Kiel Week 2025: Three million guests celebrated peacefully in Kiel!

Kiel Week 2025: Three million guests celebrated peacefully in Kiel!

Kiel, Deutschland - The Kiel Week 2025 is also very popular this year. Around three million guests are expected at the sailing and folk festival in the state capital, and the first few days already show high number of visitors to the Fördebühne, Rathausbübühen and in the party areas. The city of Kiel has provided a live overview of visitor steering that provides information about the current utilization of the event locations. Whether pushed or plenty of space, the data is updated regularly and can be easily filtered according to the event location or utilization, as NDR reports. Kiel

The Kiel Week, which takes place from June 21 to 29, 2025, offers a colorful program on both land and on the water. The highlights are international regattas in the Schilksee Olympic Center as well as concerts and culinary delights at various locations. This includes the “International Willer Balloon Sail” on the Nordmarksportfeld, where, in addition to hot air balloons, live bands and an impressive fireworks can be seen. On the game line in the Krusenkoppel, the little guests can look forward to Europe's largest children's culture, which comes the open-air stage with the concert series "huge quiet". Other attractions are the Caribbean Island on the Kiellinie and the Scandinavian fishing village, which attracts with a touch of hygge and culinary specialties, informs the official side of the Kiel Week. Kieler-woche.de

overview of the event

• Olympic Center Schilksee: world-class sailing and international regattas
• Nordmarksportfeld: Balloon Sail, live music, fireworks
• Krusenkoppel: largest children's culture offer in Europe
• Rathausplatz: Culinary diversity and top acts on the town hall stage
• Kieler Woche Jahrmarkt: rides and live music

The Kiel Week has also been calm from a security point of view. The police are drawing a positive interim balance: the event has counted over a million visitors so far, and the number of crimes is below the previous year. In the period from Friday afternoon to Wednesday morning, the state police only registered 70 crimes, including 38 crimes, which mainly focused on Friday and Saturday evening, local media report. Weapons controls under the motto "No place for knives" could also be carried out, which is why the security forces secured seven knives and a shotgun. Class = "Source_3"> Tagesschau

Overall, there is a successful festival in which both visitors and the organizer have a good hand. With an increased number of trains and buses as well as additional offers for bicycles, cars, ferries and camper, the Kiel Week is also well prepared this year. If you want to enjoy the diversity of the events and the maritime flair of the city, you have the opportunity until June 29th.