Autumn vacations in Leipzig - October, the month of adventure
Vacation fun for explorers & discoverers
What to do when the day can suddenly be used to its full length? Clearly - follow the best tips for the ultimate vacation fun and get outside, hike through the crackling autumn leaves, have fun with animals and experience the autumn vacations in Leipzig!
Colorful autumn program & Halloween spectacle at the zoo
On the trail of nature - where better to do this than at Zoo Leipzig? A fascinating wilderness in the middle of Leipzig awaits you here. The six exciting adventure worlds are home to 650 different species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, which you can discover, observe and search for together with your kids. Or even better: you can experience them together with a trained zoo guide on the 60-minute holiday tour. Here you can find out about daily highlights and get to know the diversity of Leipzig Zoo with a small group of max. 15 people.
If that's not enough, you can also take part in the "Zoo-Ferienkids" program, which is mainly aimed at children aged 10 to 14. From October 6 to 10, you can get to know the zoo up close over 5 days, discover the diversity of the animal world and learn more about species conservation. The focus is on fun and education!
Important: Participation in the vacation program ("Zoo-Ferienkids" as well as the vacation tour) must be booked in advance (plus admission ticket).
For all Halloween fans among you, we recommend the South American Halloween spectacle Día de los animales Muertos to your heart. From 31 October to 2 November, you can look forward to fascinating walk acts,a colorful stage program with music and dance, a pumpkin hunt with a competition, delicious food and many other exciting activities especially in the evening, the magical light and creepy creatures will send you into ecstasy.
Our tip: If you come to the zoo dressed up on the day of Halloween, you even get free admission (only on 31.10. for children up to 16 years).
When?
Holiday tour dates: 08.10.2025 | 15.10.2025
"Zoo-Ferienkids" program from 06.10. to 10.10.2025
Halloweenspektakel from 31.10. to 02.11.2025, each from 10 to 17 o'clock
Where?
Zoo Leipzig, Pfaffendorfer Straße 29, 04105 Leipzig
Puzzle hunt through the Panometer
"Where is Claude?" - this is a question you will hear frequently in October at the Panometer Leipzig. This is because a large-scale puzzle hunt is taking place here throughout the month, in which - how could it be otherwise - the artist of the current 360° panorama exhibition himself is being sought. Various puzzle envelopes will lead the participating children, families and the young at heart to Claude Monet's hiding place, where great prizes await in the end. Registration is not required. The puzzle envelopes can be purchased throughout October for 1 euro (in addition to the admission price) at the Panometer ticket office.
Also exciting: During the fall vacations, the Panometer also offers themed family tours. These alternate between the formats "True or False? - The Guided Tour to Guess Along", "Dark Secrets - The Shady Side of Painting" and "Up Close - Painting with All Senses" alternate regularly. Join in the guessing, puzzling and trying things out!
Another insider tip: On October 30, a special flashlight tour will take place in the Panometer. As part of the "Dark Secrets" family tour, the dark stories behind the popular works of art will be revealed. The tour starts at 5:15 pm and tickets cost 5 euros (plus admission). Registration for the guided tour is possible by e-mail (service@panometer.de). And: be sure to bring your own flashlights!
You can find all dates and further information here.
Digital city tour "Leolina's adventures"
Discover Leipzig in a very special way with "Leolina's Adventure" - the digital city tour from the App "Explore Leipzig", which takes you and your kids into the fascinating world of the city!
Join young lioness Leolina on her adventurous journey as she wakes up in Leipzig's lively city center without knowing where she comes from. As Leolina explores the streets of Leipzig, she meets some of the city's famous personalities, including Goethe, Lene Voigt and even the Messemännchen. They all help her to find her true home.
Your mission: Help Leolina discover her origins! If you embark on this adventure in Leipzig's city center and solve some exciting puzzles, you can even expect a little surprise at the end, which you can pick up at the Tourist Information!
The tour lasts between 1.5 and 2 hours and takes you to the most famous sights of Leipzig in a fun way. Along the way, you will learn interesting facts about the city and its history. It's the perfect opportunity to explore Leipzig with your family in an entertaining and educational way.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to see Leipzig through the eyes of Leolina and experience your own adventure in this fascinating city.
With "Leolina's Adventure", your family trip to Leipzig will be an unforgettable experience. Have fun exploring!
Download: Google Play Store or Apple App Store
Reach your destination with a map and compass - a scavenger hunt through Leipzig
Grab your friends and compete against each other in an exciting scavenger hunt. The Leipzig City Detectives require your quick wits, a keen eye for detail and, of course, team spirit. Your team must decipher all the clues within 90 minutes in order to cross the finish line as the winner and win the treasure. Want more puzzle fun? Then take part in a public guided tour and explore Leipzig in the dark. In the spooky flashlight rallies, thieves have to be unmasked and invisible signs unraveled. And you even have to search for clues with a magnifying glass to decipher everything hidden. So don't forget to bring your own flashlight to be well equipped!
When?
Themed rallies (e.g. scavenger hunt through Leipzig's city center): Date on request
Torchlight rally: 25.10.2025, each from 6.30 pm
Where?
Am Markt 1, 04109 Leipzig (Stadtgeschichtliches Museum, Altes Rathaus, passageway, in front of the passageway of the Old Town Hall, market side)
Hands-on fall vacation in Leipzig
Yes, of course, there's been enough learning at school and during the vacations everything is finally done, but not crammed. Easy to think, but unfortunately very difficult to do with the exciting hands-on offers...
Are you still making or are you already making? - Maker days Leipzig
During the Maker days, the workshop becomes digital. And creative. And much more, because the focus is on your kids' ideas. Whether making films, sewing with a sewing machine, tinkering and soldering, developing games, upcycling or experimenting - there are no limits to their imagination. Over a total of four days, the young makers will get to know both manual and digital tools in various workshops, e.g. to use artificial intelligence creatively, build with wood, print 3D figures or make their own films. And the best thing? Participation is completely free! You can choose which and how many days your kids want to take part in. However, pre-registration via the website is mandatory. Don't miss out on this great vacation offer!
When?
14 to 17.10.2025, from 9 to 16 h
Note: Parents are also welcome to attend the closing event on 17 October
Where?
"Völkerfreundschaft" in Grünau, Stuttgarter Allee 9, 04209 Leipzig
Hands-on exhibitions at the UNIKATUM Children's Museum
Experience interactive exhibitions for children and families on two levels at the UNIKATUM Children's Museum in Leipzig. For example, at the hands-on exhibition in the VR-Lab. Here, your kids can get to grips with virtual reality and try out the interactive stations for themselves. This includes the "Living Aquarium", where children can create and feed virtual sea creatures themselves. The "Icaros Flight Simulator", which requires a lot of skill, is really tricky. The new interactive exhibition "HandWerkStadt" is also particularly exciting, providing initial insights into vocational orientation and allowing visitors to experience professions such as carpentry or dental technician up close. Outdoor puzzles about fruits and plants also await you in the Garden of Life - do you think you can guess them all? An overview of all the exhibitions can be found here.
When?
During the 2025 fall vacations: Tuesday to Sunday from 10 to 18 o'clock
Where?
UNIKATUM Children's Museum, Zschochersche Straße 26, 04229 Leipzig
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This is art - handicrafts at the Museum of Printing Arts
To make your kids even more colorful and creative this autumn, the autumn holiday courses at the Museum of Printing Arts will be offering great workshops on printing from October 7 to 17.
The program starts on October 7 with the "Intaglio Printing" workshop. Here, image ideas are scratched into CDs, Terapacks or zinc plates with the help of a needle, colored and printed with an old press. What more could a child's heart want?
In other workshops, for example, prints are created from autumn leaves or spooky Halloween greeting cards.
The fact is: at the end of each workshop, all participating kids have something in their hands that they have created themselves and can take home with them. A great souvenir!
When?
Autumn holiday courses from 07 to 17 October 2025, prior registration required!
Where?
Museum of Printing Arts, Nonnenstraße 38, 04229 Leipzig
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Autumn vacation in Leipzig to burn off energy
Free at last and nothing to do (for school), so you can put your feet up. Or you can put them in slippers. Or in JUMP socks to really let off steam and bounce more than ever before. Or in sneakers and then off to lofty heights.
Higher, faster, further - adrenaline chase at JUMP House Leipzig
And you jump, jump and jump again - at JUMP House Leipzig THE craziest trampoline hall in the entire region awaits you. That's a promise! Here 10 varied attractions with over 100 trampolines are waiting for you to jump up and down. One of the highlights is definitely the Bounce JUMP, a spectacular obstacle course in which you compete against each other for the best time. Only those who use the trampolines skillfully can master the obstacle course and be rewarded with the final jump from a height of two meters as well as an action video of their own course run. So, get your socks on and get jumping!
Want to compete with your schoolmates during the vacations? Then the FerienJUMP might be just the thing for you ;)
Important: Please online book a jump time!
When?
Monday to Thursday (2 to 7 pm), Friday (2 to 8 pm), Saturday (10 to 9 pm), Sunday (10 to 7 pm)
Note that the opening times may vary during the vacations!
Where?
JUMP House Leipzig, Markranstädter Straße 8a, 04229 Leipzig
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Push your limits - bouldering at Bloc No Limit and Kosmos
Your climbing skills are unsurpassed, but your parents are worried about you scrambling around at dizzying heights? No problem, because Leipzig has many great opportunities for (safe) climbing and bouldering to offer! How about a visit to the bouldering hall BLOC NO LIMIT? The team offers two-hour taster courses, which make it easier to get started in this popular climbing sport. However, a visit is of course also worthwhile during regular opening hours.
In Kosmos, the largest indoor climbing hall in the west of Leipzig, you can also Taster courses for parents with children are also offered. During a one-and-a-half-hour course, you will learn the most important basics and techniques. You can also celebrate children's birthdays here!
When?
Bloc No Limit: Monday to Sunday from 10 to 23 o'clock (also on public holidays)
Kosmos: Monday to Friday from 9 to 23 o'clock, Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 22 o'clock (also on public holidays)
Where?
Bouldering hall Bloc No Limit: Brandenburger Str. 26, 04347 Leipzig
Kosmos Boulderhalle: Erich-Zeigner-Allee 64c, 04229 Leipzig
For water rats - Riff and Heide Spa bathing areas
When it starts to get colder outside, the sweaters go to the front of the wardrobe and swimsuits and bikinis are put way at the back. But that doesn't mean you can't go for a proper swim. You can let off steam, relax and simply have fun in the warm water in the bathing area at RIFF in Bad Lausick. There you will also find attractions such as a water playground, three and five-metre-high diving platforms, adventure slides and a toddler pool.
In HEIDE SPA in Bad Düben relaxing bathing area and varied sauna world go hand in hand and make your visit a very special experience. Very young visitors enjoy the toddler paddling pool with slide in the indoor area or with sandy beach in the outdoor area.
When?
RIFF: daily from 9 to 22 o'clock (during the vacation season), regular opening hours can be found here.
HEIDA SPA: open daily from 10 to 22 o'clock
Where?
RIFF spa and leisure pool, Am Riff 3, 04651 Bad Lausick
Heide Spa, Bitterfelder Straße 42, 04849 Bad Düben
Blick auf das Hallenbad im Kur- und Freizeitbad RIFF Bad Lausick 
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Castle ghosts and adventures - scary and beautiful fall vacations in Leipzig and the region
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, when miracles were real...the castles and palaces in the Leipzig region will show you and your kids fairytale land on vacation!
Spooky or scary? - Halloween Days Belantis
It's the fall vacations - what does that mean? Now think hard. Halloween (and of course Reformation Day) is getting closer and closer. If you can't decide between sweet and sour, Belantis - Das AbenteuerReich with more than 60 attractions and creepy mazes is the place to be. At the Halloween adventure, the creepy mazes await young and old - guaranteeing spooky fun for the whole family! Fantastic creatures await little spooky fans. With your older kids, you can venture unsuspectingly into the Chamber of Horrors and trigger a millennia-old Curse of the Pharaoh that will send a cold shiver down your spine. In the dark corridors of the pyramid, the Egyptian Curse of Imhotep was conjured up when an inscription by the master builder Imhotep was found. Can you make it out of the pyramid?
When?
Halloween special on the following days (10 am - 8 pm)
- Friday and Saturday, 03.10. & 04.10.2025
- Friday and Saturday, 10.10. & 11.10.2025
- Friday and Saturday, 17.10. & 18.10.2025
- Friday and Saturday, 24.10. & 25.10.2025
- Friday and Saturday, 31.10. & 01.11.2025
Where? BELANTIS - Das AbenteuerReich, Zur Weißen Mark 1, 04249 Leipzig
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Not for the faint-hearted - Leipzig scary tour
Vampires and witches, ghosts and ghouls, they are where you are not looking. But on the 90-minute creepy tour through Leipzig at night, you will get to know them and hear the creepiest stories about them. Gravediggers, ghost believers and of course vampires. Visit the eeriest corners of our otherwise peaceful city and get to know Leipzig from its dark side. Caution: Goosebumps guaranteed!
And for those who like it even scarier, we can recommend the special Halloween program from 23 October to 02 November, which, in addition to the Creepy Tour, also offers the Cemetery Tour "Corpses, Leprosy, Lucifer".
When?
From Thursday to Sunday at 20:30 or by appointment (prices: adults €16.00, reduced €14.00)
Where?
The meeting point is in front of the Neues Augusteum, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig
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Royal children at Delitzsch Baroque Palace
A treasure hunt in a castle? In the time-honored walls of the Baroque castle Delitzsch, your kids can hunt for the infamous treasure of castle ghost Hugo as royalty. What do you need? Nothing but a lot of courage! So come on - the castle adventure "Holiday fun for royal children" is already waiting for you!
When?
Holiday program: "Treasure hunt in the castle" on Thursday, 09.10.2025, at 11 am and 2 pm
Duration: 1.5 hours each (participation fee: €3 per child, €6 per adult)
Note: Please register in advance on 034202 / 67208 or by email: barockschloss@delitzsch.de
Where?
Baroque Castle Delitzsch, Schloßstraße 31, 04509 Delitzsch
Meeting point in the foyer at the castle
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A journey through time at Rochlitz Castle
Don't want your castle adventure to be over yet? Then take a look at Schloss Rochlitz. An autumn holiday program for the whole family awaits you there from 4 to 19 October. From fairy-tale tours through the historic castle to baking in the rustic castle kitchen and a visit to a knight school - there's definitely something for royal children here!
When?
Autumn vacation (04. to 19.10.2025): Mon - Fri, 10am to 5pm and Sat - Sun, 10am to 6pm
Where?
Schloss Rochlitz, Sörnziger Weg 1, 09306 Rochlitz
So, let's get out and really enjoy the fall vacations in Leipzig! Have fun!
Do you have any questions about the fall vacations in Leipzig? Then get in touch with us!
Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH
Tourist Information
Tel.: +49 341 / 7104 - 260
Email: info@ltm-leipzig.de