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Events in Nuremberg

One event a year moves hotel prices in Nuremberg, 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 German market square at dusk in December, wooden stalls with striped awnings, strings of lights, steam rising from mugs, light snow
Nuremberg markets · Illustration — a generated image of the kind of scene, not a photograph of the venue.

What is on

DatesEventTypeBooking
26 Nov – 24 Dec 2027Nuremberg ChristkindlesmarktChristmas marketOpen

The weeks the city fills

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

Getting here

AirportCodeTo the city
NurembergNUE20 min
MunichMUC120 min

Trains: Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof.

Where to stay

Hauptmarkt
DistrictTo the venuePriceWhat it is
Altstadt5 min walk$$$$Inside the walls, the market on the doorstep; the whole reason to pay more
Around the Hauptbahnhof15 min walk$$$Chain hotels by the station, ten minutes' walk from the Hauptmarkt
Gostenhof & the west20 min metro$$Two U-Bahn stops out, residential, and the best value in the city
Fürth30 min metro$$The next town, on the same U-Bahn line, with its own smaller market
Erlangen & Bamberg45 min train$$Half an hour by train, two more markets, and midweek rates

Elsewhere in Germany on the same dates

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