# Is Kungsholmen a Good Area to Stay in Stockholm? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Mixed. Fine for some travellers, wrong for others.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-stockholm/kungsholmen
Every Stockholm district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-stockholm.md

The City Hall, a swimmable waterfront and the cheapest beer in the inner city. Also barely any hotels and half an hour on foot from the old town.

Facts: 30 min walk to Gamla stan; 30 min to the airport; 5 min to the beach; price €€; best for budget, longer stays, quiet, beach; lines 10, 11, 17, 18, 19.

Kungsholmen is the island west of the centre, and most visitors see exactly one building on it: the City Hall where the Nobel banquet is held. Behind it the island is residential - Hantverkargatan and Fleminggatan running west to Fridhemsplan, the Rålambshov park on the water, and the bathing spots at Smedsudden and Hornsbergs strand that Stockholmers actually swim from in July.

It is a pleasant place to live for a week and an awkward one to book for three nights. Wikivoyage's own advice is to sleep in Norrmalm or Vasastan instead, and it is right: the island has a handful of hotels, several of which sell small windowless rooms, plus two hostels. What is here is cheap by inner-city standards, on the blue and green lines, and quiet.

The distances are the catch. City Hall to Stortorget is a pleasant twelve minutes, but the part of the island with the bars and the affordable rooms is Fridhemsplan, and that is a good half hour on foot from Gamla stan. Fridhemsplan is also the one corner with weekend drunk-brawl form, and Hornsbergs strand gets crowded and messy on hot evenings.

What works:
- Bar and restaurant prices below the rest of the inner city
- Blue and green lines both cross the island at Fridhemsplan
- Swimming at Smedsudden and Hornsbergs strand, and a waterfront path most of the way round
- The City Hall and its tower are inside the district, twelve minutes from Gamla stan

What does not:
- Very few hotels, and the cheap rooms in them are small and windowless
- Half an hour on foot to Gamla stan from Fridhemsplan, where the life is
- Apart from the City Hall there is nothing here a visitor came to see
- Fridhemsplan gets rowdy at weekends and Hornsbergs strand does on summer nights

Hotels in Kungsholmen: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D1324%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Stockholm

- [Norrmalm](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-stockholm/norrmalm): Recommended. Central Station, every metro line and most of the city's hotel rooms. You will never have to think about transport, and you will sleep in an office district at business rates.
- [Södermalm](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-stockholm/sodermalm): Recommended. The island south of the old town, and the best all-round base in Stockholm. Cheaper food, better bars, and a cliff between you and the ferry.
- [Östermalm](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-stockholm/ostermalm): Recommended. Stockholm's money: boulevards, embassies, the market hall, and streets that are quiet by 22:00. The easiest district to stay in with children and the hardest to eat in cheaply.
- [Vasastan](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-stockholm/vasastan): Recommended. Sixty thousand people living in the same 1880s grid as the centre, ten minutes further out. The best value in the inner city, and nothing whatsoever to see.
- [Gamla stan](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-stockholm/gamla-stan): Mixed. The postcard, and the least practical place in Stockholm to sleep. Seven thousand residents, cobbles you drag a suitcase over, and drinks priced for people who come once.
- [Djurgården](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-stockholm/djurgarden): Avoid. Sweden's largest cluster of museums on a royal park island, and three hotels to sleep in. You are booking a day out, not a base.