2026 Munich Travel Cost Study
Is Munich expensive?
A mid-range trip of 4 nights in Munich costs two people about €1,465, or €733 each, without flights. Eating out and the hotel are most of that bill.
Munich trip cost calculator
Choose your nights, travellers, style and month. Hotel prices are our own medians for the month and hotel class you pick. Meals and car hire use figures from published guides. Copy the link to share your budget. It leaves out flights, breakfast and drinks. Food and tickets count one day for each night. Tours use their from-prices, and transport uses single MVV day tickets.
Your trip
€1,465
€733 per person · €183 per person per night
| Hotel | €484 |
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| Eating out | €544 |
| Activities | €296 |
| Car hire | €0 |
| MVV day tickets | €81 |
| Airport train | €60 |
| Tourist tax | 0none in Munich |
Short answer
Yes, Munich is on the expensive side for Europe, but you can control most of the cost. Eurostat puts restaurant and hotel prices across Germany at 112.1 (EU average = 100, 2024). That is a national figure, not Munich alone. Our default trip is 4 nights for two people in a 4-star room. It costs about €1,465, which is €733 per person or €183 per person for each night. On a budget the same trip is about €1,029. In comfort it is about €3,339. Dates matter too: a 4-star night ran from €104 in December to €179 in a January trade fair week. Flights are extra.
How to spend less in Munich
- Skip fair weeks and Oktoberfest. A 3-star room cost a median €97 in February and €146 in September (two nights a month, read once). Our September Saturday was the first day of Oktoberfest, and it is part of that median. Check the trade fair calendar before you book.
- See the free sights first. The English Garden, Marienplatz and the Dachau memorial site cost nothing to visit. Spend your money on the one or two tours you care about most.
- Compare 3-star and 4-star hotels. A 3-star night cost a median €112 per room, a 4-star night €121. The gap is small and changes by month, so check both. A 5-star night cost €482.
- Buy a day ticket from the third ride. An MVV day ticket costs from €10.10 and a single ride from €4.20. So the day ticket wins once you ride 3 times.
- Eat cheap at snack stands. A döner from a snack stand or a simple pizza costs about €6 to €11.90, two guides say. A mid-range restaurant meal is €20 to €50.
- Walk the Old Town on your own. Your own free Munich walking tour costs nothing. A guided Old Town walk costs a median €26 per person.
Flights are not in this study. Their price depends on where you fly from and when.
What a trip to Munich costs for two
For two people at mid-range, a trip costs about €1,188 for 3 nights, €1,465 for 4 nights, €1,742 for 5 nights and €2,296 for 7 nights. Flights are not included. Five nights come to about €871 for each person.
Each row is the same trip in a different style, at the median over all the months we read (November 2026 to September 2027). It counts the hotel, 2 meals out per person a day, 2 tours, an MVV day ticket each day and the airport train both ways. Only the hotel class and the meal prices change.
| 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 | €448 | €144 | €296 | €141 | €1,029 | €129 |
| Mid-range Our default 4-star hotel, mid-range meals | €484 | €544 | €296 | €141 | €1,465 | €183 |
| Comfort 5-star hotel, one fine dinner a day | €1,926 | €976 | €296 | €141 | €3,339 | €417 |
By length of stay (mid-range, two people)
Munich hotel prices by month
The median Munich hotel room for 2 adults cost €112 a night at 3-star, €121 at 4-star and €482 at 5-star. For a 4-star room, December 2026 was cheapest (€104). January 2027 was dearest (€179); our Tuesday that month fell in the BAU building fair. Each month rests on two nights, and some months were close to the cheapest one. During Oktoberfest prices jump: on its opening Saturday the same hotel asked a median 167.6 % more than on the Tuesday before (one Oktoberfest night read).
We read 2,820 prices of 406 hotels on Google Hotels on 27 October 2026. We took one Tuesday and one Saturday night in each month from November 2026 to September 2027, for 2 adults in one room. The star classes rest on 43 3-star, 40 4-star and 8 5-star hotels. Google labels few Munich hotels with stars, so we also ran a search for each star class. Those lists show Google's top hotels of each class, so they may lean dearer. Half of all 4-star nights cost between €84 and €175.
By month and star class
Each date brings up a new mix of hotels on Google. So we compare months only inside one star class. Each month rests on two nights, read once, so one event can move it. Our January Tuesday fell during the BAU building fair. Our September Saturday was the first day of Oktoberfest. The cheapest and dearest months are ranked over all 11 months.
| Month | 3-star | 4-star | 5-star |
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| November 2026 | €108 | €105 | €417 |
| December 2026 | €106 | €104 | €428 |
| January 2027 | €131 | €179 | €471 |
| February 2027 | €97 | €109 | €427 |
| March 2027 | €104 | €110 | €442 |
| April 2027 | €119 | €128 | €477 |
| May 2027 | €111 | €143 | €489 |
| June 2027 | €112 | €131 | €500 |
| July 2027 | €119 | €123 | €488 |
| August 2027 | €101 | €114 | €514 |
| September 2027 | €146 | €169 | €911 |
About these numbers
Each figure is the median price for one room and 2 adults per night, from Google Hotels. Each 5-star month rests on only 14 to 16 prices, so treat it as a rough guide. We read the prices months ahead. Closer to your dates, they can be different.
Weekend or weekday?
How we compared weekends
For 879 pairs of nights, we put one hotel's Saturday price next to its price on the Tuesday before. Overall, there was no clear weekend markup: the hotel asked more on the Saturday in 49 % of the pairs. We compared only a Tuesday with the Saturday after it, not other days. For 4-star hotels it was 45 %. Two months skew this. In January the Tuesday fell in a fair week, so Saturdays looked cheap. In September our Saturday was the opening day of Oktoberfest, and the same hotel asked a median 167.6 % more. The Oktoberfest opening Saturday is also part of the medians over all months.
Hotels we checked
- Altstadt / Marienplatz 9.4/10 Trip.com Platzl Hotel - Superior
Luxury hotel on Sparkassenstraße in the old town, steps from the Hofbräuhaus and about 0.1 miles from Marienplatz.
See rates - Hauptbahnhof / Ludwigsvorstadt 8.6/10 Trip.com Wombat's City Hostel Munich Hauptbahnhof
Hostel with dorms and private double rooms on Senefelderstraße next to the main train station, about a 10-minute walk from the Oktoberfest grounds.
See rates - Maxvorstadt / Schwabing 8.7/10 Trip.com Ruby Lilly Hotel Munich by IHG
Design hotel with a rooftop terrace on Dachauer Straße in Maxvorstadt, about 0.5 miles from Königsplatz and 0.8 miles from the Alte Pinakothek.
See rates - Haidhausen / Au 8.9/10 Trip.com Holiday Inn Munich City Centre
Large hotel on Hochstraße directly above the Rosenheimer Platz S-Bahn station, about 1,350 feet from the Deutsches Museum.
See rates
Rated 8 or more by guests on Trip.com. We did not measure their prices. For more areas and hotels, see where to stay in Munich.
Trip.com ratings and hotel notes as shown on 28 October 2026.
How Germany compares with nearby countries
On Eurostat's price index for restaurants and hotels, Germany stands at 112.1, Austria at 110 and Italy at 106.9 (EU average = 100, 2024).
The index weighs what the same meals out and hotel nights cost from country to country. This is a figure for all of Germany in 2024, not a Munich price. Spain is at 83.9 and the Netherlands at 124.6.
- Portugal 75.5
- Spain 83.9
- Greece 86.4
- 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.
How much eating out costs in Munich
A cheap meal in Munich costs about €6 to €11.90 per person, and a mid-range restaurant meal €20 to €50, two guides say. Fine dining starts at about €50.
These are published prices, not our measurement. We quote each guide word for word, and we read them all on 27 October 2026. Each tier rests on few guides. The calculator uses one middle figure per tier, for example €34 for a mid-range meal.
| Meal | Used in the calculator | Published figures |
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| Cheap meal a döner, a pizza or a simple dish | about €9 median of 2 sources |
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| Mid-range restaurant a meal per person | about €34 median of 2 sources |
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| Fine dining per person, upscale restaurants | about €88 from 1 source |
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Beer and coffee
A beer in a Munich pub costs about €5, and a coffee €2 to €3.86, according to published prices. At Oktoberfest a Maß, one litre of festival beer, costs €14.80 to €15.90 in 2026, depending on the tent, two festival guides say.
| Drink | Middle figure | Published figures |
|---|---|---|
| Beer a half-litre or a glass of local beer in a pub | about €4.90 |
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| Coffee a coffee or a cappuccino in a café | about €3.18 |
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To visit the beer halls with a guide, see our Munich beer tours.
What activities cost in Munich
A guided Old Town walk costs a median €26 per person. A day trip to Neuschwanstein Castle costs a median €83, and the Neuschwanstein and Linderhof day trip in our default trip costs from €76.
We read these prices ourselves on GetYourGuide on 27 October 2026. Each row is the median from-price of the tours on one of our pages, per person. A from-price is the cheapest option a tour offers.
| Type | Median |
|---|---|
| Neuschwanstein Castle day trips from Munich | €83 €78–€139 |
| Munich walking tours of the Old Town | €26 €22–€26 |
| Oktoberfest tent reservations, tours and packages | €180 €99–€241 |
| Zugspitze and Garmisch-Partenkirchen day trips from Munich | €210 €155–€291 |
| Eagle's Nest and Berchtesgaden tours from Munich | €241 €115–€358 |
| BMW Museum and BMW Welt tours and tickets few tours | €39 €27–€264 |
| Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial tours from Munich | €43 €36–€47 |
| Neuschwanstein Castle tickets and skip-the-line tours few tours | €58 €45–€63 |
| Day trips from Munich | €241 €118–€350 |
| Munich beer hall and brewery tours | €49 €35–€72 |
| Munich food tours and Viktualienmarkt tastings | €44 €43–€44 |
| Salzburg day trips from Munich and the Sound of Music tour | €75 €42–€84 |
| Munich tours: city, private and sightseeing tours | €159 €47–€393 |
| Allianz Arena tour and FC Bayern Museum tickets few tours | €15.50 €12–€19 |
| Munich Christmas market tours | €57 €51–€89 |
| Third Reich and WWII tours in Munich | €34 €29–€77 |
| Nymphenburg Palace tickets and tours | €49 €27–€67 |
| Munich Residenz tickets, tours and palace concerts | €69 €50–€91 |
| Munich hop-on hop-off bus tours few tours | €24 €24–€25 |
| Munich bike tours | €40 €39–€43 |
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 €76 per person Neuschwanstein trips From Munich: Neuschwanstein & Linderhof Castle Full-Day Trip Check availability -
from €450 per group Walking tours Munich: Night Watchman Walking Tour Check availability -
from €72 per person Oktoberfest tickets Munich: Beer and Food Tour with Dinner & Oktoberfest Museum Check availability -
from €125 per person Zugspitze tours From Munich: Zugspitze Mountain Van Tour with Garmisch Town Check availability -
from €70 per person Eagle's Nest tours WWII Historical Eagle's Nest Tour in Berchtesgaden Germany Check availability -
from €601 per group BMW Museum Munich Private Walking Tour with BMW Museum & Welt Entry Check availability
Free things to do in Munich
Many of Munich's best sights cost nothing, so a few free days can balance a pricey day trip.
- Free English Garden
A huge city park with a Chinese tower beer garden and the river wave where surfers ride. Watching them costs nothing.
- Free Marienplatz and the Old Town
Watch the town hall clock show, then walk to the Viktualienmarkt food market. Looking costs nothing.
- Free entry Dachau Memorial Site
Entry to the memorial is free, and you can go by S-Bahn on your own. A guided Dachau tour from Munich costs a median €43 per person.
- Free Nymphenburg Palace park
The palace gardens are open to walk in. You only pay to go inside the palace.
- Free entry Christmas markets
Walking around the Munich Christmas markets is free. You pay only for food, mulled wine and gifts.
How much a rental car costs in Munich
A rental car in Munich costs €32 to €58 a day on average, by published figures, with €44 in the middle.
These are published prices from three guides, not our measurement. They do not price the same kind of car. Dates, insurance and fuel change the price too. The calculator uses the low, middle and high figure for the three styles.
- €20–€45 a day:
daily rental prices for an economy car can range from as little as €20 to €45
economycarrentals.com - €44 a day: middle
A Small car hire in Munich costs 44 € per day, on average
en.kayak.de - €58 a day:
On average, car rentals in Munich cost around €58 per day
roadgenius.com
Advertised minimums, not typical prices: from €21 a day (en.kayak.de) · from €23 a day (free2move.com) · from €31 a day (roadgenius.com) · from €49 a day (munichcar24.de).
In the city you do not need a car: trains, trams and buses reach the sights. Most day trips from Munich work by train or tour bus too.
Tourist tax, public transport and the airport
Munich charges no accommodation tax. Bavarian law bans local overnight taxes, and the Bavarian Constitutional Court upheld the ban, says the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. Check the final price when you book.
Key findings of the 2026 Munich Travel Cost Study
- For stays advertised on Google Hotels on 27 October 2026, the median 4-star night in Munich ran from €104 in December 2026 to €179 in January 2027 (per room per night, 2 adults). Each month rests on one Tuesday and one Saturday read once, so single events move it: the January Tuesday we read fell during the BAU building trade fair, and the 4-star prices that night were far above the Saturday after it.
- Across all 22 nights we read, from November 2026 to September 2027, the 722 advertised 4-star prices (40 hotels) had a median of €121 per room per night for 2 adults, with the middle half between €84 and €175; the 687 3-star prices (43 hotels) had a median of €112. Most star-class prices come from Google's top-listed hotels of each class, which may lean dearer than the class as a whole.
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Munich hotels asked no clear weekend premium overall: in 879 pairs of a Tuesday and the Saturday after it, the same hotel asked more on the Saturday in 49% of cases, a median difference of 0%. January (the Tuesday fell during the BAU fair) and September 2027 were the exceptions; in September the Saturday we read is the opening day of Oktoberfest, and the same hotel asked a median 167.6% more than on the Tuesday before it
(per room per night, 2 adults). - Google listed only 8 five-star hotels in Munich for our dates; their 172 advertised prices had a median of €482 per room per night for 2 adults, from €417 in November 2026 to €911 in September 2027, the month whose Saturday was Oktoberfest's opening day.
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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 Munich alone. Published guides put a cheap meal in Munich at about €9 per person and a mid-range restaurant meal at about €34
(cited figures, not our measurement). - A single MVV ride in Munich costs from €4.20 and a day ticket from €10.10 (cheapest zone), so the day ticket pays off from the third ride; a single ticket to or from the airport costs €15.10 (official MVV fares, read October 2026; fares can change). Munich charges no accommodation tax: Bavarian law bans local overnight taxes, and the Bavarian Constitutional Court upheld the ban, says the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior. Rules can change, so check the final price when you book.
- Our calculator puts a mid-range trip of 4 nights for 2 at about €1,465: one shared 4-star room at the median of all 4-star prices we read (November 2026 to September 2027), two mid-range meals out a day each, a Neuschwanstein and Linderhof day trip and a beer and food tour at their from-prices per person, a day ticket each day for each person and a single airport ticket each way for each person. Flights, breakfast and drinks are not included.
Source: 2026 Munich Travel Cost Study, The Best Travel Destinations, https://the-best-travel-destinations.com/things-to-do-in-munich/is-munich-expensive/ (CC BY 4.0)
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Method, data and reuse
What we measured ourselves
- Hotels: 2,820 prices of 406 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 Munich labels only about a fifth of its hotels with a star class (1,223 of 1,558 prices unlabelled): 6-14 three-star, 10-21 four-star and 1-10 five-star prices a month, too few to compare months within a class; so we added one extra Google Hotels search per night for each star class, filtered to 3-, 4- and 5-star (requested depth 20; Google returned 36 listings per night for 3- and 4-star and 8 for 5-star, as it listed only 8 five-star hotels), 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 (1,262 of the 2,820 prices). These count for all three star classes pool the main-search and filtered rows of that class in every month, built the same way; the all-hotel figures and month sample sizes use the main search alone: the all-hotel median rests on 1,558 prices.
- Activities: the "from" prices of the 101 tours and tickets on our 20 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 in Google search results and quoted word for word with their date. A range counts with its midpoint, each source once per group. Each meal tier rests on only two guides, so read the meal prices as a rough guide. The beer figures mix a half-litre price and a glass of unstated size. No figures from forums or social media. None comes from a page that shows a date in 2022 or earlier; many pages show no date at all.
- Tourist tax, fares: the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, MVV.
- Price level: Eurostat, price level index for restaurants and hotels (EU = 100), 2024.
How the calculator adds up
- Our default trip: 4 nights, two people in one room, mid-range. The hotel is the median of all 4-star prices we read, November 2026 to September 2027 (€121). That median includes the January fair week and the Oktoberfest opening Saturday. Meals use the middle figure of two guides. The trip adds two tours at their from-prices: a Neuschwanstein and Linderhof day trip and a beer and food tour. The beer and food tour includes a dinner, so the meal line counts one meal more than you will pay for.
- 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.
- Tourist tax: there is none in Munich, so this line is always €0.
- Transport: nights × travellers × the MVV day ticket (€10.10, cheapest zone). Airport: two single tickets per traveller, one there and one back (€15.10 each). MVV also sells an Airport-City-Day-Ticket. It covers the airport trip and the city for a day, so it can be cheaper than singles, mainly for two or more people. Our airport line is on the high side.
Each line is rounded to whole euros.
Munich travel costs: questions
Is Munich expensive for tourists?
Yes, it is on the pricey side, but your choices decide a lot. Restaurant and hotel prices across Germany were 112.1 % of the EU average in 2024 (a national figure). At mid-range, two people pay about €183 each for every night of the trip. On a budget it is about €129, in comfort about €417. Trade fairs and Oktoberfest push hotel prices up. If you come for the fair, compare the tent tables and other tickets Oktoberfest visitors can book. Munich has no tourist tax. Work out your own trip.
How much does a beer cost in Munich?
About €5 in a pub, by published prices. One source gives the price of a half-litre, the other a glass of unstated size. In the Oktoberfest tents a Maß (one litre) costs €14.80 to €15.90 in 2026, two festival guides say. We found no beer hall price we could quote. See the sources.
Where can I stay in Munich on a budget?
Avoid fair weeks and Oktoberfest, and compare 3-star hotels. A 3-star night cost a median €112 per room for 2 adults. In February it was €97. See hotel prices by month.
Sources
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)
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)
Official sources
All read 27 October 2026
- Tourist tax per night: stmi.bayern.de
- Transit day pass: mvv-muenchen.de
- Airport transfer one way: mvv-muenchen.de
- Price level index, restaurants and hotels: Eurostat