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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.  

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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

Museumsbesuch — © visitBerlin, Foto: Fotoagentur Wolf, freiheitswerke

The Top 11 Museum Cafés in Berlin

Our top 11 museum cafés in Berlin will turn your visit to an exhibition into a real event.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

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

Top 11 New Openings in Berlin in November

From Freedom Week to the HipHop Ball, from ramen to rainbows — these new openings in Berlin celebrate the city’s diversity!

Written for you by: Josefine

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

November 2025 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: Berlin Blogger

Children with pumpkins — © Getty Images, Foto: Feverpitched

11 tips for the autumn holidays in Berlin

Berlin offers you a colourful programme - whether Halloween events, dance classes, cooking workshops or art production.

Written for you by: Catrin

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

Museum Island Berlin in Autumn — © (c) visumate

Weekend tips 17 - 19. 10. 25

This October weekend is packed with cultural highlights: visit Berlin's museum construction site, enjoy theatre and painting!

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Heissa Wintermarkt — © enrico-verworner.de

These Christmas markets open first

When exactly do the first Berlin Christmas markets start? Find out here when the first markets open. A chronological Christmas market…

Written for you by: Josefine

Berlin Reinickendorf, Alten Fasanerie Lübars — © visitBerlin, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle

Top 11 petting zoos and wildlife preserves in Berlin

Goats, sheep, ponies and plenty of feathered creatures: a trip to Berlin's petting zoos offers plenty of opportunities to meet a few new…

Written for you by: Josefine

The Squad Berlin — © visitBerlin, Foto: Squad Berlin / Alizee Nielsen

Top 11 Indoor Activities in Berlin

From skydiving to trampoline jumping to surfing on artificial waves. Here you are active indoors!

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.

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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