Cities · pick your Germany
The city shapes everything.
Rent, jobs, community, weekends — same country, very different lives. Twelve deep city guides, plus every city on the program board. Rents are indicative WG-room bands (mid-2026).
Berlin
The capital of second chances
€550–€800 / WG room
Munich
Highest salaries, highest rents
€700–€1,000 / WG room
Hamburg
Port city, media city
€550–€800 / WG room
Cologne
Friendliest big city in Germany
€500–€750 / WG room
Frankfurt
The finance gateway
€600–€900 / WG room
Stuttgart
Where German engineering lives
€550–€800 / WG room
Dresden
Silicon Saxony, baroque skyline
€350–€550 / WG room
Leipzig
The affordable boomtown
€330–€520 / WG room
Aachen
Europe's engineering campus town
€400–€600 / WG room
Bonn
UN city on the Rhine
€450–€700 / WG room
Heidelberg
Germany's most famous university town
€500–€750 / WG room
Karlsruhe
The KIT tech hub
€450–€650 / WG room