Denmark Sweden in March.

I don’t think it’s crazy. Copenhagen and Stockholm are large cities with something to offer year round.

It’s low season for tourism. It means you’ll be sharing the cities with fewer tourists, and that’s a positive in my book. But there are also some disadvantages. Select sights are closed off season (e.g. Tivoli Gardens, which is closed from the new year until 19 March 2027) or have very reduced opening hours (such as Frilandsmuseet, which is only open on weekends until the end of March). That being said, many things are open year-round (and a lot of it is indoors). If you already know there are certain “musts” for you, it’s advisable to confirm they’ll be open before you book your trip.

If you wish to venture out of the cities to explore smaller towns in Denmark and Sweden, you may also find their offering to tourists to be very limited (or non existent) off season, whereas many of them are popular and lively destinations in the summertime. Easter may change the equation a bit, but don’t expect a huge “miracle”.

We went in April this year (timing fixed by daughter's work in Lund), and I'll be honest: we spent the whole trip saying, "we should have come in summer." It was cold, not freezing, just uncomfortably damp, windy cold. We tried to walk and see things as much as we could but we kept thinking of ways we could get inside and get warm. There are no flowers out or leaves on trees, so walking is dreary anyway. You can make the most of it, of course, millions of Scandinavians do. But the #1 question we got from locals was, "why are you here NOW?"

We once spent Easter break in Copenhagen (which that particular year was in late March) with side trips to Helsingor, Malmo, and Roskilde. It was definitely chilly, but we still had a really nice time. It was a bit less crowded than when we've visited in summer. As mentioned above, Tivoli might not be up and running for the season yet, but all the main things we wanted to see (museums, historic sites, etc) were open.