attraction
1 Havnebadet Islands Brygge
The original harbour bath - clean enough to swim in the middle of the city.
Easy · 11.1 km · 1 hr 25 min
The Harbour Ring
The full harbour circuit on car-free bridges and waterfront paths.
Sights & culture
Food & drink
Your route, stop by stop
Copenhagen's signature ride: a loop of the inner harbour on bike-only bridges and separated paths, from the harbour bath at Islands Brygge over the Bicycle Snake, past BLOX and Nyhavn and back across the Inner Harbour Bridge. Flat the whole way, with water views at every turn and street food at the halfway mark.
Turn by turn
Directions
Street-by-street cues for the whole ride - the numbered stops match the pins on the map.
- Head north-west 43 m
- Turn right onto the path 34 m
- Turn right onto Islands Brygge 25 m
- Turn right onto the path 30 m
- 1 Kulturhuset Islands Brygge 41 m
- Turn left onto the path 1.1 km
- Turn right onto the path 61 m
- Turn left onto the path 41 m
- Bear right onto the path 199 m
- Turn right onto the path 169 m
- 2 Cykelslangen (The Bicycle Snake) 169 m
- Turn right onto the path 277 m
- Turn right onto the path 30 m
- Turn right onto the path 241 m
- Bear right onto Kalvebod Brygge 1.2 km
- Turn left onto Vester Voldgade 37 m
- Bear right onto Vester Voldgade 30 m
- Turn right onto Bryghuspladsen 98 m
- Turn left onto Frederiksholms Kanal 10 m
- Turn left onto the path 55 m
- 3 BLOX & Danish Architecture Center 55 m
- Turn right onto Frederiksholms Kanal 10 m
- Turn right onto Bryghuspladsen 103 m
- Turn left onto Vester Voldgade 47 m
- Bear right onto the path 211 m
- Turn left onto Voldgården 531 m
- Turn left onto the path 19 m
- Bear left onto Havnebussen 134 m
- 4 Kayak Bar 134 m
- Turn right onto the path 19 m
- Turn left onto Knippelsbrogade 258 m
- Turn left onto Strandgade 640 m
- Continue onto the path 15 m
- Turn left onto the path 504 m
- 5 Nyhavn 39 m
- Turn left onto Nyhavnsbroen 209 m
- Turn right onto Sankt Annæ Plads 123 m
- Turn left onto Sankt Annæ Plads 10 m
- Turn right onto Kvæsthusbroen 126 m
- Bear left onto the path 114 m
- 6 Inderhavnsbroen 114 m
- Continue onto the path 126 m
- Turn right onto Sankt Annæ Plads 136 m
- Turn left onto Toldbodgade 233 m
- Turn left onto Nyhavn 98 m
- 7 Broens Gadekøkken 24 m
- Bear left onto the path 344 m
- Turn right onto the path 617 m
- Turn left onto Sankt Annæ Gade 163 m
- 8 Christianshavn Canal 17 m
- Turn right onto Overgaden Oven Vandet 474 m
- Turn right onto Overgaden Oven Vandet 44 m
- Turn left onto Langebrogade 529 m
- Bear right onto the path 39 m
- Turn left onto Christians Brygge 148 m
- Turn left onto the path 105 m
- Turn right onto H.C. Andersens Boulevard 47 m
- Turn right onto Langebro 337 m
- Turn right onto the path 108 m
- Turn right onto Vestmannagade 73 m
- Turn right onto Islands Brygge 82 m
- Turn left onto the path 34 m
- Turn left onto the path 43 m
- 1 Havnebadet Islands Brygge (back at the start)
Along the way
Stops worth making
cafe
2 Kulturhuset Islands Brygge
Culture-house café with tables almost on the water, next to the harbour bath.
sight
3 Cykelslangen (The Bicycle Snake)
The orange bike-only ramp snaking over the harbour - a Copenhagen icon you ride, not look at.
sight
4 BLOX & Danish Architecture Center
The architecture centre in a building people love to argue about - fitting.
bar
5 Kayak Bar
Floating waterline bar with a tiny beach by Knippelsbro - a summer classic.
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sight
6 Nyhavn
The postcard harbour - walk your bike on the quay.
sight
7 Inderhavnsbroen
The "kissing bridge" sliding open for boats - the bike link between Nyhavn and Christianshavn.
restaurant
8 Broens Gadekøkken
Year-round street-food square right at the Inner Harbour Bridge - top vendors, harbour views.
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sight
9 Christianshavn Canal
Masts, houseboats and crooked 17th-century houses - little Amsterdam.