City

Events in Cologne

One event a year moves hotel prices in Cologne, and this is what it does to them. Where to stay, how long each district is from the venue, and how to get here.

Illustration: a dense Christmas market of red-roofed wooden stalls at night beneath a vast gothic cathedral, strings of lights overhead, crowds moving between the rows, mist in the cold air
Kölner Weihnachtsmärkte · Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

What is on

DatesEventTypeBooking
22 Nov – 23 Dec 2027Cologne Christmas MarketsexpectedChristmas marketOpen

The weeks the city fills

Against what the same hotel costs four weeks earlier — our estimate, not a live rate. Outside these weeks Cologne prices like any other month.

Getting here

AirportCodeTo the city
Cologne BonnCGN20 min
DüsseldorfDUS50 min

Trains: Köln Hauptbahnhof.

Where to stay

Roncalliplatz, by the cathedral
DistrictTo the venuePriceWhat it is
Altstadt5 min walk$$$$Between the cathedral and the river, with four markets inside a fifteen-minute walk
Around the Hauptbahnhof5 min walk$$$The station is next to the cathedral, so the station hotels are the market hotels
Belgisches Viertel15 min metro$$$The city's nicest district to eat in, fifteen minutes from the cathedral
Deutz10 min train$$Across the Rhine with the cathedral view, one stop on the train, consistently cheaper
Ehrenfeld20 min metro$$Residential and well connected; where rooms exist on an Advent Saturday

Elsewhere in Germany on the same dates

More on Kölner Weihnachtsmärkte: which days to go and when to book. See also christmas markets.