Gävleborg County · Sweden
Where to stay in Gävle
Gävle is a city in Gävleborg County, Sweden, home to about 87,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Gävle, with about 220 rooms between them.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- July
- Nearest airport
- BLE93 km · Dala Airport
- Currency
- SEKSwedish krona
- Time zone
- Europe/Stockholm
- Language
- Finnish, Meänkieli, Romani
About
About Gävle
Gävle is a city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital and largest city of Gävleborg County. It had 86534 inhabitants in 2023, which makes it the 13th-most-populated city in Sweden.
Gävle town is first documented in 1413 and received its charter in 1446, as Norrland's first and only city during the Middle Ages. Its harbour was first a fishing port, then an industrial dock and so remains; it's not a ferry port. The fortress resisted a Russian invasion in 1719, and Gävle has been spared combat since, with an army base just in case. But its wooden houses burned merrily enough without foreign assault, and after the last great fire in 1869 the area north of the river was re-built in stone on a grid pattern.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Gävle
See
- Rådhustorget
- Castle Square
- Gävle Castle
- Swedish Prison Museum
- Regional Art & History Museum
- Joe Hill Museum
- Holy Trinity Church
- Swedish Railway Museum
- Testeboån delta
- Brädviken
- Bönan
- Testeboån Nature Reserve
Do
- Gävle Concert Hall
- Boulonger Park
- Mackmyra Whiskyby
- Gefle IF
- Gävletravet
- Gasklockorna
- Furuvik Park
- Bomhusbacken
- Hemlingbybacken
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Gävle
1 place to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Clarion Hotel® Winn hotel | 220 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Gävle
11 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Grand hotel, Gävle | 0.3 km | |
| Hotel Baltic, Gävle | 0.5 km | |
| 2Home Hotel Gävle | 0.4 km | |
| Best Western Hotel City Gavle | 0.4 km | |
| Elite Grand Hotel Gävle | 0.3 km | |
| Hotel Aveny Bed & Breakfast | 0.6 km | |
| Hotell Alderholmen | 0.6 km | |
| Järnvägshotellet | 0.3 km | |
| Pensionat Slottstorget | 0.3 km | |
| Scandic CH | 0.3 km | |
| Scandic Gävle Väst | 3.0 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Gävle
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Gävle are July. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 21 °C; August is the wettest, with about 82 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Gävle: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Dala Airport (BLE), about 93 km from the city centre in a straight line; Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN, 122 km) and Stockholm Västerås Airport (VST, 124 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN) is the nearest international airport, with extensive global connections. It's 130 km south of Gävle and there's no need to travel via central Stockholm.
Getting around
Walking will get you most places within town. There's no bike hire in town, but you can get spares and repairs M-F at Posa Cykel at Norra Köpmangatan 4. Local buses all run from the railway station and Rådhustorget main square, see X-trafik for timetables. Bus 1 runs every 15 min to Valbro shopping centre. Bus 41 runs every 20 min to Sandviken. Bus 49 runs every 2 hours to Gävle Bro the long-distance bus drop off, then to Hedesunda. Taxi operators are Fast Pris (+46 26 165000), Gävle Stad Taxi (+46 26 100880), Taxi Stor & Liten (+46 26 107000) and TaxiKurir.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
BLE · Dala Airport
ARN · Stockholm-Arlanda Airport
VST · Stockholm Västerås Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Gävle
Stay safe
While Gävle is generally a safe city, main risk factors are petty theft and nightlife brawls. As in most of Sweden, cold weather can bring dangers, including those of winter driving ice safety and snow safety. Animal collisions are a risk factor; in particular moose, deer and boar. The countryside is highly infested by mosquitoes and ticks at summer. Although it has become somewhat of a longstanding tradition for arsonists to try to burn down the Gävle goat, which more often than not does not survive the winter, keep in mind that vandalization of the goat is illegal, and you will be pressed with criminal charges if caught.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Gävle
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Questions
Gävle: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Gävle?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Gävle are July. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 21 °C; August is the wettest, with about 82 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Gävle?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Dala Airport (BLE), about 93 km from the city centre in a straight line; Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN, 122 km) and Stockholm Västerås Airport (VST, 124 km) are also within reach.
Are there accessible hotels in Gävle?
1 place in this guide list accessible rooms.
What currency is used in Gävle?
Swedish krona (SEK).
Nearby
Destinations near Gävle
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.