Country guide
Denmark
Copenhagen's design and food scene, Viking history and windswept North Sea beaches, best in the long days of May to September.
Currency
DKK
Language
Danish
English
Everywhere
Payment
Cards everywhere
Power
Type C / F / K
230 V, 50 Hz
Dialing
+45
Destinations
Aarhus
A student port where you walk a ring of coloured glass over the rooftops and a whole old Danish town has been reassembled street by street.
✓ best May-Jun, Aug-SepBornholm
A granite Baltic island of round fortress-churches, smokehouse chimneys and the biggest castle ruin in northern Europe.
✓ best May-SepCopenhagen
A flat, bike-first royal capital where the harbour in the middle of town is clean enough to swim in.
✓ best May-SepOdense
The storyteller's home town, with a murdered king in the cathedral crypt and a river path out to a rebuilt Funen village.
✓ best May-OctClimate zones, month by month
Denmark has 4 distinct climate zones. The right month depends on where in the country you're going.
Aarhus Jutland →
✓ Best May-Jun, Aug-Sep · ✗ Avoid Dec-Mar
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Bornholm →
✓ Best May-Sep · ✗ Avoid Dec-Mar
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Copenhagen →
✓ Best May-Sep · ✗ Avoid Dec-Mar
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Odense Funen →
✓ Best May-Oct · ✗ Avoid Dec-Mar
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