Baden-Württemberg · Germany
Where to stay in Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, home to about 309,000 people. This guide covers 3 aparthotels and 2 hotels in Karlsruhe, with about 186 rooms between them. 1 of them carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 5
- Best months
- May to September
- Nearest airport
- FKB35 km · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Berlin
- Language
- German
About
About Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe is the third-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, after its capital Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. It is also a former capital of Baden, a historic region named after Hohenbaden Castle in the city of Baden-Baden.
The city was founded in 1715 by Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden. The city was laid out on the drawing board. It consists of a central circle, containing the palace, and streets running towards the palace tower as radial "spokes". This pattern is still visible today. Due to the fan-like layout, Karlsruhe is known as the "fan city" (Fächerstadt). The Rhine valley, where Karlsruhe is located, is the warmest part of Germany because it is only about 115 m above sea level and there are mountains in the east (Black Forest) and west (Vogesen).
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Karlsruhe
See
A list of museums can be found on the city homepage. The city lists Karlsruhe's cultural heritage in a database.
- Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM)
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- Karlsruhe Palace
- Badisches Landesmuseum
- Palace Garden
- Karlsruhe Pyramid
- Karlsruhe Zoo
- State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe
- Baden Art Association
- Bauhaus-Siedlung Dammerstock
Do
- Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
- Karlsruher SC
- Schauburg
- Kino im Prinz-Max-Palais
- Das Fest
- African Summer Festival
- Schloss in Flammen
- KAMUNA
- Schloss Lichtspiele
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Karlsruhe
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leonardo Hotel Karlsruhe hotel | 147 | 87/100 5,753 reviews |
4 more places to stay, without a published guest score
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| acora Karlsruhe Zentrum Living the City aparthotel | |
| Holiday Inn - the niu, Wave Karlsruhe Oststadt hotel | |
| Karlsruhe Kaiserstraße aparthotel | 18 |
| Karlsruhe Sophienstraße aparthotel | 21 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Karlsruhe
20 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Schlosshotel Karlsruhe | 2.4 km | |
| Hotel-Restaurant Erbprinz | 8.3 km | |
| Zum Laub | 9.4 km | |
| Beim Schupi | 3.3 km | |
| City Partner Hotel Berliner Hof | 0.7 km | |
| Hotel Der Blaue Reiter | 5.2 km | |
| Hotel Marxzeller Mühle | 17.7 km | |
| Hotel Rio | 1.3 km | |
| Hotel Santo | 1.7 km | |
| Hotel Scheffelhöhe | 19.2 km | |
| IntercityHotel Karlsruhe IntercityHotel | 2.6 km | |
| Kaiserhof | 1.0 km | |
| Novotel Karlsruhe City | 1.5 km | |
| PLAZA INN Bruchsal PLAZA Hotelgroup | 18.1 km | |
| PLAZA INN Karlsruhe Nord PLAZA Hotelgroup | 3.1 km | |
| PLAZA Premium Karlsruhe PLAZA Hotelgroup | 4.0 km | |
| Radisson Blu Hotel Karlsruhe | 6.7 km | |
| Schwitzer's Hotel am Park | 12.0 km | |
| The Q - Quadro City Hotel PLAZA Hotelgroup | 1.5 km | |
| Villa Hammerschmiede | 12.0 km |
All 25 hotels in Karlsruhe, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Karlsruhe
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Karlsruhe are May to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 27 °C; July is the wettest, with about 73 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 Karlsruhe: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB), about 35 km from the city centre in a straight line; Mannheim-City Airport (MHG, 51 km) and Stuttgart Airport (STR, 70 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
A lot to see in Karlsruhe is along Kaiserstraße. Because all the streets radiate outward, Marktplatz (market square) is a great place to start a walking tour of the city. If you go up or down Kaiserstraße, you will find a great variety of shops and restaurants on both sides of the streets. If you go towards the Palace (right in front of you if you're on Marktplatz), you can visit the city museum inside the castle, or the park right behind it, where the people of Karlsruhe congregate to picnic, play sports, and relax on nice days.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
FKB · Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport
MHG · Mannheim-City Airport
STR · Stuttgart Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Karlsruhe
Drink
Like other cities in Germany, Karlsruhe has a few regional brands of beer, of which Hoepfner is the most famous. It is also worth exploring the microbreweries scattered around the city, such as the Vogelbräu, Wolf Brauerei and the Badische Brauhaus, all of which have seasonal specialities.
Stay safe
Karlsruhe is maybe one of the safest cities in Germany especially the centre of the town. There are a lot of police officers walking and driving around, mainly because of the important courts. Maybe some suburbs should be avoided at night (Oberreut, Neureut and Daxlanden (not really)), but otherwise, one will feel safe in this city.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Karlsruhe
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
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Questions
Karlsruhe: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Karlsruhe?
By published guest score: Leonardo Hotel Karlsruhe (87 / 100 · 5,753 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Karlsruhe?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Karlsruhe are May to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 27 °C; July is the wettest, with about 73 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Karlsruhe?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Karlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB), about 35 km from the city centre in a straight line; Mannheim-City Airport (MHG, 51 km) and Stuttgart Airport (STR, 70 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Karlsruhe?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Karlsruhe
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.