The Münchner Merkur (German pronunciation: [ˈmʏnçnɐ ˈmɛʁkuːɐ̯], literally "Munich Mercurius", i.e. the Roman god of messengers) is a German Bavarian daily subscription newspaper, which is published from Monday to Saturday.

[1] The Merkur was the second newspaper after the Süddeutsche Zeitung which was allowed to be published in Munich.

The first edition of what was initially named Münchner Mittag ("Munich Noon"), was released on 13 November 1946 through a licence of the American military government.

Every year since 1996, readers of the Münchner Merkur have been voting for the winner of the Merkur-Theaterpreis (Merkur-theatre-prize).

Münchner Merkur has recorded 971,000 total readers, 488,000 of them male and 483,000 female.