Royal Palace Stockholm tickets: SEK 220 for the Apartments, the Treasury and Tre Kronor, and not the Armoury

💡 The Short Version: One ticket, SEK 220 (SEK 240 from May to September), covers the Royal Apartments, the Treasury with the Regalia and the Tre Kronor Museum. The Royal Armoury is not in it: it is a separate museum at SEK 180, closed on Mondays. The palace is open daily 10:00 to 16:00 through 2026, but the Apartments close for the King’s official receptions and the whole palace can close for a state visit. English guided tours run on set days, and the changing of the guard is free at 12:15, or 13:15 on Sundays. Children aged 6 and under are free. Prices are in Swedish kronor. Or book a tour: the guided tour with entry and an audio guidead is from SEK 278, SEK 58 above the entry ticket (GetYourGuide).

Tickets and prices

Prices are the adult rate from the Royal Court’s admission charges. The Royal Court runs the palace, and its sites are kungligaslotten.se and its alias theroyalpalace.se.

• Children aged 6 and under are free with an adult. The minimum age without an adult is 12.
• The combination ticket with Riddarholmen Church is a summer ticket: the church, where the monarchs are buried, is open to the public in the summer months only.
• The Royal Palaces annual card is SEK 500. The Cultural Heritage Card gives 50% off.
• Tour tickets for the guided tour are sold on the Royal Court’s site and at the cash desk.

Where to buy

Tours worth paying for

The Royal Court runs its own English tours of the Royal Apartments, and an audio guide in the free Royal palaces app covers the Bernadotte Apartments. The two listings below are tours sold by a reseller, Cosmic Attraction. Prices are the lowest “from” prices, per person.

Guided tour with entry and audio guide

From SEK 278 · 1 hour · English, German or Spanish · 4.6 stars from 462 reviews

Stockholm Royal Palace Guided Tour incl. Ticket & Audioad covers the State Apartments, the Treasury and the Tre Kronor Museum with a guide, then an audio guide app for the rest of the visit. The listing says “Skip the ticket queue”, and the same page says there are no skip-the-ticket lines at any of the palace’s entrances. That is SEK 58 above the SEK 220 winter entry price, and the guide is what you pay for. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Guided tour and canal cruise

From SEK 498 · a 45-minute palace tour and a cruise · English · 4.2 stars from 54 reviews

Stockholm: Royal Palace English Guided Tour & Canal Cruisead pairs a 45-minute live tour of the palace with a canal cruise and an audio guide. It adds a canal cruise to the palace tour. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

What to see

The palace is the King’s official residence and the setting for most official receptions, with more than 600 rooms on eleven floors. Tessin built it in the baroque style as a Roman palace.

The west facade of the Royal Palace in Gamla Stan. Photo: Arild Vågen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The Royal Apartments. They include the Bernadotte Apartments and the State Apartments, the Apartments of the Orders of Chivalry and the Hall of State. The Royal Court’s English tour of the Apartments takes about 45 minutes.
2. The Treasury. The Regalia are kept in dark cellar vaults. The oldest preserved objects are two swords of state that belonged to Gustav Vasa, the oldest crown is Erik XIV’s, and the silver baptismal font from 1696 is still used at royal baptisms.
3. The Museum Tre Kronor. It shows what was rescued from the palace that burned in 1697, with large models of the medieval fort and the Renaissance castle. You enter through a five-metre-thick defence wall from the 1200s.
4. The changing of the guard. In the Outer Courtyard, free. See the changing of the guard.
5. The Royal Armoury. A separate ticket, SEK 180, entered from the start of Slottsbacken by Skeppsbron. Its collection includes Gustav III’s masquerade costume from 1792, with the bullet hole, and Karl XII’s blue cap with the mud still on it. Its current show is In Royal Service. Best museums in Stockholm has its hours.

The Hall of State in the Royal Palace. Photo: Øyvind Holmstad, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The order that works: the guard at 12:15, then the Apartments, the Treasury and Tre Kronor on one ticket. What to skip: nothing on the ticket. The Armoury costs extra and is shut on Mondays.

Karl XI’s Gallery in the State Apartments. Photo: Christopher Macsurak, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Hours, rules and getting there

• Closures: the Royal Apartments can close fully or partly for the King’s official receptions, shown in a fact box on the Royal Court’s opening hours page. On some days the whole palace closes for a state visit. A guided tour on such a day can move to another part of the palace.
• English guided tours, September to May: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 14:30; Saturday 10:30; Sunday 10:30 and 14:30. June to August: daily 10:30 and 14:30.
• Audio guide: free in the Royal palaces app, in Swedish or English. Bring your own headphones. There is free Wi-Fi at the entrances for the download.
• Getting there: the palace is in Gamla Stan. Stockholm public transport has the fares.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving on a day the Apartments are closed for a reception. Check the Royal Court’s fact box the day before.

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