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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

11 Pubs in Berlin

Berlin pub culture times 11: Here you will find the best Irish pubs, traditional Berlin corner pubs, cosy dive bars and football bars in…

Written for you by: Josefine

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

Joggers in the park of Charlottenburg Palace — © visitBerlin, Foto: Pierre Adenis

Weekend tips 19 - 21. 9. 25

It's finally the weekend again! We have plenty of events on offer for you, from relaxed to action-packed. So you're guaranteed not to get…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Drachenfliegen — © Getty Images, Foto: Digital Zombie

Top 11 places for kite flying in Berlin

Here you can fly your kites in Berlin: We show you the best spots, and don't miss the festival of giant kites!

Written for you by: Catrin

Frankfurter Tor am Abend — © Getty Images, Foto: querbeet

Top 11 new openings in Berlin in October

Eleven new places that make Berlin even more thrilling in October – from the premiere of Origins at the Reinbeckhallen to a queer book café…

Written for you by: Josefine

11 Thai Restaurants in Berlin

11 Berlin Thai food highlights offer authentic flavours, creative recipes and plenty of culinary wanderlust.

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Tegeler Fließ — © visitBerlin, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle

Off into nature

Are you captivated by nature? Discover with us these 11 insider tips for hiking and excursions in Berlin and Brandenburg!

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

Sonnenuntergang an der Spree — © visitBerlin, Foto: Claudia Sult

11 places where you can enjoy the last rays of the sun

When the days are getting shorter, it's time to enjoy the sun again. Here come our 11 selected places for the last summer days.

Written for you by: Kristin

Q Berlin 2022 — © visitBerlin, Foto: Kevin McElvaney

Weekend tips 12 – 14 / 9 / 25

Late summer is all about special events and art, whether it's 49h ICC, Berlin Art Week, Lost Art Festival or Gallery Night – but that's not…

Written for you by: Berlin Blogger

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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