Munich rent index: find your reference rent, check the limits
The city’s online tool gives the figure; the rent check above works out what it means for your lease.
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Maximum rent at the start of the tenancy
€750.20
€69.80 too much per month
| Local reference rent | €11.00/m² |
| Reference rent for your floor area | €682 |
| Rent brake | applies until 31 December 2029 |
| Increase cap | 15 % in three years |
| Limit: reference rent + 10% | €750.20 |
You can only reclaim after a written complaint. If it arrives within 30 months of the start and the tenancy is still running, it reaches back to the start (Section 556g(2) BGB).
How we calculateMunich's 2025 rent index (Mietspiegel für München) is a qualified regression index produced by the city with its statistics office and social department; a market research firm ran the survey and the statistics chair of Munich's LMU university did the analysis. According to the city, the average net cold rent is €15.38 per square metre, 5.5 per cent more than in the 2023 index. A flat's reference rent comes not from a table field but from a base price by floor area and year built, with adjustments for location and fittings. The city reserves all rights to the index and its publication online, so this calculator takes no Munich figures. You get the reference rent from the official online tool and enter it above. Munich is listed in Bavaria's tenant-protection ordinance: rent brake (Mietpreisbremse) until 31 December 2029 and a 15 per cent increase cap.
How the Munich index calculates
Munich has no table index. The city analysed the surveyed rents statistically and built a model from them: a base price depends on floor area and year built, and premiums or deductions reflect the residential location, bathroom and kitchen fittings, building type and other features. A range allows for justified deviations. The survey covered rents agreed or changed in the six years before it, as Section 558(2) of the Civil Code requires. The city plans the next fully new edition for 2027.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Edition | Mietspiegel für München 2025 |
| Type | qualified, Section 558d BGB |
| Valid from | 20 March 2025 |
| Valid until | not stated |
| Publisher | Landeshauptstadt München, Direktorium – Statistisches Amt, und Sozialreferat |
| Figures on this site | none: rights are reserved |
| Rent brake | yes, until 31 December 2029 |
| Increase cap | 15 % until 31 December 2029 |
What the rent check does with your figure
Get the average value from the City of Munich online tool and enter it in euros per square metre. For a new lease, the rent check then tests whether the rent brake applied on the day you signed and works out the ceiling. For a rent increase it applies Bavaria's 15 % cap: with a current rent of €939 for 65 m², at most €1,079.85 is lawful, even if the reference rent would allow €1,105. You would have until 31 December 2026 to answer a letter received on 14 October 2026.
Munich is one of many Bavarian municipalities with the rent brake; the full list and its end date are on the rent brake in Bavaria page. Nuremberg has a similar regression index, also with rights reserved: Nuremberg rent index.