Originally Posted by Marambio

Getting the EU Digital Covid Certificate right now is nice, could prevent trouble if you lose your CDC card, but is not necessary at all. With the current Covid figures being very low in Germany, nobody is going to ask for your vaccination certificate in the cities at least for the time being, and even then your CDC card should be enough. You may wish to download the Corona-Warn or Luca apps if you want to check-in at restaurants/venues (so they can contact you in case somebody who was there at the same time tested positive), but honestly I went to several restaurants and to the theater in Berlin last week and was never asked to do it.

Originally Posted by notquiteaff

10 days in Germany. The only place where I needed to show proof of vaccination was at a hospital. I used the digital pass, and they never actually scanned it. They up just looked at the barcode and compared the name shown below with the one on the paperwork I had to submit (I.e., not even ID).

So for a trip right now I would not worry.

That said, it is still very early in the rollout of the digital certs. Who knows what the rules and standard procedures will be in a few weeks or months? Perhaps it would be helpful to have for a future trip (and they are standardized for all of the EU+ now). So if I were you, I would ask for a digital certificate at a local pharmacy. Takes 10 seconds to get denied and 3 minutes if they do it. And it’s free. And there are pharmacies all over the place, so even if the first one won’t do it, just try another one.