Arlanda to Stockholm, already priced when you land.
Forty kilometres south on the E4, between 35 and 65 minutes depending on the hour you arrive. We watch the aircraft rather than the timetable, so a delay moves the pickup and costs you nothing. The fare is 695 SEK for the car, not for each of you, with the congestion charge and the airport access charge already inside it.
A private transfer from Stockholm Arlanda to central Stockholm covers 40 km in 35 to 65 minutes and costs from 695 SEK per vehicle — per car, not per head. A Mercedes E-Class is 895 SEK, a six-seat V-Class 1 295, an S-Class 1 795 and a fourteen-seat minibus 1 995, which at full occupancy is about 142 SEK a person.
The spread in that travel time is not vagueness, it is the hour you land. A midnight arrival runs the E4 in about 30 to 35 minutes. A weekday arrival at 16:30 can take 65, because the southbound carriageway backs up through Järva krog. We plan against the figure for your actual arrival rather than an average.
We track the aircraft from the flight number, so a delayed landing moves the pickup at no charge and needs no phone call from you. Free waiting then runs 60 minutes from touchdown on a Schengen arrival and 90 on an intercontinental one.
- Distance
- 40 km on the E4
- Economy, per car
- from 695 SEK
- Free waiting
- 60 or 90 min
- Charges included
- All of them
What happens between touchdown and the car door.
The part of an airport transfer that goes wrong is almost never the driving. It is the forty minutes before it, which is why the waiting window is the most important number on this page.
The clock starts here, not at your scheduled time
We follow the aircraft, so if you land ninety minutes late the pickup simply moves ninety minutes. There is nothing to tell us, nothing to rearrange and no charge for the delay. This is the single reason to give us a flight number rather than an arrival time.
Passport control
Fast on a Schengen arrival, since there is no control at all. Slower on an intercontinental one, particularly when two wide-bodies land together into Terminal 5 in the morning bank. This is where the 90-minute window rather than the 60-minute one earns its existence.
The baggage hall
The genuinely unpredictable part, and the reason we do not ask you to specify a pickup time. Hand luggage only and you may be out in twenty minutes. A full flight with checked bags can take forty-five, and we are waiting either way.
Your driver, at a named point
Name, phone number and the exact meeting point sent before you land. Terminal 5 for SAS, Star Alliance and long-haul; Terminal 2, a separate building, for oneworld, SkyTeam and low-cost; Terminal 4 for domestic. Meet and greet inside the hall with a name board is a paid add-on rather than the standard arrangement.
60 minutes Schengen, 90 intercontinental
Measured from touchdown, not from when you were meant to land. Beyond it, waiting is charged — and we will call you before the clock starts rather than presenting it afterwards.
One practical note about Terminal 2. It is a separate building from Terminals 4 and 5, reached along the frontage, and it is the terminal most often missed by people looking for a car. If you are on Finnair, British Airways, KLM, Air France, Ryanair or Norwegian, that is probably you. Telling us the flight number rather than the terminal removes the guesswork entirely, because we can read the stand from the aircraft.
Forty kilometres, and the clock depends on the hour.
Published travel times for this route are usually a single number. It is really a range of about thirty minutes, and knowing which end you are in is worth more than the average.
| You land at | Typical drive | What is happening on the E4 |
|---|---|---|
| 05:00–07:00 | 30–40 min | Clear southbound. The commuter flow is heading the other way, into the city later, so an early arrival is one of the fastest runs of the day |
| 07:00–10:00 | 40–50 min | Morning traffic building towards the city. Not the worst of the day, but the last stretch into Norrmalm slows noticeably |
| 10:00–15:00 | 35–45 min | The easy middle of the day, and the window most cruise and leisure arrivals fall into. Close to the theoretical time |
| 15:30–18:00 | 50–65 min | The slow one. The E4 backs up through Järva krog and the whole run stretches by 15 to 20 minutes. If you have a fixed appointment, plan around this rather than hoping |
| 18:00–23:00 | 35–40 min | Clearing again. Evening long-haul arrivals into Terminal 5 generally get a good run into the city |
| 23:00–05:00 | 30–35 min | The fastest drive of the day, and the hour at which the rail alternatives thin out. A night surcharge applies and is shown before you confirm |
Times are for central Stockholm in normal conditions. Snow and ice stretch every row, and our response is to bring the pickup forward rather than to drive faster. The route crosses into the Stockholm congestion charging zone, and that charge is already inside your fare rather than added at the end — unlike the northbound run to Uppsala, which is the same 40 km and the same 695 SEK but never enters the zone at all. One rate card, two quite different drives.
The card, then this route through it.
Per vehicle, VAT included. If you can add up, you can check any quote from this site before you pay it.
| Vehicle | Guests · cases | Arlanda → Stockholm40 km, fixed | The arithmetic, and who books it |
|---|---|---|---|
| EconomyToyota Prius or similar | 3 · 3 | 695 | 255 base + 11 × 40. The default for couples and small families, and a full private transfer rather than a lesser one |
| StandardMercedes E-Class | 3 · 3 | 895 | 295 base + 15 × 40. The business default, with a saloon boot that takes two large cases without argument |
| First class vanMercedes V-Class | 6 · 6 | 1 295 | 415 base + 22 × 40. Six seats with the luggage still inside. Two people with four cases want this, not a saloon |
| First classMercedes S-Class or BMW 7 | 3 · 3 | 1 795 | 515 base + 32 × 40. Where the arrival is part of the working day, or the guest is |
| MinibusMercedes Sprinter | 14 · 14 | 1 995 | 555 base + 36 × 40. About 142 SEK a head at fourteen, which undercuts every rail ticket on this route |
Fixed prices in SEK, per vehicle, VAT included, along with tolls, the Stockholm congestion charge, the Arlanda access charge, parking, the free waiting window and luggage handling. Fares are rounded up to the nearest 5 SEK, and a minimum fare sits under each class for shorter runs — it does not bite at 40 km, but it is why Sigtuna at 15 km is 445 rather than 420. A night surcharge applies between 23:00 and 05:00 and is shown before you confirm. Above fourteen passengers we run matched vehicles as a convoy under one booking.
You do not have to book anything at all.
Arlanda is unusually well served, and the rank is thirty metres from the arrivals door. A page that did not say so would not deserve to be believed about the rest.
On a daytime arrival with one bag, walk out and take the train or the rank
If you land in the middle of the day, travel light and are staying near Stockholm Central, the Arlanda Express at 18 minutes and about 340 SEK a head will get you there faster than we can, and the SL bus from the terminals at 43 SEK is the cheapest route into the city by a wide margin — the Arlanda passage fee is charged at the station barriers, and a bus never passes them. Even the taxi rank is a reasonable option and needs no forward planning: the airport caps a contracted taxi at 825 SEK to an address inside its marked zone, which is not far above our 695. So book us when the arithmetic or the circumstances actually favour it: three or four passengers, where 695 split four ways is about 174 SEK each and beats every per-head fare on the route; seven to fourteen, where a minibus at 142 a head undercuts everything; checked luggage, ski bags or a pushchair; children needing seats; an address away from Central or outside the taxi zone, where no ceiling applies to anyone; an arrival after midnight, when the trains thin and the rank can be long; and any arrival where knowing the number and the name of your driver in advance is worth more to you than the difference.
Everything except the three things we name.
The quickest way to judge an airport transfer company is to ask what is not in the price. Here is the whole list, before you book.
In the price you are quoted
- ✓The Stockholm congestion charge, which this route genuinely incurs, and tolls.
- ✓The Arlanda access charge, included rather than added at the end.
- ✓Parking and terminal access while the driver waits for you.
- ✓Flight tracking and delay absorption, with the pickup moved to the actual landing time.
- ✓Free waiting, 60 minutes from touchdown on a Schengen arrival and 90 on an intercontinental one.
- ✓Luggage handling, and skis, golf clubs and oversized bags at no charge provided they are declared.
- ✓Assistance dogs, free and without a carrier.
Added only if you ask, or say so up front
- 1Meet and greet. A driver inside the arrivals hall with a name board. A paid add-on, not a standard inclusion — the standard arrangement is a named meeting point.
- 2Child seats. Infant, toddler and booster, fitted before you land. Paid, per seat.
- 3Pets in a carrier. Paid, and the carrier is required.
- ·Night surcharge, 23:00 to 05:00. A stated extra shown before you confirm.
- ·Waiting beyond the free window, charged, and we call before the clock starts.
- ·Wheelchair-accessible vehicles are not in our fleet. The taxi rank officer at the terminal can arrange one, as can Färdtjänst for cardholders.
What people ask about this route.
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