Gothenburg Landvetter Airport to the City Centre: Every Option Compared

Gothenburg Landvetter Airport (GOT) handled 5,435,850 passengers in 2025, Swedavia's own figures show, which makes it Sweden's second-largest airport and the main gate into Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden. It opened in October 1977, replacing the old Torslanda field, and it serves 77 international and 2 domestic destinations from a single 3,300-metre runway. What it does not have is a railway station, and Swedavia's own transport pages list only coach and bus connections. Everything about getting into the city starts there.

This guide from Gothenburg Travel Guide compares every confirmed option, with the fares and times that could be verified against a primary source and the gaps flagged where they could not. If you are still shaping the trip itself, start with how many days you need in Gothenburg and the best time to visit Gothenburg.

What Is the Best Way from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg City Centre?

For most visitors the answer is the Vy flygbussarna airport coach: it runs directly from the terminal to Korsvägen and Göteborg C (Nils Ericson Terminalen) in about 20 minutes, with no changes and luggage space included. There is no train to Landvetter at all, so the coach is not just the cheapest option but structurally the main one, and Swedavia itself names it as the standard transfer.

Swedavia, the airport operator, states the journey time both ways: it takes 20 minutes to travel by the airport coach between the airport and central Gothenburg. The coach drops at Korsvägen, beside Liseberg and Universeum, before terminating at the Nils Ericson Terminalen next to Göteborg Centralstation. That first stop is quietly useful: if your hotel is near Avenyn or the museums, you can step off a stop early and be walking distance from your bed.

The brand matters if you are looking for the coach online. The service used to be called simply Flygbussarna, but it now operates as Vy flygbussarna, and Swedavia's airport pages list it under that name. Searching the old brand can surface stale timetables. The coach fare is not published as a single confirmed figure on the pages verified for this guide, so check the live price on the operator's own site rather than trusting a number quoted in an older article.

One more thing Swedavia confirms: guided airport tours are currently not offered. If you have read about airside tours at Landvetter, that offering is not running.

Once you are at Göteborg C, the city takes over. The tram network is the backbone of transport here: Göteborgs Spårvägar reports 12 lines, 134 stops and 188 kilometres of single track as of its 2022 annual report, and 126 million journeys in 2025. The full picture, including tickets and zones, is in getting around Gothenburg: trams, tickets and zones.

Is There a Train from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg?

No. There is no rail link of any kind to Landvetter Airport: Swedavia's own transport pages for the airport list only the Vy flygbussarna coach and buses, and no station, shuttle rail or metro connection exists. Travellers who assumed a train would run from Sweden's second-largest airport into its second city need to plan around the coach or the road.

This is worth stating plainly because Swedish rail is otherwise good, and because a lot of itinerary planning quietly assumes it. Gothenburg's main rail hub, Göteborg Centralstation, connects the city to Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen efficiently, and the train from Gothenburg to Stockholm is a sensible leg once you are in the city. But none of that network touches the airport. The airport sits away from the rail spine, and the long-discussed Västlänken tunnel project, whose first section at Centralen opens in December 2026 per Västtrafik, adds underground tracks at the station, not a branch to Landvetter.

The practical consequence: your rail ticket to wherever you are going next starts at Göteborg C, which is exactly where the airport coach terminates. The transfer is a walk across the station forecourt, not a cross-city trek. If you are arriving by air and leaving by train the same day, allow a comfortable buffer rather than a tight one, since the coach is a road service subject to traffic like any other.

For orientation, here is the airport at a glance, every figure from Swedavia's own pages:

Which Buses Serve Landvetter Airport?

Two bus services reach the airport besides the coach: Västtrafik bus 612, which takes about 14 minutes but only as far as Landvetter resecentrum in the nearby town, not Gothenburg city, and FlixBus line 691, which runs Landvetter Airport via Korsvägen and Kungsportsplatsen to Göteborg C and also offers a daily Landvetter to Stockholm Arlanda coach.

Bus 612 is the one that trips people up. It appears in journey planners as an airport connection, and it is, but Swedavia's description is precise: 14 minutes to Landvetter resecentrum, the town of Landvetter. That is a local service for airport staff and residents, not a city transfer. Booking it by mistake leaves you in a small inland town with a change of transport still to make.

FlixBus line 691 is the genuine alternative. Swedavia lists its full stopping pattern: Landvetter Airport, Landvetter Hotel, Hangarvägen, Korsvägen, Berzeliigatan, Kungsportsplatsen, and Göteborg C's Nils Ericson terminal. It also runs a daily long-distance coach between Landvetter and Stockholm Arlanda, which can matter if your itinerary skips central Gothenburg entirely and connects two flights.

Here is how the confirmed options stack up:

How Much Does the Transfer Cost Compared to Getting Around the City?

The airport coach fare is not published as a confirmed single figure, so check the operator's live listing before flying, while inside the city itself a Västtrafik single ticket in one zone costs 38 kr for an adult and a 24-hour Zone A ticket costs 125 kr, the same price in the app or at a shop. Those city fares matter because the coach drops you into a network where a day ticket covers trams and even the archipelago ferries.

A word of warning about one 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, and Västtrafik says the support applies for travel through the end of the year. That headline gets repeated as "transport in Gothenburg is half price", and it is not. The subsidy does not cover the 24-hour and 72-hour tickets a visitor actually buys. Your 125 kr day ticket is full price. The day-ticket page on Västtrafik's own site is the place to confirm the current figure before you travel.

The 24-hour Zone A ticket is the best-value single fact in the city, and it becomes relevant the moment your coach arrives. Zone A covers Göteborg, Partille, Mölndal and Öckerö, and Västtrafik's own materials state that an ordinary ticket carries you from the centre all the way out onto the sea, because the southern archipelago ferries from Saltholmen are part of the same network. One 125 kr ticket can cover a tram to Saltholmen, the ferry to Styrsö or Brännö, and the tram back. The details are in the Gothenburg archipelago guide.

For budgeting the whole trip, not just the transfer, what a trip to Gothenburg really costs breaks down meals, beds and attractions, and the Göteborg city card and whether it is worth it covers the Go City passes that replaced the old municipal card.

Where Does the Airport Coach Actually Drop You?

The coach terminates at the Nils Ericson Terminalen, the long-distance bus terminal attached to Göteborg Centralstation, with an earlier stop at Korsvägen beside Liseberg and Universeum, so the drop-off is either at the edge of the museum and amusement-park district or at the main rail and tram hub in the city core.

Both stops put you on the tram network immediately. Korsvägen is served by trams on the Avenyn corridor, and outside the Centralstation forecourt most of the city's dozen lines converge. If your luggage is light and your hotel is central, you may not need a tram at all: the coach terminus sits within walking distance of Nordstan's shopping and much of the inner city, and the fullest neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood breakdown is where to stay in Gothenburg.

The station itself deserves a moment of orientation, because it is more than a drop-off point: what you need to know about Gothenburg Centralstation covers the layout, the Västlänken construction that is reshaping it, and where the trams actually leave from. From December 2026 the first section of the Västlänken tunnel opens underground tracks at Centralen, per Västtrafik, so expect ongoing works around the forecourt into the next decade.

If you are arriving in the darker months, plan around the light. Gothenburg sits at 57.7 degrees north, and on 21 December the sun is up from 08:54 to 15:26, a day of 6 hours 32 minutes, against 18 hours 06 minutes in June. A late afternoon coach arrival in winter lands you in full darkness; the same arrival in June is broad daylight. Gothenburg in winter covers what is still worth doing.

What About Taxis and Rental Cars from Landvetter?

Taxis at Landvetter are metered and queue at the terminal, with journey time into the centre broadly comparable to the coach's 20 minutes plus traffic, while rental cars are available at the airport but are largely unnecessary for a city break, since the centre runs on trams and the car-free southern archipelago forbids private cars on its islands entirely.

The taxi point is simple: Sweden's taxi market is deregulated, so fares vary between companies. Check that the meter is running or ask for a fixed price to the centre before setting off. For most visitors a taxi only makes sense with heavy luggage, a group to split the cost, or a very late arrival. A family of four arriving at midnight may find a fixed taxi fare competitive with four coach tickets, but a solo traveller on a daytime flight almost never will.

The rental-car question has a Gothenburg-specific answer. The city centre does not reward driving: trams are dense, parking is expensive, and the headline day trips, the southern archipelago islands, are closed to private cars altogether. Göteborgs Stad's own study states that the islands of the southern archipelago are protected from car traffic, with only taxi, transport service and emergency vehicles on the roads. A car earns its keep for the Bohuslän coast, Marstrand or Lake Vänern, all covered in day trips from Gothenburg, and even then many are reachable by train and bus. If you do rent, return the car before your city days rather than paying for it to sit in a garage.

What Should You Do in the First Hours After Landing?

The smartest first move is to buy a 24-hour Zone A ticket (125 kr) at the Centralstation end of the coach run and let it carry the rest of day one: tram to your hotel, tram to Haga or the harbour, and, if you land early enough, the same ticket takes the tram to Saltholmen and the ferry out to the archipelago, because the boats are inside the same zone.

Day one writes itself from the coach terminus. The old wooden quarter of Haga is a short tram ride or a walk, and Haga, Gothenburg's wooden old quarter explains why it is the standard first stop. Feskekôrka, the fish church, reopened in 2024 as a food hall with five restaurants alongside its two fish counters, so the old "closed for renovation" advice is stale; the Feskekôrka guide has the current picture, and where to eat in Gothenburg takes it from there.

If the weather is against you, and it does that here, Gothenburg on a rainy day has indoor options, and it is worth knowing the real numbers behind the city's damp reputation: SMHI's 1991-2020 normals for station Göteborg A record 912 mm of rain across 127 days a year, with October the wettest month at 102.9 mm and April the driest at 51.3 mm. It rains about one day in three, not permanently, and SMHI does not call Gothenburg Sweden's rainiest city, whatever the cliches say.

For the sea itself, timing is counterintuitive. SMHI's quality-controlled observations from the Vinga lighthouse station show the water peaks in August at 18.6 C, not July, and September water at 16.7 C is warmer than June water at 16.2 C. A September swim off Vrångö or Brännö is warmer than a June one, which is the opposite of how most people book.

Common Questions About Getting from Landvetter Airport to Gothenburg