Crispy leaves rustle at our feet and the first fresher winds are announcing that winter is coming soon. Life starts retracting indoors, but not only homewards… This is also a time for indoor music and film festivals, dining out at cozy restaurants or attending fairs like the Baking and Chocolate Fair. Oh yes, this is also the time we like to dress up like ghosts and pumpkins and go trick-or-treating. Let us guide you to some of this months event highlights, things to see and do in Stockholm.
Every event is linked to a page with more detailed info, just click on the title!
SEASONAL CELEBRATIONS
Halloween at Gröna Lund 2019
The entire amusement park with attractions is open, where the smaller kiddies area is adapted for younger visitors with pumpkins, witches, ghosts and children’s performances every day. In the greater area the more courageous visitors will be able, among other things, to take part in the haunted ship that returns and you will get to meet a mysterious sect.
When: 18-20 October, 25 October – 3 November
Where: Gröna Lund
Cost: 399SEK – 430SEk
MUSIC
Stockholm Jazz Festival
One of Sweden’s oldest festivals and one of Stockholm’s biggest events. Now in 2019 the festival is back on 11-20 October – and bigger than ever, spreading jazz on over 60 venues around Stockholm.
When: 11-20 October
Where: Different venues in Stockholm
Cost: Price of tickets varies per concert.
Ariana Grande @ Globen
When: 7 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 675SEK – 875SEK
Chromatics w/ Desire @ Berns
When: 5 October
Where: Berns
Cost: 370SEK
Cher @ Friends Arena
When: 17 October
Where: Friends Arena
Cost: 2375SEK – 3400SEK
Michael Bublé @ Globen
When: 23 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 650SEK – 1450SEK
UB40 @ Berns
When: 27 October
Where: Berns
Cost: 570SEK
Eros Ramazzotti @ Globen
When: 30 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 437SEK – 775SEK
ART
Affordable Art Fair
When: 10-13 October
Where: Nacka Strandsmässan
Cost: 95SEK – 350SEK
Opening Reception: Peter Blake
When: 3 October
Where: Wetterling Gallery
Cost: FREE
Opening: Anna Camner / Toni R. Toivonen / Ann-Sofie Claesson
When: 3 October
Where: Wetterling Gallery
Cost: FREE
Iranian Film Festival 2019
When: 12-13 October
Where: Biograf Skandia
Cost: 120SEK – 295SEK
FOOD AND DRINK
Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2019
When: 3-5 October
Where: Nacka Strandsmässan
Cost: 250SEK
Bak- & Chokladfestivalen – The Bake & Chocolate Festival
When: 10-13 October
Where: Stockholmsmässan
Cost: 93SEK – 390 SEK
Chelas – There’s a New Mexican in Town
Located at the trendy Hornstull neighbourhood of Södermalm, at Verkstadsgatan 4, you’ll find Chelas, Stockholm’s newest Mexican restaurant. Chelas opened its doors in July of 2019. The name comes from the Mexican slang word for beers and a phrase the Mexicans use when they want to socialise with friends and family: “Saca las chelas”. Literally translated it means “Bring out the beers”, but it can actually be better interpreted as “Let’s have some beers and hang out”.
The wine culture in Sweden is expanding, especially with the increase of vineyards in Skåne in the south of the country. In fact, 42% of all alcohol sales in Sweden consist of wine, and this is very different from brännvin, the traditional Swedish drink that translates as burn-wine. You can of course buy wine from the state owned Systembolaget. However, the only other place that you can buy wine and enjoy a glass is in licenced restaurants and bars that serve food. There are some great restaurants in Stockholm that unite their food and wine menu in perfect harmony, taking equal consideration to both.
Find out more about upcoming events in our Events Calendar.
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Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance. - 0404.December.Tuesday
Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance. - 0505.December.Wednesday
Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
Jazzy Wednesdays
Tegelbacken 6, 111 52 Stockholm, SwedenVisit Bar 360 for the ultimate after work experience. Listen to some nice live jazz while enjoying the food and drinks from Sheraton Stockholm Hotel’s Paired menu.
Slayer @ Hovet
Hovet, Johanneshov, SwedenIconic band Slayer says goodbye after nearly 40 years as thrash metal giants. For the last tour of the band they will take a stop in Sweden and play at Hovet in Stockholm on December 5th. With them as special guests, they have no less than Lamb of Good, Anthrax and Obituary!They are the creators of one of the most brutal and aggressive music ever created. Slayer is one of four bands that has defined a whole genre – and has become a benchmark for how to make metal. After almost 37 years, the band has released 12 studio albums and won a lot of prizes (including two Grammy Awards). The records have sold gold several times and the band has even got its own show at the rich Smithsonian Institute.
It’s a band that has been on the front of hundreds of metal and rock magazines and toured the world over thousands of dedicated fans. There is also a band that has been in deep sorrow, with the guitarist and co-founder Jeff Hanneman’s tragic death in 2013.Now the story of Slayer is over. And for their final goodbye they bring Lamb of Good, Anthrax and Obituary.
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Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
MGMT @ Nobelberget
Sickla industriväg 6, 131 54 Nacka, SwedenMGMT took the world by storm when in 2007, they gave us a new soundtrack to our lives. We were thrown into a coming-of-age drama called “Oracular Spectacular”, an indy rock pearl marked end of the 21st century, with songs that worked equally well for the party and on the way to school, as in the aftermath of a broken heart. Since then, Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser have only taken us deeper into their psychedelic and synthetic world, where this year’s “Little Dark Age” has both revamped the project as much as it felt like a homage to all the band ever created.
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Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
ROMA Film Premiere
Hornstulls strand 3, 117 39 Stockholm, SwedenPanoramica Film Festival’ first premiere this autumn in collaboration with Bio Rio cinema is the latest film by Alfonso Cuarón and his “return” to Mexican cinema with the film ROMA.
Rome is the most personal film of Accademy Award winner director Alfonso Cuarón. This time he returns to his native Mexico with his first Spanish-language film since “Y tu mamá también”.
In the film we meet Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young woman who works as a domestic employee with a family of the middle class of the Rome quarter in Mexico City. Cuarón recovers the inspiration of his own childhood in this loving tribute to the women who raised him, and creates a living and emotional portrait of family problems and social classes in light of the political changes of the seventies.
Rome won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival this year.
The tickets can be found here:
https://www.biorio.se/#/movie/840NOTE:
With the 2018 annual card the ticket costs 100 kr instead of 125kr. NOTE: Only applies when the purchase is made. - 0808.December.Saturday
Skansen's Christmas Market
Djurgårdsslätten 49, 115 21 Stockholm, SwedenSkansen’s Christmas Market is an unbroken tradition ever since 1903. In the town quarter, the Christmas market, is alive during the weekends leading to Christmas Eve. The craftsmen work there in their workshops and houses. On top of the market, the Christmas atmosphere features Christmas decorations, sweets, Christmas presents, straw loaves and other classic craftsmanship of the highest quality.
Are you hungry? There are lots of delicious food to eat on site, like traditional meatballs, wild burgers, donuts and much more. Join the Christmas party, dance around the tree and see how Christmas was celebrated sooner in Swedish houses and farms. Warm welcome!
For faster entry, pre-book the entrance ticket via the ticket link above.
Christmas at Drottningholm
Drottningholms Slott, SwedenOpen: Saturday 10-18, Sunday 10-17
There are limited parking spaces on Drottningholm, please go to the municipality of Brommaplan.
During two magical days a Christmas fair will take place in this amazing setting with emphasis on Swedish crafts and food.
Here you will meet a multitude of Sweden’s absolute best craftsmen. Everything from blacksmiths, candle holders, straw lifters, textiles and others. In the food stall, small-scale food manufacturers tastefully prepare their delicious traditional dishes with cheese, bread, mustard, fish, eggs, ham, etc.
Drottningholm Castle
The castle is open during the fair. Walk in the stunning castle on your own or follow on a guided tour. Also shows to delight the entire family and chores for children. See times at www.drottholmholmsslott.seSlottsboden
In the gift shop Slottsboden (located in the white building by the water) you will find Christmas presents with royal ties. The products are uniquely crafted with inspiration from the royal collections.Drottningholmsteatern and the Theater Bode are open during the fair.
Theater Constance
Classical, kitschigt and kul. Lots of decorations and Christmas presents for all ages and in all price ranges. Opening hours same as the Christmas fair.
Sergelgatan's Christmas market
Sveavägen 17, 111 57 Stockholm, SwedenAn indoor and outdoor Christmas market full of all your classic Christmas goodies!
Ho Ho Ho!
Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
Boy George & Culture Club @ Fryshuset
Mårtensdalsgatan 6, 120 30 Stockholm, SwedenThis summer, Boy George & Culture Club performed at Götaplatsen during the EuroPride week in Gothenburg. It was a show filled with hits and memories that became one of the best nights of the summer.
This fall, Boy George and the band Culture Club release new album – for the first time in 20 years. The reggae-inspired single “Let Somebody Love You” was released in July, and their new album “LIFE” was just released in October.
Grammy winners, Boy George and Culture Club have sold more than 50 million records with hits like “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me,” “Karma Chameleon,” and “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya” since the band was founded in 1981.
Boy George is known as one of the world’s most iconic artists. George was awarded the “Novello lifetime achievement award” in 2015 for his efforts in the music industry.
Their latest performances are praised with amazing reviews, and we expect nothing else during their visit to Stockholm!
Age limit: 13 years
Doors: 18.30 | On stage: 19.30
Presented by Maloney Concerts & Culture Company
BICEP dj set
Slakthusgatan 6, 121 62 Johanneshov, SwedenAcclaimed duo BICEP from Belfast, Ireland, will finally come to Sweden for its first major gig on December 8.
The duo has had a brilliant year with magnificent sold out live shows and dj-sets around the world’s prime festivals and clubs! Now BICEP finally comes to Sweden with an exclusive performance to show Swedeb how the real house is played.
Support during the evening is none other than Very Addictive from DISK Records.
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Skansen's Christmas Market
Djurgårdsslätten 49, 115 21 Stockholm, SwedenSkansen’s Christmas Market is an unbroken tradition ever since 1903. In the town quarter, the Christmas market, is alive during the weekends leading to Christmas Eve. The craftsmen work there in their workshops and houses. On top of the market, the Christmas atmosphere features Christmas decorations, sweets, Christmas presents, straw loaves and other classic craftsmanship of the highest quality.
Are you hungry? There are lots of delicious food to eat on site, like traditional meatballs, wild burgers, donuts and much more. Join the Christmas party, dance around the tree and see how Christmas was celebrated sooner in Swedish houses and farms. Warm welcome!
For faster entry, pre-book the entrance ticket via the ticket link above.
Christmas at Drottningholm
Drottningholms Slott, SwedenOpen: Saturday 10-18, Sunday 10-17
There are limited parking spaces on Drottningholm, please go to the municipality of Brommaplan.
During two magical days a Christmas fair will take place in this amazing setting with emphasis on Swedish crafts and food.
Here you will meet a multitude of Sweden’s absolute best craftsmen. Everything from blacksmiths, candle holders, straw lifters, textiles and others. In the food stall, small-scale food manufacturers tastefully prepare their delicious traditional dishes with cheese, bread, mustard, fish, eggs, ham, etc.
Drottningholm Castle
The castle is open during the fair. Walk in the stunning castle on your own or follow on a guided tour. Also shows to delight the entire family and chores for children. See times at www.drottholmholmsslott.seSlottsboden
In the gift shop Slottsboden (located in the white building by the water) you will find Christmas presents with royal ties. The products are uniquely crafted with inspiration from the royal collections.Drottningholmsteatern and the Theater Bode are open during the fair.
Theater Constance
Classical, kitschigt and kul. Lots of decorations and Christmas presents for all ages and in all price ranges. Opening hours same as the Christmas fair.Sergelgatan's Christmas market
Sveavägen 17, 111 57 Stockholm, SwedenAn indoor and outdoor Christmas market full of all your classic Christmas goodies!
Ho Ho Ho!
Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
Christmas Market at Filmstaden
Greta Garbos väg 3, 169 40 Solna, SwedenFilmstaden’s Christmas Market will take place on Sunday, December 9 between 12-16. Experience a classic Christmas market in a classic style on film’s historical grounds!
Step through a snow-covered portal, where stars such as Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman walked and directors, such as Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman walked through.
The area is open with classic market, flea, horse & carriage, open artist theater, and more.
Tunnelbana: Näckrosen (via the blue line towards Akalla)
Take the film city exit.
Bus: line 515 (Odenplan-Sundbyberg station)
get off at Näckrosen
Car: Råsundavägen 150 (parking outside the area)BICEP dj set
Slakthusgatan 6, 121 62 Johanneshov, SwedenAcclaimed duo BICEP from Belfast, Ireland, will finally come to Sweden for its first major gig on December 8.
The duo has had a brilliant year with magnificent sold out live shows and dj-sets around the world’s prime festivals and clubs! Now BICEP finally comes to Sweden with an exclusive performance to show Swedeb how the real house is played.
Support during the evening is none other than Very Addictive from DISK Records.
