Things To Do in Vienna September 2025: Tips For My Hometown
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. What to do in Vienna in September? My top 14 specials cover one-off events and typical things to do. As a matter of fact, I have taken care that you end up at quality events, and local favourites. For an insider view on music events, visit Vienna concerts.
1. Classical Tradition At The Spanish Riding School
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. Hardly will you watch the Lipizzaner stallions with as many springs in their steps as in September. Just back from their summer break in Styria they either practice during a Morning Exercise or do a proper perforamnce.
TIP: Combine your visit with a guided tour through the stables to learn about the Lipizzaners. My family and I did it and felt like at a (horse) celebrity backstage tour!
Location: Spanish Riding School, Michaelerplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
Dates: from 1st September (Performance); from 3rd September (Morning Exercise)
Tickets: see various options in Spanish Riding School Vienna
2. Insight into Gustav Klimt
Things to do in Vienna September 2025.
This exhibition takes an intimate approach to exploring Gustav Klimt’s world by focusing on encounters that took place in the painter’s studio in Vienna’s Hietzing district, which was Klimt’s last studio and sets the scene for this exhibition. The exhibition spotlights the encounters that took place there between the artist and important people in his life.
The exhibition draws from various historical sources to recreate these encounters, including reports by his fellow painters Egon Schiele and Felix Albrecht Harta, the writings of Arthur Schnitzler and the Japanese artist Kijiro Ohta, in addition to accounts from Friederike Beer-Monti, who was portrayed by Klimt, and his patron Eugenia (Mäda) Prima
Date: to 5th October 2025
Location: Upper Belvedere, Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 27, 1030 Vienna
Admission: EUR 19
3. Teatro Barocco
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. On three days in September you can join the Austrian baroque opera festival Teatro Barocco at baroque Schloss Hof, Austria’s largest country castle and estate. At less than one hour from Vienna, the festival revives Empress Maria Theresa’s love for opera through authentic baroque productions with period-appropriate staging, costumes, and performance practices. On the programme are three baroque operas which will be performed for the first time since 1754/1780.
Dates: 19th to 21st September 2025, 7 pm to 9.30 pm
Locations: Schloßhof 1, 2294 Schloßhof
Tickets: go to website
4. Put Your Ear On The Ground
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. Vienna’s transformation into the world’s music capital resulted from a unique convergence of political, economic, cultural, and social factors that created the perfect environment for musical genius to flourish. During the Classical Period, the city became home to an extraordinary concentration of musical genius: Mozart moved to Vienna in 1781, Haydn worked for Viennese aristocrats, Beethoven arrived in 1792, and Schubert was born there in 1797.
If you love the tunes of Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart and Schubert why not put their music into context when in Vienna? Since the Habsburg Emperors loved music and used it as an instrument of power, music pervaded almost all aspects of life.
To better understand the Capital of Music I joined a trained musician and private guide on an in-depth tour through the city. Actually, we spent a good time talking not just history but about his insight into Vienna’s classical music scene today. Find out what the tour was like in Music Tour Vienna.
5. Wine Hiking In The Vienna Woods
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. As a child, I strolled through the vineyards of the Vienna Woods during wine harvest. Vintner families and helpers were picking grapes and loading them onto their tractors. You can trace my foot steps if you join this local tour guide. During September and beyond, he arranges wine hiking tours.
The tour starts from Leopoldsberg in the North East of Vienna. You will hike along our ‘home mountains’ Leopoldsberg and Kahlenberg. They are great for panoramic views of Vienna and the Danube. The tour ends with a visit to a lovely winery. Check availabilities for this private wine hiking tour.
To venture out further for a day trip of hiking in Austria’s mountains check these hiking tours.
6. Opern Air At Burggarten
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. In September, the city’s main opera houses re-open after the summer break. The start of the 2025/26 season is all about looking back at 1945 and 1955 – when the Vienna State Opera was bombed at the end of WWII, then rebuilt and reopened with great fanfare in November 1955.
For the first time in history, the opera house will kick off this special season with a massive outdoor opera concert! Mark your calendars for Sunday, September 7th at 7 pm and come join us for our spectacular → Opern Air show right in Vienna’s Burggarten. The lineup is incredible: Elīna Garanča, Jonas Kaufmann, Benjamin Bernheim, and Sonya Yoncheva will be performing along with the Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra.
Following that, the new opera season starts with brilliant Italian composers: Imagine listening to Verdi arias like ‘Sempre Libera’ or The Drinking Song (La Traviata) and ‘Di quella pira’ (Il Trovatore) live at the Wiener Staatsoper. To find out what’s on stage during your trip check the calendars for operas in September at the Wiener Staatsoper.
Date: 7th September 2025, 7 pm
Location: Burggarten, 1010 Vienna (next to the opera house)
Admission: free
7. Join The Harvest Festival
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. The Erntedankfestival (harvest festival) at Vienna’s Heldenplatz brings the countryside directly to Austria’s capital. Combine harvesters, state-of-the-art tractors, magnificently decorated harvest wagons and authentic folkloric music and dance, with Vienna’s imperial architecture as. a backdrop.
From milking cows to a pedal tractor course to Austrian folk dance and music: The festival offers city dwellers and tourists a chance to connect with Austrian farming traditions.
Food stall after food stall you can try various authentic Austrian agricultural products. For example, the Weinviertel region presents itself with its own wine village featuring local wines.
Date: 6th and 7th September 2025
Location: Heldenplatz, 1010 Vienna
Admission: free
8. Listen To Cathedral Concerts
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. Why concerts in a church? Actualy, before concert halls became THE thing, composers like Mozart performed at St. Stephen’s Cathedral. Why? As a massive Gothic cathedral dating back to the 12th-14th centuries, St. Stephen’s possesses the characteristic acoustic properties of such architectural marvels. In a large gothic cathedral, the sound takes a long time to die away, sometimes up to 9 seconds! This extended reverberation time allows musical notes to blend and sustain, creating the ethereal, enveloping sound experience Gothic cathedrals are famous for.
Consider taking in Stephansdom’s art and architecture while classical music washes around its pillars, statues, paintings and altars.
Find out more about St. Stephen’s Cathedral in my Stephansdom guide.
Dates and admissions: Find out more.
9. Go Avant Garde At MQ Vienna Fashion Week
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. To venture beyond the dirndl dress get a glitzy update at the contemporary and avant garde Vienna Fashion Week. The event represents the final of the Summer Of Fashion At Museumsquartier. Essentially, there will be dozens of fashion shows, exhibitions and pop up stores from Austrian and international designers. Most importantly, watch out for elegant fashion by Anelia Peschev, Habig, Elke Freitag, Elfenkleid and Michel Mayer. You can enter the shows 10 minutes prior to each show. Access will be granted according to capacity.
Date: TBC
Location: Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Programme: visit website
10. See Affordable Art At vienna contemporary
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. vienna contemporary is vibrant, bizarre and happy. This affordable art fair opens a window to the buzzing art scenes of Turkey, Hungary, the Caucasian Region and other European countries, on top of showcasing Austria’s best in contemporary art. In line with the art fair team’s values of humanity and building bridges, this year’s focus is on REALITIES BUILDING. The art fair explores how artists working with time-based media provoke critical thought and create new frameworks for perceiving reality.
Learn who is up and coming in Central, Eastern and Southern European art. You may even end up with the most sophisticated souvenir from your trip.
Date: 11th to 14th September 2025
Location: Messe Wien, Halle D, Messeplatz 1, 1020 Vienna
Programme: visit website
11. Free Things To Do In Vienna September
Things to do in Vienna September 2025. Vienna, along with Austria and Europe, opens up its top monuments at the European Heritage Days (EHD). For one day, the Federal Monument Office (Bundesdenkmalamt) will open many lesser known monuments and popular institutions in Vienna for free, among them the Academy of Visual Arts, Burgtheater’s rooms, Gustav Klimt’s villa, the Biedermeier collection of the Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Arts, and more.
On the 30th annual Monument Day visitors discover historical objects with free admission. Under this year’s motto “Preserve Monuments, Experience Digitally,” the Federal Monuments Office is focusing on digitalization in monument protection and preservation.
Date: 28th September 2025
Admission: free
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