Events 2025 - April, May, June

Place: Copenhagen. 21 April – 21 September 2025

Spring is in the air, which can mean only one thing: time to come out of hibernation and head straight to Tivoli Gardens for a quick ride on a rollercoaster. The perfect way to shake off the winter cobwebs! 

Place: Ribe Viking Center. Dates: 24 April – Middle of October 2025

More than 500 Vikings from all over Europe flock to the Ribe Viking Centre. The market atmosphere is authentic and intense – just like it would have been in Ribe 1300 years ago. You'll be able to experience how the Vikings lived and worked, visit all the stalls at the market place and see how good you are at trading!

Place: Aarhus. Dates: May 2025 (Exact Dates TBD)

SPOR is a festival in Aarhus for contemporary music and sound art. International sound art SPOR creates a platform for stronger connections to the international sound art and music scenes - and encourages a fruitful exchange that can inspire artists and further develop Danish contemporary music. 

Place: Aarhus, Denmark. 2 – 3 May 2025

The ambition of the SPOT Festival is to create a promotional platform for Danish and Nordic music. The festival’s repertoire is dictated chiefly by the will to support new bands and upcoming artists predicted to succeed internationally. 

Place: Saltum. Dates: 10 – 11 May 2025

Each year, around 20,000 people go to the small coastal town of Saltum to participate in the biggest annual wool festival in Scandinavia. The Festival showcases the best wool and wool crafts and is all about creativity and design with beautiful quality, amazing colours and skilled craftsmanship.

Place: Copenhagen. Date: 11 May 2025

The annual Copenhagen Marathon course weaves through the Inner City of Copenhagen, passing iconic landmarks such as Rosenborg Castle, the Marble Church, Tivoli, and Kongens Nytorv. Thousands of spectators will gather in a huge street party at Dronning Louise's Bridge, before the journey continues with cheers, music, and DJs through Nørrebro, Vesterbro, Frederiksberg, and Østerbro. Since 1980, it has been held in May with around 10,000 participants each time.

Place: Aalborg. Date: 17, 18 and 25 May 2025

Aalborg's carnival is the largest in Northern Europe, with up to 60,000 participants in the Grand Parade and more than 100,000 spectators watching the magnificent wave of colours along the parade route. The parade moves through the streets of Aalborg and ends in Kildeparken. 

Place: Copenhagen. Dates: 22 – 31 May 2025

The CPH STAGE is a theatre festival focusing on the Danish performing arts, both old and new. Taking place in Copenhagen and the district of Frederiksberg, it includes alternative venues, activities in public spaces and genre-breaking projects.

Place: Copenhagen. Dates: 23 – 24 May 2025

Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen is an annual beer festival where good beer and the people who brew it are celebrated. It's a beer geek's paradise, as some of the world's best breweries come with very special beers that have been brewed exclusively for the occasion. Taste up to 800 different beers!

Place: Horsens, Denmark. Dates: 29 – 31 May 2025

The prison facilities in FÆNGSLET in Horsens are host to a different tattoo convention with the focus that everyone can satisfy their curiosity and get an insight into an industry they might not know so well. With around 250 tattoo artists from all over the world, the audience will get to see the artists at work and perhaps even get their own tattoo.

Place: Copenhagen. Dates: 4 – 8 June 2025

Copenhagen's biggest street party and club festival, Distortion, takes place every year in May/June and attracts nearly 300,000 people to its street parties, dance, art rock, freestyle hip hop, tech-house, polka and street art. Distortion takes place in a new part of Copenhagen every night and, thus, moves around the city.

Place: Aarhus. Dates: 5 – 7 June 2025

The Northside Music Festival in Central Jutland offers a wide array of Danish and International artists. Over the years, the festival has presented a lineup including Arcade Fire, Nick Cave, Robyn, Lana Del Ray, Beck, and the Arctic Monkeys. The Northside Festival has quickly been recognised as an innovative festival that focuses on sustainability.

Place: Ribe, Viborg, Horsens, Korsør, Copenhagen and Frederiksberg. Dates: 9 June 2025

These unique walking and running family events of 1km, 5km, and 10km distances were started by Crown Prince Frederik as a way to get everyone in Denmark moving. The host city changes each year, apart from Copenhagen, where you can cross the finishing line waving at the Queen's palace. 

Place: Kværndrup (Egeskov Castle). Dates: 12 – 14 June 2025

Heartland is a cultural festival taking place at the beautiful Egeskov Castle in Funen. It offers a new type of festival, combining four key elements: music, food, art and conversation. Heartland aims for a high level of quality through cooperation with key local partners. 

Place: Copenhagen. Dates: 12 – 22 June 2025

The largest Nordic festival of its kind is once again zooming in on and raising awareness about the art of photography. The work of both local and international contemporary photographers will be portrayed at several galleries, museums, photo schools and cultural institutions all over Copenhagen. 

Place: Middelfart: Dates: 13 – 14 June 2025

Rock under the Bridge is a music festival in Middelfart that has been held every summer since 1989. The festival is Denmark's largest one-day festival. It is held next to Lillebælt on Fyn, under the new Lillebælt Bridge.

Place: Copenhagen. Dates: 18 - 20 June 2025

A platform to showcase & celebrate great design, 3daysofdesign is a festival for dreamers, doers and the design curious. You will have the opportunity to meet the designers shaping the creative landscape of tomorrow, and to see masterpieces by legends who paved the way before them.

Place: Copenhagen. Dates: 18 - 21 June 2025

Copenhell is an annual outdoor rock and metal festival. During four days in June, Refshaleøen and the former B&W shipyard in the Danish capital transforms into a haven for metalheads worldwide. The festival has grown to become one of the most popular metal events in Northern Europe. 

Place: Fanø. Dates: 19 – 22 June 2025

Each year in June, 5,000 kite owners meet up at Fanø to create the world’s largest kite rally. For 14 days, visitors can enjoy amazing views of a sky dotted with kites in every shape, size and colour. Some are homemade, others shaped as fantasy or film characters, while some are more traditional.

Place: Copenhagen. Dates: 21 – 22 June 2025

In June, cycling fans can witness the launch of Copenhagen Sprint, a premier event on the UCI World Tour calendar. Beginning in Roskilde, an ancient city home to Viking history, this race will wind through Frederikssund, Hillerød, and Humlebæk, ending with a thrilling loop through Copenhagen. Designed for the world’s top sprinters, Copenhagen Sprint will offer an exciting spectacle of speed and skill. Festivities throughout the weekend will celebrate Danish bike culture, including a free public race where locals and visitors alike can ride the same route as the pros.

Place: Odense. Dates: 26 – 28 June 2025

The multi-genre festival in Tusindårskoven in Odense brings about 40,000 music lovers to H.C. Andersen’s home town. Tinderbox offers everything from EDM to rock to hip hop, featuring both local and international talent.