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Vällingby

Vällingby is a suburban district in Västerort, the western part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden.

Vällingby
Vällingby · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Vällingby is a suburban district in Västerort, the western part of Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It is notable for being one of the first modern planned suburbs in Sweden. Vällingby was inaugurated in 1954 as part of Stockholm's post-war decentralisation plans. The area is centred around Vällingby Centrum, one of Sweden’s first shopping centers.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vällingby

6 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.

    1.2 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.

    900 m · mansion in Hässelby, northwestern Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kyrksjön

    Kyrksjön is a small lake in Bromma, a western suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. Named after its vicinity to the old Bromma Church, the lake was made part of the nature reserve Kyrksjölöten in 1997.

    3.3 km · lake in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    1.7 km · lake in Stockholm Municipality, Sweden · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.6 km · church in Spånga, northwest Stockholm, Sweden · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    2.1 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 Vällingby

Airports
Stockholm-Arlanda (ARN), 31 km · Stockholm Västerås (VST), 74 km · Stockholm Skavsta (NYO), 84 km
Stations
Tensta metro station, 3.5 km · Hjulsta metro station, 3.4 km · Hässelby strand metro station, 2.2 km · Johannelund metro station, 700 m · Vällingby metro station, 400 m
  • Stockholm / Västerås → Vällingby
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · kr50–70
  • Nyköping → Vällingby
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · kr100–135
  • Linköping → Vällingby
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · kr195–260
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Vällingby

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 Vällingby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAdelsö is connected to the road network by a free-of-charge ferry, which is used by bus 312.

From Wikivoyage: Ekerö, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-09.

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 Vällingby – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Vällingby

Vällingby is 12 km from Stockholm, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.