Valborg in Stockholm: Bonfires on 30 April

The best-known bonfire is at Skansen, the open-air museum on Djurgården, where the evening traditionally includes choir singing to welcome spring alongside the fire itself. Smaller bonfires and gatherings happen in parks around the city too, so "Valborg in Stockholm" isn't one single event at one single time — it's a citywide evening with a handful of focal points.

Because Djurgården has no metro station and gets busy on an evening like this, getting there and back is worth planning rather than improvising, especially if you're coming from a hotel outside the centre or arriving that same day.

Landing at Arlanda on 30 April itself gives you a tight window if the plan is to be at Skansen by early evening — factor in the walk from arrivals, the transfer time into the city, and checking in wherever you're staying before heading back out. Flying in a day early removes that pressure entirely and is the simpler plan if the bonfire is the whole point of the trip.

Either way, your pickup follows your flight's actual landing time rather than a fixed schedule, so an early or delayed arrival doesn't throw off a booking made in advance.

A custom, point-to-point booking — setting both ends of the route yourself rather than the standard airport pickup — works well for an evening like this: from your hotel out to the Skansen area beforehand, and, more usefully, back again once the bonfire has finished and everyone else is trying to leave at the same time. Booking the return in advance means you're not standing on a street corner working out how to get back after dark with a crowd doing the same thing.

If your evening includes more than one stop — dinner beforehand, the bonfire itself, somewhere afterwards — a single fixed price for the whole car agreed before you book is easier to plan around than working it out on the night.