How many days can you rent out on Airbnb in Copenhagen?

In 2026, no more than 70 days per calendar year, if all the rentals go through platforms that report the rental income to the Danish Tax Agency, for example Airbnb. If you rent out yourself or mix private rental and platforms, the limit is 30 days. Copenhagen Municipality has not raised the limit to 100 days. The limit only applies to the home you live in yourself, and the days are counted together across platforms.

Is it legal to rent out your apartment on Airbnb in Copenhagen?

Yes, if it is your own permanent home and you stay within the day limit. You also need permission from your association or landlord. An owners’ association can restrict short-term rental with a two-thirds majority, in a co-operative association the standard articles require the board’s permission, and if you rent your home, you need your landlord’s consent. An apartment you do not live in requires the municipality’s consent if it is subject to the residence requirement.

Does the 70-day rule also apply in Frederiksberg?

Yes. Frederiksberg is a separate municipality, but it has not raised the limit and is not on the Danish Agency for Planning and Rural Affairs’ list of the 20 municipalities that allow up to 100 days. So you can rent out your own permanent home for up to 70 days a year through platforms that report, and for 30 days if you handle the rental yourself.

Can I rent out my rented home on Airbnb?

Only with your landlord’s consent. The Rent Act gives you the right to sublet the whole apartment for up to two years when you are temporarily away because of, for example, illness, a business trip or a study stay, but holidays are not on the list. If you let others use the home without having the right to do so and carry on after the landlord objects, the landlord can terminate the lease under section 182 of the Rent Act.

What is the fine for renting out too many days on Airbnb?

Today, the guideline fine is DKK 5,000 to 25,000, depending on how far the limit is exceeded. A bill that went to public consultation in September 2026 raises the fines to between DKK 5,000 and 100,000, depending on the number of days over the limit. According to the plan, the new fines apply to breaches from 1 January 2028, but the bill has not been passed yet.

Do you have to register your Airbnb home in Denmark in 2026?

No. The EU regulation on short-term rental has applied since 20 May 2026, but it does not require countries to introduce registration. Denmark has not introduced a registration scheme, and the bill from September 2026 does not contain one either. The platforms do, however, report your rental income to the Danish Tax Agency, and the figures are also used to supervise the day limit.

Can the owners’ association ban Airbnb?

Not completely. Under the standard articles, the association can restrict short-term rental with a two-thirds majority, counted by both allocation share and number, but you can still rent out up to four times and for 30 days in total a year. A stricter ban requires your consent. Also check your own articles, because the standard articles only apply where they do not say otherwise.

Airbnb rules in Copenhagen 2026: 70 days and residence rules

In Copenhagen in 2026, you can rent out your own permanent home (helårsbolig) to holiday guests for up to 70 days a year, if all the rentals go through platforms that report the rental income to the Danish Tax Agency (Skattestyrelsen), for example Airbnb. If you handle the rental yourself, the limit is 30 days. Your association, your landlord and the rules on the residence requirement (bopælspligt) can set tighter limits, and if you do not live in the home yourself, the 70-day rule does not apply at all.

Who can rent out on Airbnb in Copenhagen?

The rules on short-term rental of your own home are in section 5 of the Summer Houses Act (sommerhusloven) (in Danish). They apply to owners and users of a home that is their permanent home. This means they cover both you who own your home and you who rent or live in a co-operative home (andelsbolig). The law sets the cap on how many days you can rent out. Whether you are allowed to at all depends on the type of home.

Owner-occupied home

If you own the apartment and live in it, you can rent it out within the day limits. The owners’ association (ejerforening) may, however, have adopted a restriction. We come to that further down.

Co-operative home

Here, the association’s articles decide whether you can rent out. Under the ministry’s guideline standard articles for co-operative housing associations (in Danish), subletting and lending require the board’s permission. It can only be given when you are temporarily away, for example on holiday, a business trip or a study stay (section 11(2)). The board must approve both the tenant and the terms. Your own articles may be stricter, so talk to the board before you create a listing. Read more about renting out a co-operative home.

Rented home

If you rent your home, the Rent Act (lejeloven) (in Danish) applies. You have the right to sublet up to half of the living rooms while you live there yourself (section 157). You can sublet the whole apartment for up to two years if you are temporarily away because of illness, a business trip, a study stay, a temporary transfer or similar (section 158). Holidays are not on the list. If you let others use the apartment without having the right to do so and carry on after the landlord objects, the landlord can terminate the lease (section 182(1)(6)). So get your landlord’s written consent before you rent out to holiday guests.

An apartment you do not live in yourself

The 70-day rule only applies to your own permanent home. A home that has been used as a permanent home within the last five years may not, without the municipality’s consent, be used for summer residence or similar temporary use (section 7(1) of the Housing Conditions Act (lov om boligforhold), in Danish). Renting out to holiday guests on a commercial basis also requires permission from the Danish Agency for Planning and Rural Affairs (Plan- og Landdistriktsstyrelsen) (in Danish). If you own an apartment you do not live in, long-term rental is the obvious alternative.

What counts towards the 70-day rule?

The limit depends on how you rent out the whole home (Danish Agency for Planning and Rural Affairs, in Danish):

How you rent out	Limit per calendar year
Yourself, for example through a Facebook group or a direct arrangement	30 days
Both yourself and through platforms	30 days
Only through platforms that report the rental income to the Danish Tax Agency	70 days
Only through such platforms in a municipality that has raised the limit	Up to 100 days

The key word is only. If you take bookings outside the platform, the limit is 30 days. Copenhagen Municipality itself names Airbnb and Booking.com as examples of intermediaries that give access to the 70 days (Copenhagen Municipality, in Danish).

The days are counted per calendar year and per home, not per platform. If you rent out through both Airbnb and Booking.com, the days are added together. A municipality can raise the limit to no more than 100 days, but cannot set it below 70. Neither Copenhagen nor Frederiksberg is on the agency’s list of the 20 municipalities (in Danish) that have raised the limit.

Renting out a room

If you only rent out a room while you live in the home yourself, the day limits do not apply. Instead, the question is whether the rental is commercial. The Danish Agency for Planning and Rural Affairs assesses this case by case, based on things like the scale of the rental and your own use. If you rent out both the whole home and rooms to holiday guests in the same year, the rooms must also be rented out through a platform that reports. Otherwise, the limit for the whole home is 30 days (section 5(3) of the Summer Houses Act). Read more about renting out a room.

Do Copenhagen and Frederiksberg have their own rules?

Not on the number of days. Both municipalities follow the national limits. Copenhagen Municipality writes that it has no legal authority to regulate renting out for holiday purposes, and that enforcement lies with the Danish Agency for Planning and Rural Affairs. The municipality does, however, check whether the home is used as a permanent home, and passes reports of rentals of more than 70 days on to the agency (Copenhagen Municipality).

That may change. Copenhagen Municipality has decided to set up a housing patrol to supervise short-term rental (Copenhagen Municipality, in Danish). And the bill that went to public consultation on 16 September 2026 lets municipalities apply to take over supervision of the day limits from the state (Høringsportalen, in Danish).

Frederiksberg Municipality writes that homes that are or have been used as permanent homes must continue to be used as permanent homes. It is also a punishable offence not to tell the municipality if a home is going to stand empty for more than six weeks (Frederiksberg Municipality, in Danish).

The residence requirement and Airbnb in Copenhagen

Most homes in Copenhagen must be used as permanent homes. According to Copenhagen Municipality, a home is covered if it has been used as a permanent home within the last five years, either with registration in the civil register (folkeregistret) or with more than 180 overnight stays a year. The municipality also writes that a home may not be used for occasional living, and that it must be reported empty no later than six weeks after the last person moved out (Copenhagen Municipality).

How this fits with Airbnb is set out in the Housing Conditions Act. Renting out your own permanent home within the day limits of the Summer Houses Act does not require the municipality’s consent (section 7(4) of the Housing Conditions Act). That is the exception that makes the 70-day rule possible. If you rent out beyond the limit, or it is not your own home, the exception does not apply. Read more in our guide to the residence requirement in Copenhagen.

What can the owners’ association decide?

An owners’ association can restrict short-term rental, but not without limit. Under the standard articles for owners’ associations (normalvedtægten) (in Danish), a restriction requires at least two thirds of the owners to vote for it, counted both by allocation share and by number (section 4(1)). Even if the association bans short-term rental, you can still rent out up to four times and for no more than 30 days in total per calendar year (section 30(2)). Short-term rental here means rental periods of less than 31 days.

The ministry’s guidance on the standard articles (in Danish) names Airbnb as the typical example. If the association wants to go below four rentals and 30 days, it needs the consent of each individual owner. A restriction must be registered on the apartments in the Land Register (tinglyst) to be enforceable against new owners.

Whether or not the association has adopted a restriction, you must tell the board no later than when each rental begins, with the tenant’s name, contact details and the length of the rental period. The standard articles apply to the extent that your own articles do not say otherwise, so read those too.

What happens if you rent out for more than 70 days?

Breaking the day limits is punishable by a fine (section 10 b of the Summer Houses Act). Today, the guideline fine ranges from DKK 5,000, when the limit is exceeded by up to 6 per cent, to DKK 25,000, when it is exceeded by more than 17 per cent. This is set out in the bill that went to public consultation on 16 September 2026 (Høringsportalen).

The bill raises the fines and links them to the number of days over the limit. According to the plan, the law takes effect on 1 July 2027, and the new fines apply to breaches from 1 January 2028:

Days over the limit	Proposed fine
Up to 4 days	DKK 5,000
5 to 12 days	DKK 15,000
13 to 40 days	DKK 40,000
41 to 180 days	DKK 60,000
Over 180 days	DKK 100,000

For running so-called shadow hotels, the bill proposes DKK 50,000 per apartment per calendar year. The bill also gives the authorities the right to demand information from the platforms and to order them to remove illegal listings or block bookings. It has not been passed yet, so the amounts may still change.

Enforcement is already based on data. According to the bill, the Danish Agency for Planning and Rural Affairs has since January 2020 cross-checked data from the civil and building registers (CPR and BBR) with the rental income on landlords’ annual tax statements. So the rental income on your annual tax statement (årsopgørelse) is part of the supervision of your days.

Do the new EU rules require you to register your home?

The EU’s Regulation 2024/1028 on short-term rental (Danish version) has applied since 20 May 2026. It sets the framework for the registration schemes that member states choose to introduce themselves. Platforms only have to report activity data for homes in areas where the authorities have asked for it, and a country that wants that data must have a registration scheme (Articles 4 and 9). The regulation does not require countries to introduce registration.

Denmark has not introduced a registration scheme. The Summer Houses Act contains none, and the bill from September 2026 is about the duty to provide information, orders to platforms, municipal supervision and higher fines, not registration. So you do not need a registration number to rent out your home in Copenhagen today.

Checklist before you rent out on Airbnb

Check that the home is your permanent home and that you live there yourself.
Read the articles of your owners’ or co-operative association, or get your landlord’s written consent if you rent your home.
Only rent out through platforms that report if you want the 70 days, and count the days across platforms.
Tell the board when each rental begins if you live in an owners’ association.
Tell your insurance company that you rent out, and get the cover confirmed in writing. Read about insurance when renting out and about how safe it is to rent out on Airbnb.
Work out the tax before you set the price. See Airbnb tax with a worked example for 2026.

If you would rather have help, BY Administration keeps the day count for the homes we manage, only rents out through platforms that report, and closes the calendar before the limit is reached. Read about Airbnb management.

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