Is There More Than One Gothenburg Airport? Landvetter, Torslanda and the Nebraska Confusion

Gothenburg, Sweden has one airport with scheduled passenger flights, and it is not even inside the city boundary. Göteborg Landvetter (GOT) sits east of the city in the municipality of Härryda, and Swedavia's own airport pages record 5,435,850 passengers passing through in 2025, making it Sweden's second-largest airport after Stockholm Arlanda. That single fact answers most of the question, but the confusion around it is real and has three separate sources: a genuinely closed old airport at Torslanda, a cluster of small airfields in the region with no scheduled flights, and a town called Gothenburg in Nebraska, in the United States, that shares the name and poisons search results. This page from Gothenburg Travel Guide untangles all three.

Is There More Than One Airport in Gothenburg, Sweden?

No. Gothenburg, Sweden has exactly one airport with scheduled passenger flights: Göteborg Landvetter, airport code GOT. Swedavia, the state operator, handled 5,435,850 passengers there in 2025 across 77 international and 2 domestic destinations, all served from a single 3,300 metre runway. The city's previous airport at Torslanda closed to passenger traffic in October 1977, the same month Landvetter opened, and no second commercial airport has replaced it.

The Torslanda story matters because old guidebooks and even some current websites still list it. Torslanda was Gothenburg's city airport for decades, and when Swedavia opened Landvetter that October, passenger traffic moved wholesale. The Torslanda site did not vanish: it was redeveloped into housing and business parks, and the runways became streets whose curved layout is still visible on a map today. A traveller who follows an outdated address to "Gothenburg Airport, Torslanda" arrives in a residential suburb.

Landvetter itself is a compact single-terminal operation. Swedavia's airport page lists one runway of 3,300 metres, and the destination count for 2025 stands at 77 international routes and 2 domestic ones. The domestic number is small for a simple reason: rail takes the Stockholm traffic, a trade-off covered in detail in Gothenburg to Stockholm by train. Swedavia also notes that guided airport tours are currently not offered, so there is no terminal tour to fall back on if a long layover leaves you stuck airside.

For the record, the airport's own history is documented on Swedavia's Landvetter overview page, which is the source for every operational figure quoted in this section. Anything not on that page, such as a kilometre distance to the centre, is deliberately left out of this guide because Swedavia publishes the journey time, 20 minutes, and not the distance.

Which Gothenburg Airport Do You Actually Fly Into?

Every scheduled flight labelled Gothenburg lands at Göteborg Landvetter. There is no second passenger airport to choose between, no city airport with shuttle flights, and no low-cost alternative field. If your booking confirmation says GOT, you are going to Landvetter, and if it says anything else with the word Gothenburg attached, you should read the small print before you pack, because the other Gothenburg is in Nebraska.

That last point is not a joke. Gothenburg, Nebraska is a real town of a few thousand people in the American Midwest, and it appears in flight and hotel searches often enough that booking mistakes happen. The disambiguation matters in the other direction too: searches for "Gothenburg airport" regularly surface results about the Nebraska town's small municipal airfield. If a search result mentions Nebraska, Dawson County or Interstate 80, it is not about the Swedish city.

Within Sweden, the regional airfields closer to Gothenburg, such as the general aviation field at Säve on Hisingen, handle private and freight traffic rather than scheduled passengers, and Swedavia's pages make clear that Landvetter is the sole commercial gateway. For comparison, travellers weighing Gothenburg against the capital can read Gothenburg or Stockholm: which to visit.

The practical upshot is simple. Book GOT, and everything else on this page is about the 20 minutes between that terminal and the city centre. The table below is the short version of every "Gothenburg airport" a search engine might throw at you.

How Do You Get from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg City Centre?

The airport coach is the standard route: the service is branded Vy flygbussarna, it runs from Landvetter Airport via Korsvägen to Göteborg C and the Nils Ericson Terminalen, and Swedavia states the journey time as 20 minutes. Västtrafik bus 612 also serves the airport, reaching Landvetter resecentrum in about 14 minutes, and FlixBus line 691 runs a parallel airport route into the city.

The coach brand is the detail that dates older guides. The service was known for years simply as Flygbussarna, but Swedavia's airport transport page now lists it as Vy flygbussarna, following the operator's rebranding under Vy. If an older page tells you to look for the Flygbussarna signage, the coach is the same one; the name on the side has changed. Swedavia states the 20-minute time in both directions, and the fare is published on the operator's own site rather than restated here.

Bus 612 is the budget alternative for anyone already set up with a Västtrafik ticket, but note the stop: it serves Landvetter resecentrum, the town, not the terminal, which adds a short connecting leg. FlixBus line 691 stops at Korsvägen, Berzeliigatan, Kungsportsplatsen and Göteborg C, and also runs a daily long-distance coach between Landvetter and Stockholm Arlanda, which occasionally suits a fly-in, fly-out itinerary.

The full comparison of every option, including taxis and the cost picture, is in the dedicated guide to Landvetter airport to the city centre. The bus and coach listing comes straight from Swedavia's airport bus page, which is the only authoritative source for the current route structure.

Is There a Train to Gothenburg Landvetter Airport?

No. There is no rail link of any kind to Landvetter Airport. Swedavia's own transport pages list only coach and bus connections, and no railway line reaches the terminal. The nearest rail is at Göteborg Centralstation in the city centre, so every airport transfer by rail is actually a coach or bus first, followed by a train from the central station if you are continuing onwards.

This is worth stating plainly because it is the single most common wrong assumption arriving visitors make. Many European airports of Landvetter's size have a rail link, and several outdated travel forum threads claim one is "coming soon" for Gothenburg. Swedavia's current pages make no such promise. What is actually under construction in the city is Västlänken, the rail tunnel whose first section, underground tracks at Centralen, is scheduled to open in December 2026, with the full project around 2030. Västlänken improves trains through the city centre; it does not touch Landvetter.

The practical consequence: budget your transfer as a coach or bus journey, and if you are heading onward to Stockholm, Oslo or Copenhagen by train, the sequence is coach to Göteborg C, then train from there. The full rail picture, including whether advance booking matters, is covered in Gothenburg to Stockholm by train and the wider getting around Gothenburg guide.

One planning note for anyone connecting through the central station: Göteborg Centralstation is the terminus for the long-distance trains, and the Nils Ericson Terminalen where the airport coach stops sits directly alongside it. The two buildings are a short walk apart, so a coach-to-train connection is genuinely easy even with luggage, which is not something every Swedish transfer can claim.

Do You Need a Västtrafik Ticket for the Airport?

Not for the Vy flygbussarna coach, which has its own ticketing. But if you use Västtrafik services, the fare structure is zoned: a single adult ticket for one zone costs 38 kr, a 24-hour Zone A ticket costs 125 kr, and the same Zone A ticket covers trams, buses and the southern archipelago ferries from Saltholmen. The temporary state subsidy currently halving 30-day tickets does not apply to any of these.

That last clause deserves emphasis because it is where careless reporting goes wrong. Västtrafik's own discount page confirms a temporary state subsidy has halved every ordinary 30-day period ticket, with Zone A adult dropping from 890 kr to 445 kr, valid for travel through the end of the year. But the 24-hour and 72-hour day tickets a visitor actually buys are not part of the scheme. A 24-hour Zone A ticket still costs 125 kr, in the app or at a shop, at the same price.

The 24-hour ticket is the one worth knowing about for a different reason: Zone A covers Göteborg, Mölndal, Partille and Öckerö, and Västtrafik's own network map shows the southern archipelago boats inside the same zone. One 125 kr ticket therefore covers the tram to Saltholmen, the ferry to Styrsö, Brännö or Vrångö, and the tram back, which is the cheapest big day out available from the city. The details are in the Gothenburg archipelago and how to get to the Gothenburg archipelago.

The fare figures in the table below come from Västtrafik's own ticket pages, which is where the 38 kr single and the 125 kr day ticket are published. The 72-hour Zone A price is deliberately absent: it sits behind a selector on Västtrafik's site and has not been confirmed on a customer-facing page, so this guide does not print one.

Why Do Search Results Keep Showing a Gothenburg Airport in Nebraska?

Because Gothenburg, Nebraska is a real town that shares the Swedish city's name, and its small municipal airport appears in flight and map searches for "Gothenburg airport". The Nebraska town is in Dawson County, in the American Midwest, and has no connection to Göteborg, Sweden beyond the shared name. Every flight to the Swedish city lands at Landvetter, code GOT.

The name collision is a genuine trap for two groups of people. The first is anyone booking flights through an interface that matches on place names rather than airport codes: typing "Gothenburg" can surface the Nebraska field, and the reverse search, a Swede looking up the Nebraska town, gets Swedish airports. The second group is writers and search engines themselves, which is why so much online content about "Gothenburg airport" mixes the two places.

The reliable disambiguator is the airport code. GOT is Göteborg Landvetter, Sweden, the airport handled 5,435,850 passengers in 2025 and sits a 20-minute coach ride from Göteborg Centralstation. Anything referencing Nebraska, a municipal airfield without scheduled service, or coordinates in the central United States belongs to the other Gothenburg. If you are planning the Swedish trip, our Gothenburg for first-time visitors guide starts from the airport transfer and works forward.

It also helps to know what the Swedish city's name actually is in Swedish. Göteborg and Gothenburg are the same place, the English form is simply an exonym, and the airport's official name uses the Swedish spelling. That is why this guide writes Göteborg Landvetter for the airport itself and Gothenburg for the city in headings: the airport's own signage, announcements and tickets all say Göteborg.

When Is the Best Time to Fly Into Gothenburg?

The cheapest and driest window is spring: April is the driest month of the year in Gothenburg at 51.3 mm of rain over just 8.2 wet days, according to SMHI's 1991-2020 normals for station Göteborg A. Summer is the peak for both flights and daylight, with 18 hours 6 minutes of daylight on 21 June, while October is the wettest month at 102.9 mm, and Liseberg closes between late December and mid-April.

The seasonal shape of the city is unusual enough to affect flight planning. Liseberg, the biggest attraction in Gothenburg, runs an irregular calendar: summer season from 18 April to 20 September, Halloween from 2 October to 1 November, and the Christmas market from 14 to 23 December, with the park shut for the rest of the winter. A late-January arrival finds the city's headline attraction closed, which is not a reason to skip the trip, but it is a reason to check dates. The full calendar breakdown is in Liseberg rides, tickets and when to go.

Daylight swings harder than most visitors expect. On 21 December the city gets 6 hours 32 minutes of daylight, against 18 hours 6 minutes on 21 June, a difference of 11 hours 34 minutes. And the sea runs behind the air: water temperature at the Vinga station peaks in August at 18.6 C, and September water at 16.7 C is warmer than June water at 16.2 C, so an autumn flight is a better bet for swimming than most people assume. The month-by-month picture, including the best time to visit Gothenburg, is worth reading before you book.

Should You Book Anything Before You Land?

Book the airport coach and your first night, and hold off on attraction tickets until you know your dates line up. Liseberg is not sold through booking platforms and its 95 kr entry ticket buys no rides, Universeum uses dynamic pricing with booked time slots that sell out on busy days, and the old Göteborg City Card no longer exists, replaced by a Go City product that does not include public transport.

The ticket landscape has shifted enough in the last two years that pre-2024 advice is actively misleading. The Volvo Museum at Arendal closed permanently in December 2023; its successor, World of Volvo, sells exhibition tickets from 120 SEK online. Feskekôrka, the fish church, reopened in 2024 as a food hall with five restaurants rather than only fish counters. Göteborgs konstmuseum is open now, at 75 kr a day ticket with free entry under 20, but it closes in 2028 for a rebuild and reopens in 2032.

For the first day in the city itself, a sightseeing product is a reasonable way to orient. The amphibious bus tour, which drives through the streets and then into the harbour, is the one most visitors use as an overview, and the Paddan boats and the canal sightseeing route guide covers the water-based alternative. How long to stay overall is answered in how many days do you need in Gothenburg, and the cost question, including what the coach and a first dinner set you back, is worked through in is Gothenburg expensive.

If your dates are flexible, the Gothenburg Christmas market guide covers the late-November window when Liseberg's Jul season runs, and where to stay in Gothenburg helps with the first-night booking that, unlike the attraction tickets, genuinely is worth locking in before you fly.

The bottom line on the original question is the one to carry away: one airport, one coach, no train, and a Nebraska namesake to ignore. Everything else is planning detail.

Common Questions About Gothenburg Airports