Stockholm Pass: is it worth it? The Go City sums for one to five days, and when single tickets win

💡 The Short Version: Go City’s All-Inclusive pass is SEK 949 for one day, SEK 1,349 for two and SEK 1,699 for three, counted in calendar days from the first scan. It pays when the days hold a boat tour: three days of museums alone cost SEK 1,669 in single tickets and the pass loses SEK 30, but add the SEK 410 winter boat tour (1 December 2026 to 4 April 2027) and it saves SEK 380. The Essentials pass is SEK 649 for one must-see sight and two top attractions, and wins only with a boat. The pass leaves out public transport, ABBA The Museum, Junibacken and Moderna Museet. Buy at gocity.com/stockholm. Or buy it on GetYourGuide: the Stockholm Passad is Go City’s pass, listed from SEK 1,027 against SEK 949 on Go City for one day.

What the two passes are

Both passes are digital, scanned in the Go City app, and activate at the first attraction. An unused pass is valid for 12 months from purchase and can be cancelled for a refund within 90 days. Searches for “Stockholm Pass” also return other sites with the name in their address. Buy from gocity.com or GetYourGuide.

A Stockholm Sightseeing boat at Strömkajen, below the Grand Hôtel. Photo: Bahnfrend, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Essentials list covers the Vasa Museum, the Royal Palace, Skansen, Fotografiska, the Nobel Prize Museum, the Nordic Museum, the Viking Museum, the Spritmuseum, SkyView, the hop-on hop-off bus and three Strömma boat tours. Storkyrkan, the Royal Armoury, the Swedish History Museum, Nationalmuseum and Drottningholm Palace are on the All-Inclusive pass only. Go City sells a child pass for ages 6 to 15.

The rules that cost money

• A day is a calendar day. The first scan starts day one, so a pass first scanned at 14:00 loses the morning. Museums open at 10:00 or 11:00, and the winter boat leaves at 10:30, 12:00 and 13:45.
• Transport is extra. A 24-hour SL ticket is SEK 180 (Stockholm public transport).
• Monday shuts half the list. The Nobel Prize Museum (September to May), the Royal Armoury, the Swedish History Museum, Nationalmuseum and the Hallwyl Museum are closed on Mondays. On a Monday the pass opens the Vasa Museum, Skansen, the Royal Palace, the Nordic Museum, Fotografiska, the Spritmuseum, the Viking Museum and the boats.
• Late nights differ by museum. The Vasa Museum and the Nordic Museum stay open to 20:00 on Wednesdays from September to May, Nationalmuseum and the Royal Armoury to 20:00 on Thursdays, Fotografiska to 23:00 and the Spritmuseum to 22:00 every day.
• The Vasa Museum has one queue. The museum says pre-purchased tickets give no priority in the queue, so go at opening or on a Wednesday evening (Vasa Museum tickets).
• Under-19s are free at most museums anyway. The Vasa Museum, the Royal Armoury, the Nobel Prize Museum and the Swedish History Museum charge nothing under 19, Nationalmuseum nothing under 20, and the Viking Museum nothing for children aged 0 to 14 from 24 October 2026.

What is shut in winter

The pass lists attractions that stop for the season, so a winter day has fewer choices than the 68 suggest.

The sums

Singles are the adult operator prices in kronor. The three days are the same plan used throughout.

• Gamla Stan: the Royal Palace SEK 220, the Royal Armoury SEK 180, the Nobel Prize Museum SEK 160 and Storkyrkan SEK 120 come to SEK 680.
• Djurgården: the Vasa Museum SEK 195, the Viking Museum SEK 239 (from 24 October 2026) and the Nordic Museum SEK 170 come to SEK 604.
• Town: Fotografiska SEK 195 and the Spritmuseum SEK 190 come to SEK 385.
• Boats: Strömma’s Under the Bridges tour is SEK 366 and the Royal Djurgården tour SEK 271 until 30 November; the winter boat tour is SEK 410 from 1 December.

• In these plans the museums alone lose. The pass pays through the boats, which cost SEK 271 to SEK 410 for an hour or two, and through Skansen, whose adult ticket is not in these sums.
• A one-day pass is a hard day. Until 30 November the Vasa, Viking and Nordic Museums and the Royal Djurgården boat total SEK 875, and it takes a fifth paid sight to pass SEK 949. From 1 December the same three museums and the winter boat tour cost SEK 1,014. The boat leaves at 10:30, 12:00 or 13:45 and the museums close at 17:00.
• Longer passes cost less a day. The fourth day adds SEK 250 and the fifth SEK 50, so five days is about SEK 400 a day against SEK 949 for one.
• Free sights never need a pass. Free things to do in Stockholm lists them, and the changing of the guard costs nothing.

Families

Under-19s enter most of the big museums free, and the Viking Museum is free for children aged 0 to 14 from 24 October 2026. A family usually does better with single tickets for the adults, plus the boat. Stockholm with kids sorts the sights by age and price.

Which to buy

• Three days with a boat tour in them: the 3-day All-Inclusive pass at SEK 1,699.
• Two days of museums: single tickets from the museum sites, listed in Stockholm museums.
• One day: single tickets, unless the day holds four paid entries and a boat.
• A royal sight, a boat and Fotografiska over a week: the Essentials pass at SEK 649.
• Boats only: the tickets on the boat tours page, or the hop-on hop-off bus.
• A family with children under 12: single tickets.

What to book before you go to Stockholm has the closed days for every sight, and the palace days are on Royal Palace tickets. For a plan that fits the opening hours, see 3 days in Stockholm.