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Highlights of the year

Flags at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
© KIT

2025

200 years of KIT -
Anniversary
Til Festival Triangle 2024
TRIANGEL Transfer | Culture | Space, Photo: Sandra Göttisheim

Science events
Perspective from above on the floor painting in Karlsruhe city center
© Team Combo

the whole year

Actions at the
construction site
The Karlsruhe Christmas Market 2023
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

From November 24, 2025

The CHRISTMAS CITY of Karlsruhe
Ice skating at the Karlsruhe Stadtwerke Winterzeit 2024

November 24, 2025 - january 25, 2026

Stadtwerke
Karlsruhe
WINTER TIME
Schlossplatz in winter at sunset
© KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH

December 06 - 07, 2025

Sleep in your city

For Karlsruhe & region
View of the packed stadium at Stadionsingen 2025

December 21, 2025

Christmas singing
Stadium singing
INIT Indoor Meeting 2023
KME | Photo: Andreas Arndt

February 08, 2026

INIT Indoor Meeting
Karlsruhe

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Sunday 16.11. 2025

Action day

Give the gift of joy" campaign

Karlsruhe - Tourist-Information Karlsruhe

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Highlight
Sunday 16.11. 2025

Art exhibition

The Story That Never Ends. The Collection of the ZKM

Karlsruhe - ZKM | Center for Art and Media

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Sunday 16.11. 2025

Segway tour

SEGWAY Tour "Early Bird" Zoologischer Stadtgarten KA

Karlsruhe

06:30 o'clock
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DER BALL 2025 in Karlsruhe
KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

November 08, 2025

THE BALL 2025 

We celebrate the KIT!
Pumpkin carving on 31.10.2025 on Kaiserstraße in Karlsruhe
© supaEVENT GmbH

31.10.2025

Halloween workshop
Kaiserstraße
Kevin Karl at a construction site on Karlsruhe's market square
Florian Disque

JULY 09 TO OCTOBER 15, 2025

Excavator & Beats
Le Flamant Rose - a giant walking flamingo at the Karlsruhe City Festival 2025
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

October 11 & 12, 2025

Karlsruhe City Festival
Fenja Barteldres
Manon Verplancke

September 18 to 28, 2025

ATOLL Festival
Layout of the Open Monument Day 2025
© KME

September 14, 2025

Open Monument Day®
The motto of the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Karlsruhe 2025: "The Shining Lights of Science"
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

August 14 - September 14, 2025

SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Light Festival 2025
Layout of Media art is here 2025
City of Karlsruhe | Cultural Office

August 14 - September 14, 2025

Media art is here 2025
Lounge 76 on Karlsruhe's market square in summer 2024
© City Initiative Karlsruhe e.V. | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

June to September 2025

Lounge 76
Diner en blanc Karlsruhe © KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH_Photo Paul Needham (13)
KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH, Paul Needham

September 06, 2025

Dîner en blanc
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© KME / Jürgen Rösner

August 22 & 23, 2025

Karlsruhe Festival of Lights
There is a lot to experience at the 26th Karlsruhe Museum Night KAMUNA.
KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH, Bruno Kelzer

August 02, 2025

KAMUNA
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© Gustai Pixelgreen

July 25 - 27, 2025

INDIA SUMMER DAYS
Clueso at DAS FEST 2025
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Franke

July 24 - 27, 2025

THE FEST
View of DAS FEST am SEE 2025
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

July 16 - 22, 2025

THE FESTIVAL AT THE LAKE
Long Night of the Breweries Karlsruhe © KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH Photo Juergen Roesner (25)
© KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH

July 11, 2025

Long Night of the Breweries
Durlach Old Town Festival on July 04 and 05, 2025
© Sahin Bagoglu

July 04 & 05, 2025

47th Durlach Old Town Festival

Large-scale creative campaign "Mini house construction" at the Kaiserstraße 2024 children's construction site
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

June 10 - 15, 2025

Children's construction site -
Kaiserstraße
Science Festival 2023
Science Office City of Karlsruhe

May 17 - 25, 2025

Science festival
EFFEKTE
Outlook from the AugenBlick round
Ulrike Klumpp

May 17 & 18, 2025

Big
Hiking opening
Vintage car in front of Karlsruhe Palace in May 2025
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

May 04, 2025

Tribute to Carl Benz
View from above of the pleasure market at the Sinn 2025 festival in Karlsruhe
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

May 03 & 04, 2025

Feast for the senses
Art Karlsruhe
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February 20 - 23, 2025

art karlsruhe
The INIT Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe 2023
Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center | Photo: Andreas Arndt

February 07, 2025

INIT Indoor Meeting
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe Castle in snow, front view, blue hour, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Fabian von Poser

December 07 - 08, 2024

Sleep in your city
Logo Karlsruhe jumps! 2024
© KME

October 12, 2024

Karlsruhe jumps!
GAIA in the Frauenkirche in Dresden 2023
© Evangelische Stadtkirche Karlsruhe | Photo: Private

September 13 - October 06, 2024

GAIA - Experience the blue wonder
Forklift course at the Kaiserstraße 2024 children's construction site
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

September 16 to 20, 2024

Children's construction site
Kaiserstrasse
Tourist information in the Karlsruhe shop window © KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH_Foto Bruno Kelzer (70)
© KTG Karlsruhe Tourismus GmbH, Photo: Bruno Kelzer

October 17 to November 23, 2024

5 years shop window

Theme days & evenings
CrushedEyesMedia - Karlskompensator at the SCHLOSSLICHTSPIELE Light Festival 2021
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

Summer 2024

75 years of the Basic Law
Pop-up skate park by Rollbrett e. V. Karlsruhe at "Karlsruhe trains for the 2024 Olympics"
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

August 01, 2024

Karlsruhe trains
for the Olympics
XL foosball table at the Stadtwerke stand at the Karlsruhe City Festival 2023
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

June 27 & July 02, 2024

Karlsruhe kicks
Music to go 2024 - Groovy funky BigBand on the market square
© KME | Photo: Jodo

June 29, 2024

music to go
Playing to help! 2024 in the center of Karlsruhe
Tetiana Shurinova | Ukrainians in Karlsruhe e.V.

May 10 - June 09, 2024

Helping through play!
View of the food trucks on Karlsruhe's Schlossplatz in September 2023
© KME | Photo: Lolas Photo

September 08 to 10, 2023

Foodtruck Convention
Karlsruhe
View of the children's festival on Karlsruhe's market square in 2023
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

August 26, 2023

Children's festival on the
market square
80s Weekend 2023 in front of Karlsruhe Castle
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

June 16 - 18, 2023

The 80s weekend
Karlsruhe city church illuminated
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

August 31 - September 08, 2022

11th Plenary Assembly of the Ecumenical Council
of Churches
Teaser Clear the way!
© KME

2022

"Clear the way!"
THE FEST-Citymobil on Friedrichsplatz in summer 2022
© KME | Photo: Jürgen Rösner

Summer 2022

THE FEST-Citymobil

A look into the future

Karlsruhe Castle with World Games logo
City of Karlsruhe, Press and Information Office, MMG

The World Games 2029

July 19 - 29, 2029

All information can be found here!