Festivals in Berlin

The Berliner Theatertreffen has been Germany's most important theatre festival since 1964 – a two-week showcase of the most significant stag...

The Berliner Volksfestsommer is Berlin's largest Volksfest (traditional German folk festival) and reaches its 63rd edition in 2026. From Jul...

The Berliner Weihnachtszeit at the Rotes Rathaus is the capital's largest central Christmas market — framed by the Marienkirche, the Rotes R...

The Berliner Wintertraum is Berlin's largest and most spectacular Christmas funfair — not a classic Advent market, but a full-fledged winter...

Jenseits von Nelken und Pralinen (JVNUP) is Berlin's largest feminist rap and hip-hop festival for International Women's Day. On March 7, 20...

BHZ — the Berlin rap collective around Big Pat, Dead Dawg, Longus Mongus, Monk, Aki and the producer team — will play their first own open-a...

Three days of beer festival at the historic Trabrennbahn (horse racing track) in the Berlin district of Karlshorst. Over 100 different beers...

At the expansive Karlshorst racecourse in East Berlin, the infield transforms into a large open-air beer garden for a June weekend. The Bier...

The Biesdorfer Blütenfest is one of the oldest and most popular spring festivals in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district — three days around May...

There are dozens of street food festivals in Berlin — one has a unique concept: Bites & Bikes. Instead of food trucks, cargo bikes act as mo...

"A village gives itself a Christmas festival" — this is the motto of the Blankenburg Christmas Festival, which has been celebrated every fir...

The Blau Licht Beach Festival is a one-day open-air festival for electronic music at Strandbad Grünau on Langen See – one of Berlin's most b...

At Strandbad Grünau on the Langen See, the sports promenade transforms into an electronic beach club for an afternoon: two stages, House and...

The BMW BERLIN-MARATHON is one of the six World Marathon Majors and is considered the fastest marathon course in the world — more world reco...

The Bölschefest is the traditional street festival of the Berlin district of Friedrichshagen in the Treptow-Köpenick borough. For four days,...

For four days over the Ascension weekend, Bölschestraße in Berlin-Friedrichshagen transforms into one of the largest street festival mile of...

The Bölschestraßenfest transforms Bölschestraße in Friedrichshagen into a three-day neighborhood festival every September. The closed-off sh...

While the Berlin running scene often looks to the Brandenburg Gate and the Big City Marathon in September, a very special Volkslauf (popular...