Halloween experiences in Denmark 2026

The country's most comprehensive overview with maps and lists of Halloween events

Autumn has begun and that of course means it's time for pumpkins, vampires, ghost stories and lots of spooky stuff.

There are a wealth of Halloween experiences and events around Jutland, Funen and Zealand in 2025.

We have therefore created a list divided into regions so that you can quickly find activities near you, but you can also get a visual overview with the digital map of Halloween events.

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Map of this year's Halloween events

Find the big and small events near you with our digital map.

NOTE! We are in the process of adding events for 2025, so we can have lots of exciting events on the map for Jutland, Funen and Zealand.

North Jutland

Halloween at Aalborg Zoo

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Aalborg Zoo invites you to North Jutland's biggest Halloween party!

The whole family will get into the right Halloween mood with horror and pumpkin coziness and all sorts of creepy crawlies that swarm from the dark corners of the garden.

Autumn Festival + Light Fall in Fårup Sommerland

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Come to Høstfest in Fårup Sommerland this autumn. Again in 2025, the summerland will open for Høstfest and Lysfald on the weekend of October 3-5 and of course throughout the autumn holidays from October 10-19. Here you can experience true autumn atmosphere and maximum coziness when they open their doors for Høstfest! 

(Un)spooky Halloween lecture

Come to a (un)spooky Halloween lecture at Aalborg Libraries, where historian Sofie Othilia Knudsen talks about ghosts and haunted manors.

Halloween in Thisted

Halloween in Thisted brings the autumn holidays to life with family-friendly activities and a spooky atmosphere. Experience pumpkin carving, drawing competitions and child-friendly events arranged in the city center - a cozy gathering place for both young and old who want to celebrate (un)cosily together.

The Darkness: Folklore and Horror

Experience Halloween at Hjerl Hede, when darkness falls and folk beliefs come to life. With a lantern guide, you will wander through the old village, where legendary figures such as shapeshifters, elf girls, giants – and even the Devil – lurk in the shadows. A (un)spooky evening that gives you a unique insight into how superstition and horror characterized life in the old days.

Halloween Horror Night with ICYE

On October 28th, ICYE Nordjylland invites you to Halloween Horror Night in Aalborg. The event begins with pumpkin carving, cake and pumpkin soup at Vesterbro 30, before moving on to Aalborg Kongres & Kulturcenter, where participants can experience a 30-minute Horror Night performance.

Everyone is welcome, but members of Danish ICYE will have their ticket costs covered. The registration deadline is October 23, and participants are encouraged to come dressed up for Halloween.

Do you know of any other spooky Halloween activities in North Jutland that are missing from the list? Then give us a tip here.

Middle Jutland

Halloween in Tivoli Friheden

Normally, Tivoli Friheden is filled with joy, fun and smiling faces. But every year in October, their fairytale park changes significantly. Suddenly, it is the bravest guests who dare to visit Tivoli Friheden on opening days from 4th – 5th and 11th – 19th October. So the only question is, are you brave enough to visit the place for Halloween?

During Halloween, real horror, horror and horror spread throughout the park. It is teeming with hairy spiders, gruesome monsters, talking skeletons, screaming ghosts and all sorts of mysterious creatures and apparitions.  

Halloween at Ree Park Safari

Halloween is quickly approaching, and at Ree Park Safari they are preparing to welcome you to a spectacular Halloween week.

During the autumn holidays, Saturday 11th to 19th October, you can enter a world filled with mysteries and events every day. The park looks forward to welcoming you to a world of (un)cozy and (un)animals and a frightening array of offers and activities for all ages.

All Saints' Day in the Old Town

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Experience All Saints' Day in the Old Town, where you can hear about superstitions, dragon dolls, mysterious apparitions, poisonous plants and much more from the priest, the farmhands and the kitchen maids, among others. Participate in the many fun and educational activities that take place throughout the autumn holidays.

You can also make your own spooky bee lantern and hear how the lanterns were used in ancient times to scare the neighbors.

The market square smells of apple slices, and the patisserie offers coffee, chocolate and cakes with history.

Halloween at Gammel Estrup

On this magical evening, mysterious things happen at the manor, and who knows, maybe some of the manor's former residents will show up...

Hear the ghost stories associated with Gammel Estrup, and experience the manor lit only by candles. Take an atmospheric tour of the dark cellar, where supernatural phenomena and ghosts lurk. Also try the spooky treasure hunt in the garden – if you dare!

In the Manor Kitchen and coffee rooms you can buy coffee and the famous Gammel Estrup apple cake.

Magical Halloween in Djurs Sommerland

Look forward to one of Denmark's biggest Halloween events when we celebrate Magical Halloween in Djurs Sommerland during the autumn holidays.

The entire park is transformed! Experience 40,000 brightly colored pumpkins, rattling skeletons, cawing witches, and crawling spiders.

Also look forward to two Halloween haunted houses – HekseSkolen and GræskarFabrikken – if you dare!

Do you know of other spooky Halloween activities in Central Denmark that are missing from the list? Then give us a tip here.

South Jutland

DYSTOPIA - Haunted House

DYSTOPIA Haunted House is an interactive horror maze of 50+ scary and astonishing rooms that you walk through in small groups. Inside the maze, actors in special effects makeup and costumes are waiting to give you the biggest shock of your life! The maze features specially designed sound and light effects, decorations and terrifying installations.

This fall, you can experience thrills, laughter and terror in our most ambitious horror maze to date! Together with guests and volunteers, we have collected the best of the best from the last decade of terrifying entertainment.

Halloween in Aabenraa

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The spookiness spreads when Halloween once again appears in Aabenraa's pedestrian street from October 13 to October 18.

Come and experience the great Halloween decorations in Aabenraa's pedestrian street and on the squares when Halloween rolls around the country again in October.

Halloween is a very special annual event in Aabenraa, where the town centre squares and pedestrian street are decorated extra beautifully. See the creepy clowns, nasty spider webs and get a thrill when you walk through the street. During the school autumn holidays in week 42 there will be fun – and spooky – activities for children of all ages.

Do you know of other spooky Halloween activities in South Jutland that are missing from the list? Then give us a tip here.

Funen

Halloween at Odense Zoo

Look forward to lots of brand new, fun and (un)funny moments when Odense ZOO celebrates Halloween! 

The garden will be decorated like never before, and you can look forward to exploring the Witches' Forest, the Bat Cave and the Field of Death, among other places! There will also be the opportunity for real witch games when the garden is taken over by crazy and quirky witches who are ready to play and dance with both children and adults. 

In addition to the many beautiful autumn colors, witches' eyes and pumpkins in long rows, the program is filled with lots of fun and exciting animal activities for the whole family.

Halloween at Oak Forest

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For Halloween, the creepy creatures move into Egeskov, where they have settled in the park by the old castle. It is bound to be spooky for children and their families.

During the autumn holidays, Egeskov's garden is decorated with a Halloween theme. For children and their families, there is an activity program with both fun and non-fun. On a route in the garden, younger children can solve a treasure hunt and on their trip they meet a lot of goblins, trolls and witches. For older children, we turn up the spookiness a notch in the ZONE.

Pick your own pumpkins at Kellebygård's roadside stand

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Stop by the cozy pumpkin stand just outside Søndersø!

At the roadside stall you can buy various edible pumpkins and decorative pumpkins – large and small.

There are also Halloween pumpkins. The closer we get to Halloween, the more different sizes there will be to choose from. From the small ones weighing 2 kg to the large ones weighing over 15 kg.

Do you have a Funen Halloween activity we can add to the list? Then give us a tip here.

Zealand

Halloween in Tivoli

The witches have enchanted the garden, so you can explore among creepy spiders, crows and more than 20,000 pumpkins, which form the setting for Tivoli's atmospheric autumn season.

Find Halloween decorations and autumn treats in the stalls, be captivated by the beautiful lights, and join us as we choose the biggest giant pumpkin of the year.

If you're into horror and horror, then Halloween in Tivoli is just the thing for you! 

Beneath the roller coaster lies a haunted hospital. The place is filled with restless souls who never escaped and remnants of past experiments that no one alive today can imagine. At the same time, the madmen of the Vendetta family are ravaging the old mansion and scaring the life out of anyone who dares to venture inside. They are waiting for you in the darkness… Do you dare to visit them? 

Halloween Zealand

Leave your comfort zone and venture out onto paths filled with terrifying surprises, haunted scenarios, and shadows lurking just outside your field of vision.

When darkness falls, nothing is as it seems – and you never know what awaits around the next corner.

Get your ticket now and get ready for an evening of chills, thrills and lots of Halloween atmosphere.

Horror drive-thru

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On the edge of reality and fantasy, Halloween and horror fans can experience the unique Horror Drive Thru atmosphere for the 5th year in a row, where crying, laughter, joy and fear flow together in a real adrenaline rush.

Horror Drive Thru is an annual, chilling Halloween experience where you drive your own car through a beautifully decorated course, where you are presented with one terrifying scenario after another. Along the winding course, you will meet our 25 live actors dressed as monsters and other disgusting creatures. Rolled-down windows and unlocked doors are taken as an invitation.

Halloween at the Open Air Museum

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The (un)hyggen is spreading at the Open Air Museum. During the autumn holidays, creatures from Nordic folklore have taken over the Open Air Museum's village, and the villagers need your help to overcome trolls, goblins, witches and ghouls. Meet wise women, frightened villagers and fight the creatures with bows and arrows.

There will also be fun breaks from the spooky with magic, troll theater, face painting, jack-o'-lantern workshops, obstacle courses, and dangerous snacks, such as toxic candy floss, moldy popcorn, and more.

Halloween at Nivaagaard's Painting Collection

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The Painting Collection is celebrating its traditional and atmospheric Halloween at the museum again this year! Admission is free for both children and adults all day!

12-15: Carve your own jack-o'-lantern
Bring your own pumpkin, or buy one at the museum and get help from our house artist for inspiration and techniques as we carve beards and spooky jack-o'-lanterns.

The jack-o'-lantern workshop takes place on the museum's terrace, so remember to wear warm clothes.

5:30 p.m.-8: Night at the museum
As is tradition, we are once again transforming the Painting Collection into a real haunted house and we open the doors at 5:30 PM! Go on a treasure hunt at the museum after closing time and visit our workshop. A heart-stopping dinner, juice and cake are available for purchase in the cafe.

7:30 p.m.: Performance

The Depths of Horror on the Hill

The reservoir under Bakken's old water slide has been emptied of water, and from the dark corridors that stretch far beneath the park, an ancient evil has emerged!

During the fall break, the dried-up water reservoir has transformed into two terrifying levels: a post-apocalyptic nightmare and an enchanted hell – soaked in blood, radioactive waste and long abandoned. A cement pit where you must maneuver through a maze of steel and concrete to find your way out of the darkness again.

Stop by during the fall break – if you dare! The Halloween event is from October 11th – 19th.

Halloween in BonBon-Land

When darkness falls in BonBon-Land, pumpkins, ghosts and mysterious creatures come to life – and the park transforms into an enchanted universe of (un)happiness!

During the autumn holidays and the weekends leading up to, the whole family can experience Denmark's coziest Halloween with Trick or Treat, treasure maps, ghost walks and spooky houses where only the brave dare to enter. Everywhere in the park you will be met by pumpkins, straw bales and unexpected surprises that will give you goosebumps and a smile at the same time.

Halloween in BonBon-Land opens on Saturday, September 27th and can be experienced every weekend until October 26th – as well as throughout the fall holidays.

Do you dare to take your family on a day full of spookiness and magic?

Do you know of a (un)fun Halloween activity on Zealand that is missing from the list? Then give us a tip here.

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