Easy living the Kitzbühel way

Kitzbühel | Issue 57 | Summer 2025 | Text: Barbara Schneeberger

This year’s summer in Kitzbühel promises again to >be quite the show: Kitzbüheler Alpenrallye, Bike & Fly, Red Bull X-Alps and the 22^nd Golf Festival Kitzbühel are the festive clarion bells ringing in sportive and societal summer weeks at their finest. Cameras and microphones are already directed at the 81^st Generali Open for the racket-swinging heroes of clay courts from 19^th to 26^th June 2025. Hiking explorers will set out to conquer the Kitzbühel Alps during the “Highland Adventure” from 19^th to 23^rd August 2025. Kitzbühel will write history from 5^th to 7^th September 2025 when the Austrian Beach Volleyball National Championships take place in the Alps – for the very first time. On 7^th September, the fifth Kitzbühel Biking Marathon will take place. From 11^th to 14^th September 2025, elites will go toe-to-toe with amateur sports fans during the Kitzbühel Triathlon. The Icon Rallye 2025 will bring the unbelievably dynamic and sportive summer to a close from 18^th to 21^st September 2025.

An ever-unfolding series of cultural and music events will enjoy its grand opening from 2^nd to 5^th July 2025, floating on the waftingly sublime tones of Elina Garanča with “Classics in the Alps”. Every Wednesday from 2nd July until 27^th August, you can enjoy musical evenings under star-studded open skies in Kitzbühel’s old town. On Thursdays from 3^rd July until 28^th August 2025, Chamois Town trains its focus on the beautiful things in life: PURA VIDA. The stage curtain is raised for the 24^th season of Summer Theatre Kitzbühel on 24^th July and lasts until 25^th August. And for the 99^th time, the City Band of Kitzbühel invites one and all to the annual Jahrmarkt on 2^nd August 2025. Under the resonating aegis of great and grand hits, the 11^th Music Festival entices everyone to come and enjoy on 15^th and 16^th August 2025 under the direction of Andreas Gabalier. And for the very first time, the KURIER ROMY will be awarded in Kitzbühel on 28^th November 2025 in the context of the Film Festival Kitzbühel (which runs from 25th to 30th November).

Culinary virtuosos of the region invite all the hungry and refined-minded appetite fans to taste their way through the homeland culinary scene on 29^th and 30^th August in the course of the KITZ Kulinarik in the old town. From 9^th to 12^th October 2025, restauranteurs will offer Kitzbühel specialties alongside pro-ducers from Piemont at the KITZ Kulinarik x Piemont in the Stadtpark Kitzbühel.