🇳🇴 Cross-border drive · Norway → Sweden 🇸🇪
Driving from Oslo to Stockholm
- Drive time
- 7h 2m
- Distance
- 523 km
- Same day?
- Yes, doable
- under 8 h
- Fuel cost
- ≈ €67
- petrol · diesel ≈ €64
- Tolls
- Toll-free
- no charges en route
- EV charging
- Plenty fast
- 21 of 81 ≥50 kW
On this page
Route map
Route options
Other paths OSRM found between the two cities — handy when traffic, tolls, or scenery matter more than raw speed.
Avoids motorways
+2h 8m- Distance:
- 539 km (+16 km)
- Duration:
- 9h 11m
Via: E 18 · E 20 · D 900 · AB 576
How else can you make this trip?
Driving is the focus of this guide; here's how cycling, coach, and (soon) train and plane stack up for the same pair.
7h 2m
523 km · €67 fuel
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Not realistic
523 km is far beyond a typical multi-day cycle tour. Try a shorter pair like a day or weekend stage.
7h 10m
FlixBus-eu
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6h
SJ · Vy Norge
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Trip plan
How to think about the drive: one day, split, or overnight.
Consider splitting over two days
Technically a one-day drive, but it is a slog. Splitting overnight halfway makes it a much better trip and lets you see the middle, not just the endpoints.
A natural overnight stop near the halfway point: Kristinehamn (se).
- Distance:
- 523 km
- Duration:
- 7h 2m (free-flow, no traffic)
Where to stop
Places along the route that make natural breaks for coffee, lunch, or a night.
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Kristinehamn 🇸🇪 se
≈262 km≈ 4.4 km detour from the main route
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Kungsör 🇸🇪 se
≈392 km≈ 3.7 km detour from the main route
Key moves
Things to know before you set off — borders, sides of the road, tolls.
Cross-border drive · NO → SE
You'll leave one country and enter another on this trip. Keep your ID close, even inside Schengen, and check current border-control status before you go.
Must-know before you go
The things a driver from another country wouldn't think to ask about — fines, stickers, payment cards, opening hours.
Tolls, vignettes & road payment
AutoPASS toll cameras with no booth — register your plate
Must knowEvery Norwegian toll point is an overhead camera, no booths. Foreign plates: either pre-register on epass24.com (the central platform for visitors) or wait for the invoice to reach your home address — typically 3–6 months later, with no late fee for the first 30 days. AutoPASS-certified transponder rented before crossing skips the admin entirely.
Driving rules & habits
Plan your stops, not just your finish time
UsefulOSRM gives you free-flow drive time. Realistic add: 10% on motorway-heavy routes, 25% if you're crossing two cities. Eat at off-peak hours (11:30 lunch, 18:00 dinner) — service-area queues at noon kill 20 minutes. EU fatigue research is consistent: 15-minute break every 2 hours, full 45-minute break before 6 hours. The drive between hours 7 and 9 is where avoidable accidents cluster.
Fuel stations
Contactless cards work at virtually every motorway pump
TipMajor brand stations (Shell, Total, BP, Repsol, Cepsa, OMV, Eni, Esso) take Visa and Mastercard contactless without an issue. American Express and Diners are spotty south of the Alps. A €100 pre-authorisation hold is normal — it releases within 5 days. Carry €50 cash for the rare independent station.
Emergency & breakdown
112 works everywhere in the EU and continental neighbours
TipSingle number for police, ambulance, fire — works from any phone, any network, any country. On motorways, the orange SOS pillars every 2km connect direct to the regional traffic control centre and pinpoint your location. Use them over your phone if you can — it speeds the response.
Rules, fees, and thresholds change. Always verify against the official source the day before you drive — this page is a checklist, not a legal reference.
Main roads
The highways this route spends the most kilometres on.
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E 18 Askimveien257 km
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E 20 —135 km
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E 18; E 20 Arbogavägen42 km
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E 18; 243 Örebrovägen40 km
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E 6 Europaveien19 km
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E 18; E 20; 50 Västerleden7 km
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E 4; E 20 Södertäljevägen7 km
Route character
How much of the drive is motorway vs. secondary vs. rural.
Motorway drive — fast, predictable, uneventful.
- Motorway
- 98%
- Secondary
- 0%
- Other / rural
- 2%
Drive difficulty
At-a-glance feel: how demanding is this drive for one driver?
Overall
Challenging
Long day with at least one complicating factor. Split into two days or share the driving.
- Long drive: 7h 2m behind the wheel at free-flow speeds.
- Cross-border: no → se. Keep documents accessible and check border rules.
Elevation profile
Highs, lows, and the total climb / descent along the route.
- Lowest point
- 9 m
- Highest point
- 177 m
- Total ascent
- ↑ 484 m
- Total descent
- ↓ 484 m
Fuel & tolls
Rough cost expectation for a typical EU passenger car. Treat as an estimate — pump prices change weekly.
Petrol (RON 95)
≈ €67
39.2 L × €1.71 / L · 7.5 L/100 km
Diesel
≈ €64
31.4 L × €2.05 / L · 6 L/100 km
Electric (DC fast)
≈ €54
92 kWh × €0.59 / kWh · 17.5 kWh/100 km
Public DC fast charging — slower AC charging at home or hotels typically costs about half.
Prices last refreshed 2026-10-12.
Fuel and EV charging along the route
Stations within a few kilometres of the road, sampled at evenly-spaced waypoints.
EV charging
21 at 50 kW or above (fast / ultra-fast).
Fastest first
- Laddbolaget Bråtebäcken — KARLSTAD 350 kW
- Allego Dinners Arboga 300 kW
- Oslo Central - Sentrum P-hus Supercharger — OSLO 250 kW
- Tesla SC Strängnäs — STRÄNGNÄS 250 kW
- Recharge McDonalds Arboga — ARBOGA 200 kW
- LBC Karlstad - EVcore 180 kW
- McDonalds Karlstad Nobelplan - Recharge 150 kW
- Recharge Lekhyttan — VINTROSA 150 kW
- OKQ8 Arboga Sätra, Mälarporten — Arboga 150 kW
- Arboga Supercharger - Tesla — Arboga 150 kW
- OKQ8 Höjdgatan — KARLSTAD 50 kW
- Holfast/Beves — KARLSTAD 50 kW
Weather by month
Average daytime high / overnight low and typical monthly rainfall, over the past five years.
🇳🇴 Oslo
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| 100mm | 54mm | 55mm | 73mm | 44mm | 90mm | 157mm | 136mm | 110mm | 76mm | 59mm | 64mm |
hot mild cold
🇸🇪 Stockholm
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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1°
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| 58mm | 32mm | 36mm | 32mm | 30mm | 59mm | 110mm | 75mm | 59mm | 73mm | 44mm | 46mm |
hot mild cold
Next 5 days at Stockholm
Live forecast — refreshes every few hours.
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Mon 26
⛅
11° / 10°
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Tue 27
⛅
11° / 8°
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Wed 28
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14° / 10°
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Thu 29
⛅
11° / 9°
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Fri 30
☀️
10° / 6°
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Forecast: MET Norway
Directions
Turn-by-turn summary of the main manoeuvres, generated by OSRM.
Show all 33 manoeuvres
- Grensen
- (E 18)
- Operatunnelen / Bjørvikatunnelen (E 18) 0.8 km
- Operatunnelen / Bjørvikatunnelen (E 6) 0.1 km
- Operatunnelen / Svartdalstunnelen (E 6) 1 km
- Europaveien (E 6)
- Europaveien (E 6) 3 km
- Enebakkveien (E 6) 3 km
- Europaveien (E 6) 12 km
- (E 18) 7 km
- Askimveien (E 18)
- Askimveien (E 18) 47 km
- Osloveien (E 18) 16 km
- (E 18)
- (E 18) 103 km
- (E 18)
- (E 18) 84 km
- Kristinehamnsvägen (E 18)
- Örebrovägen (E 18; 243) 0.1 km
- Örebrovägen (E 18; 243)
- Örebrovägen (E 18; 243) 40 km
- Västerleden (E 18; E 20; 50) 7 km
- Västerleden (E 18; E 20) 0.3 km
- Arbogavägen (E 18; E 20) 42 km
- (E 20) 4 km
- (E 20) 0.2 km
- (E 20) 112 km
- (E 20) 19 km
- Stockholmskopplet
- Södertäljevägen (E 4; E 20) 7 km
- Södertäljevägen 3 km
- Hornsgatan 2 km
- Gustav Adolfs Torg
By coach from Oslo to Stockholm
Indicative duration of the fastest direct long-distance coach found in the FlixBus and BlaBlaCar Bus EU schedules.
- Travel time
- 7h 10m
- Direct
- Operator
- FlixBus-eu
- Departures / day
- ~1
- Approximate based on the published schedule.
Show coach corridor on map
Schedules sourced from the FlixBus and BlaBlaCar Bus GTFS feeds via transport.data.gouv.fr. Times are indicative; verify on the operator's site before booking.
Booking link coming soon.
By train from Oslo to Stockholm
Fastest cross-border rail itinerary from the public Transitous planner. Times reflect a typical Monday-morning departure on the next available service-day.
- Fastest journey
- 6h
- 1 change
- Lead operator
- SJ
- + 3 more
- Alternatives
- 5
- Itineraries returned by the planner.
Trains on the fastest itinerary
- 70
All operators across alternatives
- SJ
- Vy Norge
- Västtrafik
- VR Snabbtåg
Show route on map
Routing via the public Transitous OTP planner (community-run MOTIS instance). Cached 24 hours; verify on the operator's site before booking.
How this page is built
Compiled by COD Solutions Oy from open European data — OSRM over OpenStreetMap for the route geometry, Open-Meteo for monthly climate normals, OpenTopoData SRTM 30m for elevation, EU Weekly Oil Bulletin for cross-border fuel-price bands, and Open Charge Map for EV charging stations. See our methodology for refresh cadence and limitations.