Gothenburg

Introduction

Gothenburg is a city in the southwest of Sweden. With around 500,000 inhabitants, it is the second largest city in the country. The total metropolitan area has over 900,000 inhabitants.

Neighbourhoods

Sights and Activities

Events and Festivals

Weather

Gothenburg has moderately warm summers, between 19 °C and 21 °C from June to September, but 32 °C degrees is the record. Nights are around 13 °C or 14 °C. Winters last from December to March with temperatures around zero during the day, -3 °C at night and an absolute low of -26 °C . Precipitation is evenly distributed throughout the year, but with some more rain in summer and quite some snow in winter.

Getting There

By Plane

Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport (GOT) is the main gateway to the city of Gothenburg. It is the second largest airport in Sweden, after Stockholm-Arlanda Airport.

To/from the airport:

• Bus: Flygbussarna takes passengers to the city of Gothenburg in 20 minutes, and in 30 minutes to Gothenburg Central station.
• Car: The road distance to Gothenburg is 25 kilometres. There are 7,300 parking spaces at the airport. Taxis are widely available as well.

By Train

There are regular trains to cities in Sweden as well as direct services to Copenhagen in Denmark and Oslo in Norway.

By Car

By Bus

Eurolines, Säfflebusen and Swebus Express all have connections to Gothenburg from cities like Stockholm, Copenhagen and Oslo.

By Boat

There are quite a few destinations that are served to and from Goteborg by ferry.
Germany

• Stena Line between Goteborg and Kiel.

Denmark

• Stena Line and Silja Line between Goteborg and Frederikshavn.

United Kingdom

• DFDS Seaways between Goteborg and both Harwich and Immingham.
• Stenaline between Harwich and Gothenburg.

Iceland
The Icelandic cargo ship Eimskip has two vessels, the Dettifoss and Goðafoss which travel the route Rotterdam-Hamburg-Göteborg-Århus-Fredrikstad-Tórshavn-Reykjavík. It takes 8 days in total and the return trip goes via eastern Iceland and Tórshavn only. The vessel can take a maximum of 3 passengers but only between mid-April and mid-October.

Getting Around

By Car

By Public Transport

By Foot

By Bike

Eat

Drink

Sleep

Budget

Mid-Range

Upscale

Work

Learn

Keep Connected

Internet

Phone

See also International Telephone Calls

Post

Posten AB is the Swedish postal service, with fast and reliable services. They have a wide range of services including a track and trace system and different options regarding the sending of postcards, letters and parcels. There are both express and economy services and if you are not in a hurry the latter option is fine enough. The postal service was abandoned at the public post offices in 2001. The public today deals with its postal business at Postal Service Points. Mail and parcels can now be picked up at a number of places, including gas stations, supermarkets and kiosks. Look for the blue and yellow sign above or by the entrance of outlets providing this service. You can also buy stamps and there are quite a few more services in these places, many of which stay open late in the evening and on weekends. Yellow post boxes are for national and international letters and blue for regional letters.
Postal Service Centres are maintained for business clients and Svensk Kassaservice, a chain which deals with simple financial transactions but offers no postal services. There are also traditional post offices offering the full range of services. They are usually open between 9:30am and 6:00pm and may have extended opening hours once or twice a week.
On of their competitors is Bring Citymail AB, formerly privatised but now nationalised by Norway.