Calendar of Annual Recurrent Events in Denmark
February: WonderCOOL
Throughout February, the Danish capital is totally WonderCOOL, celebrating a wonderful mix of design, music, fashion and gastronomy with more than 100 events taking place throughout February.
May: Carnival in Aalborg
Every May, around 100.000 people gather as the sounds of samba hits Aalborg. Participants create their costumes according to different themes and Aalborg truly turns into a magnificent wave of people, colour and happiness.
May: Copenhagen Distortion Celebrating street life and club culture – Copenhagen Distortion is a crazy annual party cavalcade, orchestrating 101+ parties in 101+ different locations with 101+ different hosts.
June: Copenhagen Carnival Experience fantastic costumes, samba dancing and lots of colorful acts when the Copenhagen Carnival hits the streets.
June: Roskilde Festival
Roskilde Festival is the largest North European rock festival and has existed since 1971. Roskilde Festival is an annual week-long international music festival offering performances by some of the best and biggest rock stars in the world.
July: Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen Jazz Festival is one of the largest and most respected music events of its kind in Europe and serves as a rendezvous for jazz enthusiasts and culture-minded folks in general. Copenhagen has a long jazz tradition and a close link to the international jazz scene as many jazz musicians came to Copenhagen in the sixties to record and perform.
August: Copenhagen Pride Copenhagen Pride is a weeklong festival celebrating Denmark’s gay and lesbian community. The festival culminates with a parade through the city.
August: Copenhagen Cooking Copenhagen will be alive and cooking with everything the Nordic cuisine has to offer during the Copenhagen Cooking festival in August.
August: Copenhagen Fashion Week Every February and August, Copenhagen plays host to northern Europe's largest fashion fair. On the catwalks are a vast number of new and known Danish talents showcasing their upcoming collections, and at the trade fairs you will find more than 1,100 exhibitors representing over 2,300 international fashion labels!
August: The European Medieval Festival Each year during the last weekend in August, the streets of Horsens in Jutland are filled with sounds of cheerful buskers, snaps from crossbows, and merry medieval music, when the European Medieval Festival conquers the streets along with its 100.000 visitors from around the world.
September: Aarhus Festival Week Aarhus Festival Week is one of the largest cultural events in the whole of Scandinavia. This week-long extravaganza brings world-class opera, ballet, theatre, music and much more to the city centre.
September: Kopenhagen Contemporary More than ever, Danish artists are achieving international recognition turning Copenhagen into a pulsating art scene. September is the perfect month to explore what the city has to offer in the art department.
September: Copenhagen Design Week The essence of Danish design is to be found in timeless simplicity, quality materials and functionality. Every September Copenhagen is buzzing with exhibitions, furniture fairs, open showrooms, parties and lots of other activities showcasing Danish design.
October: Night of Culture
A plethora of cultural events take place across the city and museums, churches, exhibition halls, galleries and libraries are transformed into stages for musical performances, poetry readings, art exhibitions and more.
October: Copenhagen Blues Festival
Copenhagen Blues Festival presents an abundance of great international and homegrown blues music.
October: Halloween in Tivoli Witches and carved pumpkins, fun and scary thrills. Halloween in the Tivoli Gardens will definitely be a ‘frightening’ experience.
December: Christmas Markets and Christmas atmosphere The magical Christmas market in Tivoli Gardens, located in the heart of Copenhagen, offers beautiful light decorations and cosy wooden stalls selling different Christmas items.
December: Christmas in the Old Town (Den gamle By) In the open air museum, Den Gamle By in Aarhus in Jutland you can experience how Danes have celebrated Christmas over the centuries. Exciting activities await the entire family with historical shops, traditional Danish treats and a Christmas market with entertainment each weekend.