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The best train tours in Sweden

37 hotel-based trips in Sweden had enough verified data to score; hostel and self-guided rail-pass trips are not ranked here. The ranking below is fully mechanical; here is exactly how it works:

  • Eligibility: only hotel-based tours are ranked. Trips built around hostels or self-arranged accommodation are left out, since these guides recommend hotel-inclusive tours for the general traveller.
  • Rail share (35%): the percent of the trip actually on trains, from the itinerary.
  • Value (20%): price per day against the other hotel-based trips on this page (cheaper per day scores higher).
  • Data completeness (25%): full day-by-day itinerary, imagery, inclusions, and verified price.
  • Departure breadth (20%): how many months the operator publishes departures for.
  1. 178.3

    Nine-day rail journey from Tromso to Stockholm through Swedish Arctic

    Rail share
    75
    Value
    35
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    100

    9 days · from $3,268 ($363/day)

  2. Nine-day rail journey from Hamburg through Copenhagen, Malmö, Odense to Kiel

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    97
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    9 days · from $1,460 ($162/day)

  3. 3
    Finnish Explorer

    Tailor Made Rail

    73.7

    Rail and ferry journey from London through northern Europe to Finnish Lapland and Helsinki

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    95
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    14 days · from $2,411 ($172/day)

  4. London to Bodø on rail and ferry, crossing four countries northward.

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    92
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $1,942 ($177/day)

  5. Rail journey from London through four Scandinavian countries to Bergen

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    73
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    12 days · from $3,129 ($261/day)

  6. Escorted 15-day rail journey through five countries to the Arctic Circle and back.

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    57
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    13

    15 days · from $4,623 ($308/day)

  7. 16-day escorted rail journey from London through Scandinavia and the Baltic capitals.

    Rail share
    55
    Value
    51
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    63

    16 days · from $5,091 ($318/day)

  8. Fifteen-day rail tour through Germany, Denmark, and Sweden with steam railways and trams

    Rail share
    75
    Value
    62
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    13

    15 days · from $4,147 ($276/day)

  9. 966.2

    London to Bergen by rail through six cities, eleven days.

    Rail share
    73
    Value
    78
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $2,545 ($231/day)

  10. London to Riga via train and ferry through Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn.

    Rail share
    65
    Value
    89
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    13 days · from $2,539 ($195/day)