Destinations
Germany: cities and how to get around
80 cities with airports, stations, hotels and the journeys between them, from public data.
Germany has 80 cities on this site, including the capital, Berlin. Each one has an overview and pages for flights, hotels, trains, buses, driving and things to do, built from public data, plus city-to-city pages for the journeys between them.
CapitalBerlin
Population82.9 million
Area357,021 km²
CurrencyEuro (EUR)
Dialling code+49
Driving sideRight
Plug typesEuro, Schuko
Emergency numberhttp://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1061257 / http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25648823
Official languagesGerman
Internet domain.de
Cities in Germany
| City | Region | Population | Airport | Hotels listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | State of Berlin | 3,426,354 | BER (19 km) | 2,057+ |
| Hamburg | Hamburg | 1,973,896 | HAM (9 km) | 978 |
| Munich | Bavaria | 1,505,005 | MUC (29 km) | 873 |
| Köln | North Rhine-Westphalia | 1,024,621 | CGN (15 km) | 1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | Hesse | 650,000 | FRA (13 km) | — |
| Düsseldorf | North Rhine-Westphalia | 618,685 | DUS (7 km) | 737 |
| Stuttgart | Baden-Wurttemberg | 612,663 | STR (11 km) | 417 |
| Essen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 593,085 | DUS (25 km) | 568 |
| Dortmund | North Rhine-Westphalia | 588,462 | DTM (10 km) | 274 |
| Dresden | Saxony | 564,904 | DRS (9 km) | 937 |
| Bremen | Bremen | 546,501 | BRE (3 km) | 554 |
| Nuremberg | Bavaria | 515,543 | NUE (5 km) | 70 |
| Hannover | Lower Saxony | 515,140 | HAJ (11 km) | 929 |
| Leipzig | Saxony | 504,971 | LEJ (13 km) | 847 |
| Duisburg | North Rhine-Westphalia | 504,358 | DUS (16 km) | 297 |
| Bochum | North Rhine-Westphalia | 385,729 | DTM (28 km) | — |
| Wuppertal | North Rhine-Westphalia | 360,797 | DUS (27 km) | — |
| Bielefeld | North Rhine-Westphalia | 331,906 | PAD (47 km) | — |
| Bonn | North Rhine-Westphalia | 330,579 | CGN (15 km) | — |
| Münster | North Rhine-Westphalia | 308,258 | FMO (20 km) | — |
| Mannheim | Baden-Wurttemberg | 307,960 | FRA (60 km) | — |
| Augsburg | Bavaria | 301,105 | FMM (65 km) | — |
| Wiesbaden | Hesse | 288,850 | FRA (23 km) | — |
| Karlsruhe | Baden-Wurttemberg | 283,799 | FKB (35 km) | — |
| Gelsenkirchen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 270,028 | DUS (33 km) | — |
| Aachen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 265,208 | MST (27 km) | — |
| Mönchengladbach | North Rhine-Westphalia | 261,742 | DUS (25 km) | — |
| Kiel | Schleswig-Holstein | 252,668 | HAM (77 km) | — |
| Chemnitz | Saxony | 247,220 | DRS (67 km) | — |
| Braunschweig | Lower Saxony | 244,715 | HAJ (61 km) | — |
| Magdeburg | Saxony-Anhalt | 244,329 | LEJ (89 km) | — |
| Krefeld | North Rhine-Westphalia | 237,984 | DUS (16 km) | — |
| Halle (Saale) | Saxony-Anhalt | 237,865 | LEJ (19 km) | — |
| Freiburg | Baden-Wurttemberg | 237,460 | BSL (50 km) | — |
| Mainz | Rheinland-Pfalz | 222,889 | FRA (21 km) | — |
| Oberhausen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 219,176 | DUS (22 km) | — |
| Erfurt | Thuringia | 218,793 | ERF (5 km) | — |
| Lübeck | Schleswig-Holstein | 212,207 | HAM (53 km) | — |
| Hagen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 198,972 | DTM (20 km) | — |
| Rostock | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 198,293 | RLG (21 km) | — |
| Kassel | Hesse | 197,230 | KSF (14 km) | — |
| Potsdam | Brandenburg | 184,754 | BER (30 km) | — |
| Saarbrücken | Saarland | 182,971 | LUX (72 km) | — |
| Hamm | North Rhine-Westphalia | 178,967 | DTM (23 km) | — |
| Mülheim | North Rhine-Westphalia | 173,050 | DUS (18 km) | — |
| Herne | North Rhine-Westphalia | 172,108 | DTM (27 km) | — |
| Darmstadt | Hesse | 167,029 | FRA (18 km) | — |
| Osnabrück | Lower Saxony | 166,462 | FMO (29 km) | — |
| Solingen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 164,359 | DUS (26 km) | — |
| Ludwigshafen am Rhein | Rheinland-Pfalz | 163,196 | FRA (61 km) | — |
| Leverkusen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 162,738 | CGN (21 km) | — |
| Oldenburg | Lower Saxony | 159,218 | BRE (40 km) | — |
| Neuss | North Rhine-Westphalia | 152,457 | DUS (12 km) | — |
| Regensburg | Bavaria | 151,389 | MUC (77 km) | — |
| Heidelberg | Baden-Wurttemberg | 143,345 | FRA (69 km) | — |
| Paderborn | North Rhine-Westphalia | 142,161 | PAD (15 km) | — |
| Würzburg | Bavaria | 133,731 | NUE (88 km) | — |
| Fürth | Bavaria | 132,036 | NUE (7 km) | — |
| Wolfsburg | Lower Saxony | 123,064 | HAJ (74 km) | — |
| Recklinghausen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 122,438 | DTM (31 km) | — |
| Göttingen | Lower Saxony | 122,149 | KSF (40 km) | — |
| Heilbronn | Baden-Wurttemberg | 120,733 | STR (50 km) | — |
| Ingolstadt | Bavaria | 120,658 | MUC (53 km) | — |
| Ulm | Baden-Wurttemberg | 120,451 | FMM (49 km) | — |
| Bottrop | North Rhine-Westphalia | 119,909 | DUS (28 km) | — |
| Pforzheim | Baden-Wurttemberg | 119,313 | STR (44 km) | — |
| Offenbach | Hesse | 119,192 | FRA (17 km) | — |
| Bremerhaven | Bremen | 118,610 | BRE (58 km) | — |
| Remscheid | North Rhine-Westphalia | 117,118 | DUS (32 km) | — |
| Reutlingen | Baden-Wurttemberg | 112,627 | STR (22 km) | — |
| Koblenz | Rheinland-Pfalz | 107,319 | HHN (51 km) | — |
| Siegen | North Rhine-Westphalia | 107,242 | CGN (62 km) | — |
| Bergisch Gladbach | North Rhine-Westphalia | 106,184 | CGN (13 km) | — |
| Salzgitter | Lower Saxony | 104,970 | HAJ (60 km) | — |
| Jena | Thuringia | 104,712 | ERF (44 km) | — |
| Gera | Thuringia | 104,659 | LEJ (61 km) | — |
| Moers | North Rhine-Westphalia | 103,487 | DUS (20 km) | — |
| Hildesheim | Lower Saxony | 103,052 | HAJ (39 km) | — |
| Erlangen | Bavaria | 102,675 | NUE (11 km) | — |
| Trier | Rheinland-Pfalz | 100,129 | LUX (34 km) | — |
Neighbouring countries on this site: Switzerland, Poland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Czechia, Luxembourg, France, Austria.
Common questions
Which cities in Germany are covered?
Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Köln, Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Essen and 72 more.
What currency does Germany use?
The Euro (EUR).
Which side of the road does Germany drive on?
The right.
Where these facts come from
- GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, elevation, time zone, postal codes
- Wikidata (CC0): area, sister cities, visitor numbers, heritage listings, stations and ports
- OurAirports (public domain): airports, runways
- Natural Earth (public domain): map outlines
Data compiled 13 September 2026. Hotel figures are from our booking partner’s catalogue on that date. Journey times on this page are estimates from distance, not timetables; check the operator before you rely on one.