Wooden Christmas decorations hang in a stall at the Christmas market in Munich
Christmas shopping and Christmas markets

Christmas in Munich

This is how you experience Munich shortly before Christmas: The scent of mulled wine and bratwurst wafts through the streets. Glittering shop windows and traditional handicraft businesses invite you to go shopping. Or visit the world's most extensive collection of nativity scenes in Munich. All highlights in Munich before Christmas at a glance.

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Munich christmas market at Marienplatz.
Christmas Markets Munich 2026

Every year, it seems...

...Christmas starts a little earlier. Munich's Christmas Markets at a glance!
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Christmas angels in a sales booth at the christmas market in Munich.
Christmas market

The magic of Christmas

When it gets dark and the snow shines in the glow of countless lights, the Christmas market on Marienplatz is the most beautiful.
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Video: simply Christmas market
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Visitors of the Christkindlmarkt under festive lighting.
Self-experiment: Christmas singing

Christmas singing in Munich

Singing makes you happy, but less and less people do. Why only? Our author took a chance.
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Shopping & Design
Decorated Christmas trees and gifts decorate shop windows
Christmas shopping

Gift local

Gift local: We list a few of the businesses in Munich offering offline and online shopping – from traditional department stores to museum shops.
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Christmas decoration in a sales booth at the christmas market in Munich.
Chtistmas market typology

Which Christmas market is right for me?

In Munich a perfect Christmas market shines for every taste and every disposition.

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Shopping & Design
Nativity figures in a sales booth at the christmas market in Munich.
Artisan Christmas producers

Little donkey, little donkey...

During the Christmas season, unique gifts from Munich crafts businesses and manufactories are in high demand. A small selection.
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Eat & Drink
Someone holding a cup of mulled wine at the Christmas market
Places to drink mulled wine in Munich

Where to get your mulled wine to drink or takeaway

As soon as the days start getting chillier, expect to feel a yearning to be warmed from within.
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Event calendar
A woman with curly hair is eyeing decoration out of straw at a sales booth at the christmas market in Munich.
Event calendar

Things to do in December in Munich

In December it will be festive – at one of the Christmas markets in Munich or in the opera.
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Arts & Culture
Nativity scene with figures in front of the Gulf of Naples with Vesuvius in the background.
The nativity scene collection

Away in a manger...

Munich’s Bayerisches Nationalmuseum owns the world’s most artistically valuable and extensive collection of nativity scenes. An interview with curator Thomas Schindler.

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Shopping & Design
A woman and a man in a coat in front of the shop of Eduard Meier in Munich
How to shop like royalty

A visit to the former Purveyors to the Court

We visited the former Royal Bavarian Purveyors to the Court and did some shopping in the old town - from porcelain to perfume.

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Shopping & Design
A man and a woman in an antique shop in Munich
Furniture and homeware stores

Fabrics, chairs, floor lamps

We went on a shopping tour through the city centre – from Kustermann to Kunst Oase.
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View of the Junior Suite at the DO&CO Hotel am Marienplatz in Munich.
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The Monopterus in Englischer Garten in Munich in winter.
10 ideas for winter

From taverns to winter sports

Go out sledging or shopping and then head back inside for a hearty meal – we have 10 tips that make winter in Munich even cozier!

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