Munich on a Sunday: What Actually Is Open

1. 09:00Marienplatz & the Glockenspiel · about 46 min

2. Walk · 0.2 km · about 9 min

   09:55Frauenkirche · about 39 min

3. Walk · 1.2 km · about 22 min

   10:56Pinakothek der Moderne · about 115 min

4. 12:51Lunch break · about 60 min

5. Walk · 1.0 km · about 19 min

   14:10Munich Residenz · about 136 min

6. Walk · 0.9 km · about 18 min

   16:44Eisbach river surfers · about 47 min

The Viktualienmarkt stalls trade Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 20:00 and on Saturday from 08:00 to 15:00, and there are no regular market sales on Sundays, according to muenchen.de. The square itself stays open, and the beer garden in the middle opens depending on the weather. A Sunday walk past the maypole works; a Sunday lunch from the stalls does not.

Elisabethmarkt in Schwabing keeps weekday hours until 19:00 and Saturday hours until 14:00, with each stall setting its own times, and is closed on Sundays in MEVAYA's data, last checked on 25 September 2026.

Three typical-class stops are marked closed on Sundays: the shopping streets Kaufinger and Neuhauser Straße, the Glockenbachviertel and Schwabing. The streets are open at any hour; what MEVAYA marks as closed is the shopping and the cafés in them, and that is an assumption, not a checked fact. Plan a Sunday walk there, not a shopping trip.

The Pinakothek der Moderne is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, on Thursday until 20:00, and closed on Mondays. On Sundays admission is €1 per museum, the same at the other Pinakotheken, Museum Brandhorst and Sammlung Schack; the permanent-collection ticket on other days costs €10. Several rooms of the Sammlung Moderne Kunst are closed in turn for rehanging until at least 27 November 2026, and the museum's list runs provisionally to 10 December. If you are going for one particular work, the museum asks you to check by email first.

The Residenz Museum and the Treasury are open every day: until 27 March from 10:00 to 17:00, last entry 16:00. They close only on 1 January, Shrove Tuesday and 24, 25 and 31 December. Until 27 March, a Residenz visit has to start by 16:00.

The Frauenkirche is open daily from 08:00 to 20:00 and free. Sightseeing is not possible during Mass or in the time just before it, and the Sunday services are at 10:00, 17:15 (vespers) and 18:00. The south tower opens on Sundays and public holidays from 11:30 to 17:00, last ascent 16:30, and costs €7.50 for adults.

The Glockenspiel in the New Town Hall plays daily at 11:00 and 12:00, and from March to October also at 17:00, according to muenchen.de. Marienplatz itself is open at any hour, so the figures, not the opening times, decide when to stand there.

Surfing on the Eisbach wave is allowed again since 8 May 2026, under a general order of the City of Munich: only for practised, experienced surfers aged 16 or over (from 14 with an experienced adult), between 05:30 and 22:00, with a second person watching from the bank, and only while a surfable wave forms. A leash, if used, must release under load, and swimming is not allowed. For visitors the Eisbach is a stop to watch, and watching is free.

The route above is what the MEVAYA planner builds for Sunday 4 October 2026 from five fixed stops: about 3.4 km on foot and no public transport, from 09:00 to 17:31. It starts at Marienplatz and the Frauenkirche, spends the late morning in the Pinakothek der Moderne, takes lunch, then the Residenz at 14:10 and the Eisbach at 16:44.

One timing point matters. The route reaches the Frauenkirche at 09:55, five minutes before the 10:00 Mass, and sightseeing stops for the service. Plan the cathedral outside the service times, 10:00, 17:15 and 18:00, and keep the south tower for after 11:30, when it opens on Sundays.

The route is at Marienplatz before the first Glockenspiel at 11:00. If you want to see the figures turn, put the square at 11:00 or 12:00 rather than at 09:00.

Lunch is a 60-minute break after the Pinakothek der Moderne, not a reservation. Restaurants in MEVAYA's Munich data are typical-class stops, so their Sunday hours are not verified. Book a table or call first.

The Residenz stop runs from 14:10 to 16:26. That fits the hours until 27 March, when last entry is at 16:00.

Nymphenburg Palace is open every day: from April to 15 October from 09:00 to 18:00, and from 16 October to March from 10:00 to 16:00, with last admission 30 minutes before closing, according to the palace's own site on 13 October 2026. The Marstallmuseum and the porcelain museum keep the same hours; the park palaces, the Amalienburg among them, are closed from 16 October to March. All buildings close on 1 January, Shrove Tuesday and 24, 25 and 31 December.

The palace park is free and its main gate opens at 06:00. It closes at 21:30 from May to September, at 20:00 in April and October and at 18:00 from November to March, and the other gates close half an hour earlier. A winter Sunday at Nymphenburg is a short palace visit and a long walk, not a full day indoors.

Sunday is Munich's museum day: €1 at the Pinakotheken, the Residenz open, the churches open between services. The markets are the Sunday trap. Buy what you need on Saturday, and treat the Viktualienmarkt as a Saturday morning, not a Sunday one.

Munich's art museums close on Mondays, the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Alte Pinakothek included. If your trip covers a Sunday and a Monday, put the Pinakotheken on the Sunday.