Skellefteå

Skellefteå, called Skellefte by locals, is a town in Västerbotten County, Sweden, at the Baltic Sea, with around 33,000 inhabitants. Skellefteå municipality, Skellefteå kommun, has 72,000 inhabitants in total. Wikivoyage

Population 39,146 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Sweden

• 112AnyAll emergencies

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Sweden

Getting there

Where are you starting from?

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Still gathering the markets around Skellefteå. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

• Bonnstan Attraction · 970 m
• Sara kulturhus Attraction · 340 m
• Skellefteå Museum Museum · 450 m
• Exploratoriet Museum · 580 m
• Skelleftå Museums Lanthandeln Museum · 640 m

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Eating nearby

• Burger 3
• Pizza 2
• Sushi 2
• Steak house 1
• Chinese 1
• Bavarian 1
• Italian 1
• Asian 1

All 23 places to eat

Somewhere to run

• Nordanåparken 490 m across 550 m
• Folkparken 250 m across 1.3 km

Getting around

• Skellefteå Busstation 410 m

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