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Kälvesta

Kälvesta is a suburban district in the Hässelby-Vällingby borough in western Stockholm.

Kälvesta
Kälvesta · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kälvesta is a suburban district in the Hässelby-Vällingby borough in western Stockholm. Most of Kälvesta was built during the late 1960s and the 1970s. Kälvesta has two middle schools. The two buses 119 and 116 pass through Kälvesta on their way to either Spånga Station or Vällingby Centrum.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kälvesta

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Grimsta IP

    Grimsta IP is a multi-use stadium in Vällingby, Sweden. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of IF Brommapojkarna.

    2.2 km · stadium in Vällingby, Sweden · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hässelby Castle

    Hässelby Palace is a former manor located in Hässelby gård in the west part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. Since 2010 it has frequently been available for weddings, parties and conferences.

    1.8 km · mansion in Hässelby, northwestern Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Råcksta träsk

    Råcksta Träsk is a small lake in the western suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. Notwithstanding its location in the vicinity of the Swedish capital and high levels of lead and copper, the lake is considered as an important breeding ground for frogs, of moderate interest to pleasure fishing, and of minor interest for birds.

    3.5 km · lake in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Spånga Church

    Spånga Church is a church in the Spånga-Tensta borough in Stockholm, Sweden. It is part of Spånga-Kista Parish in the Diocese of Stockholm.

    3.4 km · church in Spånga, northwest Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kanaanbadet

    Grimsta Nature Reserve, is a nature reserve in Västerort, in the municipality of Stockholm, Sweden. Grimsta Nature Reserve is surrounded by Södra Ängby, Blackeberg, Grimsta, Hässelby and Lake Mälaren.

    3.6 km · public beach · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Kälvesta

Airports
Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 30 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 73 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 85 km
Stations
Tensta metro station, 3 km · Hjulsta metro station, 2.5 km · Hässelby strand metro station, 2.6 km · Johannelund metro station, 1.6 km · Vällingby metro station, 2.2 km
  • Stockholm / Västerås → Kälvesta
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 36m · kr85–115
  • Nyköping → Kälvesta
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · kr105–140
  • Linköping → Kälvesta
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · kr200–265
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kälvesta

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kälvesta. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTapanis Buss has a route between Tornio, Finland and Stockholm serving coastal region along road E4 FlixBus Baltic sea ferries with passenger and vehicular (car and truck) capacities connect Stockholm with Helsinki, Turku, Riga and Tallinn.
  • Get inA ferry from Gdańsk arrives in Nynäshamn, a port in the south of Södertörn.
  • Get inE18, which leads by ferry from Finland to Norrtälje and goes north of the lake Mälaren through Västerås, Örebro and Karlstad to the Norwegian border and then on to Oslo E20, which goes south from Stockholm via Södertälje, and then, south of lake Mälaren, it goes west to Gothenburg.
  • Get aroundSome archipelago islands are connected to the mainland by car ferries.
  • Get aroundThere are also regular ferries between the islands which are operated by independent companies - some are under the same SL fare scheme, and others are not, requiring separate tickets.

From Wikivoyage: Stockholm County, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    141 km
  2. 02
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    191 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    227 km
  4. 04244 km
  5. 05
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    273 km

If you know how people move in Kälvesta – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kälvesta

Kälvesta is 14 km from Stockholm, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.