Updated for September 2026
The Best Zoos in Berlin
How this list is ordered: by how complete our listing is — how much we hold on opening hours, ticket prices, accreditation, photographs, animals and facilities. It is a measure of our own coverage, not a judgement of the venue. We hold no visitor scores or conservation assessments, so “best” here means every zoo in Berlin that qualifies for the list, fullest entry first.
Listed alphabetically
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Child friendlyDisability admission concession
Zoologischer Garten Berlin
Zoo in Berlin
Around 20,000 animals of about 1,000 species are kept on 33 hectares. The grounds lie at Hardenbergplatz in the Tiergarten locality of the Mitte borough, on the boundary with Charlottenburg. With 3.6 million visitors recorded in 2024, it was the most-visited zoo in Europe.
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Keeper talk or show
Tierpark Berlin
Zoo in Berlin
Opened in 1955 in the Friedrichsfelde district, the park covers 160 hectares, making it the largest landscape-style animal park in Europe. Part of the grounds had been laid out as a landscape garden by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1821. Stock has been counted at 8,491 animals of 626 species.
Our ranking methodology
This is not a ranking. The 2 venues above are listed alphabetically by name, the same order used throughout this site. We do not collect visitor reviews, star ratings, ticket-sales figures or a conservation-impact score, so none of those exist here to rank by — “best” in this page’s title means every venue that qualifies for this list, not first-to-last by quality. If we ever add a data source robust enough to support an honest ranking, this note and the order above will change together.