| Nivå | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Denmark#Denmark Capital Region |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Denmark |
| Coordinates: | 55.9336°N 12.5064°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Denmark |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Region Hovedstaden |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Fredensborg |
| Area Urban Km2: | 2.8 |
| Population As Of: | 2024 |
| Population Urban: | 8531 |
| Population Density Urban Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Gender [1] |
| Population Blank1: | 4051 males and 4480 females |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 2990 Nivå |
Nivå is a town with a population of 8,531 (1 January 2024)[2] in the municipality of Fredensborg on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark. Nivå is a residential town on the coast of the Øresund. It has a stop on the Copenhagen – Helsingør Kystbanen rail line.
The town is the site for Nivaagaard museum, a marina and a desolated shopping center by the railway station, which includes only a library and a Netto supermarket. The town possesses two schools; Nivå Skole Syd (formerly known as Nivå Centralskole) and Nivå Skole Nord (formerly known as Niverødgaardskolen), whilst a golf course lies to the West. Its landscape is varied and ranges from marshland to suburban habitations. 20% or more of the inhabitants have a foreign background mostly muslims with middle eastern origin.
For several hundreds of years (until 1980), the town and the surrounding areas and villages, lay ground to three brickyards. Today, the landscape are marked with former clay pits, which now serves as lakes and a marina bassin.
The oldest known ring oven in the world (1870) has been preserved. It used to be a part of the oldest brickyard, Nivaagaard Brickyard (in Danishg: Nivaagaard Teglværk). The brickyard is regularly open for visits each summer.
Nivå Musiklaug holds an annual festival at the Kalvehaven: many talented young musicians play. One of the performers playing at the 2006 event was Danish singer-songwriter Tobias Trier.
Nivaagaards Malerisamling was opened by Johannes Hage in 1908. The house is situated in an extensive park featuring many different varieties of rhododendron.The museum houses art from the Italian and North European renaissance, Dutch and Danish Baroque, Danish Golden Age, as well as special exhibitions.