The road
Hamburg to Copenhagen by car
470 km, about 4 h 24 on the fastest road, through Germany and Denmark. Fuel from about €82 in a petrol car at this week's prices, with about €27 in tolls on the way.
Measured on the road our router draws, 2026-09-30. Your own start and vehicle change every number — that is what the button at the end is for.
Distance
470 km
fastest road, one way
Driving
4 h 24
without stops
Countries
2
Germany and Denmark
The road, country by country
- 🇩🇪 Germany · 214 km
- 🇩🇰 Denmark · 256 km
With a camper's height and weight the router takes a different road: 529 km, about 5 h 18.
What it costs to drive
Fuel at the 2026-09-20 prices of the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin, per country crossed. Tolls are an estimate from published per-kilometre tariffs plus the crossings on this road. Beds and food are not here: they depend on how you travel.
| Vehicle | Fuel | Tolls | Together | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Car, petrol | €82 | €27 | €109 | 33 l at 7 l/100 km |
| Car, diesel | €77 | €27 | €104 | 31 l at 6.5 l/100 km |
| Camper, diesel | €159 | €86 | €245 | 63 l at 12 l/100 km |
- 🇩🇪 petrol €2.35 · diesel €2.46 /l
- 🇩🇰 petrol €2.62 · diesel €2.56 /l
Charged on the way
- 🌉 Storebælt (Great Belt) bridge — €27.42 (Car under 6 m) · unverified
- 🌉 Lillebælt (Little Belt) bridge — free · unverified
- 🚫 Hamburg: Diesel-Durchfahrtsverbote (older diesel bans on some streets) — Older diesel vehicles on specific streets.
The same trip another way
Where a sea gives a choice, the road through each gateway, priced the same way for a petrol car. Which one is yours depends on the ferry's fare and your nights, and that is the planner's job.
Through Rødby
313 km, about 3 h 48 — Germany and Denmark.
Petrol car: fuel about €54.
⛴ Rødby–Puttgarden ferry
Shops on a Sunday
- 🇩🇪 Germany — Supermarkets are shut on Sundays by law — the exceptions are stations, airports and petrol stations. Shop on Saturday.
Where to sleep beside the road
276 campsites and camper sites within 10 km of this road, from OpenStreetMap. A few between the two ends:
- ⛺ Campingplatz Schnelsen-Nord · campsite · km 15, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Familien-Campingplatz Forellensee · campsite · km 60, 0.2 km off the road
- ⛺ Campingplatz Silbersee · campsite · km 65, 0.2 km off the road
- ⛺ Nyborg Strandcamping · campsite · km 339, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Nyborg Strandcamping · campsite · km 339, 0.1 km off the road
- ⛺ Rødhøjlund Skov naturlejrplads · campsite · km 363, 0.1 km off the road
Worth a detour
Between the two ends, within 10 km of the road — the places the map marks as notable.
- ◆ Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal · memorial · km 31, 1.5 km off the road
- ◆ Ships welcome point · attraction · km 96, 4.7 km off the road
Die Schiffsbegrüßungsanlage Rendsburg ist eine Einrichtung am Nord-Ostsee-Kanal direkt an der Rendsburger Hochbrücke. Wikipedia (de)
- ◆ Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen · ruins · km 118, 2.2 km off the road
Hedeby (Danish pronunciation: , Old Norse: Heiðabýr, German: Haithabu) was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Wikipedia (en)
- ◆ Dambådskatastrofen · memorial · km 212, 4.3 km off the road
- ◆ Koldinghus · museum · km 238, 3.4 km off the road
Koldinghus is a Danish royal castle in the town of Kolding on the south central part of the Jutland peninsula. Wikipedia (en)
- ◆ The Danish Railway Museum · museum · km 306, 5.3 km off the road
- ◆ Skovsgaard Mølle- og Bagerimuseum · museum · km 379, 8.7 km off the road
- ◆ Vallø Slot · castle · km 430, 9.5 km off the road
What this road is for
Counted within 10 km of the road between the two ends, from OpenStreetMap — the places a passion would stop for.
- 414 swim spots — Freibad Quickborn (km 23), Ostseebad (km 163), Østerstrand (km 260), Jersie Strand (km 434)
- 238 viewpoints — Müllberg Hummelsbüttel (km 18), Aussichtsturm Ketelvierth (km 51), Aussichtsturm Schleswig (km 121), Oxbjerget (km 458)
- 191 farm shops
- 87 castles — Burg Henneberg (km 18), Schloss Gottorf (km 122), Staldgården (km 237), Antvorskov Kloster (km 375)
- 85 golf — Sønderjyllands Golfklub (km 177), Kolding Golf Club (km 243), Albertslund Golfklub (km 452), Copenhagen Golf Center (km 453)
- 43 wineries
On this road
Plan this road from your own door: your car, your dates, the beds and the food priced the same honest way.