Traffic on the Great Belt set a record in 2025

2025 was the busiest year to date for the Great Belt Bridge. A total of 14,148,000 vehicles drove across the bridge. This is the highest number since the fixed link opened in 1998, and far higher than the previous record from 2024 of 13,680,000 vehicles.

The growth is primarily due to a large increase in passenger cars and a smaller increase in trucks. The record was set despite the fact that 2024 was a leap year and therefore had one extra day of traffic. 2025 also brought monthly records, first in July and then again in August. At Sund & Bælt, which operates the Great Belt Bridge, several factors are cited as drivers of the traffic growth.

“Our most important task is to ensure mobility between Eastern and Western Denmark, and part of the explanation is that we have made a very substantial effort to keep the bridge as open as possible. For example, by scheduling maintenance work at times when it inconven-iences as few motorists as possible, and through a number of measures to counter the inci-dents that can cause queues on the bridge,” says Mikkel Hemmingsen, Chief Executive Officer of Sund & Bælt.

In recent years, Sund & Bælt has worked with a strong focus on improving safety for road us-ers by, among other things, investing in new wind barriers, better information and warnings about traffic conditions, and movable barriers, so that traffic can be quickly shifted between lanes as needed.

In 2025 there were also extraordinary events that were felt on the Great Belt. When the popu-lar British musician Ed Sheeran held a series of sold-out concerts in Tårnby, it could be meas-ured directly in the traffic figures. In the very week when the concerts took place, a new week-ly record was set with 340,200 vehicles—1.2 percent above the previous record from week 31 in 2022.

New records were also set at the daily level in both directions, with the eastbound daily record broken once, while the westbound daily record was improved no fewer than three times during 2025.