--- title: "Aalborg – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Aalborg from Aarhus, Billund and Odense: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare. Aalborg or Ålborg is Denmark's fourth…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/aalborg" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/aalborg.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Toldkammer%2C_Toldbod_Plads_1%2C_Aalborg.jpg/1920px-Toldkammer%2C_Toldbod_Plads_1%2C_Aalborg.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- ![Aalborg](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Toldkammer%2C_Toldbod_Plads_1%2C_Aalborg.jpg/1920px-Toldkammer%2C_Toldbod_Plads_1%2C_Aalborg.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) # Aalborg Aalborg or Ålborg is Denmark's fourth largest city with a population of 119,862 in the town proper and an urban population of 143,598. [Plan a trip to Aalborg](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Aalborg) [From Aarhus](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aarhus&to=Aalborg) ## Every way there - Aarhus → Aalborg 101 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · kr80–110 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aarhus-to-aalborg) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aarhus&to=Aalborg) - Billund → Aalborg 154 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · kr140–190 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/billund-to-aalborg) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Billund&to=Aalborg) - Odense → Aalborg 186 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · kr175–235 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/odense-to-aalborg) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Odense&to=Aalborg) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. The field note What is in and around Aalborg, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Aalborg](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aalborg) What Aalborg has - Y Scheduled flights Aalborg (AAL), 6 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 1 timetable feed for this country, 1 with real-time - Y Ferries Egholm Havn, 2 km, Ålborg Kommune; sailings estimated - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share no share feed known - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. 57.050°, 9.917° As of 1 July 2022, the Municipality of Aalborg had a population of 221,082, making it the third most populous in the country after the municipalities of Copenhagen (capital) and Aarhus. Eurostat and OECD have used a definition for the metropolitan area of Aalborg, which includes all municipalities in the province of North Jutland, with a total population of 594,323 as of 1 July 2022. Get in ## Getting to Aalborg 1. Aalborg Airport 2. Bus Fredensgade 45 (close to the train station). 3. Aalborg Banegårdspladsen 1. 4. Aalborg Vestby Smaller platform where some trains do an interim stop. See ## Worth seeing 1. Aalborg Akvavit Distillery. 2. Aalborghus Castle A half-timbered castle that was built by King Christian III in 1539 - 1555 as a fortification. 3. Aalborg Tower 54.9-metre-tall observation tower built of lattice steel in 1933. 4. Aalborg Townhall Built in 1759 and served as city hall until 1912. 5. Aalborg Zoo Cosy zoo with many "classic" zoo animals such as giraffes, elephants and big cats. 6. Budolfi Church Built in the 1300s, this historic medieval church serves as Aalborg's cathedral. Do ## Things to do Bicycle: rent a bicycle and go along the fjord. Football: Aalborg BK ("AaB") were relegated in 2025 and play soccer in First Division, the second tier. Their Portland Park (capacity 13,800) is 1 km west of city centre. 1. Casino Aalborg Ved Stranden 16, fax: +45 9933 7099, casino@casino-aalborg.dk. 2. Ice-skating Free if you own your own skates, otherwise renting them is 50 kr. 3. Open Swimming Pool 4. Nordkraft Kjellerups Torv (at the habourfront next to Musikkens Hus and the Utzon Center). 5. Musikkens Hus Musikkens Plads 1 (at the harbourfront next to Nordkraft and the Utzon Centre),. 6. Aalborg Karnival If you want to have fun with Danish people this is a great opportunity. Eat ## Where to eat 1. Fontænen It has the cheapest hot dogs in town, low budget fast food, what you need after a night out. 2. Husets Café Non-profit cultural house which serves a daily vegetarian meal at a fixed price. 3. Café Friends Nice location toward the street junction & have the option to stay out. 4. San Giovanni Vesterbro 46,. 5. Pho Saigon Østerbro 22 (across the street from Nordkraft.),. How locals move ## Getting around Aalborg the local way - Get in There are ferries from Norway and Sweden coming to North Jutland (Hirtshals or Frederikshavn). From [Wikivoyage: Aalborg](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Aalborg), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalborg) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Aalborg), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Liberaler Humanist (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/aalborg, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt