Getaways from Munich: day trips and destinations close by.

From the airport to Marienplatz in 40 minutes

There are direct flights to Franz Josef Strauss airport (MUC) from Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Alicante, Málaga, Seville, Palma, Gran Canaria, Tenerife South, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma. From the airport, the S-Bahn S1 or S8 drops you at the Marienplatz in about 40 minutes; the Airport-City-Day-Ticket is valid all day on the whole network.

Before leaving, the city has two ready-made days. A Sunday in the centre: the Marienplatz Glockenspiel at 11, lunch at the Hofbräuhaus, Dürer and Velázquez at the Alte Pinakothek for €1 and the afternoon watching the Eisbach surfers. And Munich with the family: the Deutsches Museum, the Augustiner-Keller beer garden and Nymphenburg park, free for under-18s.

There are two ways out. The direct train from München Hauptbahnhof to Innsbruck, Railjet or EC, takes around 1 h 45 and is the car-free way out; the day's timetables are at oebb.at or bahn.de. For the Hohe Tauern you need a hire car: Krimml is reached via Kufstein and the Ziller valley, or via the Gerlos pass, and the Grossglockner via Salzburg or via Lofer to Bruck and the Fusch valley. The Grossglockner road is a toll road, per car per day.

Innsbruck offers three plans

An hour and three-quarters away, by train, is Innsbruck. It offers three different plans: the old town and the Nordkette, with the Golden Roof, the funicular and cable cars up to the Hafelekar, at 2,256 metres; Ambras and Swarovski Kristallwelten, almost all under cover, for a cloudy day, and two nights in Innsbruck that combine the two with the Alpenzoo and Tyrolean cooking on the Hofgasse.

Between two and a half and two and three-quarter hours away, by car, is the Hohe Tauern. The Krimml waterfalls, 152 minutes away, are climbed by the Wasserfallweg to the Achental valley and the Krimmler Tauernhaus. The Grossglockner road, 165 minutes to Ferleiten, climbs to the Edelweiss-Spitze and reaches the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, facing the Grossglockner. Each is a day of more than five hours by car there and back; with two nights, Krimml and the Grossglockner are done without hurry.

The Nordkette runs in winter too

In winter, Innsbruck: the train does not depend on the weather, the city is open every day and the Nordkette runs in winter too, except during its maintenance closures, from 2 to 19 November 2026 and from 26 to 30 April 2027. Ambras closes in November. In the city, the Eisbach before dark and Nymphenburg in the morning, which in winter closes at 16:00.

From late May to mid-October the mountains open. The Grossglockner road announces a season from early May to early November, and the Krimmler Tauernhaus opened in 2026 from 20 May to 18 October. In June and July, with the thaw, the Krimml waterfalls carry more water. It is also the season of long evenings in the English Garden and in the beer gardens.

Up to the Hafelekar and back in a day

• Without a car, in a day: Innsbruck and the Nordkette. First-thing train, the Golden Roof, the climb to the Hafelekar and strudel before the return train.
• With two nights by train: the getaway to Innsbruck, with a hotel in the old town, for June to September or December.
• By car, in summer: the two nights in the Hohe Tauern, with Krimml on the first day and the Grossglockner from north to south on the second.