How Much Does It Cost to Get from Gothenburg Landvetter Airport to the City Centre?
What the airport transfer from Gothenburg Landvetter Airport (Sweden) to the city centre really costs: the Vy flygbussarna coach, Västtrafik buses, taxis, and why there is no train.
The airport transfer is the first money decision of any Gothenburg trip, and it is one where the internet is full of stale answers. Swedavia, the operator of Göteborg Landvetter Airport, states plainly that the coach journey between the airport and central Göteborg takes 20 minutes, and that there is no rail link of any kind. The coach itself has been rebranded: what most guides still call "Flygbussarna" is now Vy flygbussarna, running Landvetter Airport to Korsvägen to Göteborg C, the Nils Ericson Terminalen. This page sets out what each option costs, what is confirmed and what is not, and where the cheap route hides.
How Much Does the Transfer from Gothenburg Landvetter Airport to the City Centre Cost?
The confirmed figures are these: a single Västtrafik adult ticket starts at 38 kr for one zone, a 24-hour Zone A day ticket costs 125 kr, and the Vy flygbussarna coach fare is published on the operator's own site rather than stated as a fixed number here, because no primary source could be read for a current one-way price. Swedavia confirms the coach takes 20 minutes. There is no train. Taxi is the expensive option, metered and typically several times the coach fare.
That is the honest summary, and it is deliberately narrower than what most pages claim. Two numbers you will see quoted elsewhere are missing here on purpose. First, the distance from Landvetter to the centre in kilometres: Swedavia publishes the journey time, 20 minutes, but not the kilometres on its own pages, so this site does not print a km figure. Second, a fixed one-way coach fare: the price lives on the Vy flygbussarna site and changes with promotions and ticket type, so the right move is to check the operator's live listing before you travel rather than trust a number copied from an old blog.
The reason the coach matters so much is the rail gap. Swedavia's own transport pages for Landvetter list only coach and bus. There is no station at the airport, no airport express, and no plan that has reached the construction stage. If you have read that you can catch a train from Landvetter into town, you have read it on a page that confused Landvetter with some other Scandinavian airport. The practical consequence is simple: everyone arrives by road, and the price spread between the road options is wide.
For orientation once you are in the city, the tram network is the backbone of getting around, and one ordinary Västtrafik ticket also covers the archipelago ferries from Saltholmen, which makes a Zone A day ticket one of the best-value purchases in Sweden. More on that in the fare section below.
What Is the Vy Flygbussarna Airport Coach and What Does It Cost?
The airport coach is branded Vy flygbussarna, runs the route Landvetter Airport to Korsvägen to Göteborg C, the Nils Ericson Terminalen, and takes 20 minutes according to Swedavia. The fare is published on the operator's own site; this page does not print a fixed one-way price because none could be confirmed against a primary source. It stops at Korsvägen, which is walking distance from Liseberg, Universeum and several hotels.
The rebrand is worth knowing before you look for the coach. For years the service was called Flygbussarna, and much of the travel advice online still uses that name. The operator is now Vy, and Swedavia's airport pages list the service as Vy flygbussarna. Same route, same terminal, new livery and new name on the tickets. If you are standing at the airport looking for a bus marked Flygbussarna, you may be looking at the wrong vehicle.
The route is short and useful. Swedavia states the journey time both ways: 20 minutes between the airport and central Göteborg. The coach stops at Korsvägen before reaching the Nils Ericson Terminalen at Göteborg Centralstation, and Korsvägen is a genuinely convenient stop for many visitors, since it sits beside the museum and amusement park district rather than requiring a further transfer. If your hotel is near Avenyn or Götaplatsen, Korsvägen may be your stop even though the bus carries on to the terminal. Swedavia's own airport bus page, swedavia.se/landvetter/buss/, is the primary source for the route, the stops and the 20-minute timing.
On price, the honest position is this: the fare is on the Vy flygbussarna site, it varies by when and how you buy, and return and advance-purchase tickets are typically cheaper per journey than a ticket bought from the driver or machine on the day. Check the operator's live listing rather than a third-party summary. What can be stated with confidence is the structure: this is a dedicated airport coach with luggage racks, not a city bus, and it is the option most visitors choose. Coaches run to a timetable aligned with flight arrivals rather than a fixed frequency, so the wait at the rank is usually short even for late flights.
One thing to weigh before you buy a coach ticket: how much you will use public transport once you arrive. A 24-hour Zone A ticket at 125 kr covers trams, buses and even the archipelago ferries, so if your plan is a heavy sightseeing day, the maths can favour the bus-and-day-ticket combination over the coach. That leads into the cheapest route of all.
Is the Västtrafik Bus the Cheapest Way from Landvetter to Gothenburg?
Yes. Västtrafik bus 612 serves the airport, and Swedavia gives a journey time of 14 minutes to Landvetter resecentrum, the town of Landvetter, from where connecting Västtrafik services run into Gothenburg. A single adult ticket starts at 38 kr for one zone. The catch is the extra transfer: the 612 goes to the town, not directly to the city centre, so you change and the total journey takes longer than the coach.
This is the budget route, and it comes with a structural quirk that trips people up. Bus 612 does not run express into central Gothenburg. Swedavia describes it as serving Landvetter resecentrum, the local transport hub in the small town of Landvetter, 14 minutes from the airport. From there you board a connecting Västtrafik bus toward the city. The fare structure is zonal: Västtrafik's fare page shows a single adult ticket at 38 kr for one zone, 76 kr for two zones, 114 kr for three, with youth fares at 29, 58 and 87 kr. The fare table is published at vasttrafik.se/biljetter/enkelbiljetter/, and the day ticket at vasttrafik.se/biljetter/dygnsbiljetter/zon-a/.
The zone question is where a budget traveller can get caught. Landvetter sits outside Zone A, which covers only Göteborg, Partille, Mölndal and Öckerö. That means the airport journey itself crosses zones, and the exact number depends on the route and any transfer point, so check the zone map in the Västtrafik app before you buy. What is certain is the price of the ticket you will use in town: a 24-hour Zone A ticket costs 125 kr, the same in the app as in a shop, and it covers every tram, every Zone A bus, and the ferries to the car-free southern archipelago islands, which are ordinary districts of the city rather than day trips.
| Option from Landvetter | Confirmed price or figure | Journey time | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vy flygbussarna coach | Fare on the operator's own site, not printed here | 20 min to Göteborg C | Swedavia airport pages |
| Västtrafik bus 612 | Single adult from 38 kr per zone | 14 min to Landvetter resecentrum, then a connection | Swedavia, Västtrafik fare page |
| FlixBus line 691 | Fare on the operator's listing | Not stated by Swedavia as a time | Swedavia airport pages |
| Train | Does not exist | N/A | Swedavia lists only coach and bus |
| Taxi | Metered, no official flat rate published | ~20 min depending on traffic | No primary fare source |
FlixBus line 691 is a third road option Swedavia lists: it runs Landvetter Airport to Landvetter Hotel, Hangarvägen, Korsvägen, Berzeliigatan, Kungsportsplatsen and Göteborg C, and also operates a daily Landvetter to Stockholm Arlanda coach. Its fare is on the operator's listing. For a visitor whose hotel sits along that chain of stops, it can be as convenient as the airport coach, sometimes cheaper, so it is worth a search before you commit.
A note on the fare discount you may have read about. Västtrafik's 30-day period tickets are currently halved by a temporary state subsidy: a Zone A adult monthly has dropped from 890 kr to 445 kr. That is real, but it does not apply to the tickets a visitor buys. The 24-hour and 72-hour tickets are not discounted, and the 24-hour Zone A price remains 125 kr. Any page telling you transport in Gothenburg is half price right now is describing a monthly commuter product, not your day ticket. The 72-hour price is deliberately not quoted here because it could not be confirmed on a customer-facing page.
Once you have arrived, the same Västtrafik ticket thinking keeps paying off. The tram network carried 126 million journeys in 2025, according to Göteborgs Spårvägar, and the western terminus at Saltholmen connects directly to the archipelago ferries. The question of how many days in Gothenburg is enough usually comes down to whether you give the islands a full day, and a Zone A day ticket covers the tram out and the boat across.
How Much Is a Taxi from Landvetter Airport to Central Gothenburg?
There is no official published flat rate for a taxi from Landvetter to the city centre, so no fixed figure can be honestly printed here. Taxi fares in Gothenburg are metered and set by each operator, and the trip covers the same 20-minute corridor as the coach. As a planning range, expect a taxi to cost several times the coach fare, with the meter depending on operator, time of day and traffic.
Sweden deregulated taxi pricing decades ago, which means every company sets its own tariffs and there is no municipal flat rate to quote. What is verifiable is the geometry: the airport and the city sit 20 minutes apart by road, so a taxi is not buying you a dramatically shorter journey than the coach, it is buying door-to-door convenience, luggage help and no timetable. For a family of four with suitcases, that convenience can be worth the multiple. For one or two people travelling light, it rarely is.
The practical advice from the consumer agencies in Sweden is to check the price list that every taxi is legally required to display, and to agree a fixed price for longer trips before setting off. At the airport, taxis queue at a rank outside the terminal; in the city, they can be booked by phone or app. There is no rideshare-specific primary fare source for Gothenburg either, so the same rule applies: the price is whatever the app shows you at the moment you book, not what a guide told you last year.
For most visitors the taxi decision is a group-size calculation. Solo travellers and couples are nearly always better on the coach or the bus. A party of four or five, arriving late at night with luggage, can find the per-person taxi cost approaching coach territory, and that is the one scenario where the premium buys something real. Late-night arrivals are also worth a thought on the bus route: connecting services thin out in the small hours, so check the last departure times in the Västtrafik app before you commit to the budget option on a late flight.
Is There a Train from Gothenburg Landvetter Airport to the City Centre?
No. There is no rail link to Landvetter Airport and no station at the airport. Swedavia's own transport pages for Landvetter list only the Vy flygbussarna coach and buses, including Västtrafik 612 and FlixBus 691. Anyone selling you a train ticket from the airport to the city is selling something that does not exist.
This deserves its own section because it is the single most common wrong expectation arriving visitors have. Gothenburg has a major railway station, Göteborg Centralstation, and the airport is called Landvetter, and other Swedish and Scandinavian cities do have airport rail links, so people reasonably assume one exists here. It does not. The gap is not temporary maintenance or a seasonal suspension; the airport has never had a rail connection since it opened in October 1977, replacing the old Torslanda field.
The underground Västlänken project is adding rail capacity under central Gothenburg, with stations planned at Centralen, Haga and Korsvägen, but Västlänken is a city tunnel, not an airport line. It will not change how you get from Landvetter to town. The first section of the tunnel is due to open in December 2026, and even then your airport journey remains road-based. Västtrafik publishes its project information at vasttrafik.se/info/vastlanken/.
So the decision tree is short. Coach if you want direct and simple. Bus 612 plus a connection if you want cheapest and do not mind a transfer. Taxi if you are a group or arriving at an awkward hour. Train never, because there is no train. And once you reach Göteborg Centralstation, the tram network takes over: the station is a tram hub, and the whole city, including the ferry piers at Saltholmen, runs on the same Västtrafik tickets discussed above.
If you are still weighing whether the city justifies the effort, the question of whether Gothenburg is worth visiting for tourists has a longer answer, and what Gothenburg is known for covers what you are actually arriving for. For a sense of the arrival itself, this site's own overview of the city is a good grounding: Gothenburg Travel Guide.
Common Questions About the Cost of Getting from Gothenburg Airport to the City Centre
How much does it cost to get from Gothenburg Landvetter Airport to the city centre?
The confirmed figures: a Västtrafik single adult ticket starts at 38 kr per zone, a 24-hour Zone A ticket costs 125 kr, and the Vy flygbussarna coach fare is published on the operator's own site. Taxi is metered with no official flat rate. Swedavia confirms the coach journey takes 20 minutes.
Is there a train from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg city centre?
No. There is no rail link to Landvetter. Swedavia's transport pages list only the Vy flygbussarna coach and buses. The Västlänken tunnel under construction in central Gothenburg is a city rail project, not an airport link.
What is the cheapest way to get from Landvetter to Gothenburg?
Västtrafik bus 612 with a connecting service is the budget route. A single adult ticket starts at 38 kr for one zone. The trade-off is time: the 612 runs to Landvetter resecentrum, the town, in 14 minutes, and you change there for the city, so the journey is longer than the 20-minute coach.
Do Västtrafik tickets cover the airport bus?
No. The Vy flygbussarna airport coach is a separate operator with its own tickets. Västtrafik tickets cover Västtrafik buses, trams and the archipelago ferries, including bus 612 which serves the airport area.
Is transport in Gothenburg half price right now?
Only 30-day period tickets are halved, by a temporary state subsidy: a Zone A adult monthly has dropped from 890 kr to 445 kr. The 24-hour and 72-hour tickets visitors buy are not discounted, and the 24-hour Zone A ticket still costs 125 kr.
Does a Västtrafik day ticket cover the archipelago ferries?
Yes. The southern archipelago islands, including Styrsö, Brännö, Vrångö and Donsö, are in Zone A, and an ordinary Västtrafik ticket covers the ferries from Saltholmen. A 125 kr 24-hour Zone A ticket covers tram plus ferry plus every island.
The short version: budget roughly 38 kr upward for the bus route with a transfer, a coach fare set by Vy flygbussarna and best checked on its own site, and a metered taxi several times that. Twenty minutes of road either way, no train, and a tram network waiting at the other end that turns a 125 kr day ticket into trams, buses and ferries across a car-free archipelago. Arrive with that one fact and the transfer stops being a cost question and becomes a choice.