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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

Junges Paar an der Spree — © visitberlin, Foto: Westend61

11 Sustainable Resolutions for 2025

This way you'll be more sustainable in 2025 and discover interesting new sides of Berlin.

Written for you by: Maria

Silvester — © GettyImages, Foto: franckreporter

Why we look forward to 2025 in Berlin

What's on in Berlin in 2025? Our personal tips for the next few months!

Written for you by: Kristin

Bookstore Marga Schöller — © visitBerlin, Foto: Günter Steffen

11 tips for literature fans in Berlin

Readings, bookstores and many exciting places all bookworms. We have the best tips for Berlin's most beautiful sites.

Written for you by: Kristin

Fireworks at New Years Eve at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin — © iStock.com, Foto: Franckreporter

11 tips for New Year’s Eve in Berlin

Everything you need to know about the celebrations at the Brandenburg Gate and many more tips for the turn of the year.

Written for you by: Maria

Ferris Wheel Night Christmas Market Berlin Town Hall — © Getty Images, Foto: Roman Babakin

These Christmas markets are open on Christmas & Boxing Day

Be enchanted by Berlin's Christmas markets. Many of the markets are also open on Christmas Eve and over the Christmas holidays. Whether you…

Written for you by: Josefine

On the Spree in the government district in winter. — © visitBerlin, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle

11 tips for the time between the years

What's going on in Berlin between Christmas and New Year's Eve? We have the best tips for theatre, shows and entertaining reviews of the…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Frau bewundert Adventskranz — © Spätsche Baumschulen, Foto: Daniela Incoronato

Christmas market tips for 20 - 22 December 2024

20 - 22 December 2024: Christmas is just around the corner and so begins the last weekend of Advent in Berlin.

Brandenburg Gate Berlin in Winter — © Getty Images, Foto: golero

January 2025 in Berlin

The new year begins with great New Year's concerts, the International Green Week and sporting resolutions.

Written for you by: Maria

brandenburg gate christmas — © iStock.com, Foto: totalpics

11 tips for Christmas Eve in Berlin

Contemplative organ music, wintery walks, exciting exhibitions or animal encounters: We have put together the best Christmas Eve activities…

Written for you by: Maria

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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