Last updated: December 01, 2024
Experience the holiday highlights in Helsingor with our comprehensive guide, leading you through the city's festive traditions and events. We have gathered all the best from the historic city center and surrounding areas.
From the charming pedestrian street to the majestic Kronborg Castle, Helsingor offers various Christmas traditions. The city's central square hosts the traditional Christmas market, while the cobblestone streets are decorated with holiday lights. The harbor front and culture yard contribute with maritime Christmas traditions, and local shops and cafés offer seasonal specialties.
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Helsingor Holiday Light Displays
Frilandsmuseet Christmas
Frilandsmuseet Jul is a festive Christmas experience with bonfires, drillenisser, and decorated old farms. Visitors can experience Christmas and Lucia after closing time, including singing Christmas carols with the museum's Lucia choir and taking a tour of the old houses lit with magical Christmas lights.
Helsingor Holiday Markets and Shopping
Christmas in Tivoli Gardens
The Christmas Market in Tivoli is a festive and traditional Christmas experience with many stalls offering Christmas treats and local specialties. The garden is filled with beautiful lights and Christmas trees, and there are many child-friendly attractions and performances for the whole family.
Kronborg Castle Christmas Market
Kronborg Slot Christmas Market is a unique Christmas market at Kronborg Castle, where you can shop for delicious delicacies and unique Christmas gifts, listen to the sounds of the season at intimate concerts, and enjoy warm apple slices and pancakes in our beautifully decorated castle courtyard.
Vesterbro RAW Christmas Market
Vesterbro RAW Julemarked is a unique Christmas market in DGI Byen, where you can find handmade ceramics, art, jewelry, clothing, and delicacies.
Farum Culture House Christmas Market
Farum Kulturhus Christmas Market is a cozy day filled with Christmas atmosphere, treats, and music. The house is filled with exciting and handmade gift ideas, high-quality craftsmanship, and many stalls with Christmas decorations, glass, fabric, wood, and leather. You can enjoy refreshments in the café and sing along to all the well-known Christmas carols.
Remisen Christmas Market
Remisen Julemarked is a cozy Christmas market featuring stalls filled with art, Danish craftsmanship, and delicacies. You can meet the rare Santa Claus and find unique Christmas gifts.
Lyngby Mill Christmas Market
Lyngby Mølle Christmas Market is a cozy Christmas market with various exhibitors selling ceramics, jewelry, wool, skincare products, knitting needles, glass design, powders and photos, watercolors, pileflet, flower work, historical decorations, pearl jewelry, and much more. There is also a café and quality wine.
Helsingor Holiday Shows and Entertainment
Tavern Festival
Knejpe Festival is a two-day festival celebrating Helsingør's history with live music, street performers, and historical drinks. The theme this year is the legends and myths of the sea, and over the two days you can experience 72 concerts with local and international artists.
Nordic Adventure Film Festival
The Nordic Adventure Film Festival gathers the year's most significant adventure films in a cinematic format, focusing on extreme athletes and outdoor activities.
Helsingor Other Holiday Activities
Hubertus Hunt
The Hubertus Hunt is a celebrated equestrian event that showcases the skills of riders and their hounds as they traverse picturesque landscapes. Traditionally held in late autumn, participants follow a trail marked by a faux fox, testing their technique and teamwork in a lively atmosphere. Spectators gather to witness this thrilling competition, which often includes lively displays of horsemanship.