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Rain changes the shape of a Potsdam day rather than cancelling it. The city's own tourism pages and independent guides point to a small set of indoor anchors, and the smart move is to pick two or three that sit close together instead of criss-crossing open parkland.
Leipzig's compact centre stacks indoor stops within a few minutes of each other: the free Zeitgeschichtliches Forum on Grimmaische Strasse, the charged Museum in der Runden Ecke, and the covered passages that link the shopping streets to the Market. This guide sets out what each site actually states about admission and hours, and how to pace a wet day without overloading it.
Lübeck's Old Town island is a compact UNESCO World Heritage site you explore on foot, so rain mostly changes how long you linger between stops rather than what you see. This guide arranges a wet day around the indoor Hanseatic history museum, the historic hospital rooms and church interiors, with short outdoor loops between them.
Cologne's compact centre makes wet weather manageable: the cathedral sits beside the main station, Gross St. Martin stands a short walk away in the Old Town, and the Chocolate Museum occupies the Rheinauhafen waterfront. This guide sets out an indoor route, explains which interiors are free and which are ticketed separately, and shows how to pace two or three stops without crossing the city twice.
Hanover rewards wet-weather planning because several headline sights have a genuinely indoor layer. The Berggarten show houses stay green year-round, the Herrenhausen Palace Museum puts baroque court culture behind glass, and Zoo Hannover hides a marooned ship's underwater world inside its Yukon Bay area.
