After-School Care in Munich: KoGa, Hort, Tagesheim or Ganztag, and What Each Costs

Different types, different doors

Munich’s school department (RBS) groups its offers into four pillars in council papers, and the city’s overview page lists six forms. In practice you will meet all of them. They differ in who runs them, when they close, what they cost and, most importantly, where you register.

Where each type fits your day

Open and bound Ganztag are school offers in state schools and come with no fee on school days. KoGa is run by the school together with the city or a free provider, so it reaches further into the afternoon and into the holidays. In 2026/27 the city’s press release of 11 September 2026 counts 39 schools with KoGa, three of them new, and about 10,620 KoGa places, while its official location list names 38 sites, one still in provider selection, so treat the exact count as approximate. Tagesheim and Hort sit outside the school and register separately. Mittagsbetreuung is run by individual providers at or near the school.

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What KoGa costs in the city’s own table

For city-run KoGa, the fee depends on annual income (the city’s wording is Einkünfte im Jahr) and on the hours you book per week. These are the amounts in the city’s fee overview, which lists the weekly booking bands. Independent providers charge their own fees, and the page does not state the billing period, so confirm it at registration.

City-run Tagesheim and Hort use the city’s school-child fee table, which runs from 0 to 153 euros a month depending on hours and income, and other Horte set their own fees. Lunch in city-run KoGa is a monthly flat rate of 105 euros based on 21 meal days. The city’s Kita cost page says the flat rate assumes 42 days of absence a year and that you can request a refund for more. If you receive Bürgergeld, Wohngeld or Kinderzuschlag, the lunch can be claimed in full through the education and participation package, with a current benefit notice.

Mittagsbetreuung and holiday care have no published city fee. Some KoGa providers offer reductions, for example for München-Pass holders, so ask the provider for the current price.

Your registration calendar

1. Enrollment day: Wednesday 3 March 2027. The Sprengel school tells you the time. Book Ganztag and KoGa that day, and the Tagesheim application can go in too. The school enrollment guide covers the day itself.
2. Register for Hort through kita finder+. The city’s service page gives only this route, while its overview also mentions school registration on enrollment day. Ask the school or the city’s advisory service which one to follow, and do both if they say so.
3. Expect offers after enrollment. Last cycle, offers came in about 14 days with 8 to 10 days to accept. The city has not confirmed that timing for 2027.
4. Handle 30 April separately. Bavaria’s Art. 45b AGSG asks parents to notify the claim by 30 April, naming the school and the school days and holidays needed. We found no Munich page that says how the city collects it, so ask in writing and keep the date.

The 2026 picture in Munich

On 11 September 2026 the city reported about 12,700 school starters, and with a few late exceptions every first grader received a Ganztag offer. Around 50 families in grades two to four were still looking for a place. On 28 October 2026 the city reported about 41,000 Ganztag places and a care rate of 87 percent at mainstream schools, and said that every child with a timely notified need received a school-day place. The city is also adding holiday care and transport funding for special-needs schools from 2027. These are the city’s own figures, with no independent check.

What Parents and the Press Report

The city’s figures describe a system that is working. Independent reports, council papers and parent bodies add the friction. Each item is dated, and older ones are marked as old.

• Capacity against the city’s own target (Munich). According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung in October 2023, Munich raised its supply target for after-school places from 80 to 90 percent and expected to need about 6,100 extra places by 2029. The council paper behind that report put the average rate at about 81 percent at the time (data as of spring 2023), ranging from roughly 50 to 100 percent between school catchment areas. In October 2026 the city reported 87 percent at mainstream schools, still below the 90 percent target. The figures are three years apart and may not count the same way, so read this as a direction, not a precise gap, and ask what the rate is in your own Sprengel.
• One school can look different from the city average (Munich, June 2026). According to the Münchner Merkur on 27 June 2026, a residents’ initiative at the Pfarrer-Grimm primary school in Allach-Untermenzing said about 30 of 91 incoming first graders had no open-Ganztag place for 2026/27, and that some parents would have to apply for a guest place at another school to get afternoon care. That is the initiative’s account, and the article does not say how the cases were settled. It does not necessarily contradict the city’s statement that every child with a timely notified need got a place: the need may have been notified late, and BR24 reported in August 2026 that the claim also counts as met if a child is cared for in a Hort farther from the school.
• Older children and the first year of the right (Bavaria-wide, Munich about 50). According to the Bayerische Staatszeitung on 11 September 2026, parents wrote in online forums that older children could not join Mittagsbetreuung because first graders took the places. BR24 quoted the president of the Bavarian teachers’ association (BLLV) in August 2026 warning that older children might lose places to first graders. For Munich, the city reported about 50 families in grades 2 to 4 still searching in September. Forum posts are anecdotal, and no source we read says Munich removed children from existing places.
• Munich against the rest of Bavaria (February and August 2026). BR24 wrote in February 2026 that Munich’s expansion is far advanced while other Bavarian towns have large gaps, mostly in space and skilled staff. In August 2026 BR24 added that about 60 percent of Bavarian primary pupils already use some midday or afternoon offer, and that surveys show most families prefer Mittagsbetreuung or Hort, with only about one in ten preferring a Ganztagsschule. Warnings of shortages elsewhere, such as the February Forsa survey of school heads cited by BR24 (one in four primary schools in Germany unable to offer enough first-grade places), are not Munich figures.
• Staffing (Munich, 2022 and 2023, old). According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung in November 2022, a Pasing head teacher and the KoGa parent council described too few staff, and afternoon care for some grades failed completely in the first weeks of the school year. In September 2023 the paper reported that parents of 385 children at the Mariahilf school learned five days before term that KoGa care would run only in alternating weeks, because ten educator posts were unfilled. In October 2023 it added that in some facilities, when several staff are ill, booking times can be cut and parents are told to collect their child at midday. The education committee approved 112 new posts that month. We found no comparable 2026 report of such cuts, which may mean things improved or only that nothing was reported.
• Parent satisfaction (KoGa, survey from 2021). A German Youth Institute survey in June and July 2021, summarised in a council paper of 5 July 2023, reached 297 parents at 12 of the 13 KoGa sites then running, a response of about 20 percent. Parents were mostly satisfied with the offer and the staff. They wished for more active and better qualified staff and lower turnover, and rated contact with educators as weaker than contact with teachers. Only about a third felt they helped shape the offer, and parents at sites with the Lernhaus room concept were better informed and more satisfied than at schools without it (Flurschulen). The survey took place during Covid and relied on voluntary answers, so it cannot speak for all of today’s sites.
• Rooms, lunch and holidays (Munich, 2022 to 2026). Reports from different schools point the same way on space. The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote in November 2022 about room shortages at KoGa sites in Pasing and Laim, and in July 2023 about parents at the Ruth-Drexel school in Bogenhausen warning that KoGa was failing for lack of room. The city’s spokesperson rejected that view. The Merkur reported in June 2026 that the Pfarrer-Grimm initiative says the school has no canteen and serves lunch in classrooms. The city’s council paper of 27 October 2026 calls the expansion of kitchens and canteens an ongoing task. The parent council for Munich primary schools names staff shortage, space, financing and lunch logistics as open challenges, and warns that holiday care must not become the weak point of the right. A 2023 council paper called holiday cover for Mittagsbetreuung completely unresolved, with providers offering it voluntarily at extra cost to parents. In October 2026 the city said holiday care is reliably available in KoGa, Tagesheim and Hort, and that school-supervised holiday offers were added this school year.
• Cost pressure (Munich, planned for 1 September 2027). According to BR24 on 16 July 2026 and the city’s FAQ, the council decided in July to raise charges for city-supported childcare, with a final vote expected around the end of 2026. The top monthly fee for a Hort or Tagesheim place with more than six booked hours is planned at 166 euros, against the 153 euros top rate mentioned above. Meal money in city-run daycare is planned to rise from 105 to 140 euros a month, charges are to rise by about 4 percent a year in 2028/29 and 2029/30, and in city-run daycare households with an income up to 50,000 euros are to pay no fees. The opposition CSU criticised the burden on middle-income families. The city’s FAQ mentions an analogous change to the KoGa funding rules, but we found no published new KoGa fee table or KoGa lunch figure, so confirm with the city before you budget beyond summer 2027.

We found no independent parent survey for 2026/27 yet, so most of the parent evidence above comes from earlier years or from single schools.

Practical steps

1. Decide how many hours you really need. School-day-only Ganztag is free, and holiday cover usually needs KoGa, Tagesheim or Hort.
2. Check whether your Sprengel school offers KoGa. If it does and you register on enrollment day, the city promises a full-day place there.
3. Get the fee in writing from the provider for Mittagsbetreuung and any independent Hort.
4. Plan the holiday weeks separately. See the summer closure gap and the emergency holiday care guide.
5. Check the legal background in our guide to the federal right.

This page is general information, not legal advice. Fees, hours and dates are set by the city and the providers, so check the current official source before you decide.