Stockholm boat tours compared: Under the Bridges, the Royal Djurgården tour, archipelago cruises and the winter boat

💡 The Short Version: Strömma runs the main boats. Under the Bridges is SEK 366 online for 2 hours 15 minutes through 12 bridges and a lock, daily from March to November. The Royal Djurgården tour is SEK 271 for an hour, at 14:15 and 15:30 until 30 November. The archipelago tour is SEK 395 for 2.5 or 3 hours, from Strandvägen, and runs most of the year. From 1 December 2026 to 4 April 2027 the winter boat tour is SEK 410, 75 minutes past Fjäderholmarna, with blankets. Or book a tour: the City Highlights boat tourad is Strömma’s Under the Bridges from SEK 289, and the guided archipelago cruisead is Strömma’s from SEK 296 (GetYourGuide, cheapest date).

The boats compared

Prices are adult prices from Strömma, the operator, for the online booking. Strömma also prints a higher ordinary price beside it.

All five are live-guided in English, with a café on board. Strollers are not carried: Strömma’s staff lock and cover them on the quay. Dogs up to 5 kg may ride on your lap on the city tours, and larger dogs are welcome on the archipelago and winter boats.

The city tours

Under the Bridges

SEK 366 online · 2 h 15 min · live guide in English · free cancellation up to 24 hours before

The longest city tour passes under 12 bridges, including Skeppsbron by Skeppsholmen, Skanstullsbron to Södermalm and the Essingeleden, and goes through the lock between the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren. It shows the inner city, Gamla Stan, Södermalm, Lilla and Stora Essingen, Hammarby Sjöstad and Djurgården. The boats have a toilet, a bar and a café selling fika, and one of the boats on this tour takes manual wheelchairs.

A Stockholm Sightseeing boat passing Skeppsholmsbron. Photo: Dmitry G, Wikimedia Commons.

GetYourGuide sells Strömma’s own tour as the City Highlights Boat Tourad: from SEK 289 on its cheapest date, 4.2 stars from 3,018 reviews, free cancellation.

Royal Djurgården tour

SEK 271 online · 1 hour · live guide in English

The boat leaves Strömkajen, enters the Djurgården canal through the Royal National City Park and returns past the skyline. The captain picks route A or route B by the water level in the Djurgårdsbrunn canal. Both pass historic buildings and museums on Djurgården and the Princess Estelle Sculpture Park. The boat is not wheelchair accessible. From 1 October to 30 November it runs twice a day, so the tour is a late-afternoon outing.

GetYourGuide lists the Royal Djurgården Boat Tourad from SEK 214, 4.1 stars from 708 reviews, as a 50-minute tour.

Archipelago tours

SEK 395 for 2.5 or 3 hours · from Strandvägen · live guide in English

Strömma’s archipelago tours cover the inner islands on classic ships and run on a timetable that changes by season. Two are on the water in autumn.

• M/S Östanå I, 2.5 hours, leaves berth 15 at 10:30 and 14:00 daily from 17 August to 28 November, and again from 26 to 31 December. Strömma’s timetable has Thursday-to-Sunday departures from January to March. The restaurant version is SEK 555, with a main course and a guaranteed table.
• S/S Stockholm, 3 hours, leaves berth 16 at 12:00 on Saturdays and Sundays from 28 September to 31 December. It is the steamer that passes Vaxholm, and its brunch cruise is a separate booking. You do not hear the guide in the restaurant.
• The 1.5-hour tour around Fjäderholmarna, SEK 375, is a summer tour and is not running now.

The boats are not wheelchair accessible. Dogs are welcome on board, but not in the café or restaurant.

GetYourGuide sells the same tour as the Guided Archipelago Cruise Aboard a Premium Shipad, 2.5 to 3 hours, from SEK 296 against Strömma’s SEK 395 (4.3 stars from 12,060 reviews, free cancellation). Other cruises on the site:

For an island day with a landing, see the Stockholm archipelago day trip.

The winter boat tour

SEK 410 · 75 minutes · daily 1 December 2026 to 4 April 2027 · 10:30, 12:00, 13:45

The winter tour leaves Strömkajen on the ice-strengthened M/S Angantyr, follows the waterfront past Royal Djurgården and circles Fjäderholmarna without landing. There are seats indoors and on the upper deck, blankets and pelts to borrow, and coffee, tea and Swedish mulled wine on board. When the ice allows, the boat breaks through it. The commentary is in English and Swedish, and the boat is not wheelchair accessible.

The steamer Köping breaking ice in the Stockholm archipelago. Photo: Antony Stanley, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.

GetYourGuide lists the Archipelago Winter Boat Tour with Guidead at SEK 410, the same as Strömma, 4.5 stars from 1,477 reviews, with its first date on 1 December 2026.

Fjäderholmarna

The nearest archipelago island has restaurants, cafés, a brewery and craft studios that open for the summer season. The Royal Court, which manages the island, kept the 2026 season open until 13 September. Waxholmsbolaget, Strömma and Fjäderholmslinjen run boats in season, and Fjäderholmslinjen leaves from Slussen in about 20 minutes. The winter boat tour sails around the island but does not land.

The ferry quay on Stora Fjäderholmen. Photo: Bengt Oberger, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

A cheap boat ride

The SL ferry on line 82 crosses between Slussen and Djurgården. Any SL ticket covers it, from SEK 43 for 75 minutes, and it has no commentary. It is a way to reach the Vasa Museum, not a tour. Stockholm public transport has the tickets.

The pass and the hop-on boat

The Go City pass includes Strömma’s Under the Bridges, Royal Djurgården and winter tours, which is why a pass pays when the days hold a boat: Stockholm Pass: is it worth it? has the sums. The hop-on hop-off boat is a separate service that runs from 27 May 2027, and the hop-on hop-off page compares it with the bus.

Which to take

• A first look at the city from the water: Under the Bridges, SEK 366.
• One hour, with Djurgården’s museums in view: the Royal Djurgården tour, SEK 271, until 30 November.
• The islands: the 2.5-hour archipelago tour, SEK 395.
• December to early April: the winter boat tour, SEK 410, with blankets.
• Cheapest on the date: compare GetYourGuide’s “from” prices, which are SEK 289 and SEK 296 for Strömma’s own city and archipelago tours.
• Only to get to Djurgården: the SL ferry on an SL ticket.

Stockholm walking tours and bike tours cover the same sights on land. Gamla Stan and the Vasa Museum are what the boats pass first, and what to book before you go to Stockholm lists everything else that needs a ticket.