Conquer Copenhagen’s canals on a SUP board

Copenhagen’s popular harbour area stretches some 12 kilometers from North to South, and in addition to this, the surrounding Greater Copenhagen coastline provides an even larger playground for SUP and kayak adventures, just waiting to be explored.

Interview - Michael Lindberg, CEO, Surf & Sup Denmark

• Copenhagen harbour is twice the size of Central Park in New York
• The water in the harbour was officially declared clean by the EU in 1999
• The harbour is Copenhagen's blue gathering point and stretches about 12 kilometers from Svanemølle Beach in the North to Kalvebod in the South
• There are 24 bridges in the harbour, connecting the various city district's crosswise
• The city’s 100% electric public harbour busses transport more than 600.000 passengers around the harbour each year. It’s free to bring your bike
• It is possible to walk or bike around the entire harbour. The route, dubbed the Harbour Circle, is 13 kilometers long
• The first public harbour bath opened on Island Brygge back in 2002
• Today, there are 14 bathing zones, including 4 harbour baths, in the harbour area
• Already in 2019, CNN announced: “Copenhagen is the best city in the world for swimming”  
• 200 Biohuts or “fish kindergarden” have been established in the harbour too to provide shelter and living spaces for smaller fish to grow
• 6 stone reefs have been made to provide living spaces for fish to improve sea water biodiversity
• There are over dedicated 350 SUP members and 5 designated SUP clubs in Copenhagen
• There are 17 SUP clubs in the entire Capital Region
• And there are more than 6.000 members of kayak and rowing clubs in the area
• 2 million people use the harbour every year, including 23.000 swimmers.