City to city
Oslo to Stockholm by train
Oslo S → Stockholm Centralstation
- Fastest
- ≈ 5h 30m
- Typical
- ≈ 6h 04m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- Vy, SJ
Trains link Oslo (Oslo S) and Stockholm (Stockholm Centralstation) in about 5h 30m at best, with no changes needed. The corridor is part of the Oslo–Stockholm (562 km, typically 5 h 30 min), one of 1247 routes plotted in the World Train Map atlas.
How long does the train from Oslo to Stockholm take?
The fastest trains cover Oslo to Stockholm in about 5h 30m; a typical journey takes around 6h 04m.
Is there a direct train from Oslo to Stockholm?
Yes: direct trains run between Oslo S and Stockholm Centralstation.
Is the train or a flight faster from Oslo to Stockholm?
A typical flight works out roughly 2h 20m quicker door to door (about 4h 05m against 6h 25m by train, once airport time is counted) — but the train emits about 3× less CO₂e, even on conservative official emission factors.
- Train, door to door
- ≈ 6h 25m
- Flight, door to door
- ≈ 4h 05m (est.)
- CO₂e per passenger
- ~18 kg train · ~56 kg plane
Flight time and emissions are transparent estimates, not airline schedules — method, factors and all 109 compared pairs on Train vs plane in Europe.
This corridor in the atlas
- Oslo–Stockholm Two Scandinavian capitals across the forests and lakes of Värmland, via Kongsvinger and Karlstad on Lake Vänern: a near-five-hour run that new open-access operators are racing to cut.
Legendary routes through Oslo or Stockholm
- SJ X2000 Stockholm → Gothenburg
- EuroNight Stockholm → Hamburg
- Bergensbanen Oslo → Bergen
- Arctic Circle Train Stockholm → Narvik
Sleepers too: night trains from Stockholm.
More trains from Oslo
- Oslo → Gothenburg ≈ 3h 26m · direct
- Oslo → Bergen ≈ 6h 37m · direct
- Oslo → Trondheim ≈ 6h 50m · direct
- Oslo → Copenhagen ≈ 6h 59m
More train routes in Norway · Sweden · Denmark.
Journey figures are typical values sampled from public European schedule data; exact times vary by day. Always check the operator when booking.