What's Open in Berlin Today?
Live daily check: today's date, public holidays, what's open and closed across Berlin — supermarkets, museums, transport, banks, Spätis.
Updated automatically in Berlin time. Built by a local guide, no signup.
The fastest question every Berlin visitor asks on their first morning is the simplest one: what's open? Sunday closures, German public holidays, Monday museum days, the famous Späti loophole — it changes by the hour and confuses every guidebook. This tool gives you a single live answer for the day you're standing here, based on Berlin local time. No signup, no ads, written by a guide who walks the city every week.
Why This Tool Exists
Berlin runs on rules visitors don't know. Shops close Sundays by law. Museum Island closes Mondays. The Humboldt Forum closes Tuesdays. The Pergamon Museum's main building has been shut for years. Banks close at 16:00. Then a German public holiday lands midweek and everything resets to a Sunday schedule. This tool removes the guesswork — open it, see today's status, get on with your day.
What's Covered
Supermarkets. Closed Sundays and public holidays by German law — with the train-station Edeka exceptions that save tourists every weekend.
Spätis. Berlin's corner-store Sunday workaround. Open when supermarkets are not.
Museums. Monday closures, Humboldt Forum's Tuesday closure, Pergamon's long renovation, and what's open the rest of the week.
Public transport (BVG). Weekday vs weekend service, the 24-hour Friday–Monday U/S-Bahn schedule, and how holidays use the Sunday timetable.
Banks & post offices. Standard hours and what changes on Saturdays and holidays.
Restaurants, bars, toilets, tap water. The bits that are basically always open — and the tourist trap of paying for water you don't need to pay for.
The Berlin Sunday Rule
Most German cities shut down on Sundays. Berlin softens this with Spätis, train-station Edekas (Hauptbahnhof, Friedrichstraße, Ostbahnhof, Südkreuz, Gesundbrunnen, Zoo), brunch culture, flea markets, and museums. If you plan one chore-free day per Berlin trip, make it Sunday. Treat it like a museum + park + flea market day, not a logistics day.
German Public Holidays in Berlin
Berlin has ten public holidays a year, including the Berlin-only International Women's Day on March 8. On any of them, expect a Sunday schedule across the city: shops closed, banks closed, transport on Sunday timetable, museums open if it isn't also a Monday. The tool shows you the next twelve months of holidays so you can plan around them.
How It Updates
Everything runs in Europe/Berlin time in your browser, so you always see the live Berlin date — even if your phone is set to another timezone. Holiday dates (including movable feasts like Easter Monday and Whit Monday) are computed automatically and don't need annual maintenance.