Are There Two Airports in Gothenburg, Sweden?
No, Gothenburg, Sweden has one commercial passenger airport, Göteborg Landvetter. Here is what that means for your flight, your transfer and the old airfields behind the two-airport myth.
Göteborg Landvetter Airport handled 5,435,850 passengers in 2025, according to Swedavia, the state company that runs it. It is Sweden's second-largest airport, it sits on one 3,300-metre runway, and it is the only airport with scheduled commercial passenger flights anywhere near Gothenburg, Sweden. So when a search result, a booking site or a well-meaning forum post asks whether the city has two airports, the practical answer matters: if you are flying here commercially, you are flying to Landvetter, and everything else is history or confusion.
The question is not silly, though. Older guidebooks genuinely describe a second field, because for decades there was one, and the name of the city itself gets tangled up with a small town in Nebraska that also has travel pages written about it. This page untangles the lot: what exists now, what used to exist, how the one real airport connects to the city centre, and how to plan around the facts rather than the folklore. The desk behind Gothenburg Travel Guide keeps every figure here pinned to a primary source, Swedavia's own airport pages and Västtrafik's fare tables, because airport facts go stale faster than almost anything else on a travel site.
So Are There Two Airports in Gothenburg, Sweden?
No. Gothenburg, Sweden has exactly one airport with commercial passenger traffic, Göteborg Landvetter (IATA code GOT), which Swedavia lists as Sweden's second-largest airport with 5,435,850 passengers in 2025. There is no second passenger airport serving the city. The two-airport idea survives because Landvetter replaced an older field, Torslanda, in October 1977, and because a small town in Nebraska shares the city's name and pollutes search results.
That is the whole answer in one paragraph, but the details change how you book. Swedavia's own overview of Landvetter states the destination map plainly: 77 international destinations and 2 domestic ones in 2025, as published on Swedavia's Göteborg Landvetter pages. Two domestic routes is itself worth pausing on. A city of 613,274 people (the figure Göteborgs Stad published for the end of 2025) with only two domestic air links tells you something about how Sweden travels: the trains do the domestic work, and the airport is mostly about reaching the rest of Europe. If your itinerary involves Stockholm, the train is the default, and our piece on the Gothenburg to Stockholm train covers that route properly.
The Nebraska point is worth thirty seconds because it genuinely distorts search data. Gothenburg, Nebraska is a real, much smaller American town, and its travel pages, its distance calculators and its forum threads get mixed into results for the Swedish city. Every page on this site names Sweden, Västra Götaland or the Göta älv somewhere for exactly that reason, and Swedavia's own pages always write the airport's name in full, Göteborg Landvetter, partly for the same reason: precision about which Gothenburg you mean.
Where Is Göteborg Landvetter Airport and How Big Is It?
Göteborg Landvetter Airport is Sweden's second-largest airport, opened in October 1977 to replace Torslanda, operating a single 3,300-metre runway and serving 5,435,850 passengers in 2025 across 77 international and 2 domestic destinations. Swedavia states the transfer time to central Gothenburg as 20 minutes by coach, and publishes no distance figure in kilometres.
That last clause is deliberate, and it is a rule this site holds to. Swedavia states the time everywhere, 20 minutes by flygbuss each way, but on the pages this desk could verify it does not state the kilometres. Plenty of secondary sources will hand you a number. We will not, because an unverified figure on an airport page is exactly the kind of small lie that compounds: one site guesses, the next copies, and a year later the guess has a decimal point. Twenty minutes, stated by the airport operator itself, is the fact that actually helps you plan.
The airport's scale is worth understanding before you book connections. One runway and 5.4 million passengers a year makes Landvetter a mid-sized European airport by volume, but its route map is heavily international. The two domestic destinations mean that if you are flying into Sweden from abroad and connecting onward to somewhere in Sweden that is not Stockholm, you may find yourself routing through the capital anyway. Conversely, if you are coming from a European hub, Landvetter is often the faster and cheaper entry point for the whole west coast, from Gothenburg itself up through the Bohuslän archipelago. For what awaits after you land, our overview of what Gothenburg is known for is the natural next read.
A practical note on timing: because the airport is compact and the coach link is short, connection planning in Gothenburg is forgiving in a way it is not at larger airports. Security queues move at a mid-sized-airport pace, and the terminal is a single coherent building rather than a sprawl. Swedavia also notes that guided airport tours are currently not offered, which closes off one niche activity people occasionally ask about.
Once you are on the ground, the fastest way to get a first look at the city is a proper sightseeing product rather than self-guided wandering with luggage. These three are the ones this desk compares most often for new arrivals:
The amphibious bus tour in that band is the classic first-day choice in Gothenburg: one hour, a drive through the centre, and then the vehicle drives into the harbour water for the canal leg, which is the gimmick that makes it memorable. The [Go City](https://gocity.tpk.ro/HQKyKKW4) pass is the multi-attraction option, and the archipelago cruise is the one to pick if your flight lands early enough that you want the sea on day one.
How Do You Get from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg City Centre?
The airport coach, now branded Vy flygbussarna, runs Landvetter to Korsvägen to Göteborg Centralstation (Nils Ericson Terminalen) in a stated 20 minutes, and Swedavia's own transport pages list no rail alternative because none exists. Västtrafik bus 612 also serves the airport, reaching Landvetter resecentrum in 14 minutes, and FlixBus line 691 runs the airport to Korsvägen, Kungsportsplatsen and the central terminal.
Three road options, zero rail options, and a coach that has been rebranded. Each of those facts catches people out, so here they are in one place:
| Option | Route | Stated time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vy flygbussarna airport coach | Landvetter Airport to Korsvägen to Göteborg C, Nils Ericson Terminalen | 20 minutes | The official airport coach; rebranded from Flygbussarna to Vy flygbussarna, so old guides name it wrong |
| Västtrafik bus 612 | Airport to Landvetter resecentrum | 14 minutes | Goes to the town of Landvetter, not to Gothenburg city; useful only for the local area |
| FlixBus line 691 | Landvetter Airport to Landvetter Hotel, Hangarvägen, Korsvägen, Berzeliigatan, Kungsportsplatsen, Göteborg C | Not stated as a single figure | Also runs a daily Landvetter to Stockholm Arlanda coach |
The coach fare is deliberately absent from that table. Swedavia publishes the route and the 20-minute time, but the current one-way fare is not confirmed on a primary page this desk could verify, and quoting a stale or guessed fare on an airport page is worse than quoting nothing. Buy from the operator's live listing or at the stop, and expect the price to be in line with other Swedish airport coaches.
The rebrand deserves a sentence of its own because it makes old copy look stale. If your guidebook or a search snippet says "Flygbussarna", it is describing the same physical coach service under its former name. The buses still run the same corridor: airport, Korsvägen (which is the stop for Liseberg and Universeum, a genuinely useful fact if your hotel is near either), and the Nils Ericson Terminalen at Göteborg Centralstation. Our piece on how many days in Gothenburg is enough picks up the planning from the moment you step off that coach.
One more thing worth knowing before you land: the central station itself is in the middle of a long construction project. The Västlänken rail tunnel is being built under the city with new stations at Centralen, Haga and Korsvägen, and the first section of underground track at Centralen is due to open in December 2026, with the full project around 2030. None of that affects the airport coach, which uses the existing terminal, but it does mean the area around the station is a building site with wayfinding to match. Allow a little slack the first time you walk it.
Is There a Train from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg?
No, there is no train from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg, and there is no rail link of any kind. Swedavia's own transport pages for Landvetter list only the Vy flygbussarna coach and bus services, and the airport's passenger information makes no mention of a station. Anyone promising you a rail transfer is describing a different city's airport or an imagined future one.
This is the single most useful negative fact on this page, so it is worth being blunt about. Travellers used to Copenhagen, Oslo or Stockholm, all of which have rail links of some kind, assume Sweden's second city must too. It does not. You land, you take a road vehicle, and the 20-minute coach run is the whole story. Plan around it rather than against it: the coach corridor through Korsvägen means you can sometimes alight closer to your hotel than the central station would be, particularly if you are staying near the attractions cluster.
The December 2026 opening at Centralen deserves a careful sentence here, because it is easy to misread. What opens then is underground track and platforms at the central station for regional trains, part of the Västlänken tunnel. That is a city-centre rail project. It is not an airport link, and nothing in Swedavia's or Västtrafik's published plans changes the fact that Landvetter has no station of its own. If you read a headline about new trains arriving in Gothenburg in 2026, it is about the tunnel, not the airport.
For the onward rail legs that do exist, Gothenburg is genuinely well served. Trains run north to Stockholm and Oslo and south along the coast towards Copenhagen, and the high-speed question is covered in detail in is there a high-speed train from Gothenburg to Stockholm. The pattern for most visitors is simple: fly into Landvetter, coach to the centre, and switch to rail only when you leave the region.
And once the luggage is dropped, the amphibious bus tour is the smoothest way to convert a travel day into a sightseeing one, since it starts centrally and compresses the city overview into a single hour:
The listing rates it 4.7 from 4,326 reviews, from $36 per person, which is about as strong a consensus as Gothenburg sightseeing products get.
Why Do Some Guides Say Gothenburg Has Two Airports?
Guides say Gothenburg had two airports because it used to: commercial flights operated from Torslanda, west of the city, until Göteborg Landvetter opened in October 1977 and replaced it. Swedavia's own history states Landvetter was built to replace Torslanda, so the two-airport claim is a fossil, a description of the pre-1977 map that never got updated when the old field closed.
Airports close and their ghosts stay in print. Torslanda's story is the clean example: for roughly three decades it was the field commercial aviation used, and then the whole operation moved east to Landvetter in 1977 and the old site's aviation role ended. Guidebooks written before that move described two airfields in the region's history; some copy descended from those books kept the plural long after the plural stopped being true. If you find a page insisting on a second airport, ask what year its facts are from, because the answer is almost always "before 1977" or "not this country".
The Nebraska confusion adds a second layer. Gothenburg, Nebraska exists, it has its own web presence, and search engines do not always separate the two places cleanly. A result about distances, tiny local airfields or driving times "to Gothenburg" may be describing the American town, not the Swedish city of 613,274 people. This is why every airport fact on this page is sourced to Swedavia, the Swedish state airport operator, whose pages are unambiguous about which Gothenburg they mean: the one whose airport is named Göteborg Landvetter.
There is a planning lesson in the fossil too. Because the region has exactly one passenger airport, your flight choice is simple, and the real decisions are all on the ground: which transfer, which neighbourhood to stay in, and how many days to give the city. Those questions have real answers, and the rest of this site is built around them, starting with what not to miss in Gothenburg if you want the highlights, or where to avoid in Gothenburg if you would rather hear the honest caveats first.
Which Airport Should You Book for a Gothenburg, Sweden Trip?
Book Göteborg Landvetter (GOT). It is the only commercial passenger airport serving Gothenburg, Sweden, so there is no alternative to weigh up, no second field to compare fares against and no cheaper satellite airport hiding across the water. Your only real choices are which airline serves it from your origin city, and whether the train from Copenhagen, Oslo or Stockholm might beat flying altogether.
That second clause is not a throwaway. For travellers already inside Scandinavia, the rail options into Gothenburg are competitive with the two domestic air routes and often better from Copenhagen, since the Öresund corridor delivers you straight into Göteborg Centralstation with no airport transfer at either end. Once the logistics are settled, the question worth asking is whether the Gothenburg archipelago is worth visiting, because the islands are the reason many people make the trip at all.
For everyone flying in from further away, the booking logic runs through the route map: 77 international destinations means most major European hubs connect, and the practical variables are schedule and fare, not airport choice. One runway does mean weather and disruption can ripple, so in winter it is worth building a little slack into tight plans; our guide to the best time to visit Gothenburg covers the seasonal trade-offs, including the fact that Liseberg, the biggest attraction in the city, closes for large parts of the year between seasons.
Here is the comparison that actually matters once you have landed, the one between spending your first hours working out the city map and spending them seeing something:
The archipelago cruise in that band, from $44 per person and rated 4.4 from 1,488 reviews, is the one this desk points first-timers towards when their flight lands in the morning: it is 2.5 hours on the water, it shows the coastline that the airport approach only hints at, and it leaves the afternoon free. The Go City pass, from $56 and rated 3.8 from 238 reviews, is the better pick for a longer stay where you will visit several paid attractions.
A final word on arrival day itself. The 20-minute coach run means Gothenburg has one of the least stressful airport-to-city transfers of any city its size in Europe, and the terminal's compactness means you can plan a landing-to-hotel window measured in well under an hour when traffic cooperates. The two-airport question, once answered with a plain no, stops being a planning problem and becomes a piece of trivia about Torslanda and 1977. The rest of your trip happens in a city that is easy to arrive in, and that is the more useful thing to know.
Common Questions About Gothenburg Airports
Are there two airports in Gothenburg?
No. Gothenburg, Sweden has one commercial passenger airport, Göteborg Landvetter (GOT). Swedavia operates it as Sweden's second-largest airport, with 5,435,850 passengers in 2025. The two-airport claim comes from history: Landvetter replaced the old Torslanda field in October 1977.
Is Göteborg Landvetter the only airport in Gothenburg, Sweden?
Yes, for commercial passenger traffic. Swedavia's pages for the Gothenburg region list Landvetter as the airport, with 77 international and 2 domestic destinations in 2025. There is no second passenger airport serving the city.
Is there a train from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg city centre?
No. Swedavia's own transport pages list only the Vy flygbussarna airport coach and bus services. The coach takes a stated 20 minutes to reach Korsvägen and Göteborg Centralstation. No rail link to Landvetter exists or is under construction.
How far is Landvetter Airport from Gothenburg?
Swedavia states the transfer time, 20 minutes by airport coach, but does not publish a distance in kilometres on its pages. This site reports the confirmed figure, the 20-minute time, rather than an unverified kilometre count.
Why do old guides mention a second Gothenburg airport?
Because commercial aviation used Torslanda, west of the city, until Göteborg Landvetter opened in October 1977 and replaced it. Guides written before 1977, and copy descended from them, kept describing two airfields after the old one closed. Search confusion with Gothenburg, Nebraska adds further noise.
Which airlines fly to Gothenburg Landvetter?
Swedavia's 2025 figures show 77 international and 2 domestic destinations served from Landvetter. The airport is heavily international because domestic travel in Sweden runs largely on rail; check the live route map on Swedavia's Landvetter pages for current carriers from your origin.