national park
Thy National Park
Denmark's first national park, a strip of dunes, heath and plantation along the North Sea coast of north-west Jutland.
54 km · about 60 min drive
EuropeDenmarkCentral Jutland
Skive
Central Jutland, Denmark · Europe
About Skive
Skive sits on the route: 20 minutes from Stoholm, 54km from Thy National Park.
Skive is in Central Jutland, Denmark, with about 20,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Stoholm, about 12 km away.
Skive Municipality (Danish: Skive Kommune) is a municipality (kommune) in the Central Denmark Region on the Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. It covers an area of 688.09 km2 and has a population of 44,101 as of 2026. Its mayor is Alfred Brunsgaard, a member of Venstre.
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and the site of its municipal council is the city of Skive.
The Virksund Bridge (Virksundbroen) connects the municipality at the town of Virksund to the town of Sundstrup in Viborg municipality.
As of January 1, 2007, the original Skive municipality ceased to exist as a result of the Kommunalreformen. It was merged with the former Sallingsund, Spøttrup, and Sundsøre municipalities to form the new Skive municipality. The old municipality had an area of 230 km2 and a population of 27,919 in 2005. Before the reform, the municipality was part of Viborg County.
Skive itself is a coastal tourist resort at the mouth of the Karup River and the Skive Fjord. In June 2022, Barack Obama visited the municipality.
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What is there to see near Skive?
Within an hour or so of Skive: Thy National Park (54 km), Bovbjerg Fyr (56 km).
Where is Skive?
Skive is in Central Jutland, Denmark, about 12 km from Stoholm.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 20,190
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Denmark
- Region
- Central Jutland
- Timezone
- Europe/Copenhagen
- Coordinates
- 56.5670, 9.0271
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Worth the detour from Skive
2 notable places within an hour's drive.
scenic viewpoint
Bovbjerg Fyr
Red 1877 lighthouse on the 41 m Bovbjerg cliff, the rare stretch of Danish west coast where a glacial moraine meets the North Sea head-on. Volunteer-run café in the keeper's house; storm-watching at its finest.
56 km · about 65 min drive
Driving roads near Skive
- 56 kmBovbjerg FyrRed 1877 lighthouse on the 41 m Bovbjerg cliff, the rare stretch of Danish west coast where a glacial moraine meets the North Sea head-on. Volunteer-run café in the keeper's house; storm-watching at its finest.
When to drive here
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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