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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

Fall of the Berlin Wall, the night of 9 November 1989 — © GettyImages, Foto: RolandBlunck

What you should know about the Berlin Wall

On the fall of the Wall on November 9: places, facts and stories that remind us of the formerly divided city.

Written for you by: Josefine

11 Tips for Families during Freedom Week

Discover the 11 highlights of Freedom Week 2025 in Berlin, including workshops, films and activities for all the family.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Distilled — © visitBerlin, Still: Christopher Larson

11 tips on where you can experience ‘escape’ in Berlin

What does it mean to be on the run? What does it mean to have to leave behind what you know and love and set off for an unknown land? For as…

Written for you by: Dagmar

NFL — © visitBerlin, Foto: GettyImages, David Madison

National Football League NFL in Berlin

From the Fan Village to the stadium cracker: the NFL weekend brings pure football feeling to Berlin even before 9 November - we'll show you…

Written for you by: Catrin

Remains of the Berlin Wall at Martin-Gropius-Bau — © visitBerlin, Foto: Martin Gentischer

The top 11 places to see what remains of the wall

The division of Germany, the "imprisonment" of an entire nation, the centre of the Cold War - there is hardly any other building of the 20th…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Galerie M - Kunst im urbanen Raum — © Foto: Karin Scheel

11 Tips for Art Lovers in Berlin

Here you can discover and experience contemporary art and culture in Berlin.

Written for you by: Josefine

Stadtbad Charlottenburg — © STB Charlottenburg-alte Halle; Foto: Elke A. Jung.-Wolff/Berliner Bäder

The most beautiful swimming pools in Berlin

Berlin's swimming pools offer the perfect retreat from the daily grind. Here are 11 of the most stunning spots to dive in.

Written for you by: Josefine

Top 11 Tips for rainy days in Berlin

When summer makes itself scarce: Indoor activities, sights and family day trips in bad weather in Berlin.

International Film Festival Berlin — © KARSTEN THIELKER

Top 11 Film festivals in Berlin

Autumn in Berlin: It's cinema time! Because now it's not just the big summer blockbusters that are showing, but also the first Oscar…

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.

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