The Berlin Top 202026
The twenty rooms we would send someone to in Berlin this year, in order.
How this list was built
Ordered by NOX editorial score, weighted with Instagram freshness, room impact, scene importance and longevity. An editor can lock any position. See /about for the full method.
The full methodBerghain
A former power plant with the best sound and the hardest door in Europe. The room does not care whether you get in, which is exactly why everyone wants to.
Tresor
The vault corridor under a decommissioned power station, still the loudest argument for why Berlin sounds the way it does.
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Two rooms, a garden that fills at sunrise, and a collective politics that shows up in the booking rather than the marketing.
Sisyphos
A former dog-biscuit factory turned village: stages, sand, a pond, and a weekend that genuinely does not end until Monday.
Kater Blau
Driftwood architecture on the Spree. The most charming long weekend in the city, and the one most likely to lose you a Sunday.
RSO.BERLIN
Far out in Schöneweide and proud of it. Fast, loud, and built for people who treat Sunday as a set time.
Ritter Butzke
An old paint factory with a courtyard and four rooms, reliably busy and considerably easier to enter than its neighbours.
SchwuZ
Berlin’s longest-running queer club, still the warmest room in the city and the one least interested in your trainers.
Anomalie Art Club
Trauma Bar und Kino
Performance, fashion and club programming in one building, with a booking policy that treats the dancefloor as a stage.
Klunkerkranich
A car-park roof above a shopping centre, which sounds grim until the sun sets behind the TV tower and everyone stops talking.
Prince Charles
A drained swimming pool in a courtyard basement. Smaller and warmer than the city average, and better for it.
Hoppetosse
A moored ship with a low hull room that does minimal properly, and a deck for when you need to remember what daylight is.
OHM
The former battery room of the Tresor power station. Small, strange, and where the more interesting bookings hide.
YAAM
Riverside sand, sound-system culture and a Caribbean kitchen. The least Berlin-sounding room in Berlin.