Railway · Denmark

How much did City Circle Line cost to build?

The Cityringen, or City Circle Line, is the fully automated, 15.5 km, 17-station circular M3 line of the Copenhagen Metro, whose plans were approved by the Danish Parliament on 1 June 2007, opened on 29 September 2019 and is run by Metroselskabet. In a press release of 5 February 2026 on an arbitration ruling the company said the total construction cost for the M3 Cityringen was 25.3 billion Danish kroner in 2019 prices.

Final project cost

DKK 25.3 billion

Approximately $3.79 billion

Cost basis: 2019

Pressvisning av nya Metrocityringen i Köpenhamn, som invigs söndagen den 29 september. Metrostationen vid Stampesgade, Københavns Hovedbanegård, finputsas inför invigningen. 2019-09-25. Photo: News Øresund - Anna Palmehag © News Øresund - Anna Palmehag (CC BY 3.0). Detta verk av News Øresund är licensierat under en Creative Commons Erkännande 3.0 Unported-licens (CC BY 3.0). Bilden får fritt publiceras under förutsättning att källa anges. .The picture can be used freely under the prerequisite th
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Basis of the published figure

Final project cost2019
metroselskabet.dk

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Key dimensions

Total lengthmetroselskabet.dk
15.5 km

Project record

Opened or launched

metroselskabet.dk

29 September 2019

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