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To the hotel by taxi – Uber to celebrate?
The two companies have provided rbb|24 data on the most-booked destinations of the year 2025, and thereby paint a nuanced picture of the city's travel patterns.
Uber published its top three destinations for Berlin and refrained from including the BER airport and the main railway station in the statistics. At the top is Berghain, closely followed by Sisyphos. Both clubs have for years been among the go-to destinations for an audience that is out well past dawn. In third place is the KaDeWe department store, which functions as both a shopping destination and a meeting place.
Only Freenow taxi bookings as the basis
At Freenow, which mainly brokers taxis via an app, the list looks different. Here, BER and Berlin Central Station lead the ranking, followed by the Grand Hyatt Hotel. After that, Ostbahnhof and KaDeWe follow. The Adlon Hotel also appears among the most frequent destinations. In addition to train stations and hotels, several addresses can be read off that clearly correspond to business traffic. The Berlin office of the Boston Consulting Group is in the top ten, and Soho House also ranks among the leading places. With the Borchardt restaurant, there is also a place that has for years been a fixture of political and economic meetings.
With Uber you wait twice as long
Another difference is evident in the waiting time. Uber puts it at an average of six minutes. Freenow reports 2.7 minutes for taxi bookings via the app. Both values are within the usual city range, but they reflect different offering structures: while with Uber free vehicles are added via an algorithmic matching, Freenow users access the capital's dense taxi network.
Traditionally, the year's longest trip provides the talking point. For Uber, in 2025 it ran from Berlin to Minderlittgen in Rhineland-Palatinate. The route of around 680 kilometers took eight hours. The longest documented taxi ride via Freenow went to Bremen and remained well below it at 422 kilometers. Such outliers may seem anecdotal, but they show how flexibly customers are now using the services.
Young, partying – book Uber?
The data thus provide an insightful picture of mobility in Berlin. While some people head to nightclubs in the evening, others use taxis to arrive on time at meetings, hotels or train stations. In fact, Uber's data also show that it seems to be predominantly a younger audience using the American platform operator. And the ranking of the mobility service provider Freenow appears to reflect mainly business travel.
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