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Nivå

Nivå is a town with a population of 8,816 in the municipality of Fredensborg on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark.

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The place

Nivå is a town with a population of 8,816 in the municipality of Fredensborg on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark. Nivå is a residential town on the coast of the Øresund. It has a stop on the Copenhagen – Helsingør Kystbanen rail line.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nivå

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

    The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, also known as the Louisiana, is an art museum located north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Attracting over 700,000 guests annually, the Louisiana is Scandinavia's most visited museum for modern and contemporary art, hosting 6 to 10 exhibitions each year alongside a permanent display of Yayoi Kusama's Gleaming Lights of the Souls.

    4.6 km · art museum in Denmark · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kokkedal hotel

    Kokkedal Slot is a former country house located in Hørsholm north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now operated as a 62-room, high-end hotel under the name Kokkedal Slot Copenhagen to distinguish it from Kokkedal Slot in North Jutland.

    3.6 km · vacation house in northeast Zealand, Denmark · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Nivaagaard

    Nivaagaard is a historic property in Nivå in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now home to an art gallery and the park is open to the public.

    700 m · Danish building now housing Nivaagaard museum · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sophienberg

    Sophienberg is a former royal summer retreat located on the Coast Road in Rungsted, Hørsholm Municipality, some 20 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is now operated as a venue for meetings and smaller conferences.

    4.1 km · building in Rungsted, Denmark · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Humlebæk Church

    Humlebæk Church is a parish church in Humlebæk, Fredensborg Municipality, som 20 km north of central Copenhagen, Denmark.

    4.8 km · church building in Fredensborg Municipality, Denmark · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Krogerup Højskole

    Krogerup Højskole is a folk high school located outside Humlebæk in Fredensborg-Humlebæk Municipality north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1953, it is based in a former manor house built from 1772 to 1777.

    4.8 km · manor house in Fredensborg Municipality, Denmark · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Strandbjerg

    Strandbjerg, also known as Villa Standbjerg, is a mansion in Rungsted, Hørsholm Municipality, situated on the Øresund coast north of Copenhagen, Denmark.

    5 km · mansion in Rungsted · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Mikkelgård

    Mikkelgård is a former country house situated in Mikkelborg Beach Park, Hørsholm Municipality, some 25 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the former summer retreat of the composer Hakon Schmedes who named his house after the locality.

    2.7 km · building in Hørsholm Municipality, Denmark · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

    Gammel Strandvej 13, Humlebæk (a train from Copenhagen to Humlebæk takes about 30 min; the museum is within 15 min walking distance from the train station in Humlebæk),.

  2. 02
    Nivaagaards Malerisamling

    Museum with paintings of Rembrandt, Eckersberg, Købke.

  3. 03
    Krogerupskovene

    Forest preserve interspersed with farms, an organic food shop, and Krogerup Folk High School.

  4. 04
    Old Hørsholm

    This cluster of pretty yellow buildings by the local church is what remains of the old Hørsholm city.

  5. 05
    Hørsholm Church
  6. 06
    Hørsholm Egns Museum

From Wikivoyage: Nivå, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Kokkedal Golfklub
  2. 02
    Rungsted Golfklub

    Vestre Stationsvej 16, fax: +45 45865770, info@rungstedgolfklub.dk.

From Wikivoyage: Nivå, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

The area has numerous restaurants, especially pricey ones. Most are situated around the harbour areas along the coast. Most exciting is Rungsted Havn with quite a few restaurants and a very lively harbour life, especially on warmer days. There are also a few places around Vedbæk Havn. Cheaper places are found further away from the coast, try Hørsholm for a selection.

From Wikivoyage: Nivå, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Nivå

Airports
Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH), 36 km · Malmö Sturup (MMX), 70 km · Aarhus (AAR), 124 km
Stations
Rungsted Kyst Station, 5.9 km · Humlebæk station, 3.8 km · Kokkedal station, 3.3 km
  • Aarhus → Nivå
    145 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · kr225–300
  • Odense → Nivå
    146 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · kr130–175
  • Aalborg → Nivå
    201 km · quickest by road, 5h 55m · kr305–405
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nivå

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nivå. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is a small ferry that goes between the castle and the main square, DKK 25.

From Wikivoyage: Hillerød, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    17 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    567 km
  3. 03
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    636 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    684 km
  5. 05
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    718 km

If you know how people move in Nivå – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nivå

Nivå is 29 km from Copenhagen, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.