Nyhavn’s colourful houses, the Little Mermaid, the Opera House and whole neighbourhoods on the water: Copenhagen is a harbour city best seen by boat. This guide compares every Copenhagen canal tour (classic cruise, canals and harbour, small boat, self-drive boat), what it costs, the public harbour bus, and hour-by-hour weather with wind.
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Weather at 2:00 PM. Boat trips start from 10:00.
| Tour | From | Duration | What you see | Languages | Cancellation | Departure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our pickLow canal boatGetYourGuide | €20 | 1 h | Nyhavn, Little Mermaid, Opera, Christianshavn | Guide EN | Free up to 24 h before | Ved Stranden 26 (Gammel Strand) |
| Covered boatGetYourGuide | €33 | 1 h 45 | Canals, harbour and new districts | Guide (languages not listed) | Free up to 24 h before | Ved Stranden 26 (Gammel Strand) |
| Small boatGetYourGuide | €40 | 1 h 15 | Harbour and canals | Guide EN | Free up to 24 h before | Gammel Strand 50 |
| Bus + boatTiqets | €29 | 24 h (boat 1 h) | The whole city, plus the canals | Audio EN | Not stated | Vesterbrogade 6 |
| Rental boatTiqets | €73.19 | 1, 2 or 3 h | Harbour and canals, your choice | No guide | Free up to 72 h before | Islands Brygge 10 |
Our pick: the classic canal cruise from Gammel Strand, from €20. In an hour you see Nyhavn, the Little Mermaid, the Opera House and Christianshavn with a live English-speaking guide, and it has more than 13,000 reviews. The same tour is on Tiqets, but GetYourGuide is cheaper and lets you cancel up to 24 hours before (Tiqets: 7 days).
1 h · guide in English · 4.6 from 13,148 GetYourGuide reviews
1 h 45 · 4.6 from 695 GetYourGuide reviews
1 h 15 · guide in English · 4.9 from 85 GetYourGuide reviews
24 h · 3.9 from 115 Tiqets reviews
From 1 h · 4.7 from 13 Tiqets reviews
Indicative prices, checked on October 31, 2026: they may change: the final price is the one shown by the seller.
The Havnebus, the yellow public harbour bus, crosses the harbour on a normal bus ticket.
It doesn’t enter the narrow canals like the tours and has no guide, but it passes the Opera House, the Black Diamond and Nyhavn.
The best months are May to September: highs of 16 to 23 °C and very long days.
| Month | Average high | Rainy days |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 3° | 9 |
| Feb | 3° | 6.4 |
| Mar | 6° | 8.2 |
| Apr | 11° | 7 |
| May | 16° | 7 |
| JunBest | 19° | 8.8 |
| JulBest | 23° | 8.5 |
| AugBest | 21° | 8 |
| Sep | 17° | 9.6 |
| Oct | 12° | 9.4 |
| Nov | 8° | 9.8 |
| Dec | 5° | 9.9 |
1991–2020 averages for Copenhagen Airport: mean high and rain days. Source: DMI, the Danish Meteorological Institute, table on Wikipedia (“Copenhagen”).
Good
Good: cloudy, 7 to 8 °C, no rain, wind up to 6 km/h.
| Time | Sky | Temperature | Rain | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Partly cloudy | 7° | – | 5 km/h |
| 15:00 | Cloudy | 8° | – | 5 km/h |
| 16:00 | Cloudy | 7° | – | 6 km/h |
| 17:00 | Cloudy | 7° | – | 6 km/h |
Good
Good: cloudy, 8 to 9 °C, no rain, wind up to 13 km/h.
| Time | Sky | Temperature | Rain | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Cloudy | 8° | – | 10 km/h |
| 11:00 | Cloudy | 9° | – | 10 km/h |
| 12:00 | Cloudy | 9° | – | 10 km/h |
| 13:00 | Cloudy | 9° | – | 10 km/h |
| 14:00 | Cloudy | 9° | – | 12 km/h |
| 15:00 | Cloudy | 9° | – | 12 km/h |
| 16:00 | Cloudy | 9° | – | 12 km/h |
| 17:00 | Cloudy | 8° | – | 13 km/h |
Today and tomorrow are accurate hour by hour; up to day seven the trend is reliable; the last days give a rough idea. Above 30 km/h the water gets choppy and small boats may postpone departures. Updated every hour.
In the rain the classic tour hands out ponchos and the long tour uses a covered boat; in small and rental boats you’ll get wet.
By metro: Kongens Nytorv for Nyhavn; Gammel Strand (M3 line) for the classic tours.
From the airport: M2 metro to Kongens Nytorv in about 15 minutes, with a 3-zone ticket.
The one-hour classic cruise costs from €20, the long canals-and-harbour tour from €33 and the small boat from €40. The public harbour bus costs 24 DKK with a 2-zone ticket.
Mainly from Gammel Strand (Ved Stranden) and Nyhavn. The exact point is on your ticket.
Yes: the Havnebus (lines 991, 992 and 993) crosses the harbour on a normal bus and metro ticket.
Yes: the classic cruise and the small-boat tour have live English-speaking guides; some tours are also in Danish.
Yes, with fewer departures. The long canals-and-harbour tour uses a covered boat.
Yes: at Islands Brygge you can rent licence-free boats for 1, 2 or 3 hours, from €73.19.
Good: cloudy, 7 to 8 °C, no rain, wind up to 6 km/h.
Saturday, November 14: Good: mostly sunny, 9 to 9 °C, no rain, wind up to 13 km/h. Sunday, November 15: Good: cloudy, 7 to 7 °C, no rain, wind up to 15 km/h.
Reliable forecasts go about 10 days ahead: here you get the next 10, hour by hour (with wind) for today and tomorrow and as a trend after that. To choose the month, see the climate month by month.
Forecasts come from MET Norway, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, calculated for the tour area’s coordinates and updated every hour during the day and every 3 hours at night. Tour prices and conditions are checked on the sellers’ pages, with the date.
Classic canal cruise from Gammel Strand · from €20
Forecast by MET Norway, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, calculated for the tour area’s coordinates. Forecast: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0), updated every hour. Updated: October 31, 2026.