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Uppsala

Uppsala is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Wikipedia

Population 174,982 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Sweden

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Sweden

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

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.

Through the year

  1. Uppsala Beer & Whisky Festival

    February

    Held one weekend in late February. The festival is attended by some 10,000 people and more than 80 different international and local beverage companies. For those 20 years and older

    Official site

  2. Valborg

    April – May

    Held on the last of April. Valborg began as a pagan spring feast but became particularly popular among Swedish students in the 19th century, thus earning a special place in the Uppsala calendar.

    Official site

  3. Birdie

    May

    The oldest, and one of the largest, LAN-parties in Sweden is organised in Uppsala every year during the weekend of the Feast of the Ascension.

    Official site

  4. Kulturernas Karneval

    May

    A two-day carnival parade and festival with concerts, dance performances, theatre, foods and crafts, held one weekend in May. The event is intended to celebrate and highlight the diversity of cultures in Uppsala.

    Official site

  5. Uppsala Reggae Festival

    August

    Uppsala Reggae Festival is the largest reggae festival in Scandinavia. It was first held in 2001, but the name was used as early as 1995.

    Official site Wikipedia

  6. Uppsala Pride

    September

    Uppsala's largest LGBT event takes place during one weekend in September.

    Official site

  7. Uppsala International Guitar Festival

    October

    Uppsala International Guitar Festival (Swedish:Uppsala internationella gitarrfestival) is an annual music festival in Uppsala, Sweden.

    Official site Wikipedia

  8. Uppsala International Short Film Festival

    October

    Uppsala International Short Film Festival is an annual festival hosted in Uppsala, Sweden since 1982.

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Uppsala); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Markets

  • Fyristorg

    No hours mapped

    490 m from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 83 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Skölsta 5.8 km

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.