What a visitor's money does in Sweden: every guide rated from very cheap to very expensive, cheapest first, then the things that cost travellers money without buying anything — the ATM, the taxi, the SIM.
Swedish Krona (SEK) · 1 EUR = 11.2 SEK · 1 USD = 9.8 SEK
Sweden is close to cashless and many cafés, museums and buses refuse notes outright. A card is not a convenience here, it is the only method. There is nothing to change.
Avoid: carrying cash at all, which several places will refuse
Use: Bankomat
Sweden is closer to cashless than anywhere in Europe. Museums, buses and many cafés do not accept notes, and a card is the method rather than the convenience.
A short ride in Stockholm: 150–250 kr across town — pricey
From the airport: Arlanda to central Stockholm is a fixed 600–700 kr by taxi, 340 kr on the Arlanda Express
Under the meter. Swedish taxis set their own tariffs, so an unbooked one at a rank can be startling.
Take the lunch deal — dagens lunch, a main, salad, bread and coffee for a third of the evening price, served everywhere between eleven and two. And go to a proper fika: coffee and a cardamom bun, twice a day, is a national institution rather than a snack.
Reindeer, cloudberries and Arctic char, and none of it is a novelty item — this is what people here eat. Suovas, lightly smoked reindeer, is the one to look for. In summer the cloudberries are picked wild and cost more than salmon.
The cost rating is this site's own, for a visitor, from the guides' authors and the corrections readers send in. The general rules — the conversion prompt, shoulder season, the airport taxi — are in budget travel tips.
