new in Berlin? New stores, restaurants, cafés and personal tips from the editorial team. There’s a lot to discover.

Our newest posts

visitBerlin, Weihnachtsshopping — © visitBerlin, Foto: Mo Wüstenhagen

Top 11 new openings in Berlin in March

What's new in Berlin? Restaurants for every taste, a synthesiser museum and art in an abandoned star hotel.

Written for you by: Josefine

Day 5 at the Berlinale 2025

The hunt for the bears goes into the next round. Which film is the favourite?

Frühling — © visitBerlin, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle

March 2025 in Berlin

The weather is getting warmer, but March is going to be really cool: EMOP, MaerzMusik, Women's Day and Chocolate Festival - we have the…

Written for you by: Maria

Kino Publikum — © GettyImages, Foto: Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy

Day 4 at the Berlinale 2025

Sunday at the Berlinale was a fairytale.

Written for you by: Kristin

Zoo Palast: Cinema in Berlin — © Zoo Palast, Foto: Jan Bitter

Day 3 at the Berlinale 2025

The competition is in full swing - and there are plenty of exciting things to discover in the other sections as well.

Written for you by: Kristin

International Film Festival Berlin — © KARSTEN THIELKER

Day 2 at the Berlinale 2025

The festival has begun - and has sent the first films into competition.

Written for you by: Kristin

Wein mit Käse und Früchten — © GettyImages, Foto: Svittlana Kuchina

Top 11 wine bars in Berlin

11 tips for an evening in a wine bar - whether cosy or chic.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Berlinale: Photographers on the red carpet — © KARSTEN THIELKER

Day 1 at the Berlinale 2025

The Berlinale has begun with a festive gala. Now it's ten days of watching films, talking about films and dreaming about films.

Written for you by: Kristin

Berlin, we love you

Why do we love Berlin? We at visitBerlin have gone inside ourselves and let our hearts speak ...

Written for you by: Kristin

Our authors

Berlin Blogger

Fans of fine dining, recreational sports nuts, dog lovers: our guest bloggers see Berlin from their own, completely different perspective. Read for yourself and see where they take us.

Catrin

lives in Berlin for over 20 years and loves to travel the city. Preferrably by bike, she discovers the most exciting and interesting sides of Berlin. Across the city, across country and also off the beaten track.

Dagmar

is an archaeologist who has worked on Mayan sites in Central America. After ten years, she left the world of the Maya for a life in Berlin and found that the city a rich place for field research as well. She has fallen in love with cultural treasures of Berlin. Whether alone or with her children, she loves to be out and about in the city, taking the time to look deeper and turn over a stone here and there.

Josefine

is originally from Munich and started out her career at one of Germanys largest daily news papers. Before finding her home in Berlin, she also reported as a correspondent and trend scout from the US. Today she is cruising Berlin's neighbourhoods, always on the lookout for good stories - with a focus on culture, music and ideas for the future of an innovative Berlin.

Kristin

does not smile on fotos. But in real life she enjoys with a smile in her face the rich cultural life of Berlin - the metropolis both in front of and behind the scenes. Her favourite season is the Berlinale, then she spends 10 days watching movies and writing about them in the blog.

Maria

studied art history in Berlin and is at home in the digital world. For her, things get interesting where technology and sustainability meet art and architecture. As a child, she wanted to become a writer or journalist. Today she writes about the Berlin of the future for you.

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