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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 estimated share of itinerary days with a train leg (a share of days, not distance or time); trips not assessed are not ranked.
  • 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. Nine-day rail journey from Hamburg through Copenhagen, Malmö, Odense to Kiel

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    97
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    9 days · from $1,433 ($159/day)

  2. 274

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

    Rail share
    75
    Value
    14
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    100

    9 days · from $4,300 ($478/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 $2,430 ($174/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 $1,957 ($178/day)

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

    Rail share
    85
    Value
    73
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    12 days · from $3,222 ($269/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 $4,660 ($311/day)

  7. 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 $4,181 ($279/day)

  8. 866.2

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

    Rail share
    73
    Value
    78
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    11 days · from $2,565 ($233/day)

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

    Rail share
    65
    Value
    89
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    13 days · from $2,560 ($197/day)

  10. 1064.8

    London to Swedish Arctic on Inlandsbanan, Stockholm to Kiruna, eight days

    Rail share
    75
    Value
    68
    Completeness
    100
    Departures
    0

    8 days · from $2,160 ($270/day)