Overview
- The official tally, released Monday by Destatis, reached 44.7 million camping nights in 2025, up 4.2% from 2024 and about one in eleven of all guest stays.
- Over the past two decades, camping nights more than doubled to a 105.5% gain, while total overnight stays across all lodging grew 44.6%.
- The Schleswig-Holstein Baltic coast led with 3.5 million nights, followed by the Black Forest with 2.6 million and Lower Saxony’s North Sea coast with 2.0 million.
- Foreign visitors favored the southwest, led by 735,000 nights in the Black Forest, then Mosel-Saar, the Eifel, Bodensee-Oberschwaben and the Allgäu.
- Prices rose faster than elsewhere in travel since 2020, with motorhome pitches up 32.2% and campsite fees up 28.7% versus smaller increases for overall lodging and consumer prices.