Leif Jørgensen / CC BY-SA 4.0Where to stay in Østerbro
North of the centre, past Østerport: nineteenth-century apartment blocks in long straight streets, Fælledparken with the city's football pitches and playgrounds, the lakes along its western edge, and the new harbour district at Nordhavn building northwards. Where Copenhageners with children live, and it reads that way — comfortable, green, and quiet after nine, which is the recommendation and the warning at once.
Price level · Upscale
Area scorecard
Scored 0–10 by Where Stay Guide. No overall total: every traveller weights these differently.
- Sightseeing
- 6.5
- Walkability
- 8.0
- Transport
- 8.5
- Food
- 7.5
- Nightlife
- 5.5
- Quietness
- 7.5
- Families
- 8.5
- Value
- 5.5
- Airport / station
- 8.0
- First trip
- 7.0
Best for
- Families
- Longer stays
- Travellers who want a residential city rather than a visited one
Choose elsewhere if
- This is three days
- You want to walk out into dinner
- You came for the nightlife
Our picks in Østerbro
Best in the new harbour
Comwell Copenhagen Portside
Our pick for Østerbro because it is in Nordhavn, the reclaimed harbour ground the area is still growing into, and its own site puts it 150 metres from the metro — which is what makes the northern end of this area workable.
Best for design
The Audo
Our second pick in Østerbro and the opposite of the first: a small house on Århusgade in Nordhavn that is a showroom, a café and a handful of rooms at once, on the water at the end of the harbour.