🇸🇪 Same-country drive · Sweden

Driving from Stockholm to Lund

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Drive time: 6h 57m
Distance: 605 km
Same day?: Yes, doable; under 8 h
Fuel cost: ≈ €82; petrol · diesel ≈ €77
Tolls: Toll-free; no charges en route
EV charging: Plenty fast; 20 of 75 ≥50 kW
Countries: 🇸🇪 Sweden; 1 country

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Route options

Other paths OSRM found between the two cities — handy when traffic, tolls, or scenery matter more than raw speed.

Alternative

+1h

Distance:: 628 km
Duration:: 7h 57m

Via: E 4 · E 4; E 20 · 32 · 127

Avoids motorways

+2h 56m

Distance:: 604 km
Duration:: 9h 54m

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.

By car

6h 57m

605 km · €82 fuel

See details ↓

By bike

Not realistic

605 km is far beyond a typical multi-day cycle tour. Try a shorter pair like a day or weekend stage.

By bus

Direct

8h 5m

FlixBus-eu

See details ↓

By train

Direct

4h 37m

See details ↓

Trip plan

How to think about the drive: one day, split, or overnight.

Long day — start early

Doable in one day but it is a full day behind the wheel. Start before 9am, plan one proper lunch stop, keep the driver rested.

Distance:: 605 km
Duration:: 6h 57m (free-flow, no traffic)

Where to stop

Places along the route that make natural breaks for coffee, lunch, or a night.

Krokek 🇸🇪 se
≈121 km

≈ 34.2 km detour from the main route
Vadstena 🇸🇪 se
≈242 km

≈ 17.4 km detour from the main route
Vaggeryd 🇸🇪 se
≈363 km

≈ 9 km detour from the main route
Örkelljunga 🇸🇪 se
≈484 km

≈ 35.8 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 → 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

Øresund Bridge: ~€60 each way, book ahead for discount

Must know

The 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.

Fuel stations

Contactless cards work at virtually every motorway pump

Tip

Major 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

Tip

Your 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

Tip

Single 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.

E 4 —
441 km
E 4; E 20 Södertäljevägen
147 km
E 6.02 Fjelievägen
5 km

Route character

How much of the drive is motorway vs. secondary vs. rural.

Motorway drive — fast, predictable, uneventful.

Motorway: 99%
Secondary: 0%
Other / rural: 1%

Drive difficulty

At-a-glance feel: how demanding is this drive for one driver?

Overall

Moderate

Manageable but pay attention — long enough that a second driver or a planned lunch break is smart.

Long drive: 6h 57m behind the wheel at free-flow speeds.

Elevation profile

Highs, lows, and the total climb / descent along the route.

Lowest point: 2 m
Highest point: 213 m
Total ascent: ↑ 418 m
Total descent: ↓ 390 m

Fuel & tolls

Rough cost expectation for a typical EU passenger car. Treat as an estimate — pump prices change weekly.

Petrol (RON 95)

≈ €82

45.4 L × €1.82 / L · 7.5 L/100 km

Diesel

≈ €77

36.3 L × €2.11 / L · 6 L/100 km

Electric (DC fast)

≈ €62

106 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

75 found

20 at 50 kW or above (fast / ultra-fast).

Fastest first

ICA Maxi Ljungby - Eviny — LJUNGBY 360 kW
Circle K Ljungby Nyponvägen — Ljungby 360 kW
IONITY Ljungby South — LJUNGBY 350 kW
Norrköping Ultrasnabbladdning — Norrköping 300 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
OKQ8 Klinga - E.ON — Norrköping 50 kW

Weather by month

Average daytime high / overnight low and typical monthly rainfall, over the past five years.

🇸🇪 Stockholm

Month
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
1° -4°	2° -3°	6° -1°	10° 1°	16° 6°	21° 12°	22° 14°	20° 13°	18° 12°	11° 6°	5° 1°	2° -2°
58mm	32mm	36mm	32mm	30mm	59mm	110mm	75mm	59mm	73mm	44mm	46mm

hot mild cold

🇸🇪 Lund

Month
Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
4° -0°	5° -0°	8° 1°	12° 4°	17° 8°	20° 12°	21° 14°	21° 13°	20° 12°	13° 8°	7° 3°	6° 2°
89mm	56mm	48mm	33mm	46mm	65mm	81mm	91mm	68mm	96mm	73mm	62mm

hot mild cold

Next 5 days at Lund

Live forecast — refreshes every few hours.

Mon 26

⛅

12° / 9°

—
Tue 27

⛅

11° / 9°

1.1mm
Wed 28

☀️

13° / 11°

—
Thu 29

⛅

13° / 10°

—
Fri 30

⛅

11° / 7°

—

Forecast: MET Norway

Directions

Turn-by-turn summary of the main manoeuvres, generated by OSRM.

Show all 13 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) 49 km
— 0.1 km
Fjelievägen (E 6.02) 5 km
Fjelievägen (E 6.02)
Fjelievägen
Kävlingevägen
—

By coach from Stockholm to Lund

Indicative duration of the fastest direct long-distance coach found in the FlixBus and BlaBlaCar Bus EU schedules.

Travel time: 8h 5m; 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 Stockholm to Lund

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: 4h 37m; Direct
Lead operator: SJ
Alternatives: 6; Itineraries returned by the planner.

Trains on the fastest itinerary

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, and Open Charge Map for EV charging stations. See our methodology for refresh cadence and limitations.

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Reverse trip: Lund to Stockholm

Route map

Route options

How else can you make this trip?

Trip plan

Where to stop

Key moves

Must-know before you go

Tolls, vignettes & road payment

Fuel stations

Money & connectivity

Emergency & breakdown

Main roads

Route character

Drive difficulty

Elevation profile

Fuel & tolls

Fuel and EV charging along the route

EV charging

Weather by month

Directions

By coach from Stockholm to Lund

By train from Stockholm to Lund

How this page is built

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