What is the best season for vacation - Germany?

Question

Please advice on the best time of the year to go to Germany, and may be some great places to see in Germany?

Answer 1

End Of September, and the start of the Oktober Fest in Munich!

Answer 2

Fall season, between September and November.

Answer 3

Personally I find the Fall the best time to go, around Sept/October.

It is still warm enough and you may need a light jacket in the eve or day but it is usually quite nice in most regions I have been too and it is also when many of the festivals start.  Of course their is Oktoberfest in Munich but their is also a Zweibal Markt or Onion Market very similar but smaller in scale than Munichs fest. This is usually the first weekend of every October in Weimar Germany which was the Cultural center of Europe in 1999. It is where Ghoethe (wrote Faust) and Shiller come from. It is a beautiful small city with a great park that Ghoethe built and plenty of Castles near by that you can visit as well as Buchenwald camp, and Erfurt, Jena and Leipzig are all near by great for shopping too.

Hamburg was also great as was every place I have been to so far and I cannot name them all for it goes well over 30 places now from small village to Berlin and Frankfurt.

Have fun

Answer 4

Berlin is comparatively cheap and has excellent museums (+ a cheap pass covering most museums)

Munich is great, but more costly - avoid the Octoberfest season (end of September) at all costs!

Frankfurt: hardly worth more than a day.

Heidelberg is great, but overcrowded; if you are in the area, make sure to see some of the other places nearby as well (Mannheim, Weinheim, Schwetzingen, etc.)

Lake Constance is probably the most beautiful area in Germany [before you go, check if you can get visitor visas for Austria and Switzerland as well, so that you can travel freely around the lake].

avoid the north - there's nothing to see except Hamburg.

avoid Nordrhein-Westfalen - it's almost exclusively industrial (only see Aachen and Cologne, if you must)

avoid east Germany outside Berlin&Potsdam if you're not white ;-)  [although Dresden and some of the parks near the Polish border are very beautiful]

If you intend to go that far east, try to find out if you can get a visa to see Prague! Just be careful of pick-pockets, dodgy cab-drivers, and seedy downtown bars.

Answer 5

well I'm party German!So i think you should go in the summer because then its nice and warm!but if you like the cold go in the winter...There is like never any snow so if you hate snow that's a plus!And the places to vist are 1.Buxtehude 2.Frank Furt and last 3.(this is not a city its a cool thing!)A parking lot in...i dont know but there is this really cool parking lot that you should check out!

Answer 6

Spring & Summer. Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt/M., Dresden, Leipzig, Stuttgart, Heidelberg.

Answer 7

I love Germany at Christmas and wouldn't be caught dead at Octoberfest.  As an army brat I lived in Nurnberg near the old city and fell in love with the Christmas Markets.  There are virtually no crowds except in the Markets and the decorations and festivities are incredible.  I suggest:  Nurnberg, Rothenberg, Cologne, the villages in the Mosel Valley were amazing, and finally a remarkable city, Trier!  Be sure to take the short drive to Luxembourg....one of my new favorites with amazing street parades during Xmas time.

Answer 8

It really depends on what you want to do and see. i studied abroad there for a year, and Germany has a lot to offer. if you go in September, you can hit Oktoberfest, the biggest festival in the world. It is amazing. If you go in the winter, the Christmas markets are must do's (Celle especially). the Black Forest is beautiful in all seasons. Go in the early spring, late fall, or winter to avoid most tourists.

Answer 9

Anytime between October and February. It will be cold but it is off-season - better deals, less crowds.

Answer 10

The most popular tourist months are May to October, although winter travel to Germany is becoming increasingly popular, especially to the ski areas in the Bavarian Alps. Germany's climate varies widely. In the north, winters tend to be cold and rainy; summers are most agreeable. In the south and in the Alps, it can be very cold in the winter, especially in January, and very warm in summer, but with cool, rainy days even in July and August. Spring and fall are often stretched out -- in fact, we've enjoyed many a Bavarian-style "Indian summer" until late in October