13 Walking Tours in Hanover to Build a Day Around

1.Guided City Walk

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 486 reviews · 2 hours · from $17Our pick

Hannover’s guided city walk covers New Town Hall, Old Town, Market Church, and Leineschloss with a bilingual guide in 2 hours for $17.

“Hannover Guided Old Town Walking Tour on Sunday June 02, 2024 with Tamara was an excellent tour to learn about the history of Hannover. Tamara provided a detailed explanation about the past and present history of Hannover old town and its importance in the Lower Saxony area. I learn in the tour that Hannover is a music city and their green areas (park) in the city. In the tour Tamara showed monuments, churches and buildings in old town, in which she explained their history and importance. I highly recommend this tour for everybody that visit Hannover.”

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2.Crime Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 387 reviews · 2 hours · from $22

2-hour guided crime walk in Hanover with stops tied to Haarmann, Hanebuth, and RAF-era hints at the Ihme Center. $22.

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3.Flashlight Guided Walking Tour at Night

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 52 reviews · 2 hours · from $17

Hanover at night by flashlight, seeing Marktkirche, Leineschloss, and New Town Hall with a live German guide for $17, 2 hours.

“Thomas, unser guide, hat uns viel gezeigt und viele interessante Geschichten dazu erzählt. Am Ende konnten wir uns bei Taschenlampenlicht sigar noch die Modelle von Hannover aus verschiedenen Epochen im neuen Rathaus anschauen. Morgen laufe ich nochmal alles bei Tageslicht ab. Super Erlebnis...sehr zu empfehlen !”

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4.New Town Hall exclusive Guided Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 49 reviews · 1 hour · from $12Best value

Step behind the doors of Hannover’s New Town Hall on an exclusive guided walk, with 3D city models and optional dome views.

“Interessante tour met leuke gids. Een uur was eigenlijk te kort en we hadden de indruk dat de gids in tijdnood kwam. Aanrader!”

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5.Culinary walking tour district List/Oststadt

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 28 reviews · 3 hours · from $51

Taste your way through Hannover’s List and Oststadt on a 3-hour culinary walk with 5 local food and drink stops, including Eilenriede.

“Netter Rundgang durch einen interessanten Stadtteil mit schmackhaften Verköstigungen.”

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6.Culinary Walking Tour Old Town

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 25 reviews · from $44

Hannover Old Town culinary walk with 5 tastings, a State Opera stop, and stories from a German guide. 3 hours, from $44.

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7.City walk through Hanover

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 20 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $18

A 2-hour guided walk through Hannover’s top sights, from the New Town Hall dome to the Aegidienkirche memorial ruins. Small group, free entries.

“The tour was great. Bi-lingual guide was very nice and was able to pay equal attention to German and English speaking tourists. We learned a lot of historical facts.”

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8.Old Town Historical Walking Tour by Geo Epoche

★★★★★★★★★★4.4 · 11 reviews · 2 hours · from $29

Hanover’s Old Town, explained by a German guide in 2 hours, with stops at the Old Town Hall, Market Church, and Calenberger Neustadt.

“Op een leuke manier de stad leren kennen. Goede uitleg en interessante verhalen met beeld erbij van vroeger.”

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9.Hanover Private Walking Tour With A Professional Guide

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 7 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $305Top rated

Private 2-hour Hannover walk with guide Anna in English, visiting seven landmarks, including wartime memorials, then you get free time.

“We had a fabulous tour in Hannover. Anna was a superb guide! She was very knowledgeable, kind and attentive to our needs. She tailored the tour to our interests and needs. The best guide tour of our holiday!”

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10.Exciting Walking Tour through the Criminal Past

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 6 reviews · 1 - 2 hours · from $14

Walk Hanover’s criminal past in 1 to 2 hours, from witch trials to Fritz Haarmann and the executioner, with a guide for $14.

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11.Guided Walking Tour of the Linden-Limmer District

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 6 reviews · 2 hours · from $17

A 2-hour guided walk through Hanover’s Linden-Limmer, from preserved weavers’ houses and the Küchengarten to the Faust center and lively Limmerstraße.

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12.Christmas Time Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 5 reviews · 1h 30m · from $20

90-minute guided Christmas walk in Hannover, with illuminated old-town sights, Christmas traditions, and a hot drink end-stop for $20.

“Der Stadtführer hat uns viel über unsere Stadt erzählt, uns mit viel Spaß und guter Laune und ganz individuell geführt, vielen Dank.”

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13.Private Guided Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · 2 hours · from $317

Walk Hannover with a private guide past brick-gothic churches, WWII scars, Leibniz sites, and the Peace Bell tied to Hiroshima.

“Anna was very informative, kind and friendly, we enjoyed our tour with her very much in spite of the weather conditions. I would love if this review could have a positive impact on her, and definitely will book another tour with her when I come back to Hannover again.”

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