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# Horsens

Horsens is a city on the southeast coast of the Jutland peninsula.

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## Every way there

- Billund → Horsens 49 km · quickest by road, 53 min · kr38–50 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/billund-to-horsens) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Billund&to=Horsens)
- Odense → Horsens 62 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · kr70–95 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/odense-to-horsens) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Odense&to=Horsens)
- Aarhus → Horsens 40 km · quickest by road, 43 min · kr33–45 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/aarhus-to-horsens) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Aarhus&to=Horsens)

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 Horsens, 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 Horsens](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/horsens)

What Horsens has

- Y Scheduled flights Billund (BLL), 45 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 1 timetable feed for this country, 1 with real-time
- Y Ferries Cykelfærgen, 12 km; 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.

55.858°, 9.850°

It is the seat of the Horsens municipality. The city's population is 65,037 and the municipality's population is 98,806, making it the 6th largest city in Denmark.

Get in

## Getting to Horsens

It takes 28 mins to reach Horsens from Aarhus by DSB Intercity trains, the main train service operating in Denmark. Horsens is two stops from Aarhus towards Copenhagen on the main line running from Frederikshavn in north to Copenhagen. The nearest airport is Billund Airport, the country's second largest airport. There is also a smaller airport in Tirstrup, north of Aarhus.

1. Horsens Railway Station is west side

Do

## Things to do

1. Canoeing at Bygholm Sø Lovbyvej 35 (go to Bygholm Sø Camping northwest of Bygholm Park), camp@horsens.dk.
2. Fængslet Fussingsvej 8 (North of the central station).
3. Horsens Ny Teater Teatertorvet 1 (In the pedestrianised area north of Søndergade), hnt@hnt.dk.

Eat

## Where to eat

There are plenty of dining opportunities around the pedestrianized highstreet zone. Most cafés are here, and some of them serves both day and night, including evening dinners and late night partying.

1. Cafe Corfitz Centrally located classic café, right at Søndergade.
2. Spisekammeret Thonbogade 19 (in the pedestrianized area north of Søndergade), info@spisekammeret.net.
3. Sakura Sushi Bar Torvet 20 (down Søndergade until you hit the church square).
4. Paradis Thonbogade 2, (in the pedestrianised area).
5. Lagkagehuset Lokes Allé 30 and Sønderbrogade 95A (at the junction between Ringevejen and Thorsvej in the south part of town),.

How locals move

## Getting around Horsens the local way

- Go next Take the bus to the small town of Snaptun and then the 1-hour ferry to the island of Endelave.
- Go next Do this as a day trip or stay overnight for a mini-vacation.
- Go next Take the short seven-minute ferry trip there from Snaptun.
- Go next In the summer months there is a ferry connection from Snaptun, but Alrø can also be accessed from an artificial landbridge on the northern side.
- Go next Bird tours are regularly arranged, as are small canoe trips.

From [Wikivoyage: Horsens](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Horsens), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsens) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Horsens), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Slaunger (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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