How Far Is Landvetter Airport from Gothenburg, Sweden?

How Far Is Landvetter Airport from Gothenburg, Sweden?

Gothenburg, Nebraska is a town of a few thousand people in the American Midwest, and it has no international airport. Gothenburg, Sweden does, and almost every flight into the city lands at Göteborg Landvetter Airport, out east of the Göta älv. The question "how far is Landvetter from Gothenburg" sounds simple, and most guides answer it with a number of kilometres that the airport's own operator does not publish. What Swedavia, the state company that runs Landvetter, actually states is a time: 20 minutes by airport coach between the terminal and central Göteborg. This page sticks to what Swedavia and Västtrafik publish, and flags the two figures you will see online that could not be confirmed anywhere official.

How Far Is Landvetter Airport from Gothenburg?

Swedavia, the airport operator, does not publish a distance in kilometres between Landvetter and central Gothenburg. What it states, on its own pages and in both directions, is a coach journey time of 20 minutes between the airport and the city centre. Landvetter is Sweden's second-largest airport, opened in October 1977 to replace the old Torslanda field, and it handled 5,435,850 passengers in 2025.

That 20-minute figure is the honest answer to the distance question, and it is worth being strict about it. Plenty of travel sites print "25 km" for the Landvetter run. That number may well be roughly right, but it could not be read on any Swedavia page during this site's fact sweep, and Swedavia is the authority that owns the road sign. When the operator gives a time and not a distance, the time is the fact you can rely on. Twenty minutes is also a genuinely short transfer by Scandinavian airport standards: Stockholm Arlanda to central Stockholm is a similar time by express train but a far longer coach ride, and Copenhagen's airport aside, few Nordic cities get you from runway to downtown this fast.

A few more Landvetter facts that frame the transfer. The airport has one runway, 3,300 metres long. In 2025 it served 77 international destinations and only 2 domestic ones, which tells you something about Swedish geography: the country's domestic aviation market is thin, and most Landvetter passengers are arriving from or heading abroad. The terminal sits in Landvetter, a small town in Härryda municipality, which is why the airport carries a name that appears nowhere on a Gothenburg map. Västtrafik bus 612 also serves the airport, running 14 minutes to Landvetter resecentrum, the town itself, which is useful for airport staff and almost useless for visitors, because the town is not the city.

The practical takeaway is that Landvetter is close enough that the transfer should never dominate your planning. A delayed flight into Landvetter costs you an evening; the same delay into a hub 90 minutes from town costs you a day. For help deciding how to split the days you do have, our piece on how many days in Gothenburg is enough breaks the city down by trip length.

One more thing worth knowing before you book: the airport's own overview pages are the place to verify anything time-sensitive, and Swedavia publishes the current passenger figures, destination counts and transport options at its Landvetter airport page. If a detail about the airport matters to your connection, an airline timetable or a terminal map for instance, that is the source that will be current when you travel, not a guide written months earlier. This page's figures were verified against it in September 2026, and airport numbers move more than city numbers do.

Is There a Train from Landvetter to Gothenburg?

No, there is no rail link of any kind to Landvetter Airport. Swedavia's own transport pages list only coach and bus options. The airport coach is branded Vy flygbussarna, running Landvetter Airport to Korsvägen to Göteborg C, the Nils Ericson Terminalen, with a stated journey time of 20 minutes. FlixBus line 691 runs a parallel route, and Västtrafik bus 612 serves the airport area.

The absence of a train is the single most useful planning fact on this page, because search results are full of people asking whether they can catch a rail connection, and the answer is a clean no. There is no station at the airport, no shuttle to a station, and no airport express. The main rail project in the region, the Västlänken tunnel under central Gothenburg, opens its first section at Göteborg Centralstation in December 2026 per Västtrafik's project pages, but that tunnel serves the city's existing rail lines, not the airport. Nothing on any official page connects Västlänken to Landvetter.

So the coach is the transfer, and the coach has a name worth getting right. The service was rebranded to Vy flygbussarna after Vy, the Norwegian transport group, took over the Flygbussarna brand. Older guides still call it Flygbussarna, which is the kind of stale detail that makes a page look abandoned. The route is simple: the coach leaves the terminal, stops at Korsvägen, the stop that serves Liseberg and Universeum, and terminates at the Nils Ericson Terminalen next to Göteborg Centralstation. If your hotel is anywhere near the station or Avenyn, you can be at check-in within roughly half an hour of stepping off the plane.

One honest gap: the current one-way Vy flygbussarna fare could not be confirmed against the operator's own site during this site's fact sweep, so no price is printed here. Check the fare on the operator's live listing or at the airport's coach stop before you travel, and treat any number you see quoted on a third-party blog with suspicion. What is confirmed is the route, the terminus and the 20-minute time, all from Swedavia.

A note on luggage and timing, since the coach is what you will be riding. The coach runs on a schedule tied to flight banks, so at quiet hours you may wait longer than the journey itself takes, and at peak arrival times the queue at the stop can stretch back toward the terminal doors. Buying the ticket in advance, where the operator offers it, removes one step from that queue. If you are landing late at night, check the last departure before you fly: airport coach timetables thin out after the evening wave, and a missed last coach means a taxi, which is the expensive version of this transfer.

If you are landing with a full day ahead of you and want to see the city rather than just reach it, sightseeing tours that start from the centre are the efficient move.

What Does the Airport Transfer Cost in Gothenburg?

The Vy flygbussarna coach fare is not published in a form this site could verify, so check the operator's listing before you travel. What is confirmed from Västtrafik's fare pages: a single adult ticket in one zone costs 38 kr, and a 24-hour Zone A ticket costs 125 kr, the same price in the app or at a shop. A temporary state subsidy has halved 30-day period tickets, but it does not apply to the day tickets visitors buy.

That last sentence is where most guides go wrong, so it deserves its own paragraph. Västtrafik is currently running a headline-grabbing price cut: a temporary state subsidy halves every ordinary 30-day period ticket, adult and youth, bought in the app or on a Västtrafikkort. The Zone A adult monthly drops from 890 to 445 kr, the subsidised Gothenburg-resident version from 750 to 305 kr, and the youth ticket from 670 to 335 kr. Västtrafik's own wording says the support is "ett tillfälligt statligt stöd som gäller för resor året ut", valid for travel through the end of the year, with a final purchase date to be announced in early autumn. If you read "Gothenburg transport is half price" somewhere, that is the claim being mangled. The subsidy touches monthly tickets. The day tickets a visitor buys are not discounted, and the 24-hour Zone A ticket remains 125 kr.

Here is the comparison table for the options that exist, with the honest gaps marked:

The bus 612 row deserves a warning, because it is the trap in the table. A search for "Landvetter bus to Gothenburg" will surface bus 612, and it looks like a cheap local alternative to the coach. It is, but only if your destination is the town of Landvetter. Swedavia's own description is explicit that the 612 runs to Landvetter resecentrum in 14 minutes, and the town is a different place from the city. Visitors have boarded it expecting Göteborg and ended up in a village with a bus turnaround. The coach, the FlixBus or a taxi are the real options.

For the centre itself, once you have arrived, everything runs on Västtrafik's zone system, and Zone A covers the whole city including the southern archipelago ferries. That makes the 125 kr day ticket one of the better-value purchases in Scandinavian travel, as we explain in is the ferry in Gothenburg free. The zone structure is simple enough to learn in a minute: zones A, B and C radiate outward, Zone A contains Göteborg, Partille, Mölndal and Öckerö, and a single ticket covers one zone for a set period. Two-zone and three-zone singles exist at 76 kr and 114 kr for adults, but a visitor staying inside the city will rarely need them.

Wondering whether a sightseeing tour is worth adding to a short stopover?

Which Airport Should You Fly Into for Gothenburg?

Almost every flight to Gothenburg lands at Landvetter, which is the city's only commercial passenger airport and Sweden's second-busiest. A second airfield, Säve, handles general aviation and helicopters but no scheduled passenger flights, so if your ticket says GOT, you are going to Landvetter and nowhere else.

This matters because "two airports" confusion is real. Search data mixes up Landvetter with Säve, and mixes up both with the Nebraska town. The full story, including what Säve actually does and why it appears in searches, is in our article are there two airports in Gothenburg. The short version: one airport for passengers, one for everything else, and no ambiguity once you are looking at a boarding pass.

Landvetter's route network is worth a sentence before you book. With 77 international destinations in 2025 against 2 domestic, Landvetter functions less like a Swedish domestic hub and more like a west-coast gateway fed from Europe. If you are flying in from the UK, Germany or the Netherlands, you will almost certainly land here rather than route through Stockholm, and the 20-minute coach means a connection-free arrival into the centre. Göteborg Centralstation then connects onward by rail, including long-distance trains toward Stockholm and Oslo, which is covered in is there a high speed train from Gothenburg to Stockholm.

For a sense of what the city you are landing in actually holds, the overview at is Gothenburg worth visiting for tourists is the honest starting point.

What Is the Fastest Way from Landvetter to Central Gothenburg?

The fastest confirmed option is the Vy flygbussarna airport coach, which Swedavia states takes 20 minutes from the terminal to central Göteborg, terminating at the Nils Ericson Terminalen beside Göteborg Centralstation. A taxi can match or beat that time with no traffic and light luggage, but no official journey time or fare is published for taxis, and the coach is the only option with an operator-stated time.

Practical sequencing at the terminal: the coach stop is directly outside arrivals, and the airport is small enough that baggage claim to curb is a short walk. Because the coach stops at Korsvägen before the terminal, travellers staying near Liseberg, Universeum or Avenyn can often get off one stop early and skip the station entirely. Korsvägen is also a tram hub, so if your hotel is further out, the pattern is [coach to](https://busbud.tpk.ro/pZ1aQZGA) Korsvägen, tram to the door, all on the same general area of the city.

The taxi question comes up constantly and has no honest published answer. Fares into the centre are not fixed in any official source this site could verify, prices vary between operators, and the right move is to agree the fare or confirm the meter before the car moves. Any page quoting an exact taxi price from Landvetter is printing a number nobody official stands behind.

Once you are installed in the centre, the city itself is compact. The tram network, 12 lines over 188 km of single track as of Göteborgs Spårvägar's 2022 annual report, carries 126 million journeys a year, and a single 38 kr ticket or the 125 kr day pass covers it. That compactness is why the transfer question matters less than people fear: the expensive part of a Gothenburg trip is rarely the distance from the airport, it is the hours you spend not knowing what to do with them. The guide on what is a must see in Gothenburg is the antidote.

And if you have a half day rather than a full one, the water is the city's best move. As the team at Gothenburg Travel Guide keeps finding, the archipelago and the harbour are what separate Gothenburg from other Scandinavian city breaks.

Common Questions About Landvetter and Gothenburg

How far is Landvetter from Gothenburg?

Swedavia, the airport operator, states the coach journey between Landvetter Airport and central Göteborg takes 20 minutes. It does not publish a distance in kilometres, so any km figure you see on a third-party site is unofficial. In travel time, Landvetter is one of the closer major airports to its city in Scandinavia.

Is there a train from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg?

No. There is no rail link to Landvetter and none under construction. Swedavia's own transport pages list only the Vy flygbussarna airport coach, FlixBus line 691 and Västtrafik bus 612. The Västlänken tunnel opening at Göteborg Centralstation from December 2026 serves city rail lines, not the airport.

How much does the Landvetter airport coach cost?

The current one-way Vy flygbussarna fare could not be confirmed on the operator's own site, so no figure is printed here. Check the operator's live listing before you travel. The route is Landvetter Airport to Korsvägen to the Nils Ericson Terminalen at Göteborg C, stated at 20 minutes.

Does bus 612 go from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg city centre?

No. Västtrafik bus 612 runs 14 minutes from the airport to Landvetter resecentrum, the small town of Landvetter, not the city of Gothenburg. It is a local route for the airport's surroundings. For the city, use the airport coach, FlixBus 691 or a taxi.

Is Gothenburg transport half price right now?

Only monthly tickets are. A temporary state subsidy halves every 30-day period ticket, Zone A adult from 890 to 445 kr, through the end of the year. The 24-hour Zone A ticket visitors buy is not discounted and remains 125 kr. A single one-zone ticket costs 38 kr.

Are Landvetter and Gothenburg the same place?

No. Landvetter is a town in Härryda municipality, east of Gothenburg, and the airport was built there in 1977 to replace Torslanda. The airport takes the town's name but serves the whole Gothenburg region. The city itself, Sweden's second largest, begins about 20 coach minutes west of the terminal.