Arlanda sits almost exactly midway between Stockholm and Uppsala, which makes this the shortest, cleanest airport run in the region — motorway nearly the whole way, no congestion charge in this direction, and your driver waiting in the arrivals hall with your name on a board. Priced by the kilometre from 695 SEK per vehicle, and fixed before you book.
A private transfer from Arlanda (ARN) to Uppsala starts from 695 SEK in an Economy sedan and from 895 SEK in a Standard Mercedes E-Class — per vehicle, not per person, and the same both ways. Those are starting-from prices: the fare is built from a base fare plus a per-kilometre rate for the distance actually driven, with a minimum fare on short runs, and it is fixed before you book. The drive is 40 km north on the E4 and takes 25 to 35 minutes to any central address. Your driver meets you inside the arrivals hall with a name board and tracks your flight, so a delay costs you nothing. The train is genuinely cheaper for one or two people travelling light: a UL ticket is only 40 SEK, but the Arlanda station passage fee adds 157 SEK on top, so the real figure is about 197 SEK per adult — which means four adults pay more by train than by car.
Every published figure is a starting-from price. The rate card below shows exactly how the final number is built, and it is the same card for every route we run.
| Vehicle | Arlanda → Uppsalafrom, per vehicle | Uppsala → Arlandafrom, per vehicle | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| EconomyToyota Prius or similar | from695 | from695 | 3 guests · 3 bags |
| StandardMercedes E-Class | from895 | from895 | 3 guests · 3 bags |
| First class vanMercedes V-Class | from1 295 | from1 295 | 6 guests · 6 bags |
| First classMercedes S-Class | from1 795 | from1 795 | 3 guests · 3 bags |
| MinibusMercedes Sprinter | from1 995 | from1 995 | 14 guests · 14 bags |
Starting-from prices in SEK, per vehicle, VAT included, along with the Arlanda access charge, parking, waiting time and luggage handling. They assume a standard central Uppsala address; an outlying one is priced on the same per-kilometre rate. A night surcharge may apply between 23:00 and 05:00 and is always shown before you confirm. Child seats and pets in a carrier are paid add-ons. Extra stops inside Uppsala are quoted at booking rather than added afterwards.
Every figure on this site is a starting-from price. The fare itself is built from a base fare plus a per-kilometre rate for the distance actually driven, with a minimum fare that applies to short runs. We calculate it and lock it before you book — there is no meter, no surge and nothing recalculated afterwards.
| Vehicle | Minimum fareruns under about 20 km / 12 mi | Base fare | Per kmper mile in brackets | Arlanda ↔ Uppsala40 km / 25 miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EconomyToyota Prius or similar | 445 | 255 | 11 (17.70) | from695 |
| StandardMercedes E-Class | 595 | 295 | 15 (24.15) | from895 |
| First class vanMercedes V-Class | 795 | 415 | 22 (35.40) | from1 295 |
| First classMercedes S-Class | 1 095 | 515 | 32 (51.50) | from1 795 |
| MinibusMercedes Sprinter | 1 295 | 555 | 36 (57.95) | from1 995 |
All figures in SEK, per vehicle, VAT included. Worked example: an Economy sedan on this 40 km route is 255 SEK base + 11 SEK × 40 km = 695 SEK. Below roughly 20 km (12 miles) the minimum fare applies instead, which is what a short hop such as Arlanda to Knivsta or Sigtuna costs. Above that the rate simply continues, so a long run to Västerås or Enköping is priced by the same arithmetic rather than by negotiation.
Published prices are the starting point for a standard central address. Your own address, the vehicle class and any extra stops decide the final figure.
The rate runs on kilometres driven door to door, not on minutes. Traffic, a delayed flight or a slow baggage belt cannot move the number.
Short journeys fall to the minimum fare for the class rather than dropping below what it costs to send a licensed car and driver.
You see the exact total, in writing, before you confirm. Tolls, the Arlanda access charge, parking, waiting time and luggage handling are already inside it.
Public transport fares checked against UL's published tariff. The number that surprises people is the Arlanda station passage fee, which is charged on top of the ticket.
| How you travel | Two adultstotal, one way | Four adultstotal, one way | Time | What actually happens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private transferour Economy sedan | from 695 | from 695 | 25–35 min | Driver meets you in arrivals, takes the bags, sets you down at the exact address. Price fixed before you fly. |
| SL / UL commuter trainArlanda C → Uppsala C | 394 | 788 | 18 min + onward | 40 SEK ticket plus a 157 SEK passage fee per adult. Fast, but it ends at Uppsala Centralstation with your luggage still to move. |
| UL bus 801terminals → Uppsala C | 240 | 480 | ~50 min | The cheapest option by a distance, and no passage fee. Slower, stops on the way, and thin in the small hours. |
| Taxi from the rankauthorised operators | 675–900 | 675–900 | 25–35 min | Fine if you check the yellow price sticker first. Nobody is tracking your flight and the car is whatever is at the front of the queue. |
Fares in SEK, adult one-way. The train figure is UL's 40 SEK single ticket plus the 157 SEK Arlanda passage fee, which is required to pass through the barriers at Arlanda C and catches out almost every first-time visitor. Swedavia also adds a 30 SEK pickup fee to taxis leaving the rank. The crossover point is four adults: beyond that the car is simply cheaper, and that is before anyone carries a suitcase across Uppsala Centralstation.
The Uppsala run is short and easy, so we are not going to pretend the train is a trap. It is excellent. It just stops being the right answer under specific, predictable conditions.
A UL single ticket costs 40 SEK, which is why people arrive expecting a cheap hop. Passing the barriers at Arlanda C costs a further 157 SEK per adult on top, so a family of four is already near 800 SEK — more than our car — with the walk from Uppsala Centralstation still ahead of them.
Trains between Arlanda and Uppsala run through the day and evening, not continuously through the night, and the 801 bus thins out badly in the small hours. A flight landing at 23:40 that then loses forty minutes at baggage reclaim is exactly the arrival where a pre-booked car stops being a luxury.
The train serves one point in Uppsala. If you are heading for Flogsta, Ultuna, Sunnersta, Gamla Uppsala or a lab out at Fyrislund, you finish the journey by taxi or bus anyway — so the honest comparison is not 197 SEK against 695, it is 197 plus that last leg, twice over for a couple.
Dispatch tracks your flight number from the moment you book. Land early, land four hours late — the pickup moves with the aircraft and you tell us nothing.
60 minutes from touchdown on Schengen arrivals, 90 minutes on intercontinental. That covers passport control and the belt without a clock running against you.
Your driver stands inside the hall, not in a car park. You get their name, photo and mobile number by message before you land.
Bags loaded, motorway north, and central Uppsala in 25 to 35 minutes. No congestion charge in this direction and no toll to argue about later.
At 197 SEK against 695, for an 18-minute ride to a station that is a short walk from most of the city centre, we would take it ourselves. Book us instead when the arithmetic or the circumstances change: three or more travellers, checked luggage, children or a pushchair, a landing after 22:00, an address outside the centre, a first visit to Sweden in January darkness, or a company that would rather pay 695 SEK than have a visiting researcher work out the passage fee on their own.
Arlanda has three working terminals and Terminal 2 is a separate building. Give us the airline at booking and the driver will be standing in the correct hall.
SAS, Star Alliance and most intercontinental arrivals. The largest arrivals hall at Arlanda, and where the great majority of Uppsala-bound guests come through.
oneworld, SkyTeam and several low-cost international carriers. A separate building south of the main complex — a driver waiting at Terminal 5 by mistake costs you twenty real minutes.
Domestic arrivals from Gothenburg, Malmö, Luleå and the regional network. Linked to Terminal 5 on foot through SkyCity in five to seven minutes. Terminal 3 is closed.
Name board inside the hall, luggage carried to the car, and a driver who already knows whether you are going to a hotel, a hospital entrance or a lab. Nothing to arrange once you land.
Same fixed price across Uppsala kommun. Times shown are terminal to door in normal conditions — add five to ten minutes in snow or during Uppsala's own afternoon peak.
Term start, graduation and the big conferences put thousands of arrivals through Arlanda inside a few days. Those are the days when booking ahead stops being optional.
Two suitcases, a first winter, and a corridor room in Flogsta, Rackarberget or Kantorsgatan that no train goes near. We collect at the terminal, load everything, and take you to the housing office or the door — which on the first day of an autumn term, with the buses full, is worth more than the price difference. Splitting one van between four arrivals works out cheaper per head than the train.
Book an arrival →Guest lecturers, examiners, opponents at a public defence and conference speakers, delivered to the actual building rather than the campus in general — English Park, Blåsenhus, Ångström, the BMC or SLU out at Ultuna. Departments can book on an invoice and put a reference code on it, so nobody claims a taxi receipt back afterwards.
Invoiced bookings →The hospital is a large site with numbered entrances, and the right one matters when someone is travelling for treatment or arriving to visit family. Give us the ingång at booking. For patients travelling with equipment or limited mobility, say so and we send the vehicle that suits rather than the one that is next in line.
Talk to dispatch →Uppsala Business Park at Fyrislund, the science park addresses and the cluster of life-science employers around them bring a steady stream of people in from Arlanda: auditors, regulators, collaborators, candidates and the occasional board. It is the same 30-minute drive every time, which makes it the easiest thing in a visit to get consistently right.
Monthly invoicing with cost centres and reference codes on each line, so travel reconciles without anyone photographing a receipt at a taxi rank.
Fixed rates held for your regular addresses — Fyrislund, Boländerna, the science park, the central hotels — so the number in the quote is the number on the invoice.
A named driver meeting a candidate or a visiting scientist in the arrivals hall is a small thing that does a lot of work on a first impression. We brief the driver on who they are meeting.
Six in a V-Class, fourteen in a Sprinter, and matched vehicles moving together above that — the usual answer for a delegation or a conference cohort landing on one flight.
Flying out instead? The margins and pickup times are on the departure page. Terminal practicalities are in the airport guide.
Give us your arrival and the Uppsala address and we reply with the price, the vehicle and the driver — flight tracked, waiting time included, nothing to arrange once you land.
