14 Locations
For all its energy, Berlin has no shortage of peaceful corners where the city noise fades away. A peaceful spot here might be a leafy park, a quiet cafe or a garden tucked behind a busy street. This overview gathers Berlin locations for calm and quiet.
Gardens and parks like the Tiergarten, the Britzer Garten and the many cemeteries turned green spaces offer stillness, while libraries, tea houses and galleries provide indoor calm. Lakesides and canal paths on the edge of the centre reward a slow walk, and early mornings bring a hush to even the liveliest districts.
Browse the venues below to find peaceful spots across Berlin, from quiet gardens to calm cafes.
Spacious, clean relaxing greens, a romantic pond with swans swimming on it, the famous Märchenbrunnen (Fairy Tale Fountain) and lots of clam spots for lovers and families alike make the the 49 hectares of Volkspark Friedrichshain the ideal picnic location!
Cruising along in the Rummelsburg Bay with a pedal boat or rowing along, rent a grilling-boat or jog past the Soviet War Memorial - this park of 90 hectares in Eastern Berlin offers a number of distractions.
Bürgerpark Pankow is the ideal destination for a summer trip with friends or family to enjoy the green of the city, a picnic or a trip to a beer garden.
Lots of water, lots of green – with an area of 210 hectares Großer Tiergarten is Berlin's second biggest park.
Strandbad Mitte in Berlin Mitte is the café for everyone who wants to enjoy breakfast in Berlin without tourist crowds. Hidden in a cul-de-sac near Oranienburger Straße, it serves hearty classics in a charming swimming pool ambiance with deck chairs outside.
Rudolph-Wilde-Park (formerly Stadtpark Schöneberg) is a nice and centrally located little park with a duck pond in City West, easy to reach with the subway. The location scores additionally with a nearby café offering picnic basket rentals.
Its own open air cinema in summer, a sledding hill in winter, an animal enclosure with deer and wild boars, playgrounds and sports tracks as well as a nature trail provide for some diversity in the 70 ha constituting Volkspark Rehberge.
The historic flak tower in Volkspark Humboldthain offers a great view of Germany's capital but this Wedding park is also ideally suited for jogging and other activities.
The 55 hectares of the palace garden of Schloss Charlottenburg are place for all friends of historical garden architecture - it is the oldest still original park in Berlin and Potsdam!
A real roaring waterfall and with 66 metres of height the biggest natural elevation in Berlin's inner city are the features of Viktoriapark.
Cycling, jogging, skating, miniature golf, kiting, BBQ and growing your own veggies with urban gardening - the airfield of the former airport Tempelhof has enjoyed great popularity with the Berliners ever since its opening on 8 May 2011.
In Charlottenburg, at Kantstraße 25, you can taste the love for breakfast in every single dish. A Never Ending Love Story is Berlin's rosy-pink answer to everything that defines a good café in Berlin: carefully prepared food, a warm atmosphere, and pancakes that are almost unimaginable until you see them on your table.
Open Air Karaoke in summer and the flea market on Sunday all year round - these are the two highlights that most people associate with Mauerpark.
The colourful Kreuzberg crowd nicknames this park of 14 hectares affectionately "Görli".