🇸🇪 Cross-border drive · Sweden → Denmark 🇩🇰
Driving from Stockholm to Copenhagen
- Drive time
- 7h 30m
- Distance
- 616 km
- Same day?
- Yes, doable
- under 8 h
- Fuel cost
- ≈ €86
- petrol · diesel ≈ €78
- Tolls
- Toll-free
- no charges en route
- EV charging
- Plenty fast
- 19 of 67 ≥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
+3h 54m- Distance:
- 666 km (+51 km)
- Duration:
- 11h 24m
Via: 23 · E 22 · 23; 37 · D 800
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 30m
616 km · €86 fuel
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Not realistic
616 km is far beyond a typical multi-day cycle tour. Try a shorter pair like a day or weekend stage.
8h 55m
FlixBus-eu
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2h 6m
from €40
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5h 33m
SJ · Öresundståg
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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: Huskvarna (se).
- Distance:
- 616 km
- Duration:
- 7h 30m (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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Krokek 🇸🇪 se
≈123 km≈ 30.3 km detour from the main route
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Vadstena 🇸🇪 se
≈246 km≈ 19 km detour from the main route
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Vaggeryd 🇸🇪 se
≈369 km≈ 15 km detour from the main route
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Örkelljunga 🇸🇪 se
≈492 km≈ 25.2 km detour from the main route
Key moves
Things to know before you set off — borders, sides of the road, tolls.
Cross-border drive · SE → DK
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
Øresund Bridge: ~€60 each way, book ahead for discount
Must knowThe Copenhagen–Malmö bridge charges roughly DKK 460 (~€62) per car each way at the booth. Pre-booking on oresundsbridge.com for a chosen date drops it to about €34. The alternative — Helsingør–Helsingborg ferry — is €60-ish and 20 minutes; book the same day. There's no third land route.
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.
Money & connectivity
EU roaming covers calls, texts and data at no extra cost
TipYour home EU SIM works at home rates across every EU member, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. The "fair use" cap on data only applies if you're abroad more than four months. For a 2-week road trip, just use your phone normally — but switch off "data roaming" if you're leaving the EU into UK / CH for any segment.
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 4 —406 km
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E 4; E 20 Södertäljevägen147 km
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E 47 Kongevejen38 km
Route character
How much of the drive is motorway vs. secondary vs. rural.
Motorway drive — fast, predictable, uneventful.
- Motorway
- 97%
- Secondary
- 0%
- Other / rural
- 3%
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 30m behind the wheel at free-flow speeds.
- Cross-border: se → dk. Keep documents accessible and check border rules.
Elevation profile
Highs, lows, and the total climb / descent along the route.
- Lowest point
- 15 m
- Highest point
- 237 m
- Total ascent
- ↑ 450 m
- Total descent
- ↓ 459 m
Fuel & tolls
Rough cost expectation for a typical EU passenger car. Treat as an estimate — pump prices change weekly.
Petrol (RON 95)
≈ €86
46.2 L × €1.85 / L · 7.5 L/100 km
Diesel
≈ €78
36.9 L × €2.13 / L · 6 L/100 km
Electric (DC fast)
≈ €63
108 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
19 at 50 kW or above (fast / ultra-fast).
Fastest first
- Circle K Ljungby Nyponvägen — Ljungby 360 kW
- IONITY Ljungby South — LJUNGBY 350 kW
- Nyponvägen 1A - Allego — LJUNGBY 300 kW
- Tesla Supercharger — Ödeshög 250 kW
- Recharge McDonalds Ljungby Södra — LJUNGBY 225 kW
- OKQ8 Ödeshög Liljekonvaljvägen — ÖDESHÖG 150 kW
- E.On Gustav Adolfs Torg 50 kW
- Laddgata Slottskajen - E.ON — STOCKHOLM 50 kW
- Circle K Norsholm Bäckeby - Mer — NORSHOLM 50 kW
- McDonalds Ödeshög - Recharge — Ödeshög 50 kW
- Ödeshög, Rasta - Mer — ÖDESHÖG 50 kW
- E.ON Max Ljungby — LJUNGBY 50 kW
Weather by month
Average daytime high / overnight low and typical monthly rainfall, over the past five years.
🇸🇪 Stockholm
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| 58mm | 32mm | 36mm | 32mm | 30mm | 59mm | 110mm | 75mm | 59mm | 73mm | 44mm | 46mm |
hot mild cold
🇩🇰 Copenhagen
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| 80mm | 48mm | 42mm | 42mm | 28mm | 47mm | 88mm | 70mm | 46mm | 87mm | 73mm | 46mm |
hot mild cold
Next 5 days at Copenhagen
Live forecast — refreshes every few hours.
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Sun 25
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11° / 11°
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Mon 26
⛅
12° / 10°
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Tue 27
⛅
12° / 11°
3.8mm
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Wed 28
☀️
14° / 11°
1.1mm
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Thu 29
☀️
13° / 10°
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Forecast: MET Norway
Directions
Turn-by-turn summary of the main manoeuvres, generated by OSRM.
Show all 17 manoeuvres
- Gustav Adolfs Torg
- Centralbron (E 4.25) 1.0 km
- Årstatunneln (75) 2 km
- Södertäljevägen (E 4; E 20) 147 km
- (E 4) 169 km
- (E 4) 223 km
- (E 4) 8 km
- (E 4) 5 km
- Malmöleden (E 4)
- —
- Helsingør (DK) - Helsingborg (SE) 5 km
- Flynderborgvej (E 47)
- Kongevejen (E 47) 3 km
- Kongevejen (E 47)
- Kongevejen (E 47) 0.2 km
- Helsingørmotorvejen (E 47) 36 km
- Jernbanegade
By coach from Stockholm to Copenhagen
Indicative duration of the fastest direct long-distance coach found in the FlixBus and BlaBlaCar Bus EU schedules.
- Travel time
- 8h 55m
- 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 plane from Stockholm to Copenhagen
Indicative travel time on a non-stop flight, based on great-circle distance, average commercial cruise speed (850 km/h), and a 90-minute allowance for taxi, security, and boarding.
- Total time
- 2h 6m
- Door-to-door from :from airport.
- In the air
- 37 min
- At ~850 km/h cruise speed.
- On the ground
- 90 min
- Taxi + security + boarding (typical short-haul).
- Route
- ARN → CPH
- 522 km great-circle.
Indicative fare: from €40 — fares vary by season, day of week, and how far ahead you book. Always check the airline or a meta-search before planning around this number.
Show flight path on map
Estimate-only. We don't pull live schedules or fares for flights — see the methodology page for how this number is computed.
Air travel emits roughly 5–10× the CO₂ per passenger-km of rail for the same distance.
By train from Stockholm to Copenhagen
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
- 5h 33m
- 1 change
- Lead operator
- SJ
- + 1 more
- Alternatives
- 5
- Itineraries returned by the planner.
Trains on the fastest itinerary
- 533
- 1383
All operators across alternatives
- SJ
- Öresundståg
Includes a high-speed rail leg (TGV, ICE, AVE, Frecciarossa-class).
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.