City to city
Stockholm to Oslo by train
Stockholm Centralstation → Oslo S
- Fastest
- ≈ 5h 46m
- Typical
- ≈ 5h 55m
- Direct trains
- Yes
- Fewest changes
- 0
- Operators
- SJ, Vy Norge
Trains link Stockholm (Stockholm Centralstation) and Oslo (Oslo S) in about 5h 46m 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 Stockholm to Oslo take?
The fastest trains cover Stockholm to Oslo in about 5h 46m; a typical journey takes around 5h 55m.
Is there a direct train from Stockholm to Oslo?
Yes: direct trains run between Stockholm Centralstation and Oslo S.
Is the train or a flight faster from Stockholm to Oslo?
A typical flight works out roughly 2h 10m quicker door to door (about 4h 05m against 6h 15m 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 15m
- 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 Stockholm or Oslo
- SJ X2000 Stockholm → Gothenburg
- EuroNight Stockholm → Hamburg
- Bergensbanen Oslo → Bergen
- Arctic Circle Train Stockholm → Narvik
Sleepers too: night trains from Stockholm.
More trains from Stockholm
- Stockholm → Malmö ≈ 4h 28m · direct
- Stockholm → Gothenburg ≈ 4h 34m · direct
- Stockholm → Copenhagen ≈ 5h 13m
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.