A Berlin Welcome Card Analysis - Is it worth it?

The Berlin Welcome Card is often advertised as your ticket to the city. It includes attraction discounts and public transport use that can be configured into a multitude of options and timeframes. To make matters more complicated, terms and conditions also differ, such as how they count the validity period between the different durations.

The public transport network is split into 3 zones - A, B, and C. For most city attractions, they fall within A and B. However, the airport and Potsdam are located in C, and buying a Welcome Card with ABC coverage is cheaper than the AB version if you plan to make a day trip to Potsdam.

With sunny skies during my 3-day visit in late summer 2025, I decided not to plan too many museum visits, so my focus was not on Museum Island. Hence, I compared these 4 different options :

Option 1

Option 2

Option 3

Option 4

Right off the bat, option 1 is only marginally EUR 6 more expensive than buying the public transport ticket option 4. You can easily save more than the difference by going to 1 expensive attraction already. So option 4 is eliminated immediately.

Combining options 3 and 4 together is more expensive than option 1 unless you don't intend to make use of unlimited public transport everyday or not buy the unlimited ride ticket for the day and rely on single tickets that don't exceed a maximum of 8 trips within the city (AB zones) for your entire stay. But even then, you're not saving a lot of money compared to option A and I haven't even taken into account the more expensive tickets to Potsdam/zone C.

Now, we have options 1 and 2 left.