Heidelberg

Population 156,092 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

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Visas and entry What your passport needs for Germany
Daylight 8 h 12 in Dec, dark by 16:26 · 16 h 14 in Jun
  1. January: 8 h 37 of daylight
  2. February: 10 h 08 of daylight
  3. March: 11 h 50 of daylight
  4. April: 13 h 43 of daylight
  5. May: 15 h 19 of daylight
  6. June: 16 h 14 of daylight
  7. July: 15 h 52 of daylight
  8. August: 14 h 28 of daylight
  9. September: 12 h 39 of daylight
  10. October: 10 h 51 of daylight
  11. November: 9 h 08 of daylight
  12. December: 8 h 12 of daylight
Tourist office · 60 m Tourist Information

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg

    International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg

    November

    The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (German: Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg), often referred to by the German-language initialism IFFMH, is an annual film festival established in 1952 hosted jointly by the cities of Mannheim…

    Official site Wikipedia

1 event here has no dates for this year yet. We can look them up on each event's own site.

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage; descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • Wochenmarkt

    1. Monday: closed
    2. Tuesday: closed
    3. Wednesday: closed
    4. Thursday: closed
    5. Friday: closed
    6. Saturday: 07:00–14:00
    7. Sunday: closed

    07:00–14:00

    40 m from the centre

  • Wochenmarkt

    Opening hours

    Oct-Mar: Tu,Fr 08:00-13:00; Apr-Sep: Tu,Fr 07:00-13:00; Th 15:00-20:00

    910 m from the centre

  • Wochenmarkt

    Opening hours

    Oct-Mar: We,Sa 08:00-13:00; Apr-Sep: We,Sa 07:00-13:00

    1.4 km from the centre

  • Wochenmarkt

    Opening hours

    Oct-Mar: Mo,Th 08:00-13:00; Apr-Sep: Mo,Th 07:00-13:00

    1.9 km from the centre

  • Wochenmarkt

    Opening hours

    Oct-Mar: Sa 08:00-13:00; Apr-Sep: Sa 07:00-13:00

    2.4 km from the centre

  • Wochenmarkt

    Opening hours

    Oct-Mar: Sa 08:00-13:00; Apr-Sep: Sa 07:00-13:00

    2.5 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 79 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Königstuhl 1.6 km, Heidelberg-Weststadt/Südstadt 2.2 km, Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof 2.7 km, Gneisenaustraße Süd 3.2 km, Berufsschule 3.6 km, Heidelberg-Schlierbach/Ziegelhausen 3.7 km, Ochsenkopf 4.2 km, SRH Campus 4.4 km, Heidelberg-Kirchheim/Rohrbach 4.4 km, Dossenheim Süd 4.5 km, Heidelberg Orthopädie 4.7 km, Wieblingen Mitte 4.8 km, Heidelberg-Pfaffengrund/Wieblingen 4.9 km, Dossenheim Bahnhof 5.0 km, Taubenfeld 5.2 km, Dossenheim Nord 5.5 km

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