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Distance

Aalborg: 139 miles
Kongerslev: 126 miles
Odense: 87.3 miles
Sønderborg: 121 miles
Vejle: 118 miles
Århus: 97.1 miles

Weather of Copenhagen

Summers in Copenhagen have average high temperatures of around 21°C (70°F) and lows of 13°C (55°F), but temperatures could sometimes exceed 25°C (77°F+) and occasional heatwaves are common during the summer. Winters usually have temperatures of -2 to 4°C (28 - 40°F), rarely dropping below −10 °C (14 °F).

Precipitation is moderate throughout the year, and snowfall occurs mainly in December through March, but snow cover does not remain a long time.

Tourism Office of Copenhagen
Vesterbrogade 4A
DK-1620 København V

Get in Copenhagen

By plane: Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport (CPH) is the hub for Scandinavia's largest international carrier SAS — Scandinavian Airlines. Kastrup Airport consistently gets high marks for both design and function — this is a much more pleasant place for transit than, say, London Heathrow or Frankfurt. Check-in lines can get long during peak hours, however, so make sure to allocate extra time in the summer. Self-service check in counters are available, which can cut down on wait times.
A number of low-cost carriers also fly to the airport. EasyJet serves Copenhagen from London Stansted, Milan, and Berlin Schönefeld; Air Berlin flies direct to Düsseldorf, Berlin and Palma de Mallorca; Norwegian offers budget flights to Oslo, Stockholm, Budapest, Amsterdam and Warszawa; Cimber Sterling operates many routes out of the airport e.g.: Newcastle, Edinburgh, Athens and Bergen. Recently Dutch low-cost carrier Transavia has begun offering flights to a number of European destinations like Barcelona, Nice and Rome.
It takes twelve minutes by train to get from Kastrup to the central station (Hovedbanegården) in downtown Copenhagen. You need a ticket for 3 zones. The Copenhagen Metro also connects Kastrup with central Copenhagen, with trains leaving every four minutes during the day and every fifteen minutes at night, taking fourteen minutes to the city center.
Consider Sturup Airport (MMX) in Malmö, Sweden as well — it's only 40 minutes by bus from central Malmö, and from there 30 minutes by train to Copenhagen Central Station. Wizzair from Budapest, Gdansk, Katowice, Prague and Warszawa and a few domestic airlines often offer cheap flights to other Swedish cities.

By train: While links between the capital and the rest of the country are frequent and excellent, and links with Sweden have developed rapidly since the completion of the Øresund fixed link, connections to the rest of Europe are rather poor.

By bus: Buses between Zealand and Jutland are only marginally cheaper than the train, although there are considerable discounts offered Monday – Thursday. The international buses on the other hand offer considerably lower prices than the train. Travel by train, however, has been prioritized politically, therefore Copenhagen still lacks an intercity bus terminal. Most international buses stop somewhere around the Central Station (usually next to DGI-byen), but be sure to check the exact location when you buy your ticket. Domestic long-distance buses mostly leave from Toftegårds Plads, near Valby station.

By ferry: Ferries run between Copenhagen Port and Oslo (sixteen hours) and Świnoujście (Poland). For details check the Get in section of Zealand. If you arriving with your own sails, Copenhagen has several marinas, the biggest of which is Svanemøllehavnen. There are no designated visitor berths but it is almost always possible to find one with a green sign. Copenhagen is also a very popular port of call for cruises touring both the Baltic sea and the Norwegian fjords.

Get around Copenhagen

The two big hubs are the Central Station (da: Hovedbanegården/København H) with S-trains, Intercity-trains, and buses and Nørreport Station with S-trains, metro, regional trains, and buses.

Tickets and the zone system: All public transport in Copenhagen, as well as the rest of the country, operates on a zone system. It will allow you to travel around Copenhagen in two zones (the zone where you stamped or purchased the ticket plus one adjacent zone) for an hour. You can switch freely between all trains, metro and busses within this hour, as long as you last trip starts before the time is up (your ticket will be timestamped in 15-minutes intervals).
The range of a single zone can roughly be translated to around 7 minutes in the metro or 15 minutes in a bus, but always check the zone maps in the stations, some stations are closer to zone borders than others. Ask local people if help is needed, as the zone system can be complex for visitors. At night (from 1AM. to 5AM.) the ticket price double, and you need to stamp for example 4 zones if you travel in 2 zones. This rule applies to all N-busses (night busses) and the Metro. Night charges do not apply to holders of monthly cards.

By S-Tog: The S-train service runs from early morning to late night. Each train (apart from the F-line) runs with 10-minute intervals during the day (from 6AM. to 6PM. on weekdays), and with 20-minute intervals on early morning and late night (The F-line has departures every 5 minutes throughout most of the day) ; C however stops at Frederikssund and not Ballerup during the day). This means that there are only a couple of minutes of waiting between each train within the city.
Loudspeaker announcement regarding S-trains are given in Danish only, so remember to ask your fellow travelers, but for the most part they are just cursory announcements.

By metro: The Copenhagen Metro runs from Vanløse, through the city centre, and branching of either to the new-town of Ørestad or to the Airport. The Metro has no timetable, and between Vanløse and Christianshavn trains run with a 4-minute interval (2-minute during peak hour). It runs from 5AM to midnight. During Thursday, Friday and Saturday night the metro runs nonstop with 15-minute intervals. The trains are controlled automatically and are without drivers, so the doors will close at a given time, even if all waiting passengers have not entered the train. Wait for the next train instead of trying to squeeze through in the last second.

By boat: Going on a canal tour in the inner harbour and canals, is an excellent and easy way to see many of the city's attractions, and fortunately there are many options depending on your taste and preferences. DFDS Canal Tours operates both a unguided hop-on hop-off service, branded as the water bus, arranged into three circular trips at the northern, central and southern part of the inner harbour and canals. They also have 3 guided tours, either by a prerecorded tape available in many languages, or live English & Danish commentary by a guide, be forewarned though, after 75 minutes this can get a bit loud if you are not normally attracted to this sort of tourism. Netto-bådene offers a single fixed tour, but at a much lower price. Please note that services are scaled back considerably between October and mid-March, if you are visiting during winter, you might want to opt for DFDS' red guided tour, as it offers a heated, glass roofed boat, during the winter. Both companies offers starting points in either Nyhavn or Gammel strand (opposite the parliament). A different option is the public harbour bus, which while it doesn't enter the canals, is much faster and is an integrated part of the public transportation system, and uses the same tickets as buses and trains.

By bicycle: The fastest and most flexible way of seeing Copenhagen is on bike - as 40 percent of the Copenhageners use their bike everyday the city has been designed to cater for cyclists with separate bicycle lanes along most larger roads. Cyclists are often allowed to ride both ways in one way streets.
Be careful if you are not used to biking in a busy city. In Copenhagen it is a common mean of daily transportation and the locals drive fast and without room for much leeway. Don't expect to get a warning when someone wants to overtake you. Always keep to the right and look behind you before you overtake someone - otherwise you could cause some nasty bicycle accidents.

By taxi: Taxis are abundant throughout the city, and of a very high standard - usually Mercedes or BMW's. At crucial traffic junctures throughout the city, there are special taxi areas, where taxis hold in line to pick up customers. Except for a very long trip, it is not common (or recommended) to haggle about the price. If you wish to pay with credit card, you must present it for the driver at the beginning of the trip.