Copenhagen is a magnet to visitors for a long range of reasons. It’s charms and querkiness, along with a long list of important conferences attracts the attention of many people, but in recent years the city has made the headlines in international media on a whole new scale.
In June 2025 both Global Liveability Index and The Economist ranked Copenhagen the “Most Liveable City in the World”, just like Monocle’s Quality of Life Survey has done a number of times.

Copenhagen is named the Happiest City in the World on the Happy City Index 2025, praised for its transparency in governance, commitment to education and innovation, and quality of life.
Copenhagen was even designated the UNESCO-UIA “World Capital of Architecture” for 2023, and home to the “World’s Best Restaurant” (NOMA) multiple years in a row.
The city was even ranked 1st for work-life balance by Forbes in 2023, and the “Safest city in the world” since 2021.

Copenhagen is consistently ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable cities, placing highly on the Global Destination Sustainability Index, and ranked the “World’s most sustainable destination” (Travelers’ Choice, 2024).
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The most important award, to us, however, is “The Most Bike friendly Capital in the World” (2024). The city boasts five times more bikes than cars.
Biking in Copenhagen is very easy. The city has 546 kilometers of bike paths. About 65% of residents ride bikes to work.

On average, Copenhageners cycle 3 km daily, citing efficiency as the primary reason — they simply find it the fastest and most effective way to get around.
Copenhagen is not famous for extravagant landmarks, but excels in the everyday marvels: Human-centred architecture and urban planning shape the frames of everyday life, where the city offers inviting public spaces.
Copenhageners use their city as an urban living room. Public zones along the water front, carefuly designed edge zones around buildings, and unwalled school playgrounds are all examples of a trustful city planning, and illustates the safety and social security that makes Copenhagen a city to be experienced not only gazing up a historic masterpiece but in the streets where we live.

Hasse “Hassan” Sørensen