Flights to Copenhagen

Idyllic and exultant Copenhagen

Denmark was once voted as the happiest country in the world, via the UN's World Happiness Report. Its capital city, Copenhagen, is a breath of fresh air with its striking waterfront, iconic architecture and Michelin starred restaurants. 

When is it best to travel?

Copenhagen is a great city and one that you'll really love all year round. Sun worshippers should avoid travelling from December through to February, as the weather is gloomy and cold. Danish people love New Year's Eve when restaurants serve up a feast while impressive firework displays bid farewell to the old year. May 1st is International Worker's Day and employees work a half day, while the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, from July 1st till the 10th, showcases international Jazz musicians.

Biking around the city and budgets

Copenhagen is small and easy to explore on foot. It's also cycle friendly and bike hire shops are plentiful. If you fancy biking around the city, you'll have no problem hiring one. Copenhagen is expensive and accommodation costs are around 20% higher than those in the UK. Drinks are also more expensive here as are groceries, so be sure to compensate with extra funds in your budget to cover all expenses. Copenhagen is an hour ahead of London. 

Transportation and accommodation tips

A 15 minute journey on the Metro Line 2 or the InterCity Train will take you to the Main Station. You can catch the 5A Bus to central Copenhagen as an alternative. Tickets will cost you about 32 DKK. Taxis also travel to the city and taxi ranks are situated at terminals 1 and 3. Copenhagen has a huge choice of hotels and hostels for those on a tighter budget. Be warned though, hostels in Copenhagen are far from cheap and still quite expensive in comparison to UK hostels. Public transport is highly recommended and buses, trains, the metro and boats all provide a 24-hour service. A Flexcard 7-day ticket or 24-hour ticket gives access to all modes of transport. The Copenhagen card and City Pass are recommended for tourists and give discounts to major tourist attractions and a selection of museums. The Krone is the Danish currency, although most people use credit cards for small and large purchases.

Airport Copenhagen CPH

Copenhagen airport is a major international airport in Denmark's capital city. There are two airports in Denmark’s capital city: the international Copenhagen Kastrup Airport (Kastrup Lufthavn) and the smaller sport airport Roskilde. Copenhagen-Kastrup International Airport is 8 km south-east of Copenhagen’s city centre in Kastrup, a district in the Borough of Tårnby, on the island of Amager. Copenhagen’s airport is Scandinavia’s most important airport, being an international commercial airport serving air traffic between parts of the world and the numerous national and regional airports in Scandinavia and the region south of the Baltic Sea. The airport represents an important intersection and is a major link for many parts of northern Europe due not just to the presence of the Oresund Bridge and the rail link to Sweden.

Copenhagen Airport is the hub of SAS and therefore also of the Star Alliance, which is comprised of a network of 16 international airlines, flying to a total of 795 airports in 139 countries. Copenhagen Airport is also Scandinavia’s hub for the air freight express company DHL. By the number of passengers, SAS is the biggest airline at Copenhagen Airport. There is a direct connection from Copenhagen airport to 132 destinations worldwide, 19 of which are intercontinental, 84 within Europe, 22 are Nordic, and 7 domestic connections. Airlines based at the airport include: Go Airlines and Korean Air. Other airlines serving the airport are: airBaltic (Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev Borispol, Minsk, Moscow-Sherem, Riga, St. Petersburg), bmibaby (Edinburgh, Glasgow), easyJet (Berlin-Brandenburg), Norwegian (Oslo), SkyEurope (Bratislava, Budapest-Ferihegy, Vienna), Transavia (Amsterdam Schiphol, Rotterdam) and Virgin Express (Brussels International Airport). Terminal 1 is used for domestic flights, flying for instance to the Island of Bornholm and to Jutland. Flights to and from Greenland and the Faroe Islands on the other hand, use Terminals 2 and 3, along with the other international flights.

Copenhagen Airport has an area of 1100 ha and was opened on 20.04.1925 as one of the first private airports of the world - at that time with a grass track serving as runway. With an annual total number of passengers of 1 million, Copenhagen Airport in 1965 received the prize for the world’s best airport.

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• Nearby cities: Kopenhagen (7 km), Malmö (22 km)

Location

By car, Copenhagen Airport may be reached directly via the motorway E20.

Trains: From Copenhagen central station, direct trains run to the airport at 10 minute intervals. There are also hourly train services to Roskilde and trains to Malmö in Sweden every 20 minutes. The journey to Stockholm takes 5 hours by train, from Terminal 3 it takes 3.5 hours to reach Gothenburg and Aarhus. There is also a metro link, the lline M2 from the airport to the city centre.

Buses: The bus routes 12, 250S and 30 provide a daily service from the airport to the city centre of Copenhagen. Until midnight the city centre may be reached using the bus lines 9, 250S and 500S, after that the night bus service 96N (to Copenhagen Town Hall) must be used.

Car hire: the usual major car hire companies are based at Copenhagen airport, including Budget, Europcar, Hertz and Avis.