Take the Metro for refreshing dips in the city's harbour baths

Posted: 30. juli 2024Reading time: 10 min.
When the sun is beating down, the sweat is beading and the only thing you want is a cold dip, there are plenty of free swimming options in the city. We guide you to five harbour baths that you can get to quickly by Metro.

Tip. Download the KBH Harbour app and get more information about the weather, water and wind before you jump in the tub.

Islands Brygge harbour baths

If you get off the Metro at Islands Brygge, you only have a ten-minute walk to the city's largest harbour pool, which contains swimming pools, children's pools and a pool for diving from 1, 3 and 5 metres.

Get your heart rate up in the 75 metre exercise pool, make bombs from the diving platforms or let the little ones splash around in the children's pool, which is 30 cm deep at the shallow end. There are toilets on the quay. The harbour pool is open all year round - supervised by lifeguards during the summer.

Islands Brygge
12 min.

Islands Brygge harbour baths

Foto: Metroselskabet

Havnebadet Fisketorvet harbour bath

Right next to the Fisketorvet shopping centre and just a five-minute walk from Havneholmen metro station is another golden opportunity for a cold dip in Havnebadet Fisketorvet.

Here you have three separate pools to choose from: a 50-metre exercise pool, a diving pool with 1, 2 and 3 metre diving boards and a 70 cm deep children's pool. The harbour pool has lifeguards to keep a watchful eye throughout the summer.

Havneholmen
6 min.

Havnebadet Fisketorvet harbour bath

Foto: Metroselskabet

The harbour bath Sluseholmen

In Sydhavnen, a special bathing experience awaits you close to the Sluseholmen metro station. The lagoon-like harbour pool is inspired by the coral reef and established on floating pontoons. It offers four different pools: a children's pool with 30 cm deep water, a youth pool with a depth of 110 cm and two pools for exercise and diving.

From the metro station, it's not far to the two smaller bathing zones Vandtrappen and Halfdansgade if you prefer a quick dip.

Sluseholmen
12 min.

The harbour bath Sluseholmen

Havnegade bathing zone

If you get off the Metro at Kongens Nytorv, you can swim even if you're in the centre of the city. Here you'll find Badezone Havnegade with a small pool measuring 4 x 6 metres.

There's no room for big swims, but you can take a small dip with a view of the Inderhavnsbroen bridge. The bathing zone is open all year round and bathing is at your own risk.

Kongens Nytorv
9 min.

Havnegade bathing zone

Sandkaj bathing zone

Experience the wonderful atmosphere on the promenade in the new Nordhavn neighbourhood, where you can swim all year round. The swimming zone is delimited by floating barriers and features a small diving platform and two 60-metre swimming lanes.  

There is also a small dipping zone with adjustable bottoms of 60cm, 90cm and 120cm, suitable for children - and for winter swimmers. Bathing is at your own risk.

Nordhavn
6 min.

Sandkaj bathing zone