2026 Berlin Travel Cost Study
Is Berlin expensive?
Berlin is not cheap, but it is not extreme either: our calculator puts a mid-range trip of 4 nights for two people at about €983, or €123 per person per night, without flights, breakfast, drinks or the accommodation tax.
Work out your Berlin trip cost
Set the nights, the number of travellers, your style and a month. The hotel line uses our study's medians per room per night, with one room for every two people. Meal and car prices are published figures. The total leaves out flights, entry fees and the accommodation tax. Copy the link to share your trip.
Your trip
€983
€492 per person · €123 per person per night
| Hotel | €396 |
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| Eating out | €336 |
| Activities | €141 |
| Car hire | €0 |
| Day tickets | €90 |
| Airport train | €20 |
| Accommodation tax | 0not included |
Short answer
Somewhat. Berlin is not cheap, but not extreme. Across Germany, restaurant and hotel prices are 112.1% of the EU average (Eurostat, 2024, a national figure). That is above Italy and Spain, but below the Netherlands. In Berlin, two people pay about €983 for 4 nights at mid-range. That is €123 per person per night. A budget trip comes to roughly €799; a comfort trip, roughly €1,955. Of what we measured, the star class moves the price most, then the month. A 4-star room was advertised at €77 to €81 a night from December to February, and at €124 in June (per room per night, 2 adults). Flights, breakfast, drinks and the accommodation tax are extra.
Six ways to spend less in Berlin
- For a 4-star room, go between December and February. A 4-star room was advertised at €77 to €81 a night in those months. In June it was €124 (per room, 2 adults).
- Buy a day ticket from your third ride. One ride in zones A and B costs €4 per person. A day ticket costs €11.20. So it pays off from ride number 3.
- Take the train from BER. A single ticket for zones A, B and C costs €5 per person and covers the airport. Note that the AB day ticket does not reach BER.
- Keep your cheap meals cheap. Guides put street food and simple meals at about €9 per person. A mid-range restaurant meal is about €21.
- Start with the free sights. The East Side Gallery and the outdoor Wall sites are free to see from the street; check the official pages for current rules. A guided Wall tour starts at a median €26 per person. Plan your route with our page on the Wall Berlin sites.
- Check the Saturday price too. On the August Tuesday and Saturday we read, 77% of hotel pairs were dearer on the Saturday. On the March pair, only 16% were. That is one pair of dates per month, so compare both nights for your own dates.
This study leaves out flights, since their price hangs on your home airport and your dates.
What a Berlin trip costs for two
Two people at mid-range should budget €777 for a 3-night stay, €983 for 4 nights, €1,188 for 5 nights and €1,599 for a week of 7 nights, flights not included. A trip of 5 nights comes to about €594 per person.
Each row is the same 4-night trip for two, at any time of year. You share one room. Each of you eats 2 meals out a day, with no breakfast or drinks. Each of you takes two tours, buys a day ticket every day and rides the train to and from BER. In comfort, one meal a day is a set tasting menu. The budget style saves mostly on food: Google's 3-star filter showed dearer hotels than its main list, so the budget hotel line is likely on the high side. The accommodation tax is not in these totals.
| Style | Hotel | Eating out | Activities | Transport and airport (no tax) | Total | Per person per night |
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| Budget 3-star hotel, cheap meals | €404 | €144 | €141 | €110 | €799 | €100 |
| Mid-range Our default 4-star hotel, mid-range meals | €396 | €336 | €141 | €110 | €983 | €123 |
| Comfort 5-star hotel, one fine dinner a day | €1,040 | €664 | €141 | €110 | €1,955 | €244 |
By trip length (mid-range, two people)
Berlin hotel prices by month
Across all the nights we read, the median 4-star room in Berlin was listed at €99 a night for 2 adults. December to February were the cheapest months, a near tie at €77 to €81. June 2027 was the dearest, at €124.
We read 2,427 advertised prices of 404 hotels on Google Hotels on 27 October 2026. For every month we took two nights, a Tuesday and a Saturday, and read them once, 21 to 322 days ahead. Every price is per room per night for 2 adults. The 4-star median rests on 282 prices from 45 hotels. The middle half of them cost €79 to €119. A 5-star night had a median of €260, by Google's own star label.
By month and star class
Google does not show the same hotels on every date. That is why a month is only set against the same star class, for example 4-star in January and 4-star in June. December, January and February came out almost the same, so treat them as one cheap season. Late spring to early autumn cost more. We rank the 11 months in the table.
| Month | 3-star | 4-star | 5-star |
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| November 2026 | €89 | €96 | €284 |
| December 2026 | €84 | €80 | €241 |
| January 2027 | €90 | €77 | €222 |
| February 2027 | €80 | €81 | €238 |
| March 2027 | €103 | €97 | €244 |
| April 2027 | €104 | €96 | €265 |
| May 2027 | €118 | €121 | €305 |
| June 2027 | €127 | €124 | €293 |
| July 2027 | €113 | €106 | €261 |
| August 2027 | €111 | €104 | €270 |
| September 2027 | €129 | €111 | €334 |
About these numbers
All figures are medians for one room and 2 adults per night, taken from Google Hotels on our reading day. Prices for later dates can change before you book. The three star classes are built three ways. The 3-star figures come from a search filtered to 3-star hotels. The 4-star figures come from Google's main list. The 5-star figures pool both. So compare months within a class, not one class with another. Google's 3-star filter shows dearer hotels than the 3-star hotels in its main list. The 5-star figures rest on Google's label for a small group of hotels, 11 to 14 prices a month.
Weekday or weekend?
How we compared weekends
We paired the same hotel on a Tuesday and the Saturday after it, in the same month (644 pairs). We found no clear weekend premium. The Saturday was dearer in 47% of pairs, and the same or cheaper in the rest. The median gap was 0%. It changed by month. In August, 77% of pairs cost more on the Saturday; in March, 16% did. Each month has only one pair of nights, so single months swing a lot.
Well-rated hotels to check
- Mitte 8.9/10 Trip.com Adina Apartment Hotel Berlin Checkpoint Charlie
Apartment hotel on Krausenstraße in Mitte, about a 10-minute walk from Checkpoint Charlie and Gendarmenmarkt, with an indoor pool.
See rates - Kreuzberg 9.5/10 Trip.com Orania.Berlin
Boutique hotel in a 1913 building on Oranienstraße, in the middle of Kreuzberg's food and nightlife streets.
See rates - Friedrichshain 9.2/10 Trip.com Hampton by Hilton Berlin City East Side Gallery
Hotel on Mildred-Harnack-Straße, under 100 meters from the East Side Gallery.
See rates - Prenzlauer Berg 9.1/10 Trip.com Holiday Inn BERLIN CITY CENTER EAST P-BERG by IHG
Family-friendly hotel on Prenzlauer Allee with a tram stop outside and an S-Bahn station nearby.
See rates
Rated 8 or more on Trip.com. We have no price data for these hotels, so check the rate for your own dates.
Trip.com ratings and hotel notes as shown on 28 October 2026.
How Germany compares with its neighbours
Eurostat scores restaurant and hotel prices by country, and Germany comes in at 112.1 (EU average = 100, 2024). That is dearer than Portugal (75.5), Spain (83.9), Greece (86.4), Croatia (95.4) and Italy (106.9), about level with France (110) and Austria (110), and cheaper than the Netherlands (124.6).
The index measures what the same meals out and hotel stays cost, country by country. It is a figure for all of Germany, not Berlin alone. 2024 is the latest year Eurostat has published. The index moves up and down from year to year, so read it as a snapshot, not a trend.
- Portugal 75.5
- Spain 83.9
- Greece 86.4
- Croatia 95.4
- Italy 106.9
- France 110
- Austria 110
- Germany 112.1
- Netherlands 124.6
Source: Eurostat, price level indices (prc_ppp_ind), restaurants and hotels, EU27 = 100, read 27 October 2026.
What food costs in Berlin
Expect about €9 per person for a cheap meal in Berlin, about €21 at a mid-range restaurant and about €62 for a set tasting menu, food only.
These are published prices, not our measurement. Each level is the median of 3 cited sources from 2024 to 2026, quoted word for word. Some sources show no date. All prices are per person and leave out drinks.
| Meal | Used in the calculator | Published figures |
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| Cheap meal street food, a stew or a simple lunch | about €9 median of 3 sources |
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| Mid-range restaurant a meal at a casual sit-down place | about €21 median of 3 sources |
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| Set tasting menu per person at an upscale restaurant, no drinks | about €62 median of 3 sources |
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Drink prices
Published prices put a beer in Berlin at €2 to €4.50, an espresso at about €2.09 and a glass of wine at €4 to €12.
| Drink | Middle figure | Published figures |
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| Beer a pint or a large beer at a bar | about €3.68 |
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| Espresso at a café | about €2.09 |
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| Glass of wine from house wine to a better bar | about €7.25 |
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On a budget, two cheap meals and a day ticket come to about €29 per person per day. Going out at night? Nightlife tours (pub crawls and club tours) start at a median €28 per person, and our page on the Berghain Berlin doorman explains how club doors work.
What tours and tickets cost in Berlin
The typical starting price per activity page runs from €14 for Museum Island tickets to €44 for food tours, per person.
Our measurement: the lowest listed price of each tour and ticket on our pages, as shown on GetYourGuide on 27 October 2026. The table gives the median per page, per person. To pick, compare Berlin sightseeing attractions and tours side by side. For the Reichstag dome, check the official booking rules, see Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag.
| Type | Median |
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| Berlin Wall tours: East Side Gallery, the Memorial and where to see it | €26 €19.70–€29 |
| Berlin tours: city, private and sightseeing tours | €39 €30–€78 |
| Berlin nightlife: pub crawls, club tours and how to get in | €28 €19.70–€49 |
| Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag: visit and tours | €40 €16–€75 |
| Checkpoint Charlie and Cold War tours | €31 €18.20–€72 |
| Berlin walking tours, free and paid | €25 €20–€49 |
| Berlin food tours and beer tastings | €44 €22–€68 |
| Berlin boat tours and Spree river cruises | €22 €21–€32 |
| Day trips from Berlin | €24 €21–€26 |
| Third Reich and WWII tours in Berlin | €19.40 €17.40–€37 |
| Berlin hop-on hop-off bus tours | €24 €22–€32 |
| Potsdam day trip from Berlin | €24 €22–€43 |
| Berlin bike tours | €35 €32–€35 |
| Sachsenhausen concentration camp tour from Berlin | €24 €14.10–€30 |
| Berlin TV Tower tickets and the Sphere restaurant | €35 €20–€75 |
| Museum Island tickets: Pergamon, Neues Museum and more few tours | €14 €14–€25 |
Middle half: the 25th to 75th percentile of from-prices; rows with fewer than 4 tours ("few tours") show a rough spread only. A "from" price is the lowest option a listing offers. Prices and ratings as shown on GetYourGuide on 27 October 2026.
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from €27 per person Berlin Wall Berlin: East Side Gallery Spree Cruise in a Solar Catamaran Check availability -
from €44 per person Berlin tours Berlin: Sightseeing Tour in Classic Volkswagen T1 Samba Bus Check availability -
from €23 per person Nightlife Berlin: Pub Crawl with Shots and VIP Club Entry Check availability -
from €16 per person Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag Berlin: Reichstag, Dome and Government District Guided Tour Check availability -
from €79 per person Checkpoint Charlie Berlin: 75-minute Trabi Safari Check availability -
from €25 per person Walking tours Berlin: Alternative Berlin Walking Tour Check availability
Car hire in Berlin, and whether you need it
Three published figures put a rental car in Berlin at €40 to €65 a day, and €47 is the middle figure.
These figures come from 3 published sources, not our measurement. Your price depends on dates, car size, insurance and fuel. Budget trips in the calculator use the low figure, mid-range the middle one and comfort the high one.
- €30–€50 a day:
On average, expect to pay between €30 and €50 per day for a compact car.
roadtrip.lifestyle - €47 a day: middle
The average price of a small car hire in Berlin Brandenburg Airport is €47.
momondo.ie - €65 a day:
On average, car rentals in Berlin cost around €65 per day
roadgenius.com
Advertised minimums, not typical prices: from €20 a day (roadgenius.com) · from €24 a day (easyterra.com) · from €27 a day (easyterra.com).
Most visitors can skip the car. The U-Bahn, S-Bahn, trams and buses get you to the sights, and the S-Bahn runs to Potsdam. For trips out of town, see day trips from Berlin.
Accommodation tax, tickets and the airport train
Berlin charges guests 7.5% of the room price before VAT and extras. We do not know if Google Hotels prices include it, so the calculator leaves it out. If they do not, it adds a little less than 7.5% to the hotel line. Fares are as read on 27 October 2026, and fares can change. More on tickets and zones: getting around Berlin.
Key findings of the 2026 Berlin Travel Cost Study
- €124 a 4-star night in June, against €77 to €81 from December to February.
For stays advertised on Google Hotels on 27 October 2026, the median advertised 4-star night in Berlin was €124 in June 2027, against €77 to €81 a month from December 2026 to February 2027 (per room per night, 2 adults). Each month rests on one Tuesday and one Saturday read once, between three weeks and eleven months ahead, so season and booking lead time both play a part, and the hotels priced differ from night to night.
- €99 for the middle 4-star night, per room for two adults.
Across all 22 nights we read, from November 2026 to September 2027, the 282 advertised 4-star prices (45 hotels) had a median of €99 per room per night for 2 adults, with the middle half between €79 and €119.
- 47% of hotels asked more on a Saturday than the Tuesday before: no clear weekend premium.
We found no clear weekend premium in Berlin: in 644 pairs of a Tuesday and the Saturday after it, the same hotel asked more on the Saturday in 47% of cases and the same or less in the rest, a median difference of 0% (per room per night, 2 adults; one pair of nights per month, so single months swing widely).
- €260 for the middle 5-star night, by Google's own star label.
Google labelled 7 Berlin hotels 5-star for our dates (Google's own star label, 11 to 14 prices a month); their 149 advertised prices had a median of €260 per room per night for 2 adults.
- 112.1% of the EU average for restaurant and hotel prices across Germany.
Restaurant and hotel prices across Germany were 112.1% of the EU average in 2024, the latest year Eurostat has published for its price level index (EU = 100). This is a national figure, not Berlin alone. Published guides from 2024 to 2026 put a cheap meal in Berlin at about €9 per person, a mid-range restaurant meal at about €21 and a fine-dining meal at about €62, before drinks (medians of three cited sources per level, not our measurement).
- €11.20 for an AB day ticket, which pays off from the third ride.
A single BVG ride in Berlin's fare zones A and B costs €4 and a day ticket €11.20, so the day ticket pays off from the third ride; a single ticket for zones A, B and C, which covers BER airport, costs €5 (official fares read 28 October 2026; fares can change). Berlin charges an accommodation tax of 7.5% of the room price before VAT and extras such as breakfast; whether Google Hotels prices include it is not known.
- €983 for a mid-range trip of 4 nights for two, without flights, breakfast or drinks.
Our calculator puts a mid-range trip of 4 nights for 2 at about €983: one shared 4-star room at the median of all 4-star prices we read, two mid-range meals out a day each, a solar-boat cruise along the East Side Gallery and a VW bus sightseeing tour at their from-prices per person, a day ticket each day for each person and a single ticket from and to BER. The 7.5% accommodation tax, flights, breakfast and drinks are not included.
Source: 2026 Berlin Travel Cost Study, The Best Travel Destinations, https://the-best-travel-destinations.com/things-to-do-in-berlin/is-berlin-expensive/ (CC BY 4.0)
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What we measured ourselves
- Hotels: 2,427 prices of 404 hotels on Google Hotels, read on 27 October 2026. One Tuesday and one Saturday night per month, November 2026 to September 2027, 2 adults, one room; paid ads, listings without a price and duplicates left out. These are the prices advertised for those dates when we read them, not what guests later paid. Months are compared within a star class because Google shows a different set of hotels for each date. Star classes: Google's default hotel list for Berlin labels only about a third of its hotels with a star class: 3-14 three-star and 4-9 five-star prices a month (after the deeper reads), too few to compare months within those classes; so we added one extra Google Hotels search per night filtered to 3-star (depth 20; 36 listings, 21-32 new priced 3-star hotels per night) and one filtered to 5-star (depth 20; Google listed 7 five-star hotels per night), same dates, 2 adults, one room; only hotels Google labels with that class are kept, and hotels already in the main search for that date are not counted twice (677 of the 2,427 prices). These count for the 3-star figures from the 3-star-filtered rows alone in every month (main-search 3-star rows stay in the all-hotel figures); the 5-star figures pool the main-search and filtered 5-star rows in every month; the all-hotel figures, the 4-star figures and month sample sizes use the main search alone: the all-hotel median rests on 1,750 prices.
- Activities: the "from" prices of the 104 tours and tickets on our 16 activity pages (the table above), as shown on GetYourGuide on 27 October 2026; the calculator offers 12 tours, one per activity page. A "from" price is the lowest option a listing offers, not a typical price.
What we cite
- Meals, drinks and car hire: figures published by travel guides, food-tour companies and rental platforms, found through Google searches in Germany and quoted word for word with their date. A range counts with its midpoint, each source once per group. No figures from forums or social media. Each meal level rests on 3 sources, and some show no date, so read the meal prices as a guide. None comes from a page that shows a date in 2022 or earlier; many pages show no date at all.
- Accommodation tax, fares: the Berlin Senate Department for Finance, berlin.de.
- Price level: Eurostat, price level index for restaurants and hotels (EU = 100), 2024.
How the calculator adds up
- Our default trip: 4 nights for a couple sharing a room, mid-range style, no month picked. For the room we take the middle value of every 4-star price in the study (€99), so no single season. Each person eats two mid-range meals out a day at €21. Each person takes two tours from our list, at each tour's lowest listed price (an example, not an average; the same in every style): Berlin: East Side Gallery Spree Cruise in a Solar Catamaran (€27) and Berlin: Sightseeing Tour in Classic Volkswagen T1 Samba Bus (€44). Flights, a car and entry fees are not included.
- Hotel: nights × rooms (one per two travellers) × the median for the style's star class in that month (or the whole year).
- Eating out: nights × travellers × meals a day at the style's meal price; in comfort, one fine dinner a day and the other meals at mid-range prices.
- Car: days × the style's daily price. Activities: the from-price per person or per group.
- Accommodation tax: not in the totals. Berlin charges 7.5% of the room price before VAT and extras, and we cannot tell if Google's prices already hold it.
- Transport: nights × travellers × the AB day ticket (€11.20). Airport: two ABC single tickets per traveller (€5 each), one there and one back. The AB day ticket does not cover BER.
Each line is rounded to whole euros.
Plan your Berlin trip
Berlin costs: your questions
Is Berlin expensive to visit?
Somewhat, but not extreme. Two people pay about €983 for 4 nights at mid-range, or €123 per person per night. On a budget it is about €100 per person per night, and in comfort €244. Flights and the accommodation tax are extra. Work out your own trip.
How expensive is Berlin?
Leave the hotel aside and a mid-range day costs about €73 per person. That covers two meals out, a day ticket, the airport train and two tours spread over the trip. On a budget it is about €49. A 4-star room adds a median €99 a night for two adults.
Is Berlin cheap or expensive?
Somewhat. Berlin is not cheap, but not extreme. Germany's restaurant and hotel prices are 112.1% of the EU average (2024, a national figure, not Berlin alone). Food and transport are fair: a cheap meal costs about €9 and a day ticket €11.20. For a 4-star room, December to February were the cheapest months and June the dearest. See the comparison.
How much money do I need for two weeks?
We price stays up to a week. Two people at mid-range pay about €1,599 for 7 nights in Berlin, or €114 per person per night. Each extra night costs about the same, so two weeks in Berlin comes to roughly twice the one-week figure. We did not price the rest of Germany. Flights and the accommodation tax are extra. Set your own nights.
How much does it cost to eat in Berlin?
Published guides put a cheap meal at about €9 per person, a mid-range restaurant meal at about €21 and a set tasting menu at about €62, food only. A beer costs €2 to €4.50 and an espresso about €2.09. Sources.
Is there much to do in Berlin?
Yes. Our pages cover 16 kinds of tours and tickets, from Wall tours to boat trips and day trips. Typical starting prices run from €14 to €44 per person. The East Side Gallery can be seen from the street at no cost. See the prices.
Sources
Official sources
All read 27 October 2026
Meal and drink prices (cited)
All read 27 October 2026 (the day we read them, not the day they were published; some pages show no date)
Car hire prices (cited)
All read 27 October 2026 (the day we read them, not the day they were published; some pages show no date)