Oktoberfest Facts

Area: 103.79 acres (0.42 km²)
Seats in the festival halls:  ca. 100,000
Visitors: ~ 6.2 million
Beer: approx. 6,940,600 liters (126,900 liters non-alcoholic)
Wine: 79,624 liters
Sparkling wine: 32,047 liters
Coffee, tea: 222,725 liters
Water, lemonade: 909,765 ½ liters
Chicken: 521,872 units
Pork sausages: 142,253 pairs
Fish: 38,650 kg
Pork knuckles: 58,446 units
Oxen: 104 units
Expenditure of electricity: 2.8 million kWh (as much as 14% of Munich's daily need or as much as a four person family will need in 52 years and 4 months)
Expenditure of gas: about 205,000 m³
Expenditure of water: about 90,000 m³ (as much as 27% of Munich's daily need)
Waste: 678t (2004)
Toilets: about 980 seated, more than 878 meters of urinals and 17 for disabled persons
Telephones: 83, also for international credit cards
Lost property: about 4000 items, among them 260 pairs of glasses, 200 mobile phones, wedding rings, …


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