Round Tower Tickets: The Copenhagen Card Stopped Covering It

Two things about Rundetaarn that most published advice still gets wrong, and both cost people something.

It left the Copenhagen Card in 2024

From 1 April 2024 the Round Tower is no longer included in the Copenhagen Card. The operator states it on its own homepage and again on the visit page. Guides written before that date still list it as covered. Budget the 60 DKK separately — 40 DKK for students, free under 18.

You cannot buy in advance

General admission is sold on site only. The webshop handles special events and nothing else. Which means any “skip the line” product sold elsewhere is skipping a line that has no advance channel to skip.

The ramp does not go to the top

The tower is famous for its spiral ramp, and the ramp is real: 281 metres of cobbled incline at about a ten per cent gradient, winding roughly seven and a third times around a hollow core, rising 34.8 metres from the street. For almost the whole climb there are no steps.

Then near the top there are two staircases — 28 wooden steps and 31 stone ones — and no lift. The operator’s own words: the tower is “unfortunately not very accessible for visitors in wheelchairs.” A wheelchair user can go up most of the ramp and cannot reach the viewing platform. The inner edge of the ramp is also steep, around a third gradient, on uneven historic brick. It is not a modern accessibility ramp.

What the ticket includes

The ramp, the Library Hall, the Bell Loft, the hollow core, the viewing platform and the planetarium. The observatory with telescope viewing is separate and winter-only: October to March, Mondays and Tuesdays 18:00–21:00.

Open daily 10:00–20:00 from April to September; October to March it varies, to 21:00 on Mondays and Tuesdays and 18:00 otherwise. Closed 24 and 25 December and 1 January.

Source: rundetaarn.dk, checked 26 August 2026.

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