Esbjerg Car Rental Guide
The current page provides you with information about the car rental possibilities in Esbjerg airport and downtown. The page also presents a short overview of the car rental and driving restrictions valid in Denmark.
Rental Restrictions
To rent a car in Denmark, you must be at least 21 years old and have held your license for 1 year. Drivers under the age of 25 may have to pay a young driver surcharge. Some suppliers have a maximum age limit of 80 years.
Cars rented in Denmark are not allowed into the following countries: Albania Bosnia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine and the countries of the former Republic of Yugoslavia.
Driving Restrictions
In Denmark, traffic is on the right. The minimum age of a driver is 18 years. Children under 3 years of age must be seated in a special child seat. The use of seatbelts is compulsory for front-seat passengers and the legal blood alcohol limit is 0.8‰.
While driving, headlights must be on at all times. The horn should only be used in case of extreme danger. Lights should be flashed to signal warning instead.
Parkering/Standsning/Stop Forbudt means No parking/No stopping, but in this zone you are allowed a three-minute period for loading and unloading. Usually, parking discs allow parking for an hour and are required where no parking metres exist. Parking metres usually allow up to 3 hours of parking time.
The police are authorised to collect fines on the spot.
Speed limits:| Area | Limit |
| City | 50KM/H |
| Open Roads | 80KM/H |
| Highways | 110KM/H |
Emergency Numbers
Police/ambulance/fire: 112
Road Tolls
There are no toll highways in Denmark.
Some useful expressions for tourists visiting Denmark
Car - bil
Car rental agency - biludlejnings firma
About Esbjerg
Esbjerg, Denmark’s youngest major city, is the country’s oil city. It has straight, wide streets, a large town square and a long pedestrian street with many speciality shops and shopping centres. The city offers beauty to the eye with its parks and lakes with wooded areas.
Esbjerg is a city that can be used as a base for exploring one of the country’s best holiday areas, a landscape of beaches, nature experiences, mediaeval towns and amusement parks. As Esbjerg is relatively new, it does not have a historic core, but there is still plenty to do and see in the city.
Area: 221 sq km
Population: 83,000
Country: Denmark
Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1
Telephone Area Code: none
Monetary Unit: Danish Krone
