Berlin scene guide
Berlin scene guide — find your venue by sound. Techno lands at Else. The venues, promoters and artists shaping Berlin’s electronic scene.
Find your venue
- Techno — if you like Solomun: Else, Sensorium, RSO.BERLIN
- House — if you like Solomun: Else, RSO.BERLIN, OXI
- Trance — if you like Hannah Laing: Lokschuppen Berlin, ://about blank, DSTRKT Club Berlin
- Experimental — if you like Ivan Smagghe: Spreefeld Bootshaus, ://about blank, Kantine am Berghain
- Tech House — if you like Bebetta: Sensorium, Else, Hinterhof Mitte
- Electronica — if you like Acid Arab: Gretchen, Amano East-Side, OHM
- Jazz — if you like Acid Arab: Gretchen, Atemporal, Kaos Berlin
Busiest venues
How big is Berlin’s electronic scene?
Over the last 12 months soundcheck tracked 14,394 club nights across 1162 venues in Berlin, featuring 13,873 artists. Every listing carries the line-up, times and venue — see what’s on in Berlin tonight.
Which Berlin venues have the most club nights?
Counted over the trailing 12 months of listings:
What time do Berlin club nights actually start and end?
From the 14,394 listings publishing door times: the median Berlin night opens at 21:00 — 56% open before 22:00, 44% between 22:00 and midnight, and 0% after midnight. Of the 1,457 listings publishing a close time, the median close is 05:00, 58% run past 04:00 and 47% go to 06:00 or later.
How much does a club night in Berlin cost?
Across the 1,450 listings publishing prices (10% of all nights): the median advance ticket is €12, with half of all nights between €1 and €18. 25% of listed nights are free.
When does Berlin go out?
Saturday is the biggest night (31% of all listings); Friday and Saturday together carry 59% of the week. The busiest month of the year is August.
What does Berlin sound like?
By share of genre tags across the year’s line-ups: Techno 35% · House 27% · Experimental 8% · Trance 8% · Tech House 6% · Electronica 5%. Genre-by-genre venue picks are in the routes above.
All figures derived from soundcheck’s listings database over the trailing 365 days; updated with each rebuild.
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