• Department stores are open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 8 pm, Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm.
• Museums are generally closed on Mondays.
  

Average temperature (in Centigrade)

	Jan.	Feb.	March	Apr.	May	June	July.	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
Min	-5	-5	-1,5	2,8	6,5	10	12	11	8,5	3,5	0	-3,8
Max	1,5	3,5	8,5	3,5	18	21	23	22	19,5	13,3	6,5	2,5

Average temperature (in Fahrenheit)

	Jan.	Feb.	March	Apr.	May	June	July.	Aug.	Sept.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.
Min	23	23	29.3	37	43.7	50	53.6	51.8	47.3	47.3	32	25.2
Max	34.7	38.3	47.3	38.3	64.4	69.8	73.4	71.6	67.1	56	43.7	36.5

Emergencies

• Police, tel: 110
• Fire Brigade, tel: 112
• Emergency medical attention, tel: 558 661
• Car problems (ADAC or equivalent of AAA), tel: 01318
• Lost and Found, tel: 124 08-0

Telephone

• Directory assistance for cities within Germany, tel: 01188
• International directory assistance, tel: 00118
• Information (in english) on museums and galleries, tel: 239162
• International access code (00) followed by the country code as follows: US and Canada (1), UK (44), Australia (61), Japan (352) , Netherlands 31, and then the phone number.
• To call Munich from the US: dial (011), then the country code (49) , the city code (89) for Munich and finally the actual number.
• Almost all phone booths are now operated with phone cards that can be bought at post offices, train stations airports etc. Post offices are open from 8 am to 5:30 pm Monday through Friday, to 12 noon on Saturdays.

Public transportation

• Public transportation covers the city and surroundings: the U-Bahn (subway), bus and streetcar connect the inner city. The S-Bahn (commuter train) reach out approx. 30 miles from downtown and are excellent for travelling outside Munich. (to take a look at the map)
• Fares: tickets can be bought at all subway and train stations, from the bus driver or in the street car. All stations in the inner city can be reached with 2 stubs on the 10 stub blue ticket.

Driving a car

• The speed in towns is limited at 50km/h (35 mph). It's 100km/h (65 mph) on highways (country roads) .
• There is no overall speed limit on the famous autobahns (freeways). Many posted limits do exist though. Anyway be careful, someone might be chasing you at close to 200 mph.
• Keep your eyes open for bicycle riders. You will be amazed at the swarms of riders and their omnipresence.
• Gas: regular (Benzin), unleaded (Bleifrei), premium unleaded (Super Bleifrei), premium leaded (Super Verbleit), diesel (Diesel).

• Restaurants: in the vast majority of restaurants you will not be seated by a waiter or "maitre dit". After entering the restaurant simply check for an empty table or empty seats. It is also perfectly ok to ask people sitting at an half empty table to share it with them. Should you be in a rush ask for the check when food is being served. Often it seems like waiters are not at all interested in handing out the tab, maybe it's because people over here like to discuss and chat for hours after dinner over a few supplemental drinks. Trendy restaurants will make sure your tab/hour is in the profit zone, otherwise the well known feeling of being shoved out of the place comes up real fast.
• Tips: generally tips are inlcuded in the check but it is customary to tip something like 10%. The way you tip in restaurants, pubs etc. is quite different: instead of leaving the tip on your table you reply to the waiter who tells you the amount to give you change on the amount + the tip. Here is a simple dialogue: you,waiter
  Die Rechnung bitte....sofort, das macht 14 Mark und 50
  (The check please....right away, that'll be 14 Marks 50)
  auf 16 Mark, bitte...vielen Dank
  
• Jay walking: if you are used to cross the streets when there are no vehicles in sight you will probably be by yourself in the middle of the road. Here it is cutomary to wait and be a good example to children. Should you be daring expect to hear growling and hissing from the curb.
• Escalators: people who want to fully benefit by standing still on escalators should consider parking to the right to let busy business men race up the stairs on the "left" aisle.
• Flowers: when you offer flowers make sure to take off the wrapping, flowers are served "au naturel".
• Flashing headlights has been outlawed as a means of pushing or forcing people to switch highway lanes.

• Hi - Grüß Gott (Bavaria specific: God shall salute you)
• Bye - Auf Wiedersehen (see you again)
• Please - Bitte
• Pay - Bezahlen bitte
• 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 = eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben, acht, neun, zehn
• Thank you - Danke schön
• Where is ... - Wo ist ...
• Where is the beergarden - Wo ist der Biergarten
• Where are the restrooms - Wo sind die Toiletten ?
• I am sick - Ich bin krank
• Help - Hilfe

• Power (mains): are a whopping 220 Volts AC at 50 cycles per second, power conservation and line losses are taken seriously over here. The little travel adaters (up to 2000 Watts) are fine for almost nothing but hair dryers and cooking. More helpful are the little units up to 50 Watts for radios, alarms, clocks, rechargers and the like. Make sure to get a little adapter to convert from your plugs to the DIN outlet.
• Telephone: we haven't heard of any telephone, fax or modem not working over here (mobile phones most likely will not work over here, especially the older analog ones). The line levels used here a slightly higher. If you find an RJ 11 jack on the hotel phone it most likely won't work in your modem or fax. German Telekom has decided to use the outer instead of the inner pair. Small adapters can be bought for foreign telephones. Anyway, before connecting any device to communication equipment, ask to make sure it's OK.