How to get the most out of your 70 nights

Updated 8 September 2026. Written by Nico Rossetti, Arnor.

Most people who start with Airbnb in Copenhagen think about income as a question of filling the calendar. That is the wrong way to think here. The 70 night limit means you cannot grow by renting more. You can only grow by selling the nights you have at a better price. Two neighbours with identical flats can end the year 50,000 kr apart on exactly the same number of nights, and the difference is almost always which nights they sold and what they charged for them.

Here is how to make your 70 nights count.

The cap changes the whole calculation

In Copenhagen you may rent out your primary home for up to 70 nights a year when you use a platform like Airbnb that reports to the Danish Tax Agency. The municipality raised the limit from the default 30 nights. The cap is hard: once the 70 nights are used, the year is over, no matter how many guests still want to stay with you.

So think of your 70 nights as stock you get to restock only once a year. Every time you sell a night cheaply, one is gone. A night in February and a night in August cost you exactly the same, one out of 70, but they are not worth the same.

What the season actually looks like

Copenhagen is a highly seasonal market. August is clearly the strongest month, with the highest occupancy and the highest rates, and June and July follow close behind. The bottom is January, February and March, when both occupancy and price drop sharply. In market data for 2026, occupancy in August runs at around 64 percent, while in February it can fall below 30 percent, with nightly rates falling to match.

An average Copenhagen listing sits at roughly 1,500 to 1,600 kr per night across the year. But the average hides the point. In an ordinary February week you are fighting for guests at maybe 900 to 1,100 kr, while the same flat in a good August week, or on a weekend with a major event in town, comfortably reaches 2,000 kr and above.

Put the two side by side:

• 70 nights scattered randomly across the year, averaging 1,150 kr, gives you around 80,500 kr gross.
• 70 nights concentrated between May and September and in the right weekends, averaging 1,800 kr, gives you around 126,000 kr.

Same flat, same number of nights, same legal cap. The gap is roughly 45,000 kr, and it comes entirely from when you said yes.

The 2026 calendar: the weeks worth protecting

Copenhagen has weeks where the city is full and guests are both more numerous and less price sensitive. In 2026 the main ones are:

• Distortion, 3 to 7 June. The city fills up, and Nørrebro, Vesterbro and the harbour feel it most.
• Roskilde Festival, 27 June to 4 July. A lot of guests stay in Copenhagen and commute out, because they would rather sleep in a bed than in a tent.
• Copenhagen Jazz Festival, 3 to 12 July, with more than 850 concerts spread across the city.
• Copenhagen Pride, 8 to 16 August, with the parade on Saturday 15 August and several hundred thousand people in the streets.
• The summer holiday weeks in July and early August, when tourists come regardless.
• Large fairs and conferences at Bella Center, which fill the city at times when there are otherwise few tourists.

If you only have 70 nights, these are the weeks to protect. Say no to a March booking if it means you have no nights left in August.

The booking window: be ready early

Guests travelling to Copenhagen in August book on average around 84 days ahead. Guests coming in February book only around 36 days ahead. In practice that means your August guests, the ones who pay the most, are looking at your calendar back in May. If your calendar is not open and priced by then, they go to your neighbour, and you are left with the late, price sensitive bookings.

Rule of thumb: open and price the summer no later than April.

The trap: do not let automation cut your prices

Airbnb offers smart pricing, which adjusts your rate automatically. The problem is that the system is built to fill calendars. Your calendar does not need filling. It needs selling well. Set it on autopilot and walk away, and you typically end up with cheap low season nights that eat into your cap long before the good weeks are even on sale.

Professional hosts and management companies use pricing tools such as PriceLabs or Beyond instead, which read demand in your neighbourhood day by day, and then add a human layer on top: we know Pride weekend is expensive and the week after school starts is dead. Studies of hosts using dynamic pricing typically show 15 to 35 percent higher revenue than hosts on a flat rate. Across 70 nights, that is not pocket change.

Minimum stays and discounts: do the maths per night

Weekly and monthly discounts look sensible, but they need to be converted into nights. A seven night booking with a 15 percent weekly discount uses seven of your seventy nights. The question is not whether the booking is good, but whether those seven nights could have been sold better one by one.

In practice:

• In high season, set a two or three night minimum and go easy on discounts. The demand is there anyway.
• In shoulder season, meaning May and September, single nights and a small discount can make sense to get the calendar moving.
• If you are considering a long booking of 20 nights or more, remember that is almost a third of your annual cap. If you want longer staying guests, mid term rental is often a better and entirely legal route, because stays over 30 days count differently.

Remember tax when you work backwards

A higher gross income also means more tax, but you still keep most of it. In 2026 the standard deduction is 35,100 kr a year if you rent through a platform that reports to the Danish Tax Agency. Of what you earn above that, 60 percent counts as taxable capital income. The deduction is annual and does not change because you concentrate your income in the summer, so concentrating costs you nothing in tax terms. There is a full walkthrough in our guide to Airbnb tax in Copenhagen.

How to start, practically

1. Put your 70 nights into a calendar and mark the weeks you want to protect.
2. Open the summer no later than April, so you catch the guests who book early.
3. Set a high base price for June, July and August, and a lower one for the shoulder season. Turn blind automation off.
4. Use the low season for what it is good for: your first reviews, while there is little at stake.
5. Watch your occupancy. If you are more than 80 percent booked two months out, your price is too low.

It takes time and attention, and it is exactly the kind of work that disappears when normal life gets in the way. This is where a management company pays for itself: we steer the price day by day, we know the city calendar, and we spend your 70 nights where they are worth the most. If you want to know what your home can realistically earn within the cap, use our calculator or get a free estimate.

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Frequently asked questions

Official and professional sources: Skattestyrelsen (skat.dk) for the 35,100 kr standard deduction in 2026 and the rule that 60 percent of the excess is taxed as capital income. The City of Copenhagen and the Danish Planning and Rural Districts Agency (Plan- og Landdistriktsstyrelsen) for the 70 night limit for primary homes rented through a reporting platform. Market data on occupancy, nightly rate and booking window in Copenhagen from AirROI (2026). Event dates from the organisers own 2026 calendars. All figures are indicative and current as of summer 2026. This is general information, not tax advice.