List of motorways in Sweden

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Sweden has an extensive system of motorways (motorväg in Swedish) in the southern third of the country. The first motorway (Malmö–Lund) was opened in 1953 and new motorways have been built in a slow but steady pace ever since, somewhat faster after 1990. 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 streches in 2006 and 2007 an interconnecting motorway network exists from Öresund Bridge (to Denmark) in the south to Uddevalla north of Gothenburg, and to Gävle north of Stockholm.

There are also a number of motortrafikleder (semi-motorways, autostrasse), roads with only 2 or 3 (2+1) lanes but to which the same conditions apply as to motorways (i.e. grade-separated crossings, no slow traffic). 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 km/h (68 mph). 90 and 70 is often used on city motorways. There is a test on a part of the E6, where the limit is set to 120 km/h, but electronic signs can show a lower limit in bad weather.

List of current motorways

E4 at Linköping

• E4 Helsingborg – Kånna (Ljungby)
• *Toftaholm – Jönköping – Linköping – Norrköping – Stockholm – Uppsala

• *Uppsala – Mehedeby under construction, expected to be completed by October 2007
• *Mehedeby – Gävle
• *Söderhamn – Enånger
• *Sundsvall – Bergeforsen
• *Piteå – Norrfjärden

E6 and E20 near Varberg

• E6 Vellinge – Malmö – Halmstad – Gothenburg – Uddevalla – Småröd
• *Håby – Rabbalshede
• *Hogdal – Svinesund – (Norway)
• E18 Segmon – Ed
• *Karlstad – Alster
• *Örebro – Köping
• *Västerås

E18 in Västerås