Köln

Information

• 14 LGBTQ Hotspots in Köln on the web site of the city itself.
• LGBTQIA+ on the page of the tourist service

Web travel guides

• InQueery Gay Köln: Site in German
• Köln on GayCities
• Nighttours Gay Cologne
• Patroc Köln Gay Guide & Map
• TravelGay Gay Cologne
• Schwuler-Urlaub Köln (site in German)
• Pinksider Cologne
• Köln on gaybars.be

What to visit?

• Dom

• Groß Sankt Martin

• Köln Triangle panorama deck: Next to the Köln Messe Bahnhof.

• Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln: Open daily 10-18h.

• Römisch Germanisches Museum

Shopping

Fetish and kink

• Best of Cologne

• Dome Fetisch Cologne: Mixed, not only gay.

• MGW Cologne: Gay fetish and sex store.

• Friends of (not gay) and quite a bit outside Köln.

Just sex

• Gay Sex Messe

• Sex- & Gay Center: Sex shop and kino

Other gay

• Brunos Köln

Going out

Gay Bars and Clubs

• Close to Heumarkt

  • Amadeus

  • Barcelona Colonia

  • Baustelle 4U

  • Casino-Eck: Not exactly at the Heumarkt, but not too far away so suitable to be put here.

  • Hühnerfranz

  • My Lord Bar: Rather close to Pullermans etc, but close enough to Heumarkt to put here.

• Close to Rudolfsplatx and Schaaferstraße

  • ExCorner

  • Exile on Main Street. Said to have a club atmosphere on Saturday night.

  • Hennes' Terrasse

  • Iron Cocktail Lounge

  • Zur Kaiserin

  • Die Mumu

  • Nachteule, before Mariechen

  • Schampanja

  • Zentralgarderobe Bermudadreieck

• Kattwinkel Bar & Cafe

• Macky's Asia Lounge, close to the Phoenix sauna.

• Zum Pitter Cologne on the Alter Markt

• Café-style

  • era cafe&bar very close to Bruno's.

• Men only

  • Kinkz: Fetish-friednly.

• Sauna

  • Bathhouse Babylon Cologne

  • Phoenix Sauna Köln

  • Sauna Vulcanus

• Cruising bars

  • Pullermans: Gay crusing bar, some theme days.

  • Deck 5 Köln

  • Station 2B: Was closed when checked in early 2023, but with plans to reopen.

• Likely gay-friendly rather than gay:

  • Café Rico

• Regular or irregular clubs/parties

  • Beatz&Boyz

  • Green Komm

    • Naughty is also from them

  • Guyz Party

  • HomOriental: LGBTQ+ party in oriental atmosphere, roughly once per month

  • KitKatClub: Fetish party

  • Sexy Party: Around carnival, Eastern, CSD Köln

Unfortunately closed:

• Gentle Bear's Bar

Craft beer

• Brauhaus Pütz: In between the Schaafenstraße gay quarter and the Phoenix sauna.

• Braustelle brewpub: A bit far from the centre, but close to Köln-Ehrenfeld station.

• Johan Schäfer with two locations: Brauhaus with a pub next to it and a Biergarten

  (Biergarten: )

• CCC - Craftbeer Corner Coeln in the Altstadt. Only opening some evenings.

• Delirium Café from the Belgianbeer brand, in the altstadt.

• MühlenBar in der Malzmühle at the Heumarkt. Place to drink Kölsch.

• Sion Kölsch. The (micro-)brewery is a bit outside the centre, but the pub Brauhaus Sion is right in the Altstadt.

  and pub

• Peters Brauhaus in the Altstadt.

• Hellers Brauhaus, close to the inner green belt.

Crusing zones

• Aachener Weiher, between the Richatd-Wagner Straße and the Aachener Straße

  • The description on GaysCruising.com points to a slightly different zone of the park, but really just next to it, where there are some more woods.

• Cranachwäldchen

• Herkulesberg

  • GaysCruising.com puts the cruising zone rather in the nearby Stadtgarten.

• Stadtpark Köln Mülheim, on the right hand side of the river

• Äußerer Grüngürtel, already a fair distance from the city centre.

Other busier places are further away from the city centre.