Tourist office Munich
München Tourismus, the tourism department of the city of Munich (the Landeshauptstadt München), runs the official tourist information for the Bavarian capital. It normally keeps 2 walk-in offices, but since 1 November 2024 the one at the Hauptbahnhof, the central station, has been closed as part of a citywide budget consolidation, with no fixed date to reopen. That leaves 1 tourist information office open, in the New Town Hall (Neues Rathaus) on Marienplatz, where multilingual staff give advice, hand out brochures, book hotel rooms and sell tickets for city tours and attractions.
Where to find the tourist offices in Munich
Tourist information at Marienplatz
Location: Marienplatz 8, inside the Neues Rathaus (New Town Hall), in the heart of the old town
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10:00 to 18:00, Saturday 09:00 to 17:00, Sunday and holidays 10:00 to 14:00, or to 17:00 from 29 August to 11 October
Run by München Tourismus, with multilingual advice, hotel bookings and tickets for city tours and the New Town Hall tower.
MVG customer centre at the Hauptbahnhof
Location: Bahnhofplatz, in the underground concourse of the Hauptbahnhof (central station), 80335 Munich
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 08:00 to 20:00, Saturday 09:00 to 16:00, closed on Sunday
Not run by München Tourismus: run by MVG, the municipal transport company, for tickets, fares and travel advice.
Learn more about Munich
Learn more about Munich
The Munich guide on Tourist Office brings the practical side of visiting Munich together in one place: a first day on foot around Marienplatz, the Frauenkirche and the Viktualienmarkt, then on to the Residenz and the English Garden, with Nymphenburg Palace and the Deutsches Museum saved for a second day.
It also flags what costs nothing, from the Hofgarten to the NS-Dokumentationszentrum, singles out landmarks such as the BMW Museum, and lists the concerts and shows coming up in the weeks ahead.
Keep the city and national holiday calendar in mind
Public holidays reshape a visit more than most people expect. Shops close, museums and attractions move to holiday timetables, and public transport runs a thinner service, so a day built around a single errand or sight can fall flat. Germany sets its public holidays state by state rather than nationally, and only 3 October, the Day of German Unity, is fixed for the whole country by law. The nine days listed below are the ones observed in every German state in 2026. Bavaria then adds four more under its own holiday act, and all four apply in Munich, which is why the local list is longer here than in many German cities. One of them, Assumption on 15 August, is a public holiday only in Bavarian municipalities where Catholics outnumber Protestants, and Munich, in Catholic Upper Bavaria, is on the official list kept by the Bavarian statistical office.
National holidays in Germany 2026
- 1 January New Year's Day (Neujahr)
- 3 April Good Friday (Karfreitag)
- 6 April Easter Monday (Ostermontag)
- 1 May Labour Day (Tag der Arbeit)
- 14 May Ascension Day (Christi Himmelfahrt)
- 25 May Whit Monday (Pfingstmontag)
- 3 October Day of German Unity (Tag der Deutschen Einheit)
- 25 December Christmas Day (Erster Weihnachtstag)
- 26 December Boxing Day (Zweiter Weihnachtstag)
Local holidays in Munich 2026
- 6 January Epiphany (Heilige Drei Könige), regional
- 4 June Corpus Christi (Fronleichnam), regional
- 15 August Assumption (Mariä Himmelfahrt), regional
- 1 November All Saints' Day (Allerheiligen), regional
On public holidays the Marienplatz office keeps its Sunday and holiday hours, opening from 10:00 to 14:00, so it stays open for part of the day, though it is worth checking before setting out. The MVG customer centre at the Hauptbahnhof is in any case closed on Sundays.