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Driving in Denmark

The licence plates you will see on the road in Denmark, how to read them, and what a car from abroad needs.

DENMARK5080130

Speed limits

Default limits for cars, unless signs say otherwise, as on the signs at border crossings.

In towns
50 km/h
Outside towns
80 km/h
Motorways
130 km/h

Before you drive

Vignette and tolls
There is no vignette, and motorways are free for cars. The Great Belt Bridge between Zealand and Funen and the Øresund Bridge to Sweden charge a toll.

Rules and prices change. Check the official site before you travel.

DK

Country code

Cars registered here show the country code DK. Plates carry it on the blue EU band, which counts as the country sign: no separate oval sticker is needed in the European Economic Area, and the plate is also valid in other countries of the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic. A car from abroad shows its own country code at the rear in the same way.

Reading the plates

Plates carry no regional code, so the letters and numbers do not tell where a car is from.

Plates you will see

  • AB 12 345

    Standard · Since 1976

Special plates

Plate formats and history of Denmark

Sources