Stockholm travel guides & articles
All 17 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Stockholm — newest first.
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How to time Stockholm's Vasa Museum in October 2026
The Vasa hall, what a ticket costs in October 2026, and when to turn up if you would rather not queue.
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Kungliga Slottet, the palace Stockholm's King still works in
One ticket gets you five sets of rooms and a working royal office above Gamla Stan, with the cellars, cafés and viewpoints all within five minutes of the gate.
The best archipelago boat tours in Stockholm
From the reliable island ferries to RIB blasts, dinner steamers and wood-fired sauna rafts — how to pick the right boat, and who each one really suits.
Paddling the Skerries: A Local's Guide to Stockholm's Archipelago by Kayak
How to actually get onto Stockholm's 20,000-island archipelago by kayak in 2026 — the city warm-ups, the guided days, the wild multi-day expeditions, and the operators worth your krona.
Södermalm After Dark: Stockholm's Island of Vintage, Vinyl and Late-Night Bites
A logistics-first, honestly-graded guide to drinking, dancing and eating your way across Stockholm's coolest island — from waterfront gig rooms to prison cocktails and natural wine poured past midnight.
Under an Hour From Stockholm, a Different Country Begins
Board a ferry at Strandvägen and within the hour the city dissolves into granite, pine and open water — here is how to plan the Stockholm archipelago without wasting a single crossing.
A Sauna-Hunter's Guide to Stockholm: Bathhouses, Cold Dips and Archipelago Hot Spots
A walked, honest route through Stockholm's floating pontoons, private sauna boats, heritage bathhouses and forest ice-dips — with straight talk on prices, doors and which suit a crowd.
The Stockholm Fika Trail: A City Measured in Cardamom Buns and Coffee Breaks
A walkable, neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood route through fourteen Stockholm cafés and bakeries — where to sit, what to order, and which places suit a couple versus a group of six.
Gamla Stan After the Cruise Ships Leave: Stockholm's Old Town in Its Own Hours
When the day's 8,000 cruise passengers filter back to the water, Stockholm's medieval island stops performing and starts living — here is where to eat, drink and walk once the square goes quiet.
Crossing Stockholm Like a Local, One Bridge at a Time
A walking route across Stockholm's bridges and waterside viewpoints, paced and timed the way someone who actually lives there would do it in 2026.
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Kungsholmen in November, Stockholm's Grand Halls and Shore
Stockholm's western island has ceremonial interiors, a working court house and three kilometres of waterfront, and in November you walk almost all of it alone.
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Inside Stockholm City Hall's Golden Hall and Nobel Cellar
You see the Golden Hall's 18 million mosaic tiles on a 45-minute guided tour, and the cellar below will serve you any Nobel banquet menu since 1901.
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An October Walk Around Stockholm's Skeppsholmen Island
A kilometre of granite, two reopened museums and a dinosaur cavern that opens on 22 October: how to walk Skeppsholmen properly in the short autumn light.
Ninety Kilometres of Art: Stockholm's Subway Is the World's Longest Gallery
A station-by-station walking guide to the Stockholm metro — where to start, which caverns reward the detour, and how to see the best of it on a single day ticket.
The Viking heart of Stockholm: where the city's Norse past lives on in everything from runestones to modern design
A working itinerary through the grave goods, rune-carved boulders, and a UNESCO trading post that separate Stockholm's real Viking Age from the saga version sold in gift shops.
Where Stockholm Drinks When the Sun Won't Set
Stockholm's summer sun sets after 22:00 and never lets the sky go properly dark. The city's rooftops, floating bars and open-air clubs are built around that gap, and this guide has the doors, ages and prices.
How Stockholm's Endless Summer Light Rewrites the Evening
In Stockholm's long summer light, dinner slides toward ten, ferries add extra crossings, and rooftop bars, hilltop picnics and lakeside saunas all stay busy until the sky finally, briefly, dims.