Stockholm Arlanda handled 24.29 million passengers in 2025 — up 6.8%, with 23 new routes in a year, a domestic surge after the Bromma shift, and international traffic back above 2019 levels by October. The Nordics’ busiest single airport is growing again.
Arlanda’s 2025 was the strongest year since the 2018 record of 26.85M: 24,294,277 passengers (+6.8%), 98,665 landings (+6.1%), and July as the busiest month at 2.43M. International traffic, 20.18M, is 83% of volume; October and December both beat their 2019 international months — a full recovery marker no other Nordic capital matches at this scale.
The structural shift is domestic: BRA’s relocation from Bromma pushed Arlanda’s domestic traffic +28.8% to 4.11M, consolidating Stockholm traffic at one field as Bromma winds down. Swedavia added 37 routes system-wide in 2025 — 23 of them at Arlanda — and welcomed eight new airlines, four at ARN, including ANA; Norse opened Phuket in December.
The airport city is being rebuilt in parallel: the Marketplace programme completed its final stage through 2025, and the terminal’s airside retail and lounge stock is being repositioned for the international mix. Cargo strengthened too — freight volumes +5% year-on-year.
Book around the peaks, not the airport. Arlanda’s recovery means July now clears 2.43 million passengers and the summer weekends queue; the Arlanda Express (18 minutes to Central) is the only clockwork option, and the new commuter-rail link via Citybanan is the value alternative. For connections: the airport’s growth is point-to-point European plus Norse’s long-haul (Phuket landed as a new route in December 2025) — onward intercontinental banks still route via Copenhagen, Helsinki or the Gulf, so price ARN nonstops before defaulting to a hub.
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