City

Events in Munich

One event a year moves hotel prices in Munich, and this is what it does to them. Where to stay, how long each district is from the venue, and how to get here.

Illustration: the interior of a vast beer tent in September, long wooden benches and timber beams, warm lamplight, a brass band stage far down the hall — Wiesn · Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

What is on

Dates	Event	Type	Booking
18 Sep – 3 Oct 2027	Oktoberfest	Festival	Closing

The weeks the city fills

18 Sep – 3 Oct 2027
Oktoberfest
Worst: First weekend at ×3. Cheapest: First week at ×1.8.

Against what the same hotel costs four weeks earlier — our estimate, not a live rate. Outside these weeks Munich prices like any other month.

Getting here

Airport	Code	To the city
Munich Franz Josef Strauss	MUC	45 min
Memmingen	MEM	120 min

Trains: München Hauptbahnhof.

Where to stay

Theresienwiese

District	To the venue	Price	What it is
Ludwigsvorstadt & the Hauptbahnhof	10 min walk	$$$$	Between the station and the Wiesn; walkable, loud, and priced for it
Altstadt	20 min metro	$$$$	Marienplatz and the beer halls; the Munich you came for, two U-Bahn stops away
Glockenbachviertel & Au	25 min metro	$$$	South of the centre, residential, the best food and a short ride in
Schwabing & Maxvorstadt	30 min metro	$$$	North of the centre by the university; quieter nights, direct U-Bahn
Outskirts & the S-Bahn ring	45 min train	$$	Dachau, Freising and the airport towns; where rooms exist at a human price

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