What each costs for the whole party, in SEK. The cheaper of the two is marked on every row.
Travelers
Commuter train
Arlanda Express
Difference
1
SEK 200
SEK 340
SEK 140
2
SEK 400
SEK 460
SEK 60
3
SEK 600
SEK 580
SEK 20
4
SEK 800
SEK 700
SEK 100
5
SEK 1,000
SEK 820
SEK 180
6
SEK 1,200
SEK 940
SEK 260
7
SEK 1,400
SEK 1,060
SEK 340
8
SEK 1,600
SEK 1,180
SEK 420
The cheaper option changes at 3 travelers, from the Commuter train to the Arlanda Express. That is the whole reason this comparison is not a single number.
Side by side
Where each one leaves you
40 · SLCommuter train
From
Arlanda Central, beneath Sky City
To
Stockholm City, direct
Luggage
A commuter train, with space by the doors.
Runs
04:44–00:44
Journey
38 min
SEK 157 of this ticket is not a fare. It is a charge for using the station, valid for one passage within 120 minutes, and it applies to every train that stops here.
Take bus 583 from the same building instead and the fee disappears. It costs SEK 43 and takes 23 minutes longer.
The fee has no reduced rate: an SEK 26 reduced ticket becomes SEK 183, so the fee is 86 per cent of it. Under-18s are exempt.
The station owner has published increases through 2030, so this total will rise even if the fare does not.
Arlanda Express's own stations: Arlanda South under terminals 2 and 4, Arlanda North under terminal 5 — not Arlanda Central
To
Stockholm Central, in 18 minutes
Luggage
Racks throughout; it is built as an airport train.
Runs
05:40–23:05
Journey
18 min
From three travelers it is cheaper than the ordinary commuter train — SEK 580 against SEK 600 — which is the reverse of what an express is meant to do, and it happens because the passage fee is charged per head with no group rate.
It still loses to the bus at every party size, by a wide margin.
The operator is A-Train, the same company that owns the station and levies the passage fee the commuter train has to pay.
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