Christmas Garden Berlin: Over 1.5million Light Points On 30 Installations Set Up Through 43 Hectares

Each year the Botanical Gardens in Berlin is the setting for the Christmas Garden Berlin.

From mid November to the first week in January, over 1.5 million light points on 30 installations are set up on a path through 43 hectares of the historic gardens.

As it is a very popular Christmas attraction, for Berliners and visitors alike, consider the tips to make the most of your festive evening.

Berlin’s very popular Christmas Garden is on for 2021! Starting 19 November 2021 until 9 January 2022, each day from 16h30 to 22h00 (last entry 20h30).

The Italian Garden at the Botanical Gardens in Berlin.
At the greenhouses looking over the main refreshment area onto the Italian Garden and beyond.

Only half an hour from the centre of Berlin is the world’s second largest botanical garden and botanical museum. Second only to Kew Gardens in London.

Established at the end of the 19th century, the garden now covers some 43 hectares and includes over 20,000 individual species of plant from all over the world.

Attached to the gardens is the Botanical Museum, the only one of its kind in central Europe.

The museum is, however, closed until late 2022 due to much needed refurbishment.

Although part of the Free University of Berlin, the gardens and the museum actively encourage a wider participation in the historic and world-class facility.

From the outset the first director and designer of the Gardens, Adolf Engler, said he wanted to create “the world in a garden.”

The sheer number and diversity of plants here is a testament to his and his successors efforts to achieve this.

As is the fact that the gardens receive over half a million visitors each year from all over the world.