Ice Skating and Winter Fun in Munich 2026-27

LUMAGICA turns the Showpalast grounds in Fröttmaning into a 1.5 km loop of glowing sculptures and light installations. This year's theme follows Phileas Fogg and Passepartout from Around the World in 80 Days, through light worlds for Asia, the Americas and Europe.

Kids can set off some of the installations themselves, pose at photo spots and catch a light and laser show along the way.

Tollwood is Munich's alternative Christmas market, set up in big tents and open-air lanes on the Theresienwiese. Around 200 stalls sell crafts, clothing and gifts, much of it fair trade, and more than 50 stands cook certified organic food from many countries.

Walk-acts roam the grounds, a performance stage runs shows, and there is a kids' program. It suits families who want shows and food alongside the shopping.

A 750-square-meter open-air ice rink set up each Advent on Karlsplatz, the square locals call Stachus, under festive lights in the middle of the old town. Kids skate on a big open sheet of ice, with music playing on most days.

Sunday daytime sessions are family days with children's entertainment and face painting. Food and hot drinks come from the Schmankerl-Hütte and Glühwein-Alm huts beside the rink.

An outdoor ice rink, 60 meters long, with music playing and floodlights for skating after dark. Kids can do laps, play ice hockey, or join the Münchner Eistanz on the ice.

It opened in 1933 as the first open-air artificial ice rink in southern Germany. In summer the same site becomes the Prinzregentenbad outdoor pool.

Three underground ice rinks sit beneath the SAP Garden, the Olympiapark arena where Red Bull Munich plays hockey, so public skating runs all year. Rental skates come in hockey and figure styles from EU size 25.

From October to April, Thursday to Saturday evenings bring an ice disco, and a monthly inclusive session lends skating aids and ice gliders. Jumps and figure-skating moves are not allowed in public sessions.

Dantebad is a city-run outdoor pool that stays heated through the winter, so kids can swim outside in any season. There is a 50-meter lap pool at about 30°C and a warmer leisure pool with bubble loungers, a bubble grotto, a current channel and a water mushroom.

Table tennis, a restaurant and a separate sauna area for adults round it out.

Königlicher Hirschgarten has been a deer park since 1780, and its two-hectare enclosure of fallow deer and mouflon is still the main draw: kids can feed them, following the signs on the fence.

The south end has the elephant playground, with a huge sandbox and elephant slide, plus a water playground with a water slide. There's also a climbing tower, a small skate park, sledding hills and Munich's largest beer garden.