New businesses in Germany by city
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Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 1,661 records entered our newly opened businesses section in Berlin — more than Hamburg (882) and Munich (610) combined — and 6,536 across the fifteen largest German cities by records. Relative to its size, though, Dortmund received the most: 8.5 new records per 1,000.
How many new businesses are there in Germany’s largest cities?
Berlin received 1,661 new business records in the 30 days — about 55 a day — ahead of Hamburg (882) and Munich (610). Berlin’s figure alone is larger than the second and third cities combined (1,492). The date on every record is the day it reached us, not the business’s opening day.
| City | New records | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 1,661 | 249,902 | 6.6 |
| Hamburg | 882 | 141,906 | 6.2 |
| Munich | 610 | 113,802 | 5.4 |
| Cologne | 494 | 81,598 | 6.1 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 442 | 59,435 | 7.4 |
| Düsseldorf | 332 | 55,525 | 6.0 |
| Stuttgart | 293 | 46,220 | 6.3 |
| Dortmund | 276 | 32,320 | 8.5 |
| Hanover | 274 | 40,431 | 6.8 |
| Leipzig | 243 | 41,572 | 5.8 |
| Nuremberg | 231 | 36,328 | 6.4 |
| Bremen | 230 | 36,581 | 6.3 |
| Essen | 217 | 35,036 | 6.2 |
| Dresden | 211 | 39,897 | 5.3 |
| Bonn | 140 | 23,504 | 6.0 |
Relative to stock, Dortmund leads the fifteen with 8.5 new records per 1,000, and Dresden trails with 5.3 — Berlin sits at 6.6. For a field team, the relative rate is the more honest signal: it says how fast a city is turning over, not just how big it is.
These are city figures — the locality on the address. The state pages follow the Land boundary and take in more: our state figures put North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg ahead of the rest of the sixteen states — the same ranking, with different borders, on the Germany data page.
Which sectors are opening in the three biggest cities?
| Sector | Berlin | Hamburg | Munich |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 59 | 31 | 33 |
| Hair and beauty salons | 37 | 25 | 11 |
| Construction companies | 30 | 10 | 11 |
| Auto repair shops | 27 | 16 | 7 |
| Cafés | 14 | 16 | 8 |
| Gyms and fitness studios | 15 | 11 | 9 |
| Bars and pubs | 16 | 10 | 8 |
| Car dealers | 9 | 12 | 5 |
| Bakeries and pastry shops | 16 | 9 | <5 |
| Real estate agencies | 8 | 15 | <5 |
| Clothing stores | 10 | 7 | <5 |
| Pharmacies | 11 | 5 | <5 |
| Supermarkets and grocery stores | 14 | <5 | <5 |
| Dentists and dental clinics | 7 | <5 | <5 |
In Berlin, the flow is led by restaurants (59), followed by hair and beauty salons (37). Food and drink — restaurants, cafés, bakeries and bars together — accounted for 105 new records in Berlin, 66 in Hamburg and 51 in Munich in the same window; the German-language deep-dive on that sector is new restaurants and cafés in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich (auf Deutsch). The German article comparing cities as founding locations — Gründerstädte 2026 — reads the same measurement from a founder’s angle.
Construction and auto repair appear smaller in city tables than they are: businesses that serve customers across an area carry a city on new records less often, and one business can hold several records. Group records by phone number before counting businesses in those rows.
How many list a phone or a website?
| City | New records | Phone number | Own website | Website information | No website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin | 1,661 | 54.4% | 54.1% | 56.9% | 43.1% |
| Hamburg | 882 | 59.9% | 60.1% | 61.5% | 38.5% |
| Munich | 610 | 57.7% | 57.7% | 59.2% | 40.8% |
Phone numbers on new records run from 54.4% (Berlin) to 59.9% (Hamburg) across the three cities — lower than the UK or US pattern, and a reason to plan visits rather than call lists in Germany. Own-website shares are high: Berlin 54.1%, Hamburg 60.1% and Munich 57.7%. Berlin has the highest share of new records with no website information at all (43.1%) — an empty field does not prove there is no site, but it is a good first question.
What it means if you sell to new businesses in Germany
- Berlin is a daily stream; the rest is weekly. Berlin averaged about 55 new records a day; Munich about 20. In the smaller cities, save the search and let the daily email build the week’s route.
- The Ruhr is one territory. Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Essen sit in one state: North Rhine-Westphalia received 7,179 new records in the window — plan it as one field region, not four cities.
- Southern base. Bavaria (5,696) covers Munich and Nuremberg; Baden-Württemberg (4,669) covers Stuttgart — two states, two hubs.
- Plan by phone reality. With roughly 54.4% of new Berlin records carrying a phone number, the address and coordinates do the work; on calling rules in Germany, see our FAQ.
How to pull one city’s list
- Location: Germany, then the state and the city — the same address locality as in this article.
- Filters: newly opened businesses, then a sector or a narrower category. Categories are each record’s own, so “cocktail bar” or “dental clinic” can be a list of its own. Phone — has, for a call list; Website — none, for web design prospects.
- Count, then open: search and counts are free on every plan; a credit is spent only when you first open a record, and an export counts as an open (pricing). Exports are CSV or XLSX; each record carries a stable ID, name, category, address, city, district, phone, web address, coordinates and, where available, opening hours — no email column, no named-person column.
The wider frame — what a new record is and is not, and why company registrations in Germany measure a different thing than openings — is in newly registered vs. newly opened.