Lights, walks, music and above all beer Accompanied by typical Bavarian delights. With the summer that turns to the end, fall enters like every year with the most fun and tasty meeting: the Oktoberfest 2025.
An event that has become emblematic and which for more than two weeks has transformed the city of Munich Bavaria In Germany, in an external brasserie, bringing together many people from all over Europe. An excellent opportunity to organize a weekend with fun friends. Here is everything you need to know to participate and make the most of this important meeting, which reaches its own this year 190th edition.
What is OKTOBERFEST
Oktoberfest (translated in “October party”) is the annual popular festival The biggest in the worldWith its 7 million visitors per year, which celebrates beer and other Bavarian gastronomic products in the region.
In particular, in the different tendon Present, the beers prepared specifically for the event six are served Original Breweries from Monaco (Augustiner, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbräu, Löwenbräu, Paulaner and Spaten). This year’s novelty is that if only these six breweries were previously present, other craft beers will also be offered.
It is interesting to note that the Oktoberfest is Born in October 1810 To celebrate the marriage of the hereditary prince of Bavaria, which later became Re Luigi ICon the Principlea Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
Today, it is an entertainment opportunity with rides, games and dances, as well as fashion shows of different breweries, ceremonies, singing shows and obviously beer and food for everyone.
There is also one who never runs up to Oktoberfest: the tradition of typical Bavarian costumes. Many people present the event with the event at the event Lederhose (the male) Dirndl (The woman).
Where it happens
The appointment with the Oktoberfest is a Munich Bavaria In Germany and in particular to Theresienwiese A huge exhibition space in the Ludwigsvostad-Isarvorstadt of the city district. It can be reached about 20 minutes walk from Marienplatz, which is in the historic center. It is therefore very comfortable to reach even by staying in different points in the city.
When it starts and how long it lasts
The most anticipated party of traditional beer and Bavarian dishes returns to applaud fans for 16 days consecutive, From Saturday September 20 to Sunday October 5, 2025.
Hangars will open every day at 9:00 a.m. ready to serve beer and food until 10:30 p.m., then close their doors at 11:00 p.m. The Luna Park closes rather at 11:30 p.m.
On the morning of the first day on September 20, is dedicated to the ceremony of Opening of the first barrel By the mayor of the city, at the cry of O’Zapft is! “. Beers will therefore start to be served to those present from 12:00 p.m.
How to participate
There is no need to buy a ticket To enter the Oktoberfest. To access the festival area, in fact, Access is freeEven if it is always better to be able to reserve a table. In addition, there are security checks at the entrance, so that the line can form. For this reason, the advice is to arrive early and prefer weekdays rather than weekends.
Better to get money to buy food and memory Or pay the rides in the event, as internal automatic distributors tend to have fairly high commissions.
Oktoberfest has also adopted measures to become more attentive to the environment, in the name of sustainability. Efforts include the waste reduction (that in recent years, they have become a problem), recycling initiatives and the sustainable supply of food and drinks. The full Oktoberfest 2025 program can be viewed on the official Oktuberfest.it website.