Last updated on 10/20/2026
Berlin is considered a particularly green metropolis, and its parks are popular meeting points all year round for relaxing, barbecuing and celebrating. The Volkspark Friedrichshain draws visitors with its famous Maerchenbrunnen and wide lawns, the Grosser Tiergarten is, at 210 hectares, the second-largest park in the city, and the Tempelhofer Feld transforms a former airfield into an enormous space for cyclists, skaters and city gardeners. If you like culture, you can visit the Sunday open-air karaoke in the Mauerpark in Prenzlauer Berg, and in the Schlosspark Charlottenburg you can admire historic garden art. Ten green oases for every season and every occasion. In which park would you spread out your next blanket?
Yulia Veksler
For me, Berlin's parks are the living rooms of the city, especially in summer. While putting this list together, I gathered my favourite green corners, from the Maerchenbrunnen in Friedrichshain to the wide Tempelhofer Feld. The karaoke in the Mauerpark is simply part of it for me. I invite you to rediscover the city's most beautiful parks for yourself.
Volkspark Friedrichshain is Berlin's first municipal park, opened in 1848 and now covering 53 hectares. It features Ludwig Hoffmann's Fairy Tale Fountain, the two rubble hills Mont Klamott, and one of the city's few official barbecue areas. Among Berlin's parks, it offers the densest mix of history and everyday life.
Between the banks of the Spree and the Soviet Memorial in Alt-Treptow lies one of Berlin's largest parks. Gustav Meyer designed the 88-hectare park starting in 1876. Today, it hosts Germany's largest Soviet war cemetery, the Archenhold Observatory, and the Zenner guesthouse from 1822. World history and sunbathing lawns on the same stroll.
The Großer Tiergarten spans 207 hectares between the Brandenburg Gate and the Zoological Garden, making it Berlin's largest park. Peter Joseph Lenné transformed the old electoral hunting ground into a landscape park starting in 1818; today, the Victory Column, English Garden, New Lake, and Bellevue Palace are located within it. No other park in Berlin covers so much at once.
Spanning approximately 70 hectares in Wedding, this is one of Berlin's largest and least crowded public parks. The garden monument from 1929 includes a deer enclosure with fallow deer, three small lakes, and an open-air stage with 4,000 seats, which hosts an open-air cinema in summer. Among Berlin's parks, this is the most relaxed large-scale area.
In Gesundbrunnen, one of Berlin's most historically rich parks stretches across 29 hectares. Gustav Meyer started designing Volkspark Humboldthain in 1869. Today, it includes a rose garden with 15,000 roses of 70 varieties and the ruins of a flak tower, above which rises the 85-meter-high Humboldthöhe. This scope is quite unique for parks in Berlin.
Behind the baroque Charlottenburg Palace lies one of Berlin's oldest garden complexes, laid out for Sophie Charlotte from 1695 and opened in 1699. Siméon Godeau designed the parterre in the French style, and Lenné later transformed it into a landscape garden with a carp pond, mausoleum, and Luiseninsel (Luise Island). Among Berlin's parks, this is the most formal.
Viktoriapark in Kreuzberg spans 12.8 hectares around the Kreuzberg hill, which, at 66 meters, is Berlin's highest inner-city elevation. At the top stands Schinkel's cast-iron National Monument from 1821, and on the north side, a 24-meter-high waterfall plunges down the slope at 13,000 liters per minute. No other park in Berlin has such a significant difference in elevation.
On the disused Tempelhof Airport, 303 hectares of open space have been open as a park since 2010. Two two-kilometer-long runways, a six-kilometer circular path, community gardens, and a bird sanctuary for the skylark share the area. Among Berlin's parks, Tempelhofer Feld is the largest and the flattest.
Located on former railway grounds between Kreuzberg and Schöneberg, one of Berlin's most visited parks has existed since 2013. Rusty track remnants, buffer stops, and birch groves characterize the East Park, while beach volleyball courts are found under the U-Bahn viaducts in the West Park. Among Berlin's parks, Park am Gleisdreieck is the most awarded.
Where the death strip ran until 1989, today lie almost 15 hectares of Mauerpark between Prenzlauer Berg and Wedding. Behind the Jahn Sport Park, there are still around 300 meters of the inner wall, officially approved for graffiti, plus the Sunday flea market and the Bearpit Karaoke in the amphitheater. Among Berlin's parks, this is the loudest and most vibrant.
