Bavaria · Germany
Where to stay in Erlangen
Erlangen is a city in Bavaria, Germany, home to about 116,000 people. This guide covers 3 hotels in Erlangen.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 3
- Best months
- May, June, August and September
- Nearest airport
- NUE12 km · Nuremberg Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Berlin
- Language
- German
About
About Erlangen
Erlangen is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 120,839 inhabitants (as of 30 June 2026), it is the smallest of the eight major cities (Großstadt) in Bavaria.
About a third of the residents are involved with the university (students, researchers, etc.), and roughly another third work for Siemens. Medicine is one of the specialties of the university, so you are in luck if you fall ill with more than six clinics in the city.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Erlangen
See
Erlangen is a surprisingly eclectic mixture of old and new. It doesn't always coexist in harmony and sometimes clashes rather glaringly. However it often combines to create a unique blend. The area built for the Huguenots and the building activity of the Margraves who resided here are perhaps the best known landmarks of Erlangen. But outside a rather small area of the historic core, the city grew too rapidly in the 20th century for aesthetic concerns to always be taken into consideration. That said, the city has taken considerable efforts to commission murals and legal graffiti on surfaces such as underpasses that would otherwise be dreary naked concrete.
- Margravial Palace
- Bohlenplatz
- margrave statue
- Pauli fountain
- Palais Stutterheim
- Margrave Palace (Markgräfliche Schloss)
- Orangerie Erlangen
- Historic water tower on Apfelstraße
- Historic water tower on the Burgberg hill
- Bierkeller (beer cellars) at Entlas Keller
- Hugenot church
- Altstädter Dreifaltigkeitskirche
Do
In any case, for experiencing Erlangen, you should take a stroll through the small but cosy Altstadt (roughly said the area delimited by Hauptstraße, Schlossgarten and Theaterplatz) and Neustadt (the area south of Slossgarten) and the pedestrian zone (northern part of Nürnberger Straße and side streets). If you want to relax with a newspaper, take a time and read within the nice reading area of the city library in Palais Stutterheim at Marktplatz 1. On warm summer evenings, you could join the students by picnicking or having a beer at Bohlenplatz.
- city library in Palais Stutterheim
- Bergkirchweih
- International Comic Salon Erlangen
- International Jazz Workshop Erlangen
- International Figure Theater Festival
- Poetry Festival
- Summer Nights Film Festival
- Arena Festival
- Jazzband-Ball
- Classical music by the lake
- Tag des offenen Denkmals
- Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Erlangen
3 places to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay |
|---|
| Garner Hotel Erlangen Süd hotel |
| Holiday Inn - the niu, Cure Erlangen hotel |
| Holiday Inn Express Erlangen hotel |
Where to stay
More hotels in Erlangen
8 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Acantus Hotel | 14.1 km | |
| Former brewery Polster | 1800 | 9.5 km |
| Garner Hotel Erlangen Süd by IHG | 5.7 km | |
| Hotel Bayerischer Hof | 0.3 km | |
| Hotel Herzogs Park | 10.2 km | |
| NH Erlangen | 0.3 km | |
| Novina Hotel Herzogenaurach Herzo-Base | 7.0 km | |
| Zeitwohnhaus Suite Hotel & Serviced Apartments | 0.9 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Erlangen
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Erlangen are May, June, August and September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 25 °C; July is the wettest, with about 83 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Erlangen: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Nuremberg Airport (NUE), about 12 km from the city centre in a straight line; Munich Airport (MUC, 149 km) is also within reach.
Getting in
The next airport is in Nuremberg (NUE) with domestic and limited international connections. The U-Bahn (subway) takes you to the Nuremberg main station in roughly 13 minutes, from where you can take a wide variety of inter-city (ICE and IC), regional (RE and RB) and commuter-trains (the S-Bahn) to Erlangen. The subway and regional trains are fully integrated within the VGN tariff union. There is also a direct bus (line 30) from the airport to downtown Erlangen every 20 minutes on weekdays (40 minutes on weekends). This option takes a bit under half an hour.
Getting around
While the old town walls are only preserved in very few stones and street names like (cardinal direction) Stadtmauerstraße, the rectangular area once inside the walls is still evident as the main pedestrianised and shopping area with driving inside it much more difficult than outside it. Four physical boundaries run roughly North-South and separate the city into eastern and western parts.
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NUE · Nuremberg Airport
MUC · Munich Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Erlangen
Eat
The region is famous for the number and charm of its beer gardens, where in summer you can enjoy a cool drink and a bite to eat (Brotzeit = German equivalent of a picnic) whilst enjoying traditional music. Entla's Keller (regional dialect for duck's cellar) is located on the Burgberg where the Bergkirchweih is held as well but outside of this festival operates as a normal beer garden (the locally preferred word is Bierkeller, beer-cellar) and sells typical Franconian cuisine and beer by the liter.
Drink
While Erlangen is somewhat short of nice street cafés, there are many places where you can enjoy a good cup in the rooms, quiet gardens or at some places even with a look outside to see what is happening.
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Questions
Erlangen: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Erlangen?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Erlangen are May, June, August and September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 25 °C; July is the wettest, with about 83 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Erlangen?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Nuremberg Airport (NUE), about 12 km from the city centre in a straight line; Munich Airport (MUC, 149 km) is also within reach.
What currency is used in Erlangen?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Erlangen
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.