How many days do you need in Germany?
Six days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Germany, across Berlin and Munich.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Germany · 6 days Berlin → Munich
Best time: May to September for beer gardens and long light; late September for Oktoberfest (book Munich months ahead); December for Christmas markets.
Berlin: Brandenburg GateDay 1
🏛️9:00 AMBrandenburg Gate
The 1791 gate stood inside the Wall’s death strip for 28 years; walk through it at dusk when the tour groups thin and the columns glow.
🚶 ~24 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 0.9 mi
🖼️1:30 PMNeues Museum
Home of the 3,300-year-old bust of Nefertiti on Museum Island. Note the neighboring Pergamonmuseum stays closed for renovation until June 2027.
🚶 ~8 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.3 mi
🌆6:00 PMMitte
The historic core: Museum Island, Unter den Linden, and the Hackescher Markt courtyards, with the TV Tower as your compass needle.
Berlin: Reichstag domeDay 2
🏛️9:00 AMReichstag dome
Norman Foster’s glass spiral rises above the parliament chamber it watches over, a literal statement about transparency. Free, but register online in advance.
🚶 ~31 min · 🚗 ~4 min · 1.1 mi
🥾1:30 PMTiergarten
Over 500 acres of paths and lakes in the middle of the city; climb the Victory Column’s 285 steps for the view down the Straße des 17. Juni.
🚶 ~48 min · 🚗 ~6 min · 1.8 mi
🎟️6:00 PMThird Reich and Cold War walking tour
A few hours with a historian past the Führerbunker site, Checkpoint Charlie, and the Wall’s scar line through the city, Berlin’s layers need a narrator at least once.
Berlin: East Side GalleryDay 3
🏛️9:00 AMEast Side Gallery
1.3 kilometers of the actual Berlin Wall painted by 118 artists in 1990, the world’s longest open-air gallery, running along the Spree.
🚗 ~8 min · 2.4 mi
🖼️1:30 PMTopography of Terror
A free documentation center on the exact site of the Gestapo and SS headquarters, the clearest single account of how the Third Reich actually worked.
🚶 ~41 min · 🚗 ~5 min · 1.5 mi
🌆6:00 PMKreuzberg
Turkish markets along the Landwehr Canal, street art on every gable, and the city’s best casual eating, Berlin at its loudest and most alive.
Arrive in MunichDay 4
🚄8:30 AMICE train to Munich
Berlin Hbf to München Hbf in just under 4 hours on ICE Sprinter services (about 4h30 on the regular ICE); trains leave roughly hourly and saver fares reward early booking.
🚄 ~4h · 313 mi
🏛️2:00 PMMarienplatz and the Neues Rathaus
The Gothic-revival city hall’s glockenspiel performs at 11 AM and noon (plus 5 PM March through October); the tower lift gives the best Altstadt-and-Alps view in town.
🚶 ~4 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
🌆6:00 PMAltstadt and Viktualienmarkt
The pedestrian old town funnels into Viktualienmarkt, a food market trading since 1807, closed Sundays, like most Munich shops, with a chestnut-shaded beer garden at its center.
Munich: Munich ResidenzDay 5
🏛️9:00 AMMunich Residenz
Germany’s largest city palace, 500 years of Wittelsbach rulers, the gilded Antiquarium banquet hall, and a treasury stacked with crowns.
🚶 ~17 min · 🚗 ~2 min · 0.6 mi
🖼️1:30 PMAlte Pinakothek
One of the world’s oldest public galleries, Dürer’s self-portrait, Rubens by the roomful, anchoring the Kunstareal museum quarter.
🚶 ~23 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 0.9 mi
🎟️6:00 PMBeer hall and brewery heritage tour
An evening guided crawl through the city’s historic beer halls and cellars, how the 1516 purity law, the Maß, and beer-garden etiquette actually work. You will never mis-order again.
Munich: Nymphenburg PalaceDay 6
🏛️9:00 AMNymphenburg Palace
The Wittelsbachs’ baroque summer palace, its garden front wider than Versailles’, with swans on the central canal and pavilions hidden in the park.
🚗 ~14 min · 4.1 mi
🥾1:30 PMEnglischer Garten
Bigger than Central Park. River surfers have ridden the Eisbach standing wave near its southern tip since the 1970s, and the Chinese Tower beer garden seats 7,000.
🚶 ~50 min · 🚗 ~7 min · 1.9 mi
🌆6:00 PMGlockenbachviertel
Munich’s most easygoing evening quarter, canal-fed streets, indie shops, and bars that skip the oompah entirely.
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