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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

Essen und Trinken — © visitBerlin, Foto: GettyImages_MelipoART

Top 11 restaurants with tasty schnitzel

Schnitzel is a cult dish. These tasty morsels have always been among the classics of German, Austrian and many other cuisines. Deliciously…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Ein Paar in einem hübschen Café — © Getty Images, Foto: Janina Steinmetz

Top 11 Restaurants for a delicious Lunch

Sometimes it has to be something special. Our tips will help you find the best restaurants for an excellent lunch in the capital.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Sunset at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin — © Getty Images, Foto: I just try to tell my emotions and take you around the world

November 2024 in Berlin

In November you get the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a variety of film festivals and a week of concentrated knowledge.

Written for you by: Maria

Children with pumpkins — © Getty Images, Foto: Feverpitched

11 tips for the autumn holidays in Berlin

Discover the exciting autumn holidays in Berlin! From exciting museums to spooky Halloween fun - you won't get bored here!

Written for you by: Catrin

Top 11 delicious sandwiches in Berlin

Delicious ingredients between two slices of bread. The idea is as simple as it is ingenious. In our top 11 you will find the best Berlin…

Berlin Wall, before 1989, warning sign — © GettyImages, Foto: Heiko Küverling

Top 11 films about the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall in film: whether comedy, drama or thriller - it has always played an important role in films about the divided city.

Written for you by: Kristin

Bird's eye view of the Berlin Victory Column in Tiergarten — © Getty Images, Foto: André Berg / Eye Em

Top 11 autumn activities in Berlin

Get active in nature or cosy in the tea room: The following 11 tips will inspire you to take a wonderful autumn trip in Berlin.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Pumpkin in front of the Brandenburg Gate — © (c) visumate

Top 11 Events on Halloween

The time has come: It's haunted and creepy in Berlin on Halloween.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

BERLIN WALL — © GettyImages, Foto: NatalyaLucia

11 Stations on the Road to Freedom

At these locations you can retrace Berlin's journey from the division to the fall of the Wall.

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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