Lower Saxony · Germany
Where to stay in Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, home to about 130,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels and 1 aparthotel in Wolfsburg, with about 366 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
- 3
- Best months
- May to September
- Nearest airport
- HAJ75 km · Hannover Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Berlin
- Language
- German
About
About Wolfsburg
Wolfsburg is the fifth-largest city in the German state of Lower Saxony. It lies on the river Aller, 75 kilometres (47 mi) east of Hanover and 230 kilometres (143 mi) west of Berlin.
Wolfsburg hosts the worldwide headquarters of the car manufacturer Volkswagen. It was built and founded in the 1930s as a place to live for the employees of Volkswagen (literally: people's car) and the factory still dominates the scenery. While it was founded by the Nazis and Hitler personally loved all symbolism associated with wolves (he interpreted his first name to be related to the word "wolf"), the town only officially got its name after the war being called "Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben" (city of the strength through joy car near Fallersleben) during the Nazi era.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Wolfsburg
See
Wolfsburg is quite a modern city having been built, in the main, from 1938 on to house workers from the newly built VW factory. However, its castle dates from 1600 and today houses the Stadtmuseum. It has a rundown of the city's history from 1938, when the VW plant was founded, to the present day. There's also a small regional history museum and two art galleries that host rotating exhibitions.
- AutoStadt
- Phaeno Science Centre
- Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
- Wolfsburg Castle
- Volkswagen AutoMuseum
- Planetarium Wolfsburg
Do
- Volkswagen Factory Tour
- Maritime PanoramaTour
- VfL Wolfsburg
- Economy Training
- Safety Training
- Allersee
- BadeLand
- Eis Arena Wolfsburg
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Wolfsburg
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 Wolfsburg City Center hotel | 343 | 89/100 9,756 reviews |
2 more places to stay, without a published guest score
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Hotel Strijewski hotel | |
| Wolfsburg Porschestraße aparthotel | 23 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
When to go
The best time to visit Wolfsburg
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Wolfsburg are May to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 24 °C; July is the wettest, with about 79 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 Wolfsburg: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Hannover Airport (HAJ), about 75 km from the city centre in a straight line; Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM, 145 km) and Kassel Airport (KSF, 147 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Wolfsburg is easily accessible by road and rail. The main line rail station is Wolfsburg Hauptbahnhof, Willy-Brandt-Platz 3, and there are regular services to many destinations. There is regular direct ICE service from/to Berlin (in fact some people use the ICE for their daily commute on that route) but for many other connections you'd have to change trains in Brunswick and/or Hanover. Flixtrain serves the city. There are big parking lots next to the train station and you can easily leave your car there for several days. Take junction 5 off of the A39 and head towards Wolfsburg-Morse.
Getting around
Perhaps surprisingly for a city built on for and by the automobile, walking is the best option. Everything is close to each other in the city and the downtown core is largely pedestrianized. Wolfsburg has a public bus system that will get you to most suburbs and outlying parts of town. There is no light rail or tram, but regular rail service also has stops in Fallersleben (which is part of Wolfsburg, but much older) and several other places.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
HAJ · Hannover Airport
HAM · Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport
KSF · Kassel Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Wolfsburg
Eat
Generally speaking, Wolfsburg has what you'd expect in food for a city of its size. However, due to its sizable Italian descendant population, Italian restaurants and pizzerias are cheap, plentiful and often of amazing quality.
Drink
Wolfsburg is not a university town and as such nightlife is nothing to write home about. There are a few bars, but Braunschweig is where the party's at for the most part.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Wolfsburg
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Questions
Wolfsburg: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Wolfsburg?
By published guest score: Leonardo Hotel Wolfsburg City Center (89 / 100 · 9,756 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Wolfsburg?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Wolfsburg are May to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 24 °C; July is the wettest, with about 79 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Wolfsburg?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Hannover Airport (HAJ), about 75 km from the city centre in a straight line; Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM, 145 km) and Kassel Airport (KSF, 147 km) are also within reach.
Are there accessible hotels in Wolfsburg?
1 place in this guide list accessible rooms.
What currency is used in Wolfsburg?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Wolfsburg
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.