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Travel and Tourism in Denmark
Travel alerts, currency, climate, transit, health, and safety information for visitors to Denmark.
Practical Information
Travel alert status, currency, climate, and transit details.
- Travel Alert Status
- Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
- Time Difference
- UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
- Currency
- 6.865
- Climate
- Because Denmark is almost entirely surrounded by the sea, it has a moderate, maritime climate. This, however, produces changeable weather, which makes forecasting an imperfect art. The average temperatures range from 32°F in February to 61°F in July. Temperatures vary slightly from day to night. Average rainfall is 24 inches. August and October are the wettest months. Days are short in winter, with about 6 hours of daylight in December and January. Daylight in summer lasts 18-20 hours.
- Language(s) Spoken
- The Danish alphabet has a total of 29 letters: 9 vowels (a,e,i,o,u,y,æ,ø,å) and 20 consonant.
- Ethnic Groups
- Scandinavian, Inuit, Faroese, German, Turkish, Iranian, Somali
- National Holiday
- Constitution Day, 5 June (1849); note - closest equivalent to a national holiday
- Geographic Coordinates
- 56 00 N, 10 00 E
- Location
- Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes several major islands (Sjaelland, Fyn, and Bornholm)
- Airports
- 99
Destinations
Regions and cities, top sights, national parks, UNESCO sites, and festivals for visitors.
Copenhagen: The City That Works
Odense: The City of the Storyteller
Odense, the third-largest city in Denmark and the capital of the island of Funen, is most famous as the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen. The city has spent two centuries wrestling productively with this fact — at times overwhelmed by the weight of the association, at other times finding in it a source of genuine cultural energy.
The Hans Christian Andersen Museum, reopened in 2021 after a major redesign by Kengo Kuma and Associates, is one of the most innovative museum experiences in Denmark. Rather than presenting a conventional chronological biography, the new museum immerses visitors in the world of the fairy tales themselves, with poetic, dreamlike installations that evoke the landscapes and moods of the stories.
Health and Safety
Medical facilities, vaccinations, disease risk, and sanitation conditions.
Excellent medical facilities are widely available in Denmark. In Greenland and the Faroe Islands, medical facilities are limited, and evacuation is required for serious illness or injury. Although emergency medical treatment is free of charge, the patient is charged for follow-up care. There are modern, fully equipped hospitals throughout Denmark; the largest – also called University Hospitals – are located in Copenhagen, Odense, and Aarhus.