An independent guide to the Copenhagen Card, written for people who have already decided to visit Copenhagen and want to know whether the card is worth buying.
thecopenhagencard.com is published by The Copenhagen Card, Copenhagen, Denmark — an independent publisher, and not the issuer of the card of the same name. It is a buying guide, not a review blog and not an official channel. Every page exists to answer one purchasing question: what the card costs, what it covers, which version suits a given trip, and whether the numbers work out in your favour.
The Copenhagen Card is issued by Wonderful Copenhagen, the official tourism organisation for the city. We are not Wonderful Copenhagen and we are not affiliated with them. We do not issue cards, take payments for them, or have any say in what they cost or include. If you need help with an order you have already placed, contact the seller you bought from.
Through affiliate links. When you buy a card after following a link from this site, we receive a commission from the seller. The price you pay is the same either way — there is no markup and no discount code that changes it.
This is worth being blunt about: we are paid when you buy, which is a reason to be sceptical of anyone telling you a product is worth it. So the calculators on this site are built to tell you when the card does not pay off, and several pages say plainly that it is a poor choice for short trips or for visitors who only want one or two attractions. The full disclosure is here.
Card prices come from the seller's own listings in both euros and US dollars. We do not convert between currencies ourselves, because a converted figure looks exactly as authoritative as a quoted one and goes stale without anyone noticing.
Admission prices for the 51 attractions are checked against each venue's own website. Where a venue quotes Danish kroner, we show that figure alongside the euro one so you can see where the number came from.
Every price on this site — the card prices, the attraction prices, the totals in the worked examples, and the figures the calculators run on — is stored in a single file and read from there. A price cannot say one thing on one page and something different on another, because there is only one copy of it.
Where a figure is an estimate rather than a checked price, we say so on the page rather than presenting it as verified.
Opening hours change, attractions leave the card, and venues put their prices up mid-season. A guide like this is always slightly behind the world. Before a trip that depends on a specific venue being open or included, check that venue's own site — and tell us if you find something out of date here.
The 72-hour Discover card, the one most visitors buy, currently costs $161 (€139). Whether that is a good deal for your trip depends entirely on what you plan to do, which is what the calculator is for.