Kattegattleden – Helsingborg to Gothenburg

Kattegattleden - Self Guided Cycling Holiday on the west coast of Sweden

Kattegattleden – Sweden’s first national bicycle route – is a 390 km long bicycle route with a unique, oceanside location.

The route runs along the west coast between Helsingborg in the south to Gothenburg further north.

You’ll ride through fantastic coastal nature, overlooking wonderful sandy beaches and gorgeous viewpoints. The route runs through picturesque fishing villages and charming cities and you will pass several historical sites and interesting destinations, all well worth a visit.

Cafés and restaurants are lined up through the entire route so you will never have to ride hungry.

You’ll bike mainly on paved cycle paths, but also some gravelled sections. Some parts are also on minor roads with only a little traffic.

We have our own fleet of rental bikes. You can choose between comfortable touring bikes, e-bikes or gravel bikes. More info about our bikes on this link: Bike rental

Highlights

  • Voted Cycle Route of the Year in Europe 2018!
  • Picturesque fishing villages & charming cities along the Swedish west coast
  • Lot's of cafés, restaurants & places to have nice breaks
  • Unique coastal setting on the 395 km cycle path

Quick facts

Travel duration: 8 days/ 7 nights/ 6 days cycling
Travel period: 10 May - 30 Sep
Grade:
Easy. Average 25-50 km/ 150-400 m per day. Day by day trip grading, see "program" on each trip.
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Accommodations:
Trip type: Self guided cycling holidays
Price example: From 880
Meals: Bed & Breakfast

Prices per person in EUR

8 days/ 7 nights, Helsingborg-Gothenburg From 880 Book your trip

Period TRP - Triple Room Double Room - shared bed Twin Room - separate beds SGL - Single Room
2024-09-01 2024-09-30 880 930 930 1,280
2025-05-01 2025-06-21 880 930 930 1,280
2025-06-22 2025-08-31 1,030 1,080 1,080 1,480
2025-09-01 2025-09-30 880 930 930 1,280
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Included in the prices

  • Accommodation including breakfast
  • Luggage transfers
  • Tour map and detailed information in English, German, Swedish or French (1 per room)
  • Mobile App with digital maps
  • Personalised Roadbook in Mobile App
  • 24 h service hotline

Not included in the price:

  • Bike rental or equipment
  • Meals
  • Other not mentioned in included

Bike rental

  • 24-gear touring bike: 150 EUR
  • Electric bike: 300 EUR
  • Gravel bike: 220 EUR
  • Helmet: 10 EUR
  • All bikes are equipped with one back pannier, repair kit, bottle holder, lock.
  • Transporter for children: Price on request
  • Childrens’ bike: Price on request
  • 7-gear standard city bike with foot brake: (Not recommended, but are available on request)

More information about our rental bikes on this link: Rental bikes

Extra nights (per person including breakfast)

  • Helsingborg DBL: 80 EUR
  • Göteborg DBL: 85 EUR

Transfers
You can easily take the train, at good prices. Although, if you want private transfer, which is handy if you bring your own bikes, we can book transfers.

  • Return transfer from Gothenburg to Helsingborg: 350 EUR (car 1-4 persons)

Child reduction

  • Up til 5 years of age: 75%
  • From 6 – 13 years of age: 50%
  • From 14 – 17 years of age: 25%
  • Child reductions available when sharing room with 2 adults.

Itinerary

Day 1 Arrival to Helsingborg

Check in to the centrally located hotel. Hopefully you will have time for some sightseeing in this beautiful, medieval town by the ocean.

Day 2 Helsingborg – Ängelholm: 62 km (49 km)

This part of Kattegattleden offers a lovely coastal tour with staggering views of Öresund and out to Danish Zealand.

Day 3 Ängelholm – Halmstad: 60 km (41 km)

From Ängelholm, Kattegattleden continues along the coast before the path departs and you will cut across the peninsula, into the heart of Bjäre. The climb will be gentle at first, but soon becomes steeper. You are now proceeding into a modern agricultural setting, and will gradually reach the small-scale agricultural countryside that has been based on livestock since prehistoric times and is typical of Bjärehalvön. After a thrilling ride down the ridge, the stretch concludes in the entertainment metropolis of Båstad. After a visit in Båstad, you’ll take the train to Halmstad. (Train ticket at your own expense.)

Day 4 Halmstad – Falkenberg: 57 km

From Halmstad city the ride will continue west, towards one of the most beloved beaches of the west coast, Tylösand, followed by the beaches of Frösakull, Ringenäs and Vilshärad. After this the path turns towards east and connects to Kustvägen, the coast road.

Along the way you’ll pass several beautiful nature reserves with unique beach meadows both before and after the charming village of Steninge. Right around Steninge beach the landscape will change from barren and stony into a lush agricultural setting, guiding you to your overnight stop of the day: Falkenberg.

Day 5 Falkenberg – Varberg: 39 km

The route continues through the town of Falkenberg, one of the oldest of Hallands’ medieval towns. As you are getting closer to Varberg, the final destination of the day, you’ll pass Apelviken, a beach that attracts windsurfers from all over Europe. A short ride away the Varberg Fortress will tower before you, well worth a visit. You can bike all the way up to the fortress if you are up for a challenge. Or, make a visit to Societetsparken instead and take a well-deserved rest in the shade of the leafy trees.

Day 6 Varberg – Kungsbacka: 72 km (50 km)

North of Varberg, the scenery changes – sandy beaches become rocky cliffs and the first islands begin to appear, like Getterön, Balgö and Vendelsö. Further on you will get to a quiet stretch along the ocean and the beautiful beaches of Åsa.
Further up the route we recommend a small detour to visit Tjolöholm Castle, Sweden’s only Tudor castle, before continuing to Fjärås Bräcka, famous for its 100 standing stones at the Li grave field. The route continues on small roads along fields and horse pastures until you reach Kungsbacka, the final stop for today and one of the largest trade centres in western Sweden.

Possible to shorten to 65 km. Also possible to shorten to 48 km by biking Varberg – Åsa, and take the train from Åsa to Kungsbacka.

Day 7 Kungsbacka – Göteborg: 63 km (41 km)

This last stretch of the route runs along the Kungsbacka fjord, back towards the ocean. You’ll pass the small seaside village of Särö, where royalty and the Gothenburg society met up for amusement in the early twentieth century. The trail continues along cliffs, lush forests, bays and small harbours, offering plenty of places to swim or just relax. As you approach central Gothenburg, you will pass Nya Varvet and the Klippan Culture Reserve and continue along Göta älv until you reach your final destination: the Göteborg Opera and the Lilla Bommen harbour. Welcome to Gothenburg and your hotel located just beside the cycle path.
62 km.

Possible to shorten to 41 km by skipping the Onsala peninsula.

Day 8 Tour ends after breakfast

Your tour along Kattegattleden with us ends after breakfast. Not ready to leave? Just let us know and we’re happy to help you book extra days.

Acommodations

Accommodation in a mix of 4 and 3 star hotels, with central location.

8 days / 7 nights

NightPlaceAccommodation
Night 1HelsingborgHotel ****/ ***
Night 2ÄngeholmHotel ***
Night 3HalmstadHotel ****
Night 4FalkenbergHotel ***
Night 5VarbergHotel ****
Night 6KungsbackaHotel ***
Night 7GothenburgHotel ***

Route map

Getting here

Copenhagen

You can fly to Copenhagen and catch a train to Helsingborg. Train between the airport and Helsingborg run regularly and takes 1h – 1h 30 minutes and cost is about 25 EUR.

Gothenburg

Landvetter airport is about 20 km southeast of downtown and is served by both domestic and international flights. Airport coaches go to the Nils Ericson Terminal by Gothenburg Central Station, where Kattegattleden begins/ends.

Privat transfers from airport or train station to you first accommodation/ from your last accommodation is not included. It can be booked, contact us for price offer. However, we recommend local transportation, that runs regularly.

The Öresund train, which runs from Helsingör in Denmark via Malmö to Gothenburg, run along the entire Kattegattleden path and you can hop off at any convenient station. You bring your bike with on the Öresundstågen and Pågatågen trains, if space allows.

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Kattegattleden
It was a great holiday, all the hotels and luggage transfers went well and the route was so well signed that we hardly had to use our apps. The bikes were good but we did find them very heavy. On two occasions we had to call for human pick ups due to torrential rain on one day and a concussion on the other, on both days we were immediately helped and transport arranged. We were very grateful.
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Terrific trip!
Just completed our trip from Helsinborg to Gothenburg on the Kattegattleden bike tour. We had a wonderful time, and just loved the cycling along mostly quiet bike paths, along the coast and through farm lands. Organizing the trip with EverTrek was easy, and Gunnar was very available to answer our questions prior to the trip including upgrading us to e-bikes. The information provided was clear and easy to follow and the phone app worked well. Hotels were great- super friendly people, comfortable places. Bike storage at Kungsbacka was down a set of stairs- not optimal and risk for injury to bike and cyclist getting down the stairs. If you plan your trip in September, just be aware that many/most food places along the way may be closed because its after summer holidays- very few places for a mid morning coffee! Thanks for a truly memorable adventure and I will recommend this to anyone who is interested in cycling in Sweden!
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5/5
Great 9 day tour of Sweden
Very well organised. Excellent bikes. Very nice hotels. Great service to pick up & drop off bags. Nothing was too much trouble - very obliging staff! Throughly recommend Ever Trek
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Evertrek Custom Tour
Gunnar and team organized a wonderful trip for 7 Kiwis, from Trelleborg to Gothenburg. A wonderful cycling adventure - great cycle paths, well communicated information and pre cycle details, good hotels, and we lucked out also with some pretty good weather. Highly recommended - Sweden was great, and Evertrek made it easy and enjoyable, going above and beyond to accommodate special requests and some stuff ups on our part along the way - recovering items I had left behind. Couldn't recommend Evertrek more highly. Thanks very much.
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A Well Organized Ride!
The Kattegatleden (south to north) was one of the best rides we 4 women have had. We were very impressed with Gunnar’s efficiency in providing pre-ride information and had no trouble in paying by credit card. Having downloaded the maps that Gunnar sent, we were rarely at odds as to where to go. We did not rely on the voice commands, but used the downloaded maps supplemented by the paper maps. The scenery was always engaging and the paved paths were easy to ride. We had e-bikes for the first time and found them to be very functional. The hotels were all comfortable and clean. A highly recommended ride, but bring your rain gear. We were grateful for the option of a shorter route on 2 days because we were able to avoid the deluge by taking the shorter option. Our trip was in early June. Our one negative comment is that in order to store our bikes at the Best Western Hotel Halland in Kungsbacka, we had to carry them down and up 3 flights of stairs. Luckily, the hotel staff assisted because e-bikes are heavy! Perhaps installation of a bike ramp would help.
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Kattegattleden at 75
I have finished!! What a beautiful ride it was! I have taken hundreds of photographs. It was the perfect tour for my age and experience. I’ll be looking for another tour over similar terrain for next year, perhaps. In addition to the Kattegattleden itself, the hotels have been perfect. Wonderfully helpful staff! Beautiful surrounds, unbelievable breakfast feasts. My only regrets were heartburn on the bike from overeating. The bicycle and equipment performed very well. The Ride with GPS app was good and bad. The visual cues were pretty good. I did follow the whole route to the end but with many wrong turns. These mostly due to problems with the voice cues. I eventually learned to follow the map and ignore a lot of the voice cues. The voice consistently mixed up rights and lefts. When the visual map was not sufficiently detailed, the voice often sent me in the wrong direction. This was the worst on the Saro variation today. The extra scenery was not worth the extra hassle caused by the app. I do not recommend this variation. But overall the tour route was truly beautiful and consistently interesting. I have only one strong suggestion for improvement: the baggage transportation. After 1500 is too late! Most days the ride is over by 1300 or 1400. Waiting around the hotel in sweaty cycling clothes for hours is a bummer. I noticed that the baggage arrived before 1400 until I reached Kungsbacka ((1530) and Gothenburg (It’s 1600 and still waiting.) another option for you is to be clear about the later arrival of baggage to some locations so that the cyclist can decide to pack clean, warm clothing in the saddlebag. The later baggage was even more concerning on Sunday because the hotel Reception was closed. Thank you again! My criticisms are small compared to the overall outstanding quality of the Kattegattleden experience. I definitely recommend Evertrek highly.
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5/5
An excellent trip
We thoroughly enjoyed cycling the Kattegattleden with EverTrek. The organization of the trip was faultless, with clear information provided in a timely fashion. Any questions were answered promptly. We hired gravel bikes which were of excellent quality and fun to ride. Would highly recommed this cycling trip.
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Wonderful bike trip on the Kattegattleden southwards
We had a wonderfully relaxed, easy bike trip through a beautiful, landscape in a calm and friendly country (nobody ever seems to be stressed here). Evertrek organised the tour perfectly, we received perfect maps and catalogues. We stayed overnight in very carefully chosen hotels, which were not only centrally located and perfectly clean, but also interesting in style and history .We had adequate ,solid bikes.If we had questions, Ever Trek was easily accessible. Doing the journey form North to South was not a disadvantage, as, if there was a wind, it blew mostly directly from the seaside.
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Friendly and flexible!
We enjoyed our trip with Evertrek very much. Their amazing service already started before the trip began - they arranged a "reverse itinerary" to allow us to fit in to our dates. The materials, apps, navigation apps etc provided were really well thought through. One of our bikes developed a problem and they provided a replacement within 2 hours! The choice of accommodation was good. Thoroughly recommended
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Wonderful cycling vacation in June
We had a wonderful cycling vacation. The information provided was excellent. Great hotels! The rental bikes were also of high quality.
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