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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

11 particularly beautiful restaurants in Berlin

It's not just the menu that impresses here, the view is also impressive: We show you Berlin's most beautiful restaurants!

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Two women sitting in Café Winterfeldt Schokoladen in Berlin — © visitBerlin, Foto: Mo Wüstenhagen

Sample sweet treats on a Berlin Christmas shopping trip

Check out some of the best Berlin Christmas shopping spots to sample tasty sweet treats as you explore the city and its festive vibes.

Berlin cuisine: potato soup — © gettyimages, Foto: burwellphotography

11 tips for typical Berlin recipes

More than curry sausage and doner kebab - try the typical dishes of classic Berlin cuisine.

Written for you by: Kristin

Weihnachtsmarkt RAW Gelände — © visitberlin, Foto: Chris Martin Scholl

Christmas Market Tips for 15–17 November

Bonfires, punch, and ice skating under festive lights: Four especially charming Christmas markets kick off this weekend.

Written for you by: Josefine

Bouldering at ostbloc en Berlin: On the climbing wall — © Fabian Fischer

11 places to boulder and climb in Berlin

Berlin may not have any mountains - but you can still climb high up and train until late at night in many bouldering halls.

Written for you by: Josefine

Taco aus einem Foodtruck — © gettyimages, Foto: MStudioImages

Streetfood without street - 11 tips

Delicious, surprising, fresh, regional, and sometimes unique - this is what streetfood can be. Streetfood is not necessarily fast food…

Written for you by: Catrin

Berlinpanorama im Sonnenuntergang — © gettyimages, Foto: Katja-Xenikis/EyeEm

Top 11 New Openings in Berlin in November

New Christmas markets, bars and the Zita Club leave the November grey no chance. These new openings in Berlin give you a reason to celebrate…

Written for you by: Josefine

11 Top Tips for Brunch in Berlin

A hearty breakfast with friends at the weekend is the best way to start the day. Here are our tips for the best restaurants in Berlin.

Berliner Dom nachts — © GettyImages, Foto: MarioGuti

Tips for crime novels in which Berlin plays the leading role

With these tips you can bring a piece of Berlin home and spend a few exciting evenings at home.

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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