Does the Copenhagen metro run at night after a party?

2 September 2026 · 5 min

The question never comes from the host. It comes from an aunt, about three weeks before the party, and it always arrives in the same shape: lovely, thank you, but how do I get home afterwards?

In most cities that question has an awkward answer involving a last departure at half past midnight and a rank of taxis that may or may not be there. Copenhagen has a better one. The metro does not stop at night. Not at midnight, not at three, not on a Tuesday.

That single fact quietly decides more about the end of an evening than the music does, so it is worth knowing precisely rather than approximately.

Yes, and it runs every night of the year

The M2 line that serves this end of Amager runs 24 hours a day. There is no final train to catch, no timetable to memorise and no reason to leave during the dessert.

What changes after midnight is how long you stand on the platform, not whether a train comes at all:

• At the morning and afternoon peaks, about every 2 minutes.
• Through the ordinary daytime, and across the weekend, about every 3 minutes.
• Between 01:00 and 07:00 on a Friday or Saturday night, about every 8 minutes.
• At those same small hours on any other night, about every 20 minutes.

Read the bottom two lines again, because that is the whole practical difference between a Saturday party and a Wednesday one. At the worst hour of the quietest night, a guest waits about a quarter of an hour. That is roughly how long it takes to say goodbye properly to a room of eighty people, which means most of your guests will not wait at all.

What that means for the last hour of your party

Hosts routinely end a party earlier than they wanted to, because somewhere in the planning they assumed the transport would set a curfew. Here it does not. The only finishing time that matters is the one written into your booking, so settle that in writing when you book the hall rather than discovering it at eleven o'clock on the night.

The second effect is subtler and better. When there is no last train, people stop leaving in one anxious wave. Nobody stands up mid-speech, and the group of four who would have gone at ten to catch something stay through the cake, the dancing and the part of the evening the photographs come from.

It does not mean you should put everything late. Families with small children will still leave around nine or ten, and grandparents not long after, so the running order should still deliver the welcome, the speeches and the cake while the whole room is present. What the night service buys you is the hour after that, which belongs to whoever wants it. Our page on the hall on Amager sets out the practical side of an evening booking, and what the hall fee covers explains what is included once the room is yours.

The buses that also run around the clock

Not everyone wants a walk of ten minutes or more in the dark at the end of a long night, particularly guests in good shoes, and this is where the address earns its keep.

The nearest stop is called Sundby Kirkegård, on Kastrupvej. It sits about 181 m from us, which is two minutes at any pace you like. It is served by line 8A on electric buses, around the clock. A guest who is tired rather than adventurous can therefore be collected almost from the door at any hour, which is not something most halls in Copenhagen can say.

Line 5C is the other one worth naming. It runs along Amagerbrogade, roughly 400 m west of us, it runs 24 hours a day, and it goes all the way to the airport. For a wedding with family flying in, that is the difference between an arrival plan and an arrival problem.

The daytime version of all this, with the walk named street by street, lives in a separate piece about arriving by metro and bus.

Guests coming from further out, and the drinks order

Two consequences follow, and both are worth a line in the planning.

The first is the ticket. The two closest metro stations are in fare zone 1, while a third one slightly further away sits in zone 3, which only matters to someone buying a single ticket rather than tapping a card. Copenhagen Airport is in zone 4 on the same line. Naming one station in the invitation saves a small argument at a ticket machine at two in the morning.

The second lands on the bar. Where a venue can only be reached by car, one adult at every table spends the evening on water so that the others do not. That calculation disappears when the trains and the buses never stop, and it usually shows up as a different drinks order: more people drinking a little, fewer people abstaining all night out of duty. If nobody has to drive, the question becomes what your guests actually want, and the frequently asked questions page covers how the drinks options work.

The three lines to put in the invitation

Copy these, change nothing, and you will answer the question before anyone asks it:

"The metro runs all night, so there is no last train. On a Friday or Saturday you will wait about eight minutes even at three in the morning, and about twenty on a weeknight. Bus 8A stops two minutes from the door, at any hour."

Then plan the evening you actually want rather than the one the timetable allows. Book a visit, and when we have shown you the room we will point out the bus stop, which is closer than anyone expects. Or get in touch, tell us which Saturday you are aiming at, and we will say straight away whether it is still open.