List of motorways in Sweden


has a fairly limited system of motorways. The first motorway was opened in 1953. The motorways' primary purpose is connecting major cities to their surrounding areas, although there is a long-term ambition to connect Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö with motorways.
With the completion of a couple of new motorway stretches in 2006 - 2012 an interconnecting motorway network exists from Öresund Bridge to the Swedish- Norwegian border and to Gävle north of Stockholm.
There are also a number of motortrafikleder, roads with only 2 or 3 lanes but to which the same conditions apply as to motorways. These can be converted to motorways by adding a parallel road.
This is a complete listing of motorways in Sweden. The Swedish road numbering scheme does not distinguish between motorways and other types of roads.
The speed limit on motorways is generally 110 or 120 km/h. Speed limits of 70 and 90 km/h are often used on urban motorways, and electronic signs can show a lower limit in bad weather.

List of current motorways

The numbers of these roads belong to secondary categories, that do not appear on signs and regular maps:
Note that there are more semi-motorways in Sweden, but they have not been considered interesting, since those do not connect to motorways.

Long-term goals

There are long-term goals in the standard of the major roads, and all new constructed roads should follow this target standard. This target has varied over the years, therefore roads varies somewhat randomly in standard. A bad road has been rebuilt to the target standard of the time, while better roads have been kept as is, even though they didn't fulfill the target standard. This is especially noticeable on the E18.