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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

Zoopalast cinema in Berlin, hall — © Zoo Palast, Foto: Jan Bitter

Top 11 Tips for Film Lovers in Berlin

Cinemas, festivals and celebrities: our Top 11 tips for film lovers take a look behind the scenes of the capital city.

Written for you by: Kristin

Berliner Dom — © visitBerlin, Foto: Fragasso

Top 11 Bridges in Berlin

Bridges in Berlin connect more than one bank with the other. They are a symbol of the reunited city and a meeting place for lovers.

Written for you by: Josefine

Reichstag Berlin — © visitberlin, Foto: Wolfgang Scholvien

11 tips for spring in Berlin

The sun is shining and the beautiful weather is beckoning - so let's get outside! Come with us, because we have the best 11 tips for spring…

Written for you by: Catrin

Family at the Humboldt Forum Berlin — © visitBerlin, Foto: Thomas Kierok

11 tips for the winter vacations in Berlin

Vacations at last: Here you can have lots of vacation fun in Berlin despite the cold winter weather.

Written for you by: Josefine

EGX Berlin: People with headphones on desktop computers — © Foto: EGX

11 Tips for Gamers in Berlin

The best places for game lovers are not only in front of the screen. Take a look at our tips and discover Berlin's gamer side.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Staatsoper Unter den Linden — © Gordon Welters

11 reasons to look forward to in the upcoming season

Berlin's theaters, operas and concert halls start the new season with a full program.

Written for you by: Josefine

Black-and-white photograph Brandenburger Tor Berlin 1907 — © Landesarchiv Berlin

The Skladanowsky Brothers: When the Pictures Learned to Move

Noch vor den Brüdern Lumière brachten die Berliner Brüder Skladanowsky die ersten Bilder vor großem Publikum zum Laufen.

Written for you by: Josefine

© Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Foto: Georg Schroeder

Rio Reiser & the Rauch Haus: Squatters occupy the Bethanien

With the Rauchhaus song, Rio Reiser writes the anthem of the left-wing scene, and co-initiates the occupation of the Bethanien.

Written for you by: Josefine

Fascinating stories: the Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin

Where there are wide open spaces, small and big ideas are born, courageous experiments are dared, but also tragic stories are written…

Written for you by: Dagmar

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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