What Is It Like to See a Concert at Porsche Arena?

First, how the room reads. The bowl carries numbered blocks 1 through 16 around the floor, subdivided into tiers a (lowest) through d (highest) in the main side blocks, with seated rows running from Reihe 1 up to Reihe 17 or 18 in the deepest blocks. Blocks 5 through 9 are shallow single-tier blocks along one end. For seated shows the floor is lettered A through F, front to back. Concerts use a head stage (Kopfbühne) at one end, and the blocks behind and beside the stage come off sale, so there are no true behind-stage tickets in the standard concert build. Official plan totals: 7,067 in the standing-floor config, 6,475 fully seated, with the operator marketing "about 6,500" for unseated concerts.

One honest caveat before the block scores below: they come from Ticketranking.com's per-block ratings for view, sound, and atmosphere, and the site labels some scores as automatically estimated by AI where fan submissions are sparse. Treat individual numbers as directional. The block-to-block pattern is more trustworthy than any single score, since the stand-block ratings are identical across the seated and standing plans.

Innenraum Stehplatz (Standing Floor)

The consensus best ticket in the building. The flat floor, roughly 2,000 square meters, rates 9.3/10, higher than every seated stand block except Block 1, and the Stuttgarter Zeitung's "definitely buy standing tickets" advice matches. Because the hall caps around 6,500 in this configuration, even the back of the floor stays close by arena standards. Capacity on the floor is safety-limited to two persons per square meter and floor access is controlled. On queueing, German fan threads on gutefrage.net have long agreed you don't need a multi-hour line unless you want the barrier: arriving shortly before or after doors is usually enough for a decent spot, and "if you arrive later, you can work your way forward." Those threads predate 2025, so treat the timing as directional, and expect real superfan lines only on hyped rap and pop nights.

Seated Floor (Blocks A-F)

Folding chairs on the same flat floor, lettered A through F back from the stage. The ratings reward the front half (A through C at 8.7 to 9.7) and sag through the back (D through F at 6.0 to 7.0). The flat floor means the standard caveat applies with full force: past the first several rows you're looking through heads, and one tall neighbor costs you the stage. If your choice is rear floor (E or F) versus a good stand block, take the stand. The steep rake makes Block 1, 4, 10, or 13 the better sightline for the same or less money, and the block ratings agree.

Side Blocks 1-4 and 10-13 (The Good Seats)

The long-side blocks with tiers a through d, flanking the hall closest to the head stage. This is where the steep rake pays off; the venue's own ticketing partner puts it plainly: "because of the steep rise of the stands, all visitors sit very close to the action." Block 1 is the only 10/10 in the building, and Blocks 4, 10, and 13 all score 9.3 or better, with Block 11 at 8.7. Lower tiers (a and b) are the premium rows; rows climb to Reihe 17 or 18 at the top of the d tier. Elevation, proximity, and a straight-ahead-to-diagonal view: for seated shows, this is the zone to target.

Blocks 14-16 and 2-3 (Mid-Value)

Same steep rake, but further from the stage or at a sharper angle, scoring 5.7 to 7.7. Block 14's 5.7 is the low outlier among the full-height blocks. Block 16b drew the most specific complaint on record: an October 2023 Tripadvisor reviewer called 60-euro seats there "terrible," with house video displays "maybe 6 m in diameter... like 15 years ago." The generalizable lesson is that the upper corners are where production shortcuts bite hardest. If a show leans on video and your budget lands here, the 15/16 upper tiers are the seats most likely to feel far from everything.

Blocks 5-9 (The Curve to Avoid)

The shallow single-tier blocks along the end of the hall, and the worst concert scores in the building by a wide margin: every one rates below 5/10, from Block 6 at 3.7 to Blocks 5 and 9 at 4.7. They exist because the bowl was designed for handball and boxing in the round; in a head-stage concert build they are the most distant or most sharply angled positions still on sale. If your budget caps here, the record says take rear standing floor or Block 15/16 instead.

Reading Your Show's Seat Map

The arena sells concerts in at least five documented plan variants, and the 2026-2027 calendar splits them cleanly by genre. Seated builds carry the Schlager and legacy slate (Beatrice Egli, Matthias Reim, Bob Dylan, BAP, Rea Garvey, Giovanni Zarrella); standing-floor builds carry rap, rock, and indie (Reezy, Shindy, Ufo361, Bausa, Marteria, Giant Rooks, I Prevail, In Extremo and Feuerschwanz). Beyond the two base plans there's a half-hall seated build, front-of-stage (FOS) splits in both seated and standing forms where a fenced front zone separates from the rear floor, and a catwalk build where a runway extends into the standing crowd. Practical rule: buying Schlager or a legacy act, expect chairs on the floor and use the A-F logic above; buying rap, rock, or indie, expect standing and use the floor-versus-stands logic; for any show, pull the specific plan first, because an FOS fence or a catwalk changes where "close to the stage" actually is.

Level 3: Boxes and Business Lounge

Twenty glazed boxes of 18 to 23 square meters holding 9 to 15 people each, plus a shared business lounge, all fully glazed toward the bowl and sold as hospitality packages rather than single tickets. A past in.Stuttgart brochure listed catering from about 100 euros per person plus VAT, but that figure is undated and couldn't be re-verified in 2026, so treat it as an order of magnitude and confirm current pricing with in.Stuttgart directly. One upside worth knowing: the standing areas near these boxes were the hall's weak sound zone before the 2021 system upgrade, and the integrator states they're now well covered.

Accessibility Seating

For standing concerts, wheelchair spaces sit in blocks 2a through 12c on the Cannstatter Seite curve, reached via the step-free Level 2 walkway from the foyer; the view is elevated and side-on to the head stage. For seated events, the promoter releases wheelchair positions in multiple price categories on the stands and the floor, with companions always seated immediately adjacent. Nine accessible toilets are spread across the building: two at Block 4 and two at Block 10 on the Level 2 walkway, two in the Level 0 foyer, and more in function rooms, all with emergency buttons. Whether a companion enters free depends on the event organizer, not the venue, so confirm per show with Easy Ticket Service. One gap between paper and practice: official provision is strong, but fan reports from February 2024 and December 2025 describe unmotivated ushers who left elderly attendees struggling to find seats, so build in extra time rather than counting on staff help.