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SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER· STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

News

Rough weather delays Gotland ferries into Saturday

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Destination Gotland’s white and red Visby ferry approaching Visby, photographed in September2025.

Essential Lifestyle

Cars travel along a road with slush beside the pavement in Lund, Sweden.

News

Snow and slush could disrupt Thursday travel in central Sweden

A train passes waiting travellers at Katrineholm Central station.

Transport

EU opens free travel passes to young residents in Sweden

The illuminated SCB entrance sign at Åkullegatan 14 in Örebro.

News

Fixed mortgage rates rose in August

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Ripe, red and forming mulberries grow on a leafy branch.

Lifestyle

Gotland’s old garden plants are wanted for Sweden’s gene bank

People browse books and displays at a Gothenburg Book Fair booth in 2025.

Lifestyle

Why Gothenburg Book Fair is built around what readers miss

Robert De Niro in a grey jacket at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025.

Lifestyle

Sweden puts Robert De Niro’s new thriller at number one

A butterfly resting on a flowering plant in Töfsingdalen National Park.

Lifestyle

The tiny autumn menu that keeps Swedish butterflies visiting

The pipe organ and organ loft inside S:t Nicolai Church in Örebro.

Lifestyle

Örebro’s festival puts electric guitar beside a church organ

A cook prepares hot food at a busy outdoor festival.

Lifestyle

Umeå turns school lunch into a public taste test

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

News

Sweden urges early renewals as 2.4 million passports expire

A young European hedgehog standing on a wooden deck in Sweden.

Lifestyle

The autumn garden job a hedgehog wants you to skip

Matt Damon at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival.

Lifestyle

The Odyssey still has Sweden making time for three hours

Assia Dahir smiles against a red background in a 2026 press portrait.

Lifestyle

Sweden's culture quiz IFS returns after contributors walked away

Ripe red and green apples hang from a leafy tree in a Swedish orchard.

Lifestyle

Sweden has 240 apple varieties worth tasting this autumn

Golden chanterelles and red lingonberries grow among moss on a Swedish forest floor.

Lifestyle

A new map shows the mushrooms hiding under Sweden's forests

An SJ X40 regional double-decker train stands at Sundbyberg station in March 2006.

Lifestyle

Your bicycle ticket depends on the Swedish train

A person holds a bank card while using a laptop for online shopping.

Lifestyle

The 14-day rule that can undo an online purchase

A nightclub crowd dancing beneath purple stage lights.

Lifestyle

What a Swedish nightclub cannot decide at the door

A blue-walled platform at T-Centralen metro station in Stockholm with a train approaching in the distance.

Lifestyle

The quiet rules that keep Stockholm's metro moving

Matt Damon at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival.

Lifestyle

Where The Odyssey is still screening in Sweden

A tyre swing hanging at a public playground in Lund, Sweden.

Lifestyle

What to do when a Swedish playground looks unsafe

A grocery store aisle in Sweden with packaged food displayed on shelves.

Lifestyle

The two Swedish food dates that mean different things

A yellow multi-storey residential building in an alley in Stockholm's Gamla Stan.

Lifestyle

The photos that can protect a Swedish rental move

A Swedish passport photographed from above.

News

Police warn 2.4 million passports expire next year

Floodwater covering a road beneath a railway in Floby, Sweden.

News

SMHI warns 70-100 mm rain could flood eastern Norrbotten

Passengers carrying bags board a plane at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

Sweden Explained

48% of Swedes less likely to summer in Europe because of heat

The Skatteverket name and symbol mounted on the brick facade of the Kronan office in Sundbyberg, lit by low sunlight.

Living in Sweden

Extra Swedish Income Can Leave Tax Unpaid

Seven people wearing paper hats and bibs share crayfish at a decorated waterside table.

Sweden Explained

Why Swedes wear paper hats and sing over crayfish every August

European Health Insurance Cards tucked into a brown leather wallet.

Nordics & Europe

Important to know: EU health cards do not replace travel insurance

A cup of coffee and a slice of chocolate cake are served outdoors for Swedish fika.

Sweden Explained

Love Swedish coffee? It might make your hands shake

The Försäkringskassan sign on the agency’s main office building in Stockholm.

Living in Sweden

Salary exchange has two Swedish income limits

The Kronofogden name and symbol photographed on a translucent glass sign beside a window.

Money

Swedish inquiry proposes easier debt relief and three-year plans

Freshly foraged chanterelle mushrooms spread on green grass.

Sweden Explained

New to Sweden? Mushroom foraging comes with one vital warning

An upward daylight view of Skatteverket's Kronan office facade and entrance sign in Sundbyberg.

Making It

The pension swap that only works above the ceiling

Processing towers and industrial equipment at the Preemraff oil refinery in Lysekil.

Economy

Swedish diesel price jumps SEK 1.40 in two days

A grocery store aisle in Sweden with packaged food displayed on shelves.

Consumer rights

Sweden orders review of potentially misleading food labels

Borshuset, the historic stock exchange building in Stockholm

Tech

When Swedish startup options become salary, not upside

Office buildings reflected at night in Bagmane Tech Park in Bengaluru

Tech

Stockholm versus Bengaluru: where does a senior developer keep more income?

Kista Science Tower office building in Stockholm’s technology district

Tech

What Sweden’s tech workers are actually earning in 2026

An ICA grocery shop in Mariannelund, Sweden.

Economy

Sweden's preliminary inflation rate eased to 0.7% in June

Customer-service staff working with headsets in a call centre office.

Consumer rights

Swedish proposal would put legal force behind customer-service duties