Copenhagen Half Marathon 2027
Sunday, 19 September 2027 · Copenhagen, Denmark
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The weekend at a glance
- Entering
- The ballot for 19 September 2027 is closed, and results are emailed from 5 October 2026. A place costs DKK 795 plus a 5% administration fee, payable only if you are drawn, and you have 48 hours to register after the email. Entries are personal and cannot be resold
- Your number
- An expo at Sparta Hallen, Gunnar Nu Hansens Plads, Østerbro, on the Friday and Saturday before, in an earlier edition. The 2027 hours are not out
- Start
- Jagtvej in Østerbro, 9:30. Start groups have arrival times from 9:00 to 10:15, and the organiser asks you to be there 15 minutes earlier
- Getting to the Runners Area
- Metro to Trianglen, or Vibenshus Runddel
- Finish
- Fælledparken, on Øster Allé
- Bag drop
- Bag Drop in the Runners Area, with the bag tag attached. Volt lockers can be booked for a backpack or sports bag
- Climb
- No figure. The organiser says super flat and fast
- Weather
- The last four race mornings ran from 12.1 °C to 17.8 °C at 9:30
Copenhagen is a flat city half marathon with room for 45,000 runners in 2027. More than 100,000 people have already entered the ballot for those places. It starts on Jagtvej in Østerbro and finishes in Fælledparken, and the route runs through Østerbro, the inner city, Vesterbro, Frederiksberg and Nørrebro.
The race is on Sunday 19 September 2027 at 9:30. The organiser calls it a super flat and fast route, and the series page adds wide and closed to traffic.
Entry is a ballot, and it has closed. The ballot ran from 16 to 30 September 2026, and the organiser began emailing winners on 5 October.
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Getting to Copenhagen
Copenhagen Airport is 8 km from the city centre, and both the metro and the train leave from Terminal 3. The tourist board puts the trip at about 15 minutes, with the metro every 4 to 6 minutes in the day and evening. The ticket from the airport to central Copenhagen is a three-zone ticket. Check the current price in Rejsebillet before buying.
The metro is the way to the race. The organiser names Trianglen as the closest station to the Runners Area and Vibenshus Runddel as the alternative. Several bus lines are rerouted on the day, and parking near the course is not available.
Where to stay in Copenhagen
Stay near Østerbro if you want to walk to the start and back from the finish. The walking times below are measured from the Parken stadium address on Øster Allé.
| Area | To the start area |
|---|---|
| Østerbro, around Trianglen | 8 minutes on foot to Trianglen, 0.6 km |
| Near Poul Henningsens Plads | 15 minutes on foot, 1.15 km |
| Nørrebro | 35 minutes on foot from Nørrebro station, 2.6 km |
| Nørreport and the old centre | 38 minutes on foot, 2.85 km |
| Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn | 42 minutes on foot, 3.1 km |
From anywhere past Poul Henningsens Plads the metro is the sensible choice. The organiser sells an event ticket for 12 hours of travel across Greater Copenhagen, including harbour buses, in the DOT Billetter app, and two children under 12 travel free.
Collecting your number
The organiser's practical page for 2027 does not give the expo. An earlier edition's expo help desk was at Sparta Hallen, Gunnar Nu Hansens Plads in Østerbro. A listing of that edition shows bibs ready on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with the expo open from 10:00 to 19:00 on the Friday and Saturday. The 2027 expo venue and hours are still unconfirmed.
Race morning
Your start group is set by the finish time you gave when you registered, and its colour is on your number. The table gives the arrival time for each group. The organiser recommends getting to your group 15 minutes before that time, so the black group should be there at 10:00. The official start is 9:30.
| Expected finish | Colour | Arrival time at your group |
|---|---|---|
| Under 1:16 | Yellow | 9:00 |
| 1:16 to 1:25 | Blue | 9:00 |
| 1:25 to 1:30 | Purple | 9:00 |
| 1:30 to 1:40 | Orange | 9:15 |
| 1:40 to 1:50 | Grey | 9:30 |
| 1:50 to 2:00 | Green | 9:45 |
| 2:00 to 2:15 | Red | 10:00 |
| Over 2:15 | Black | 10:15 |
Timing is by net time, which starts when you cross the start line, so a late group loses nothing. Wear the number on your chest, because the timing needs it there and not on your back or lower body. The Runners Area has the bag drop and water stations, each start group has water stations and toilets, and pace teams run with coloured balloons.
The course
The organiser's course page lists Kongens Nytorv, Frederiksberg Allé, the lakes, the Old Stock Exchange and the Black Diamond. The series page adds Christiansborg Palace and the Marble Church. The organiser calls the route super flat and fast, with live bands, DJs and loud spectator zones along it.
There are five official refreshment zones and a Red Bull sampling spot. Every zone has water and energy drink in biodegradable cups, and the organiser lists cold showers, toilets and medical support too. The zones are on both sides of the road, with a sign 100 m before each. The kilometre marks are not listed and no climb figure is published. The series page gives the men's course record as 58:01 (2019) and the women's as 1:04:44 (2025), and the official app tracks split times every 5 km.
Weather in Copenhagen in September
The race is in mid-September. These are the last four mass races at Østerbro, at 9:30 (the average of the 9:00 and 10:00 readings) and at 13:00. The 2026 race, held on 20 September as the World Athletics Road Running Championships, is left out.
| Race day | 9:30 | 13:00 | Wind at 9:30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 September 2022 | 12.1 °C | 14.0 °C | 9 km/h |
| 17 September 2023 | 17.8 °C | 20.6 °C | 7 km/h |
| 15 September 2024 | 13.3 °C | 15.4 °C | 18 km/h |
| 14 September 2025 | 14.7 °C | 15.6 °C | 14 km/h |
The wind was strongest in 2024, at 18 km/h. The 2023 start was the warmest of the four, at 17.8 °C, with a 7 km/h wind.
Afterwards
The finish is in Fælledparken, and the Runners Area is where you collect the bag you dropped, using its tag. The organiser's practical information page says you can recover in the Runners Area before you move on. The metro at Trianglen and Vibenshus Runddel takes you back into the city.
Other race weekends
Copenhagen Half Marathon is part of the SuperHalfs. The series' other races with a guide here are Valencia Half Marathon, Lisbon Half Marathon, Prague Half Marathon, Berlin Half Marathon and Cardiff Half Marathon.
Close by, and with guides of their own, are Copenhagen Marathon.
The next races with a guide
Sources
| 19 September 2027, 9:30, 45,000 places, over 100,000 in the draw | CPH Half Marathon, organiser, 2027 edition |
| Lottery dates, price, results from 5 October 2026, personal entry | Lottery, organiser, 2027 edition |
| Start groups and arrival times, bag drop, Volt lockers, net timing, water stations, toilets | Practical info, organiser, 2027 edition |
| Metro stations, rerouted buses, event ticket | Transportation, organiser, 2027 edition |
| Start on Jagtvej, finish in Fælledparken, route, flat claim, five refreshment zones | All about the course, organiser, 2027 edition |
| Expo help desk address and the Øster Allé finish | Practical info for earlier editions, organiser, a past edition, as listed in search results |
| Flat, wide, closed course, 30,000 runners, records | CPH Half Marathon, the SuperHalfs series page for the race |
| Airport distance, metro and train, fares | Copenhagen airport to city centre, Copenhagen's tourist board |
| Past race dates | Results pages for 2022 to 2025, independent results site and the results pages of each year |
| Walking times between places | OpenStreetMap routing, foot profile, checked on the date above |
| Course map and heights | Course file (KML), 2024, on the organiser's interactive map, organiser, 2024 file, linked from its map page, checked 4 October 2026 |
| Race-day weather | Open-Meteo historical weather, at Østerbro, a 9 km grid |
| Airport ticket zones | Getting from the airport, Visit Copenhagen, checked 7 October 2026 |
Written from the organiser's published information and the app's own race data, checked on 2 October 2026.
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