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Sweden, from the archipelago to the aurora.

Which boat actually stops at an island. How far north you have to go for the lights, and in which months. What an afternoon of cinnamon buns and cobbles costs in Gamla Stan. Every tour in Sweden, reviewed.

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The harbour boats, the museum halls and the Old Town walks that fill first, and what each one is really like on the day.

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ABBA The Museum Entrance Ticket

ABBA The Museum in Stockholm brings costumes, music, karaoke, avatars, and memories to life in a fun two-hour visit.

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2 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 10,798 reviews City Archipelago Sightseeing Cruise with Guide from $41

3 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 3,427 reviews Skansen Open-Air Museum Admission Ticket from $27

4 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 3,260 reviews Hop-On Hop-Off Bus or Boat Option from $24

5 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 3,110 reviews Archipelago Boat Tour from $39

6 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 3,031 reviews Paradox Museum Entry Ticket from $28

7 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 2,845 reviews Highlights Boat Tour from $43

8 ★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 2,685 reviews Ghost Walk and Historical Tour from $33

Start here

The days a Swedish trip gets built around.

Stortorget cobbles, a boat out through the islands, the Vasa standing in her hall, a snowmobile on a frozen lake and the sky going green above the treeline.

Best ofGamla StanOchre houses and lanes a metre wide64 tours Best ofThe ArchipelagoOut through thirty thousand islands45 tours Best ofNorthern LightsChased out of Kiruna and Abisko46 tours Best ofThe VasaA warship raised whole from the harbour23 tours Best ofSnowmobilesFrozen lakes, headlights, dusk at three37 tours Best ofFika & FoodBuns first, then the market hall24 tours

The winter headline

Kiruna and Abisko sit directly under the aurora oval.

The lights are a clear-sky problem, not a luck problem, and Abisko keeps a hole in the cloud that the rest of Lapland does not. That is why the photographers base themselves there from late September to March.

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★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 735 reviewsKiruna Northern Lights Tour with Photographer

★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 514 reviewsThe Ultimate Aurora Photo Adventure

★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 462 reviewsAbisko National Park Northern Lights Tour

Best ofIn Lapland32 tours Best ofBy Snowmobile28 tours Best ofBy Sled14 tours Best ofFrom Luleå7 tours Best ofThe Icehotel6 tours Best ofSami Camps17 tours

Stockholm

Stockholm is fourteen islands, so the boat is the tour.

The Old Town fits into an afternoon; the water takes longer. Open boats leave Strömkajen all day, the Vasa is ten minutes from the quay in her own hall, and the ghost walks start once the lanes empty out.

1ABBA The Museum Entrance Ticketfrom $28
2City Archipelago Sightseeing Cruise with Guidefrom $41
3Skansen Open-Air Museum Admission Ticketfrom $27

Best ofOld Town Walks64 tours Best ofBoat Trips51 tours Best ofThe Vasa23 tours Best ofFood Tours16 tours

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Krona for krona

What a day out in Sweden actually costs.

Every tour on the site, sorted by price. Sweden is not a cheap country, and a boat ticket with a bag of buns is still the best afternoon in Stockholm.

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Museum entry, Old Town walks, harbour boats and a fika stop — most of central Stockholm sits down here.

1ABBA The Museum Entrance Ticketfrom $28
2City Archipelago Sightseeing Cruise with Guidefrom $41
3Skansen Open-Air Museum Admission Ticketfrom $27

$50–150

215 tours

Guided archipelago days, food walks, kayak mornings and the shorter husky runs.

1Stockholm Pass: Save up to 50% – Includes Vasa Museum Ticketfrom $95
2Swedish Food Guided Walking Tourfrom $112
3Guided Bike Tourfrom $62

$150 and up

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Aurora nights with a photographer, private guides, and the long Lapland days that need a driver.

1Kiruna Northern Lights Tour with Photographerfrom $223
2Old Town Private Walking Tourfrom $708
3The Ultimate Aurora Photo Adventurefrom $183

Only here

The days you can only have in Sweden.

Old towns and museum halls are everywhere in Europe. A hotel cut from a river, a sled team of your own and a reindeer herd on the tundra are not.

Rebuilt every winter

The Icehotel

At Jukkasjärvi, blocks cut from the Torne river are built into a hotel each December and handed back to the water each spring. The art suites are carved new every year, the bar pours into glasses made of ice, and the whole thing stands for about four months before it melts.

1Icehotel and Sami Camp Day Trip★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 33 reviews
2Guided Tour to Icehotel and Jukkasjärvi★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 28 reviews
3Explore the Icehotel★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 16 reviews

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Your own team

Dog Sledding

A Swedish husky tour is rarely a passenger seat. Around Kiruna most operators put you on the runners behind six dogs, run a loop through the forest and stop for coffee over a fire. The team sets the pace and you work the brake.

1Sit Down Husky Ride Dog Sled Tour in Kiruna★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 216 reviews
2Self-drive Husky Morning Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 170 reviews
3Husky Tour Sit and Drive Combo Tour from Kiruna★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 147 reviews

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Eight seasons

Reindeer and the Sami

Sami herders count eight seasons rather than four, and the reindeer move with them. A visit means feeding the herd, a lasso throw you will not land, and coffee in a lavvu while someone explains what a year this far north is actually shaped like.

1Sami-Inspired BBQ Dinner with Northern Lights Chase★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 160 reviews
2Full-Day Reindeer Tour with Pickup in Kiruna★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 85 reviews
3Sami Reindeer Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 · 53 reviews

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Locked to a season

Book these before you fly to Sweden.

Most of Sweden can be booked the night before from your hotel. These four cannot — they run on a season, a build and a ticket calendar that pays no attention to when you land.

01Icehotel and Sami Camp Day TripBuilt new each December from river ice and gone by spring — the visiting season runs roughly December to April.
02Kiruna Northern Lights Tour with PhotographerAurora season is late September to March, and the small-group chases with a photographer go first.
03Sit Down Husky Ride Dog Sled Tour in KirunaSled teams run only while the snow holds, and a sled seats two — winter dates fill months ahead.
04ABBA The Museum Entrance TicketEntry runs on timed slots and the museum sells them by the half hour; the popular afternoon slots go early.

Swedish Lapland

North of the Arctic Circle, winter is the high season.

Kiruna and Abisko run on snow. Sled teams at first light, snowmobiles across the frozen lakes, and the sky checked every hour after dark. The season is short and the clear nights are spoken for early.

Best ofHusky Sledding21 tours Best ofSnowmobiles37 tours Best ofThe Icehotel6 tours Best ofReindeer & Sami17 tours

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★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 — Kiruna Northern Lights Tour with Photographer

Family-friendly Short Husky Tour with Coffee

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The long light

In June, Stockholm never really gets dark.

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Guided City Sightseeing Open Electric Boat Tour

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Swedish indoor culture exists because the afternoon goes dark at three.

Sweden does grey extremely well. The Vasa stands under a roof, the market halls are warm, the saunas run all winter, and fika is a national habit precisely because the daylight gives up early.

Saunas The Vasa Fika and food Museums Palaces