Passau

Population 53,523 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Germany

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Germany
Daylight 8 h 19 in Dec, dark by 16:10 · 16 h 06 in Jun
  1. January: 8 h 44 of daylight
  2. February: 10 h 12 of daylight
  3. March: 11 h 50 of daylight
  4. April: 13 h 40 of daylight
  5. May: 15 h 13 of daylight
  6. June: 16 h 06 of daylight
  7. July: 15 h 45 of daylight
  8. August: 14 h 23 of daylight
  9. September: 12 h 38 of daylight
  10. October: 10 h 53 of daylight
  11. November: 9 h 14 of daylight
  12. December: 8 h 19 of daylight
Tourist office · 950 m Tourist-Information Rathausplatz

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. Beer festival

    May, September

    Passau has two beer festivals, one in May and one in September, that last one week each

    Official site

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 (Passau); 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

    890 m from the centre

  • Wochenmarkt

    1. Monday: closed
    2. Tuesday: closed
    3. Wednesday: closed
    4. Thursday: closed
    5. Friday: 07:00–12:30
    6. Saturday: closed
    7. Sunday: closed

    07:00–12:30

    930 m from the centre

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

Eating nearby

All 4 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Passau - Lindau 3.2 km, Neustift (bei Passau) 5.3 km

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 17 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.