Denmark Travel Guide: Best Time to Visit, Costs and Tips

A Denmark trip fits into 5 to 7 days for Copenhagen and North Zealand, and 10 days if you want Jutland as well. May, June and September give long days without July’s crowds, because July alone takes 18.5% of Denmark’s annual overnight stays. EU and Schengen rules cover entry, and the EU’s Entry/Exit System replaced passport stamps for non-EU visitors on 10 April 2026. Denmark uses the krone, not the euro, and cards work almost everywhere.

Denmark is the smallest and southernmost of the Nordic countries, bordering Germany and reaching into the North Sea and the Baltic. It covers 42,956.7 km² (16,586 sq mi) as at 1 January 2026, according to Statistics Denmark, and about 6.03 million people live there. The Kingdom of Denmark also includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands, which have their own entry rules and are covered below. The country is a peninsula plus an archipelago of around 400 islands, of which fewer than 100 are inhabited, and the head of state is King Frederik X, who succeeded Queen Margrethe II when she abdicated on 14 January 2024.

This guide answers the trip-planning questions in the order you meet them: when to go, how many days, what it costs, whether it is safe, entry rules, how to get there and around, where to stay and what to eat.

Denmark quick facts

The Denmark quick facts below cover the practical details a trip needs, from plugs and voltage to the emergency number and the tap water.

The table stops at the practical facts. Trivia such as the number of bicycles per resident sits in our 77 fun facts about Denmark post.

Denmark guides on Wonderful Wanderings

The Denmark guides on Wonderful Wanderings go deeper than this hub on the cities, the food and the Copenhagen Card. The 5 guides are listed below, most useful first.

1. Things to do in Copenhagen: 18 things to do, from the Little Mermaid to Christiania.
2. 18 places to visit in Denmark: the towns, islands and coasts worth the journey, season by season.
3. Things to do in Aarhus: 17 things to do in Denmark’s second city, including ARoS and Den Gamle By.
4. Things to do in Odense: 20 things to do in Hans Christian Andersen’s home town.
5. Is the Copenhagen Card worth it?: an honest review with the sums done.

Two more cover the table. Our Danish food guide runs through 15 dishes, and all Denmark posts lists the archive.

Best time to visit Denmark

May, June and September are the months to visit Denmark, when the days are long, the weather has settled and the July crush has not arrived or has passed. Denmark’s tourism year is extraordinarily concentrated: July alone accounted for 18.5% of the country’s 66.6 million overnight stays in 2025, and was nearly six times busier than January, on Statistics Denmark’s figures. The 4 seasons are described below, using the Danish Meteorological Institute’s national 1991-2020 normals.

• Summer, June to August: July and August are the warmest months, both averaging 16.9°C (62.4°F) nationally with daily highs around 21.2°C (70.2°F). Copenhagen gets 17 hours 32 minutes of daylight at the June solstice. August is also one of the wettest months, at 82.1 mm (3.2 in).
• Spring, March to May: April is the driest month of the year, at 38.5 mm (1.5 in), and May averages 11.4°C (52.5°F) with highs of 15.6°C (60.1°F). Gardens open, Tivoli reopens in early April and prices have not yet peaked.
• Autumn, September to November: September still averages 13.6°C (56.5°F), and October is the wettest month at 83.2 mm (3.3 in). Late autumn is dark and cheap.
• Winter, December to February: February is the coldest month at 1.5°C (34.7°F), and Copenhagen gets 7 hours 1 minute of daylight at the December solstice. Christmas markets and Tivoli’s Christmas season are the reason to come anyway.

Denmark is not a hot country and it never was. The national annual mean is 8.7°C (47.7°F) with 759 mm (29.9 in) of rain and 1,669 hours of sunshine, and the annual mean has risen 1.0°C since the 1961-1990 normal. Pack layers whatever the month.

Events worth planning around

Four fixed points shape the Danish calendar. Sankt Hans Aften, Midsummer Eve, falls on 23 June with bonfires and a bonfire speech at beaches and lakesides across the country, although it is not a public holiday. Roskilde Festival, the largest music event in northern Europe with more than 130,000 participants, takes over Roskilde at the start of July. Tivoli’s own seasons run Summer from 7 April to 20 September, Halloween from 2 October to 1 November 2026 and Christmas from 13 November into early January. Copenhagen’s largest Christmas market, at Nytorv and Gammeltorv, runs 6 November to 21 December 2026 with free entry and a free ice rink. Note that the Højbro Plads market is not running in 2026; the organiser has moved it to Rådhuspladsen.

How many days do you need in Denmark

Plan 5 to 7 days for Copenhagen and North Zealand, and 10 days to add Jutland. Denmark is small and the trains are fast, so a week goes further here than in most countries. The route below is the one most first trips follow.

1. Days 1 to 3, Copenhagen. Nyhavn, Rosenborg and the crown jewels, the Design Museum, Tivoli, a canal tour and a day in Christianshavn and Christiania.
2. Day 4, North Zealand. Kronborg Castle at Helsingør, UNESCO-listed since 2000 and the Elsinore of Hamlet; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art at Humlebæk; and Frederiksborg Castle at Hillerød. All three are reachable by train from Copenhagen in under an hour.
3. Day 5, Roskilde. The UNESCO-listed cathedral, inscribed in 1995, where Danish monarchs are buried, and the Viking Ship Museum, whose five Skuldelev ships were built in the 11th century and are therefore about a thousand years old rather than the 800 often quoted.
4. Days 6 and 7, Odense or Møn. Hans Christian Andersen’s city on Funen, or the chalk cliffs of Møns Klint, added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2025.
5. Days 8 to 10, Jutland. Aarhus for ARoS and Den Gamle By, Ribe, Denmark’s oldest town, founded around AD 700, and either Skagen at the northern tip or the Wadden Sea for the Sort Sol starling murmurations.

The Kingdom of Denmark now holds 13 UNESCO World Heritage properties, 8 cultural and 5 natural, and the newest is the Bony Fish Fossils of the Western Limfjord, inscribed in 2026. Our 18 places to visit in Denmark guide ranks the stops by season.

What a Denmark trip costs

Denmark is expensive, and the way to blunt it is public transport passes and lunch rather than dinner. Prices below are approximate and were converted at 7.47 kroner to the euro on 5 September 2026.

The everyday figures come from Numbeo’s Denmark page, updated 3 September 2026 on 3,567 entries from 348 contributors; the transport, card, Tivoli and bridge prices are from the operators’ own 2026 price lists. Two things soften the bill. Danish VAT is 25%, and non-EU visitors can reclaim part of it on purchases over DKK 300 through a tax-free scheme, typically getting back 10% to 19%. And a Danish air passenger tax has applied to departures since 1 January 2025, at DKK 30 within Europe, DKK 260 medium-haul and DKK 320 long-haul in 2026, so it is already in your fare.

Is Denmark safe?

Denmark is one of the safest countries in the world and the everyday risks are bicycles and pickpockets. It ranked 11th of 163 countries in the 2026 Global Peace Index published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, down from 8th the year before. Older guides that say fifth are quoting a much older edition. The 5 things to know are listed below.

1. Watch for bikes before you step off a kerb. The FCDO’s own wording is that “many bicycle accidents happen when pedestrians do not give the right of way to bicycles”, and that cyclists often have priority. Check the cycle lane before you cross it, and before you open a car door.
2. Pickpockets work the crowds in Copenhagen. The FCDO names Copenhagen Central Station, Nørreport Station, Strøget, Christiania, Nyhavn, Kongens Nytorv and the airport itself.
3. Terrorism is the reason the advisory levels differ. The FCDO says attacks “cannot be ruled out”, the US State Department rates the Kingdom of Denmark Level 2, “Exercise Increased Caution”, specifically for terrorism, and the Danish security service PET keeps the national threat level at “serious”, the fourth of five.
4. Christiania and Nørrebro deserve extra care late at night. The FCDO cites instances of gang violence. Christiania’s residents dug up the cobblestones of Pusher Street on 6 April 2024 to end the open cannabis trade, and the freetown remains open to visitors, but the FCDO advice has not been withdrawn.
5. Two laws catch visitors out. Covering your face in public is illegal and carries a fine of DKK 1,000 (about €134, $155, £115), and drug possession, even in small quantities, is prosecuted, with sentences of up to 10 years.

Dial 112 for police, fire or ambulance, and 114 for non-emergency police.

Entry requirements for Denmark

Denmark is in the EU and the Schengen Area, and the biggest recent change is that your passport is no longer stamped. Check the current rules for your passport before you book, because they move.

• EU, EEA and Swiss citizens enter with a valid passport or national ID card, with no visa and no time limit.
• Visa-exempt non-EU visitors, including US, UK, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and Japanese passport holders, get 90 days in any 180-day period, counted across all the countries using the Entry/Exit System rather than per country.
• Passport validity: the European Commission’s own instruction is to make sure your passport is valid for three months after your intended departure, and it must have been issued within the previous 10 years.
• The Entry/Exit System (EES) began a progressive rollout on 12 October 2025 and has been fully operational since 10 April 2026, when manual passport stamping was abolished. Non-EU visitors give a facial image and fingerprints at the border instead. Denmark participates; Ireland and Cyprus do not.
• ETIAS has no start date. The official EU travel site states that ETIAS “is currently not in operation and no applications for travel authorisations are collected at this point”. When it launches it will cost €20 and last three years or until your passport expires. Any site quoting a launch date is guessing.

Greenland and the Faroe Islands are a separate case

A Danish or Schengen visa does not get you into Greenland or the Faroe Islands. Both are part of the Kingdom of Denmark but sit outside the EU and outside the Schengen Area, and the Danish Immigration Service says so in as many words. If you are from a visa-exempt country you can enter both without a visa for up to 90 days. If you need a visa for Denmark, you need one specifically endorsed for the Faroe Islands or Greenland. And an EU or Schengen national ID card that is valid for entry into Denmark does not grant entry to Greenland, so take a passport. Nordic citizens are exempt from all of this.

How to get to Denmark

Copenhagen Airport is the main gateway and the train from Germany or Sweden is the alternative. The routes are described below.

Flights to Denmark

Copenhagen Airport (CPH) handled 32.4 million passengers in 2025, a record, and calls itself Denmark’s largest airport. Billund (BLL), on the Jutland peninsula and next to Legoland, handled just over 3 million, and Aalborg (AAL) 1.5 million. Aarhus has its own smaller airport. Compare fares on Trip.com for flights to Denmark once your dates are fixed, and remember that the Danish air passenger tax is inside the ticket price.

Trains, buses and ferries to Denmark

Trains reach Copenhagen from Hamburg, and from Malmö in about 35 minutes across the Øresund Bridge, with connections on to Gothenburg and Stockholm. You can compare train timetables and prices within Europe before you fix dates.

Buses are the cheap way in from Germany and Sweden. Check bus routes to Denmark with Flixbus, which serves Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense and runs international routes including Aarhus to Berlin in about 8 hours 35 minutes. Omio compares rail and coach across Europe in one search.

Ferries connect Denmark to Germany, Sweden and Norway, and not to the United Kingdom. DFDS states on its own site that the Harwich to Esbjerg route closed in September 2014 and that there are currently no direct passenger ferries from the UK to Denmark, so any guide that says otherwise is out of date. Scandlines runs Rødby to Puttgarden and Gedser to Rostock, both to Germany. The 20-minute Helsingør to Helsingborg crossing to Sweden is operated by Øresundslinjen. Molslinjen runs the fast Kattegat crossings, Aarhus to Odden year round and Ebeltoft to Odden in spring and summer, in about 90 minutes. Look here for a good overview of ferry routes and prices to Denmark.

One change to watch: the 18 km Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Denmark and Germany was due to open in 2029, and the first tunnel element was immersed in May 2026, but the project company’s chief executive said publicly in January 2026 that 2031 is more likely.

Getting around Denmark

Trains and bicycles cover almost everything, and the ticketing changed in 2026. The 5 options are listed below.

1. Trains. DSB is the national operator, and Copenhagen to Aarhus takes under 3 hours, from DKK 119 on an Orange saver fare booked ahead. DSB took over the Central and West Jutland regional services and the Svendborg line on 1 September 2026, so guides that name Arriva or GoCollective are already out of date.
2. Tickets. The physical Rejsekort was withdrawn on 29 June 2026. Use the Rejsekort app, the Rejsebillet app, or the new Basiskort card, and plan journeys on Rejseplanen. For a short Copenhagen stay the City Pass or the Copenhagen Card is simpler than any of them.
3. The Copenhagen Metro runs 24 hours a day on 4 lines and 44 stations, and the M2 reaches the airport from the centre in about 13 minutes.
4. Bicycles. Denmark has 11 national cycle routes covering roughly 3,500 km (2,175 mi), including the 564 km (350.5 mi) North Sea Cycle Route from Rudbøl to Skagen, and Copenhagen has around 400 km (248.5 mi) of cycle track. Renting a bike for a day in Copenhagen buys more of the city than any other 200 kroner you will spend.
5. Cars and ferries. Driving is easy and the roads are good, but the two big bridges are tolled and parking in Copenhagen is expensive, so a car earns its keep only in Jutland and on the islands. Check DiscoverCars for car rental in Denmark, which compares hundreds of companies in one search.

One correction worth knowing if you are buying a rail pass: the Eurail and Interrail distinction is about residence, not citizenship, so a US citizen living in Europe uses Interrail. The two brands are also merging, with Eurail becoming Interrail from 9 September 2026.

Where to stay in Denmark

Stay central in Copenhagen and near a station everywhere else, because Danish public transport removes the need for a car. The 5 regions and their bases are listed below.

• Hovedstaden, the Capital Region: Copenhagen and Frederiksberg, plus North Zealand’s castles, the Louisiana museum and Arresø, Denmark’s largest lake at 40.72 km² (15.7 sq mi). The regional seat is Hillerød. Our things to do in Copenhagen guide covers the city itself.
• Sjælland, the Zealand Region: southern and western Zealand plus Lolland, Falster and Møn, with Roskilde, the chalk cliffs of Stevns Klint and Møns Klint, and the archipelago for island hopping. The seat is Sorø. Note that this region does not cover all of Zealand, and that it merges with Hovedstaden in January 2027.
• Syddanmark, the Region of Southern Denmark: Odense, Funen, southern Jutland and the UNESCO-listed Wadden Sea, with its seals and its starling murmurations. The regional seat is Vejle. Our things to do in Odense guide covers Hans Christian Andersen’s city.
• Midtjylland, the Central Denmark Region: Aarhus, Legoland at Billund, Mols Bjerge National Park and the North Sea dunes. The seat is Viborg. Our things to do in Aarhus guide covers the second city.
• Nordjylland, North Jutland: Aalborg, the Skagen light and the beaches at the top of the country, plus Thy, Denmark’s first national park, opened in 2008. The seat is Aalborg. The Wadden Sea park is the country’s largest at 1,460 km² (563.7 sq mi), not Thy.

Booking sites do the filtering. Sofie books hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs through Booking.com for Denmark, because its filters turn a long list into a short one that meets her criteria, and she uses Vrbo when an apartment suits the trip better. In Copenhagen, the Copenhagen Card bundles more than 80 attractions with unlimited transport including the airport run, and our review does the sums on whether it pays.

What to eat in Denmark

Danish food is rye bread, pork, fish and pastry, and smørrebrød is the dish to start with. The 10 dishes and drinks are listed below, with the Danish name first.

1. Smørrebrød: an open sandwich on dense rye, topped with pickled herring, roast beef and remoulade, or breaded plaice, and eaten at lunch rather than dinner.
2. Rugbrød: the sourdough rye bread everything else sits on, dark, dense and unlike anything sold as rye elsewhere.
3. Stegt flæsk med persillesovs: crisp fried pork belly with parsley sauce and potatoes, voted the national dish, and usually served all you can eat.
4. Pølser: the hot dog from a pølsevogn, red sausage, remoulade, crisp onions and pickled cucumber.
5. Frikadeller: pan-fried pork and veal meatballs, eaten hot with potatoes or cold on rye.
6. Æbleflæsk: bacon with apples, onion and sugar on rye bread, a winter dish.
7. Wienerbrød: the buttery laminated pastry the world calls Danish, and better in Denmark than anywhere else.
8. Æbleskiver: round pancake balls dusted with sugar and dipped in jam, a Christmas market staple.
9. Risalamande and flødebolle: almond rice pudding with cherry sauce, eaten at Christmas with a whole almond hidden in it, and the marshmallow-and-chocolate confection sold everywhere.
10. Lakrids and snaps: salt liquorice, which divides visitors sharply, and the caraway aquavit drunk with herring.

One regional tradition is worth a detour. The Sønderjysk kaffebord in southern Jutland serves at least 14 cakes, traditionally 21, in three courses of seven. Our Danish food guide covers 15 dishes in more detail.

Money, cards and tipping in Denmark

Denmark is close to cashless and you can spend a week there without touching a krone. The 4 money rules are listed below.

1. Bring a card, not cash. More than 9 in 10 in-store payments in Denmark were digital in 2025 and cash was down to 9% of them, on Danmarks Nationalbank’s figures, and more than a third of shop payments are now made with a phone. A foreign contactless card or Apple Pay or Google Pay works essentially everywhere. Danish law still obliges a business that takes cards to take cash between 06:00 and 22:00, with exceptions for unstaffed self-service, online sales and temporary events, so keep a small reserve for a system outage rather than for daily use.
2. Denmark is not in the euro area. It uses the krone and rejected the euro by referendum in 2000, although the krone is pegged to the euro under ERM II at 7.46038 kroner per euro within a narrow band, so the rate barely moves.
3. Tipping is not expected. VisitDenmark states plainly that service charges are included in hotel, restaurant and taxi bills, and that a tip is a bonus for good service rather than an obligation. Our tipping in Denmark section covers the exceptions.
4. Reclaim the VAT if you are leaving the EU. Danish VAT is 25%, and non-EU residents can claim back 10% to 19% on purchases over DKK 300 through a tax-free scheme, with the paperwork done at the shop and stamped on departure.

Public holidays and etiquette in Denmark

Denmark’s public holidays cluster around Easter, Christmas and the spring, and one of them was abolished recently. The holidays are New Year’s Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Eve in practice, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Store Bededag, the Day of Prayer, is no longer a public holiday: the Danish parliament voted to abolish it on 28 February 2023 and it has been an ordinary working day since 2024, so any list that still includes it is out of date. It survives in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, which the law does not cover.

Danish etiquette is quiet and rule-following. Do not jaywalk, even on an empty street. Use hand signals on a bike and never ride in a pedestrian zone. Take your shoes off in someone’s home. And do not read the absence of please and thank you as rudeness: Danish has no everyday word for “please”, and directness is not hostility. Punctuality is expected and so is queueing.

What to pack for Denmark

Pack layers and a waterproof, because Danish weather changes within a day in every season. The 4 seasonal lists follow.

• Summer, June to August: a swimsuit, sunglasses, shorts and dresses, a light jacket for the evenings, comfortable shoes and a re-usable water bottle, because the tap water is excellent.
• Winter, December to February: a warm, wind and waterproof coat, a thick scarf, a hat, gloves, warm waterproof boots and thermal layers, plus the same water bottle.
• Autumn, September to November: a waterproof jacket, an umbrella that survives wind, a scarf, waterproof boots and a jumper or cardigan.
• Spring, March to May: a waterproof coat, clothes to layer, comfortable walking shoes and T-shirts for the warm days that arrive without warning.

One item covers every season. A universal adapter handles the Danish type K sockets if your plug is not type C, E or K.

Staying connected in Denmark

An EU SIM works in Denmark at home rates, so most European visitors need to do nothing. The 3 options are listed below.

1. An EU or EEA SIM: no roaming charges for calls, texts or data under the EU’s roam-like-at-home rules. UK plans vary by operator since Brexit, so check yours before you fly.
2. A travel eSIM installed before you leave, which is the simplest answer from outside Europe; our eSIM for travel review explains how they work.
3. A portable hotspot. Sofie carries a portable hotspot and buys day passes outside the EU and as a backup when her phone plan runs low on data. If you would rather not carry a second device, an Airalo eSIM installs on the phone you already have and does the same job.

The code HARRY5578 takes €3 off a first order.

Travel insurance for Denmark

Travel insurance for Denmark covers what a health card does not, which is cancelled flights, lost luggage, a stolen phone and repatriation. EU citizens should carry their European Health Insurance Card and UK visitors their Global Health Insurance Card; both give access to state healthcare on the same terms as a Dane, and neither covers a cancelled trip or a bike accident that ends your holiday early. Our guide to the best medical travel insurance compares what the policies actually pay for.

A short history of Denmark

Denmark’s history runs from the Viking age through a North Sea empire to a small, wealthy welfare state. The 4 periods that explain what you see are listed below.

1. The Viking age, roughly 800 to 1050. Danish fleets raided and settled in England, and Harald Bluetooth’s runestone at Jelling, UNESCO-listed since 1994, records the conversion to Christianity. The Skuldelev ships at Roskilde and the ring fortresses, added to the World Heritage List in 2023, are what survives.
2. The medieval and early modern kingdom. Denmark ruled Norway and, at times, parts of Sweden and northern Germany, built Kronborg to tax every ship through the Øresund, and lost territory steadily from the 17th century onwards.
3. The 19th and 20th centuries. The 1849 constitution ended absolute monarchy; Grundlovsdag on 5 June marks it. Germany occupied Denmark from 1940 to 1945. Denmark was a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and of NATO in 1949, and joined the European Communities on 1 January 1973 after a referendum.
4. Modern Denmark. Denmark’s registered partnership law of 7 June 1989 was the first of its kind anywhere in the world, same-sex marriage followed on 15 June 2012, Helle Thorning-Schmidt became the first female prime minister in October 2011, and King Frederik X succeeded his mother in January 2024.

Danish design is the thread running through all of it, and it is why the furniture in your hotel room looks the way it does.

Denmark travel FAQ

When is the best time to visit Denmark?

May, June and September are the months to visit Denmark, with long days, settled weather and none of July’s crowds. July alone takes 18.5% of Denmark’s annual overnight stays, so book early if that is when you go.

How many days do you need in Denmark?

Five to seven days covers Copenhagen and North Zealand, and 10 days lets you add Aarhus, Ribe and the north of Jutland without rushing.

Does Denmark use the euro?

No. Denmark uses the Danish krone and rejected the euro in a referendum in 2000. The krone is pegged to the euro under ERM II, so the rate barely moves, and cards work almost everywhere.

Is Denmark expensive?

Yes, by European standards. A mid-range meal for two runs about DKK 700 and a pint about DKK 55. Transport passes, lunch specials and the tap water take the edge off.

Do I need a visa for Denmark?

Not if you hold an EU, EEA or Swiss passport, or a visa-exempt one such as US, UK, Canadian or Australian, in which case you get 90 days in any 180. Since 10 April 2026 non-EU visitors are registered in the EU’s Entry/Exit System with a photo and fingerprints instead of a passport stamp.

Can you drink the tap water in Denmark?

Yes. Danish tap water is safe and good, and carrying a refillable bottle saves money in a country where a coffee costs about DKK 43.

WonderfulWanderings Pro Tips

The 5 tips below come from re-checking this page against Danish government, transport-operator and tourist-board sources in September 2026, and each one contradicts something guides still say about Denmark.

1. Stop looking for a ferry from Britain to Denmark. DFDS says on its own site that the Harwich to Esbjerg route closed in September 2014 over sulphur emission rules and that no direct passenger ferry runs from the UK to Denmark now. The crossings that do exist go to Germany, Sweden and Norway, so a British trip means a flight, or a train through Germany.
2. Carry a passport for Greenland and the Faroe Islands, whatever your Danish visa says. Both belong to the Kingdom of Denmark and both sit outside the EU and outside Schengen, and the Danish Immigration Service states that a Danish or Schengen visa does not grant entry to either. An EU or Schengen national ID card that gets you into Denmark does not get you into Greenland.
3. Download the app instead of buying a Rejsekort. The physical card was withdrawn on 29 June 2026, and the replacements are the Rejsekort app, the Rejsebillet app and the new Basiskort. For a short stay in Copenhagen the City Pass or the Copenhagen Card is still the simpler purchase.
4. Check which rail pass matches your residence, not your passport. Eurail and Interrail split by where you live rather than by citizenship, so an American living in Europe buys Interrail. The two brands are merging in any case, with Eurail becoming Interrail from 9 September 2026.
5. Plan a December trip around Nytorv and Gammeltorv. Copenhagen’s largest Christmas market runs there from 6 November to 21 December 2026, with free entry and a free ice rink. The Højbro Plads market is not running in 2026 at all, because the organiser moved it to Rådhuspladsen, and Kongens Nytorv no longer hosts one, so the trio that older Copenhagen guides list no longer exists.

About the author. This guide is written and maintained by the Wonderful Wanderings editorial team. Wonderful Wanderings was founded in 2012 by Sofie Couwenbergh, and the booking habits in this post, from Booking.com and Vrbo for hotels and apartments to her portable hotspot she travels with, are hers. The team covers Denmark for independent travellers, including the Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense guides, the Copenhagen Card, Danish food, car hire, packing gear and travel insurance worth booking, and updates this page when prices, dates and rules change.