Copenhagen bike tours compared: 2 and 3 hours from DKK 249, e-bike tours, the Christiania ride and bike hire

💡 The Short Version: A 2-hour ride via Nyhavn is DKK 249, the 3-hour highlights rides are DKK 375 and DKK 399, and the e-bike tour is DKK 550. A ride that stops at Christiania is from DKK 349 for 2.5 hours. The 3-hour rides are the most booked, with 3,129 reviews for the DKK 399 tour. Bike hire is separate: Donkey Republic by app, or a shop. Learn four rules first: keep right, stop on the right, put a hand out to turn or stop, and turn left in two crossings. Or book now: the 3-hour highlights tourad is DKK 399 and the 2-hour ride via Nyhavnad is DKK 249 (GetYourGuide).

The tours compared

Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” price for one adult. Each listing cancels free.

Two hours or three

2 hours from DKK 249 · 3 hours from DKK 375

The DKK 249 ride reaches Rosenborg Castle, the Little Mermaid and Nyhavn. The 3-hour rides go through the historic centre, and the two most booked are the highlights tour with a local guidead (DKK 399), which adds the guide’s personal favourites to the main landmarks, and the 3-hour top sights tourad (DKK 375).

The Inderhavnsbroen, the cycle and foot bridge across the inner harbour. Photo: Matthias Schalk, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Christiania ride

From DKK 349 · 2.5 hours

The City Highlights ride with a Christiania visitad goes into Christiania, past the Little Mermaid and along the city’s bike lanes. The listing’s lowest date is DKK 349; the standard price is DKK 379. Christiania is free to enter, so the ticket pays for the ride. Christiania says what the rules are inside, and the Christiania and Christianshavn walk is the walking version.

E-bike and architecture tours

The guided e-bike tourad is DKK 550 for 2 to 3 hours and covers the Marble Church, Amalienborg, Christiansborg, the Gefion Fountain, Kongens Nytorv and the Opera House. The architecture and sustainability tourad is a 3-hour ride at DKK 449 about how the city handles planning and climate.

The Bryggebroen, a cycle and foot bridge on the harbour. Photo: kallerna, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Tours from the shops

Prices on the operator’s booking page

Tours Copenhagen runs 1, 2 and 3-hour guided tours on city bikes or electric kick scooters, all starting and ending at Nikolaj Plads 34, where the office is open 9:00 to 15:30. It also runs the Segway tours. Its prices are on its booking page.

Hiring a bike

• Donkey Republic: pedal and electric bikes by app, collected from hundreds of locations at any hour, with the price shown only in the app.
• Tours Copenhagen: Jopo and Mustang city bikes, e-bikes and family cargo bikes that carry 2 or 3 children, for 3 hours, a day or several days.
• GetYourGuide: an e-bike rentalad from DKK 464, for 7 hours up to 5 days (4.7 stars from 42 reviews).
• Your hotel: many lend or rent bikes.

Before you ride

Four rules decide whether a ride goes well, and the tour guide will go through them:

• Keep right unless you are passing, and stop on the right, never in the middle of a bike lane.
• Show your turn: right hand out to turn right, left hand out to turn left, left hand raised to stop.
• Turn left in two crossings: go straight across, wait, then cross the other road.
• Use lights when it is dark, and keep the phone in your pocket.

On the big streets the lanes are busiest 07:00 to 09:00 and 15:00 to 17:00. Cycling in Copenhagen has the rules in full, the hire options and how to take a bike on the train and metro.

A blue bike lane on Holmens Kanal. Photo: Tony Webster, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Which to book

• The first ride, the standard route: the 3-hour highlights tour, DKK 399 or DKK 375.
• A shorter ride: the 2-hour tour via Nyhavn, DKK 249.
• Christiania with a guide: the 2.5-hour ride from DKK 349.
• Less effort over 2 to 3 hours: the e-bike tour, DKK 550.
• No guide: hire a bike by the day, and read cycling in Copenhagen first.
• On foot instead: Copenhagen walking tours, from DKK 142 or a tip.
• From the water or a bus: canal tours and the hop-on hop-off bus.

What to book before you go to Copenhagen has the closed days for every sight a ride passes, and Nyhavn and the Little Mermaid are on most routes.