Sweden by Motorhome: The Complete Planning Guide
Motorhome in Sweden: B licence to 3,500 kg (4,250 kg not yet), no special limit if car-registered, where to sleep legally, waste, gas and winter. (145)
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Motorhome Service Stations: Emptying Waste and Filling Water
Where to empty a motorhome toilet and grey water in Sweden, why rest areas take cassettes only, the law on dumping, toilet chemicals and winter closures. (153)
LPG and Gas Bottles for Motorhomes in Sweden
Swedish dealers won't swap foreign gas bottles. Your options: full bottles, LPG tank, Swedish bottle plus adapter — and never fill from a fordonsgas pump. (154)
Guides
- Renting a Motorhome or Campervan in Sweden Rent a motorhome in Sweden: B licence to 3,500 kg (4,250 kg not yet), age and excess rules, private rentals, winter vans and a handover checklist. (148)
- Motorhome Speed Limits, Weight Rules and Tolls Motorhome speed in Sweden depends on registration, not weight. Overload fines from 500 kr, unloading over 10%, seats, and every toll a motorhome pays. (150)
- Overnight RV Parking: The 24-Hour Rule and Rest Areas Where a motorhome may park overnight in Sweden: how the 24-hour rule counts, what Trafikverket allows at rest areas, local bans and private car parks. (150)
- Wild Camping With a Motorhome: What Is Actually Allowed Allemansrätten covers tents, not motorhomes. The 24-hour parking rule, the off-road ban, and the ställplats network that makes Sweden work anyway.
- Bringing a Caravan to Sweden Towing a caravan in Sweden: 80 km/h on every road (Tempo 100 only proposed for 2027), B licence to 3,500 kg combined, winter tyres, tolls, where to stay. (153)
- Ferry Prices for Motorhomes and Caravans Ferries price motorhomes and caravans by length, with the first break at 6 m. Height, season, booking early, return packages and dated operator examples. (153)
- Motorhome Travel in Swedish Winter Winter tyres, the +3 °C frost valve, gas use per hour, which campsites stay open, CEE hook-ups, roof snow and the spring thaw weight limits.
- Stallplats: How Sweden's Motorhome Stopovers Work What a Swedish ställplats is, what it offers, how to pay without Swish, how it differs from a campsite, and the etiquette: no awning, 4 m apart. (145)