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Road trip planner: Denmark
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Driving rules: Denmark
The general rules for cars, from the tables we keep with their official sources. Road signs always take precedence.
- Speed limits
- Built-up areas: 50 km/h
- Outside built-up areas: 80 km/h
- Expressways: 80 km/h (Motor-traffic roads; can be signed up to 100)
- Motorways: 130 km/h
- Motor-traffic roads (motortrafikvej) are 80 km/h and can be signed up to 100 km/h, and lower limits can be signed on motorway sections. Above 1.2 ‰ the licence is withdrawn unconditionally.
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- Alcohol limit
- 0.5 g/l · Novice drivers: 0.2 g/l
- Novice drivers: Category B drivers in the first 3 years after their first B licence, and anyone driving without a licence (since 1 July 2025).
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- Winter tyres
- No requirement
- Denmark has no legal requirement to use winter tyres on cars.
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- Motorway vignette
- No vignette for cars.
- Tolls for motorways, bridges and tunnels on your own trip: the calculator →
- Fuel price
- €2.391 petrol 95 · €2.435 diesel, per litre
- Price of November 9, 2026
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- Wild camping
- Tent: only in marked places · In the vehicle: unclear — check locally
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These are the general limits: road signs always take precedence, and laws change. Before you travel, check the source linked in the row for your country.