These do not go to the same place, so price is not the comparison. The M2 metro reaches Kongens Nytorv and Nørreport on the metro, København H on the train — the ends of Strøget; the Øresund train to Malmö C does not. Runs east across the Øresund bridge to Malmö, in Sweden — not into Copenhagen. It is here because the airport is 25 minutes from another country's third city and everything about the ride is a trap: the ticket, the currency, the passport and the platform.
The M2 metro is quicker: 13 min against 25 min. The Øresund train to Malmö C varies between 24 and 30 minutes.
M2 metro: Runs all night. Øresund train to Malmö C: Runs all night.
Priced against each other
Whole-party totals · adult fares
What each costs for the whole party, in DKK. The cheaper of the two is marked on every row.
Travelers
M2 metro
Øresund train to Malmö C
Difference
1
DKK 30
DKK 96
DKK 66
2
DKK 60
DKK 192
DKK 132
3
DKK 90
DKK 288
DKK 198
4
DKK 120
DKK 384
DKK 264
5
DKK 150
DKK 480
DKK 330
6
DKK 180
DKK 576
DKK 396
7
DKK 210
DKK 672
DKK 462
8
DKK 240
DKK 768
DKK 528
Side by side
Where each one leaves you
metro · Copenhagen Metro (Metroselskabet), on a DOT ticketM2 metro
From
The metro station at the end of Terminal 3, above ground
To
Kongens Nytorv in 13 minutes (change for M3 and M4) and Nørreport in 15, via Christianshavn
Luggage
Driverless trains with open floors; busy at peak.
Runs
All night
Journey
13 min
Three zones, not four. Zone 4 to zone 1 is a three-zone ticket at kr. 30 under DOT's ring-zone rule; the metro's own page says you pay for a maximum of three zones. The four-zone ticket at kr. 40 is valid and wasteful.
It runs every night of the week: every 8 minutes after Friday and Saturday, every 20 after Sunday to Thursday, between 01:00 and 07:00. Every 2 minutes in the peaks and 3 the rest of the day.
Journey times are Rejseplanen's: 13 minutes to Kongens Nytorv and 15 to Nørreport. Metroselskabet says "14 minutes to the centre" without naming a station; the airport says 15 to Nørreport.
This ticket does not cross the bridge. For Malmö you need an Øresund ticket from the airport, and a different train.
regional · Öresundståg (run by VR Sverige for Skånetrafiken); DSB sells the Danish-side ticketØresund train to Malmö C
From
The railway station under Terminal 3 — a train marked for Sweden (Malmö, Helsingborg, Kalmar, Karlskrona, Växjö or Göteborg), from the same platforms as the trains into Copenhagen; read the screens for the track
To
Malmö C, the central station on the north edge of the old town, via Hyllie (12 minutes, where the police check documents) and Triangeln
Luggage
Intercity-style trains with racks and space by the doors; a bicycle needs its own Øresund ticket.
Runs
All night
Journey
24–30 min
Your Copenhagen ticket is not valid here: you need at least an Øresund ticket to or from the airport. Buy it before boarding, at the DSB machines or counter in Terminal 3, or in Skånetrafiken's app — there are no sales on the train.
Bring a passport or ID card: Sweden checks documents at Hyllie. A Nordic driving licence works for Nordic citizens; other Europeans need a passport or national ID card, and a visa where required. Without one, police may pull you off the train for a fuller check.
Two prices, two currencies, one ticket. Kr. 96 from DSB on the Danish side, SEK 150 from Skånetrafiken. Pay in the currency you are buying in; nothing here says which is cheaper, because no authority publishes a rate.
Every 15 minutes from 05:00 to midnight, then 00:25, 00:47, 01:02, 01:56, 02:55 and 03:56, every night of the week. The night trains take up to 30 minutes.
Not valid on SJ's trains to Stockholm and Gothenburg, which also call at the airport. Only the Öresundståg.
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