Berlin Super-Ferien-Pass and Ferienkalender: The 9 EUR Card and Where to Find Holiday Sports Camps

Two Different Tools for Berlin’s School Holidays

Berlin splits the “what do we do with the kids during Ferien” problem into two genuinely separate systems, and it helps to know which one solves which part of it. One is a pair of overlapping directories that list actual sports camps, courses, and activities run by clubs and youth organizations. The other is the Super-Ferien-Pass, a single discount card that doesn’t organize any activities itself but makes swimming, museums, ice-skating, and hundreds of other things cheaper or free once your child is already there. Families who only discover one of the two tend to either overpay for entry fees they didn’t need to, or miss out on structured sports programs entirely because they assumed the pass covered that too.

Finding Actual Sports Camps: Two Overlapping Calendars

The Landessportbund Berlin (the state umbrella organization for Berlin’s sports clubs) publishes its Ferienkalender specifically to bundle what individual Vereine are already running during school breaks: swim courses in a district Hallenbad, a stand-up paddling try-it workshop for around 10 EUR, a week of climbing at a facility like the FEZ-Berlin, or free introductory sessions at a local SportJugendClub. It’s explicitly described as continuously updated, meaning new club listings get added as clubs finalize their own holiday programming, not all at once at the start of the year.

The Berliner Sommerferienkalender is a different, broader project entirely, run jointly by five organizations rather than one sports body: FEZ-Berlin, Jugendnetz-Berlin, JugendKulturService gGmbH, Landesjugendring Berlin, and the Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung Berlin, with backing from the Senate’s education and family department. For 2026 it lists well over 200 activities running from 14 July to 21 August, and while sports camps are part of the mix, so are creative workshops, media projects, and day trips, filterable by theme, age group, district, and whether an activity is free. A club running a holiday sports week might list it on the LSB’s calendar, the Sommerferienkalender, or both, so checking a single source risks missing options.

A Concrete Example: Why Booking Early Actually Matters

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SPORTKINDER BERLIN e.V., a youth sports organization active in Spandau, is a useful illustration of how these listings actually play out in practice. Its 2026 summer program runs across all six weeks of the Sommerferien, each with its own theme: forest and water adventures and jump-rope activities in week one, water sports and ball games in week two, music and dance in week three, nature exploration and an escape-room session in week four, scooter sessions and bike tours in week five, and circus and acrobatics to close out week six, with age ranges spanning roughly 8 to 18 depending on the specific activity. Registration runs through the organization’s own website, generates a confirmation email with payment instructions (cash-only at their drop-off locations), and by the time many families go looking, entire weeks are already marked fully booked. The practical lesson isn’t specific to this one club: whichever calendar you’re using, treat a listing’s publication date as your registration deadline, not the holiday’s start date.

The Super-Ferien-Pass: What 9 EUR Actually Buys

The Super-Ferien-Pass isn’t a sports program itself, it’s a discount card that makes a long list of things a child would otherwise pay for cheaper or free, for as long as Berlin’s schools are on a break. It costs a flat 9 EUR no matter when in the year you buy it, is issued by JugendKulturService on behalf of the Senate’s own education, youth, and family department (not a private loyalty scheme), and covers any Berlin resident aged 18 or under. The 2026/2027 edition went on sale 22 June 2026.

The Five Holiday Blocks It Covers

These are the exact dates from the Senate education administration’s own Ferienordnung, the same document that fixes Berlin’s school calendar years in advance. The pass’s own description, “from the start of summer holidays through the end of the following year’s Easter holidays,” maps directly onto these five blocks: it starts the day the 2026 Sommerferien begins and expires the day the 2027 Osterferien ends, with no gap in coverage across autumn, Christmas, or winter in between.

The Badekarte: Free Swimming, Every Single Holiday

The pass’s headline benefit is the Badekarte, which gives one free entry per day to Berlin’s public pools during all five holiday periods above. In summer, that covers all of the Berliner Bäder-Betriebe’s Sommerbäder, outdoor pools spread across districts including Marzahn, Monbijou, Gropiusstadt, Seestraße, am Insulaner, Humboldthain, Kreuzberg, Mariendorf, Neukölln, Olympiastadion, Pankow, Staaken-West, Wilmersdorf, and Wuhlheide, plus Strandbad Wannsee. During the other four holiday blocks, the same Badekarte switches to covering the indoor Hallenbäder and Freizeitbäder instead, since most outdoor pools close for the colder months.

Access isn’t unlimited around the clock. Weekdays, the Badekarte works all day; on weekends, entry is only available until noon, presumably to keep some capacity free for paying visitors during the busiest hours. Before the card works at all, it needs a one-time activation at any pool’s own ticket counter, where staff attach your name, address, and a passport photo to it. After that, getting in is as simple as scanning the card’s QR code at the entrance turnstile, no counter visit needed on repeat trips. One extra detail worth knowing if your child is a teenager: anyone 14 or older also has to show a separate form of ID, like a Schülerausweis, alongside the Badekarte itself, so it’s not enough to just carry the card on its own past that age.

Beyond Swimming: Coupons, Raffles, and Free Entries

Swimming is the most-used benefit, but it isn’t the only one. The pass also carries free entry to Berlin’s Zoo and Tierpark and free access to the city’s public ice rinks, plus a rotating pool of more than 500 further discount coupons and raffle entries covering museums (the program specifically calls out the Museum für Naturkunde), theatre (including the Renaissance-Theater Berlin), the Botanical Garden, open-air cinema screenings, bouldering sessions, workshops, opera rehearsal visits, theme park trips, and tickets to sports events. JugendKulturService adds new raffle-eligible activities on a rolling basis rather than finalizing the full list before the pass goes on sale, so it’s worth checking back through the holidays rather than assuming the offer list is fixed the day you buy the card. Shortly after the 2026/2027 edition launched, at least 160 individual events were already scheduled, with more added continuously.

One nuance worth flagging: the pass’s own age ceiling is 18, but that doesn’t automatically apply to every single coupon inside it. Free Zoo and Tierpark entry, for instance, is generally described as available up to age 15 specifically, even though the same pass otherwise works at the pool or ice rink for an older teenager. Check the age print on a specific coupon rather than assuming the pass’s headline age limit covers everything inside it uniformly.

Where to Buy It, and Help for Low-Income Families

The Super-Ferien-Pass is sold at multiple points around the city: directly at many Freibad and Hallenbad ticket counters, at REWE supermarkets (though only through the end of the summer holidays, not year-round), at various children’s and youth leisure facilities, and through JugendKulturService’s own online shop. There’s no single official retail monopoly on it, which is deliberate given how broad the target audience is.

For families for whom even 9 EUR is a real consideration, Berlin’s own Bildungs- und Teilhabepaket (education and participation package) explicitly allows reimbursement of the Super-Ferien-Pass’s cost. That’s worth raising directly with a Jobcenter or Sozialamt caseworker if your family already receives, or might qualify for, BuT benefits, rather than assuming the pass is only for families who can pay upfront without a second thought.

The one thing the pass doesn’t offer any flexibility on is what happens if something goes wrong after purchase. It’s explicitly non-transferable, so it can’t be handed off to a different child once activated, and there’s no refund under any circumstance, including if the physical card is simply lost. Given that losing it also means losing access to the Badekarte and any coupons still unused for the rest of the validity period, it’s worth keeping the card as carefully as any other valuable, non-replaceable pass.

Step by Step

1. Decide what you actually need first. If you want a structured sports camp or course, start with the two calendars below. If you mainly want cheaper entry to pools, the zoo, and museums during breaks your child already has free time in, the Super-Ferien-Pass is the more direct fix.
2. Check both the LSB Ferienkalender (lsb-berlin.de/aktuelles/ferienkalender) and the Berliner Sommerferienkalender (sommerferienkalender-berlin.de) for actual sports camps and courses, since clubs don’t always list on both.
3. Register for a specific camp as soon as you find one that fits, especially week-by-week programs like SPORTKINDER BERLIN e.V.’s in Spandau, which can be fully booked months before the holiday starts.
4. Buy the Super-Ferien-Pass (9 EUR) at a pool ticket counter, a REWE supermarket, or JugendKulturService’s online shop, checking Bildungs- und Teilhabepaket reimbursement first if your family might qualify.
5. Activate the Badekarte with a photo at any pool’s own counter before the first visit, then use the QR code at the turnstile on every visit after that.
6. Bring separate ID for anyone 14 or older, since the Badekarte alone isn’t accepted as proof of age at that point.
7. Check the age print on individual coupons (Zoo and Tierpark entries, for example, often cap at 15) rather than assuming every benefit runs to the pass’s own 18-year limit.
8. Treat the card as non-replaceable. It can’t be transferred to someone else, and there’s no refund if it’s lost.

Compliance Note

This page reflects publicly available information about Berlin’s holiday sports calendars and the Super-Ferien-Pass program current as of mid-2026, drawn from the Landessportbund Berlin’s own Ferienkalender pages, the Berliner Sommerferienkalender and its partner organizations’ official descriptions, JugendKulturService’s Super-Ferien-Pass program pages, the Berliner Bäder-Betriebe’s own announcement of Badekarte terms, the Senate education administration’s official Ferienordnung for 2024/2025 through 2029/2030, and a specific holiday camp provider’s published 2026 program as one concrete example. Prices, coupon lists, participating pools, and specific camp availability can and do change; confirm current terms directly with JugendKulturService, the Berliner Bäder-Betriebe, or the relevant club before finalizing bookings or relying on any specific price or date in this article.