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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.

December 2025 in Berlin

Berliner Weihnachtszeit at the Rotes Rathaus — © visitBerlin, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle

11 Tips for Christmas, New Year's Eve and the Advent season

From the 1st Advent over the contemplative Christmas season to the New Year's Eve party: December in Berlin is a very special 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

Christmas Garden 2021 — © Christmas Garden-Michael Clemens

Christmas market tips for 21 - 23 November

This weekend, the illuminated gardens at the Tierpark and the Botanical Garden open their gates.

Written for you by: Josefine

11 tips for the best ice skating rinks in Berlin

Whether you're doing your pirouettes or taking your first steps on skates: the capital invites you onto the ice in many beautiful places. 11…

Written for you by: Josefine

Cookies Cream Restaurant — © Foto: Emil Levy Schramm

Berlin's Meisterköche 2025 and their restaurants

Who will be the Berlin Master Chef 2025? And which restaurants in Berlin will be honoured this year?

Written for you by: Kristin

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

11 Reasons to look forward to winter in Berlin

Winter is in the air. Look forward to 11 ideas for winter in Berlin and let yourself be enchanted by Christmas markets, skating rinks and…

Written for you by: Catrin

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

Berlin´s Odyssey — © visitBerlin, Foto: TVTower

11 tips for virtual reality experiences in Berlin

With virtual reality you can experience art and history and dive into phantastical worlds. Why not give it a try?

Written for you by: Josefine

Altstadt Spandau — © visitBerlin, Foto: Mo Wüstenhagen

11 plus one insider tips for Christmas shopping

Forget New York! The best places for Christmas shopping are Berlin's neighbourhoods. Are you ready for a shopping trip through the wintry…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

11 Berlin restaurants with sharing concepts

In these restaurants, sharing is an explicit part of the concept. Enjoy your meal together ...

Written for you by: Kristin

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

Christmas Market Tips for 14 - 16 November

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

Written for you by: Josefine

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.

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