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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

Picknick and bicycle tour in Berlin — © iStock.com/MarkSwallow

Berlin's top 11 picnic spots

A picnic in the open air is the best way to enjoy warm days in Berlin. We show you the best spots!

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Kiezkampagne 2024, Landing Page — © visitBerlin

11 trend sports in Berlin

Try out the trend sports that are becoming more and more popular in Berlin or those that are relatively new. In any case, you should…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

The Peacock Island at Wannsee — © Wirtschaftsförderung Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Foto: Steven Ritzer

11 and 1 tip on Berlin's island landscape

Reif für die Insel? Dann seid ihr bei uns bestens versorgt. Denn die Berliner Insellandschaft hat mehr zu bieten, als nur die Museumsinsel …

Written for you by: Catrin

Schwules Pärchen: Drinks — © visitBerlin, Foto: Fotoagentur Wolf, freiheitswerke

Best Gay Bars in Berlin

In Berlin, you can be whoever you want. You'll meet like-minded people in these gay bars.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

People with rainbow flags at the Pride Parade in Berlin — © Fabian Böttcher

11 Tips for Christopher Street Day in Berlin

There is a colourful programme around Christopher Street Day this year!

Written for you by: Josefine

Insel der Jugend — © visitBerlin, Foto: Thomas Kierok

11 summerly places at the Spree

Sit by the water and eat an ice cream, enjoy the sunset or just let the ships pass by - that's what you can do at these places on the Spree.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Kinder beim Spielen auf der Museumsinsel im Sommer in Berlin — © visitBerlin, Foto: Thomas Kierok

Top 11 tips for the summer holidays in Berlin

From laser courses to bee tours: there's plenty to do in Berlin during the summer holidays. Six weeks full of adventure, knowledge and water…

Written for you by: Maria

Miniature golf course — © GettyImages, Foto: Maskot

Top 11 Minigolf Courses in Berlin

Indoors or outdoors - mini golf is entertaining and fun for children as well as adults.

Written for you by: Maria

Geburtstag feiern — © visitBerlin, Foto: GettyImages, Westend61

11 Tips for Birthdays in Berlin

Whether spectacular shows, tricky puzzles or wellness experiences - Berlin has the right programme for every birthday child.

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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