LIVING & STUDYING IN FRANKFURT

Frankfurt also has many excellent restaurants, especially along the Grosser Bockenheimer Strasse, with its cafés, delis, and restaurants, makes deciding difficult! You can enjoy everything from traditional specialties like Tafelspitz (boiled beef), sausage, and potato dumplings to nouvelle cuisine.

Along the Zeil, one of Germany's busiest retail streets, you'll find great shopping and in the evening dance clubs, and music bars galore, the possibilities for nightlife are endless. Frankfurters love jazz, and the city offers more jazz clubs than many cities in America.

People in Frankfurt are open and friendly and you will be sure to find them in bars socializing with the next table along. The Frankfurt of today is the result of a fusion of a score of minor municipalities. However, despite the over half a million inhabitants, one doesn’t get the feeling of being in a large city. Frankfurt is not just an agglomeration of skyscrapers bunched together in a financial district; it also has enormous parks stretching all over its city centre, as well as an intense cultural life.

Food is very important to the people of Hessen, the federal state that Frankfurt belongs to. It's no strange coincidence that the city's main causeway is referred to as Freßgass, Glutton Alley. Here we will provide you with information on the specialties in Frankfurt gourmet and fast food restaurants, cafes, bars and on traditions in these places. For more information, you can visit our Frankfurt Restaurant Guide.

Variety is an important characteristic when it comes to food served at the local festivals and celebrations: among the specialties you will find sausages with sauerkraut, grüne Soße, a green sauce made with herbs, and the mythical Handkäs mit Musik (hand cheese with music), a soft, very smelly cheese topped with a lot of onion.

The typical Hesse drink is Ebbelweii , cider served in jugs called Bembel. (One of the most well-known Ebbelwei or Äppler wine producing companies is Possmann).

With almost 48.000 students, Frankfurt's nightlife is sure to have something for everyone: discos, nightclubs and bars of all kinds and in all districts of the city strive to attract people looking to have a good time and hoping to enjoy the night.

Besides the typical scene for the younger crowd, the city also offers events for all styles and ages: the Skyscraper Festival in May, the open air concert Sound of Frankfurt which lasts a full 12 hours and is held in July, the Main Festival in August and the Euro Marathon in October. All are great opportunities for those in the mood for some fun on Frankfurt 's streets.

Weather
In Frankfurt you will encounter a moderately humid climate, with rain throughout most of the year. Frankfurt’s summers are generally warm with some rainy days, the hottest month being July. During this sunny season you’ll enjoy temperatures of between 10 and 32 degrees Celsius (50 and 90 degrees Fahrenheit). Moderately light clothes should be fine but it is always a good idea to bring a rainproof coat along for the occasional rainy day or chillier night.

During the winter, skies are almost always covered in clouds and the weather is coldest in January. During this time of the year temperatures range between –10 and 10 degrees Celsius (14 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit). If you’re in town during the winter season you will need rainproof and warm clothing.