Major Airports in Sweden

Sweden is a long, thinly populated country — over 1,500 kilometres from the wheat fields of Skåne in the south to the Arctic mining town of Kiruna in the north — and its airport network reflects that shape. Air travel is dominated by Stockholm Arlanda, the country’s only intercontinental hub and the home of flag carrier SAS, followed at a distance by Göteborg Landvetter on the west coast. Behind them sits a scattering of smaller airports: a few low-cost and leisure fields around Stockholm and Malmö, and a network of tiny lifeline airports keeping the remote north connected.

Below we map and rank Sweden’s airports by the number of nonstop destinations each one serves, drawn from live route data on AirportRoutes. Because the figures come from observed flight data — a large sample rather than a complete published timetable — we treat them as a guide to relative connectivity rather than exact official totals. We show the 18 busiest of Sweden’s 26 airports with scheduled service; below the top few, the field is tightly bunched among small regional fields.

Which Swedish airports have direct flights to the US?

For a country of its size and wealth, Sweden has surprisingly few nonstop links to the United States — and almost all of them run from one airport. Stockholm Arlanda is the only Swedish airport with scheduled nonstop service across the Atlantic, currently reaching the New York area (Newark), with seasonal long-haul coming and going over the years. SAS is the main operator, occasionally joined by US carriers.

The reason the list is so short is that SAS concentrates its long-haul flying at Copenhagen, not Stockholm. Together with the fact that Copenhagen Airport is only a short train ride from southern Sweden, that means a large share of Swedish travellers reach the US by connecting through Copenhagen, another European hub such as Frankfurt or Amsterdam, or a Gulf carrier’s network. Göteborg, Malmö and the regional airports have no scheduled US service at all.

A closer look at Sweden’s busiest airports

✈️ Stockholm Arlanda (ARN)

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Stockholm Arlanda, about 40 km north of the capital, is Sweden’s largest and busiest airport and its only intercontinental gateway. Operated by the state company Swedavia, it handles the lion’s share of the country’s international traffic from four terminals and is the principal hub of SAS, the SkyTeam flag carrier shared by Sweden, Denmark and Norway.

Serving Stockholm, ARN reaches roughly 117 regularly-served nonstop destinations, including more than 30 intercontinental routes — by far the widest network in the country. Top destinations include Copenhagen, Helsinki, Paris, Frankfurt, London and Munich, alongside its long-haul flights to the Middle East, Asia and the United States.

Main airlines: SAS, Norwegian, Ryanair, Braathens Regional Airlines. See the full route map for ARN on AirportRoutes →

✈️ Göteborg Landvetter (GOT)

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Göteborg Landvetter, around 30 km east of Gothenburg, is Sweden’s second-busiest airport and the main gateway to the west coast and the country’s industrial heartland — home to Volvo and a major port city. It mixes business and leisure traffic, with a strong slate of European city routes and summer-sun charters.

Serving Göteborg, GOT reaches about 56 regularly-served nonstop destinations, including a handful of intercontinental routes. Top destinations include Amsterdam, Stockholm, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Copenhagen and Munich. It has no scheduled US service; transatlantic passengers connect via Stockholm or a European hub.

Main airlines: Ryanair, SAS, Norwegian, Lufthansa. See the full route map for GOT on AirportRoutes →

✈️ Malmö (MMX)

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Malmö Airport, at Sturup about 28 km southeast of the city, is Sweden’s third-ranked airport — but it operates in the shadow of Copenhagen, which lies just across the Öresund Bridge and is far easier to reach for most of southern Sweden (see the note below). As a result, Malmö’s network is modest, weighted toward domestic links to Stockholm and a distinctive cluster of Wizz Air routes to central and eastern Europe.

Serving Malmö, MMX reaches about 11 regularly-served nonstop destinations. Top destinations include Stockholm plus Wizz Air services to cities such as Skopje, Belgrade, Cluj-Napoca, Tirana and Bucharest. Main airlines: Wizz Air, SAS, Ryanair. See the full route map for MMX on AirportRoutes →

✈️ Stockholm Skavsta (NYO)

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Despite the “Stockholm” in its name, Skavsta sits beside Nyköping, roughly 100 km southwest of the capital — a long bus ride from the city. It is a classic low-cost airport, long marketed as a budget gateway to Stockholm, and today leans heavily on Wizz Air after Ryanair scaled back its once-large base here.

Serving the wider Stockholm region, NYO reaches about 6 regularly-served nonstop destinations, focused on central and eastern Europe and Spanish sun spots — Warsaw, Bucharest, Belgrade, Alicante and Málaga among them. Main airlines: Wizz Air, Norwegian. See the full route map for NYO on AirportRoutes →

✈️ Stockholm Bromma (BMA)

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Bromma, opened in 1936 just 8 km from central Stockholm, is the capital’s convenient close-in city airport — historically the base for quick domestic business hops on regional turboprops and jets. Its future, however, is uncertain: traffic has fallen sharply, the operator Braathens has been through financial turmoil, and there have been repeated political moves to wind Bromma down and consolidate Stockholm’s flights at Arlanda.

Reflecting that decline, BMA now shows only about 1 regularly-served nonstop destination in current data, with a thin remaining schedule. Main airlines: a handful of regional operators (historically Braathens Regional Airlines). See the full route map for BMA on AirportRoutes →

Northern Sweden, Lapland and the islands

Beyond the big hubs, much of Sweden’s map is covered by small airports that matter far more than their passenger numbers suggest. In the sparsely populated north, air links are often the fastest — sometimes the only practical — way to reach distant towns, and they double as gateways for Arctic tourism. Most run short networks built around SAS and Norwegian flights to Stockholm, with a few seasonal and lifeline routes. Out in the Baltic, Gotland depends on its airport for the summer rush.

✈️ Luleå (LLA)

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Luleå, on the Gulf of Bothnia coast, is the busiest airport in northern Sweden and the main air gateway to Norrbotten and Swedish Lapland — a region that has drawn heavy investment, from Meta’s data centres to a wave of green-steel and battery projects. The airfield is shared with the Swedish Air Force’s F21 wing. Its network is dominated by the trunk route south to Stockholm.

Serving Luleå, LLA reaches about 2 regularly-served nonstop destinations, chiefly Stockholm and Göteborg. Main airlines: SAS, Norwegian. See the full route map for LLA on AirportRoutes →

✈️ Åre Östersund (OSD)

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Åre Östersund serves the city of Östersund and, crucially, the nearby Åre ski resort — Sweden’s premier alpine destination, which has hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships. Traffic swells in winter with skiers, on top of the year-round link to the capital.

Serving Östersund, OSD reaches about 2 regularly-served nonstop destinations — Stockholm and Copenhagen. Main airlines: SAS. See the full route map for OSD on AirportRoutes →

✈️ Kiruna (KRN)

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Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost airport at almost 68°N, is the gateway to the Arctic. It feeds a booming Northern Lights tourism scene around Abisko National Park and the famous Icehotel at Jukkasjärvi, as well as the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine and the Esrange space centre. The mine is so vast that the entire town of Kiruna is being physically relocated.

Serving Kiruna, KRN has about 1 regularly-served nonstop destination, with Stockholm the mainstay and seasonal links beyond. Main airlines: SAS, Norwegian. See the full route map for KRN on AirportRoutes →

✈️ Visby (VBY)

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Visby Airport is the air link to Gotland, the large Baltic island whose medieval Hanseatic town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Demand is intensely seasonal: the island’s population swells in summer with holidaymakers and, each year, the political crowds of Almedalen Week, and the flight schedule swells with it.

Serving Gotland, VBY reaches about 2 regularly-served nonstop destinations — chiefly Stockholm, plus seasonal links such as Helsinki. Main airlines: SAS, Norwegian (with seasonal carriers in summer). See the full route map for VBY on AirportRoutes →

The rest of Sweden’s scheduled airports are small regional and lifeline fields — among them Skellefteå, Umeå and Örnsköldsvik along the northern coast, the inland Lapland strips of Arvidsjaur, Lycksele, Gällivare and Vilhelmina (several kept running by state-supported routes), and southern fields such as Växjö, Ängelholm–Helsingborg and Stockholm Västerås.

What about Copenhagen? The airport that serves southern Sweden

Look at a map of Sweden’s airports and the south can seem oddly underserved for a region that includes Malmö, the country’s third city. The explanation lies across the water: Copenhagen Airport (Kastrup), in Denmark, is the de facto international gateway for the whole of Skåne and much of southern Sweden. Since the Öresund Bridge opened in 2000, trains run directly from Malmö Central to the airport terminal in around 20–30 minutes — often faster and with far more destinations than flying from Malmö’s own airport.

Copenhagen is also SAS’s main long-haul hub, which is why so much of Sweden’s intercontinental travel — including most flights to North America and Asia — flows through Kastrup rather than Stockholm. Because the airport physically sits in Denmark, route databases code it to Denmark, so it doesn’t appear in this Swedish ranking — but for travellers in the south it is, in every practical sense, their major airport. You can explore it and the rest of Europe’s gateways on our airports hub.

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