Where to find Odense Christmas Market
Highlights of Odense Christmas Market
- Three weekends: 28-29 November, 5-6 and 12-13 December 2026, free entry
- 19th-century Denmark theme, Andersen’s era, in the writer’s old quarter
- Chalets dressed with fir branches, crafts, gløgg, roasted almonds and horse-drawn carriages
- Up to 50,000 visitors, Danish and foreign
- Saturday until 7pm, Sunday until 5pm
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Odense Christmas Market in pictures
The Odense Christmas Market, H.C. Andersen Julemarkedet, takes place on three weekends in the old quarter of Hans Christian Andersen’s home town, on and around Sortebrødre Torv: 28 and 29 November, 5 and 6, 12 and 13 December 2026. Its theme is 19th-century Denmark: chalets dressed with fir branches, crafts, fine food, gløgg, horse-drawn carriages and roasted almonds. Entry is free, and the market draws up to 50,000 visitors, Danish and foreign.
Odense Christmas Market 2026: dates and opening hours
The market opens on the last weekend of November and the first two of December: 28 and 29 November, 5 and 6 December, 12 and 13 December 2026. It is open from 10am to 7pm on Saturday and from 10am to 5pm on Sunday, on the cobbled square of Sortebrødre Torv.
A market set in 19th-century Denmark
The guiding theme is Denmark in the 1800s, Andersen’s era. The chalets are dressed with fir branches, horse-drawn carriages roll through the streets of the old quarter, and the stalls sell crafts, fine food, gløgg and roasted almonds. The market covers Sortebrødre Torv and the neighbouring streets of the Andersen quarter.
Other Christmas events in Odense and on Funen
Two other markets round out the calendar. Storms Julemarked, at Storms Pakhus, runs on 14 and 15, then 21 and 22 November 2026, from 11am to 4pm. The Christmas market at the Langesø estate opens on Saturdays and Sundays from 14 November to 20 December, from 10am to 4pm. The Den Fynske Landsby village museum also has its own Christmas programme, and the Egeskov Christmas Market, in a castle on Funen, holds its stalls over five weekends, from 7 November to 6 December 2026.
Where to find the Odense Christmas Market
The market takes place on Sortebrødre Torv, in the old quarter of Odense, on the island of Funen, on the square and in the streets around it.
The country’s other listings are gathered on our page on Christmas markets in Denmark, and the Copenhagen Christmas Market remains the simplest starting point for a trip to Denmark. In Jutland, Christmas at Den Gamle By, in Aarhus, carries on the theme of Christmases past.
Specialities to try
The flavours that make this market what it is
Gløgg
roasted almonds and fine food in chalets dressed with fir branches
crafts on the theme of 19th-century Denmark
Our tip
The market opens on just six days in all: plan your visit around one of the three weekends, on the Saturday if you want to make the most of the 7pm closing. The same trip can take in Storms Julemarked on the two previous weekends or the market at Egeskov Castle.
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