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Type an amount in Swedish krona and read it in Euro at once. The page uses the European Central Bank's reference rate, and tells you which day that rate is from.
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Where these codes and rates come from
The three letters in EUR, USD or JPY are not an abbreviation someone invented for a website: they are ISO 4217, a standard in which the first two letters are the country's own code and the third is usually the initial of the currency. The figures on this page come from the European Central Bank, which publishes one set of reference rates each working day, around 16:00 Central European time, agreed between the central banks of the Eurosystem. They are a daily snapshot meant for statistics and accounting, not a live trading feed — which is exactly why they are the same number for everyone, rather than whatever one bank happened to quote at one moment.
Where you meet an exchange rate
You meet an exchange rate four or five times a year without thinking about it: booking a trip, paying an invoice issued abroad, buying from a foreign shop, reading a salary offer in another currency, or checking what a card charge really cost. In all of these the reference rate is the honest middle, and the price you actually pay sits a little to one side of it. Knowing the middle is what lets you see how wide that margin is.
Questions people ask
Is this the rate my bank will give me?
No, and no page can promise one. This is the European Central Bank's reference rate: the midpoint published once a day for statistics. A bank, a card scheme or an exchange office adds its own margin on top — usually between half a percent and three percent, sometimes more at an airport counter. Use this figure to judge the offer you are given, not to predict it.
How often does the figure change, and what happens at weekends?
The European Central Bank publishes once each working day, in the afternoon, Central European time. There is no publication on Saturdays, Sundays or TARGET holidays, so on those days the page shows the last working day's rate and says which day it belongs to. The chart alongside is one year of the same daily series.
Is the answer exact?
Where both units are defined in terms of one another by whole numbers, yes — the page says so above the figure, and the only rounding is in how many digits are shown. Where the ratio has no finite decimal, the page shows twelve significant digits and says the relation is approximate rather than pretending otherwise.
Does anything I type leave my device?
No. The arithmetic runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded and there is no server to upload it to. Load the page once and it keeps working with the network switched off.
Across the Öresund Bridge: twenty thousand commuters, three currencies and a tunnel that turns into a bridge
Every weekday morning, trains full of Swedes glide out of Malmö, speed along a causeway, dive into a tunnel beneath the sea, emerge on an artificial island and reach Copenhagen thirty-five minutes later. Opened on 1 July 2000, the Öresund Link joins Sweden and Denmark with a bridge of nearly eight kilometres, a tunnel of four and the man-made island of Peberholm, together some sixteen kilometres of road and rail over the strait that has divided the two kingdoms since the Ice Age. Its fame spread beyond Scandinavia through the television series The Bridge, in which a body is found exactly on the border line in the middle of the span. But the real stories on the link are less dramatic and more financial. Swedes work in Denmark for higher wages; Danes move to Malmö for cheaper housing; shoppers cross for goods that cost less on the other side; and everyone must deal with three currencies, the Swedish krona, the Danish krone, which is tied to the euro, and the euro itself. This page helps with the first step. Use it to Convert SEK to EUR with the daily reference rates published by the European Central Bank, which quotes the Swedish krona directly against the euro; the page prints the date of the rate under the result. The amount you type never leaves your browser.
Using the converter
Kronor in, euros out
Write the amount in Swedish kronor and Convert SEK to EUR in one step, then compare the figure with any offer you have been given.
Type an amount in Swedish kronor, and the page returns the same amount in euros and cents, together with the date of the fixing it used. A euro is worth roughly ten or eleven kronor, so the answer is about a tenth of the number you typed. Fixings appear once on each working day; at weekends and on public holidays the page repeats the previous one and says so. A table of round sums and a thirty-day graph sit beneath the box. For the opposite direction, from euros into kronor, open Convert EUR to SEK.
A benchmark for every quote
The number on the screen is the midpoint of the market on a working day, with no bank's cut inside. Banks, booths and apps quote a little less, and the gap in per cent is what the service costs: under one per cent is very good, two or three per cent is normal, and above four deserves another quote. Make every Convert SEK to EUR the yardstick. The examples below rest on an invented, round rate of ten kronor to the euro; it is not a forecast and not today's price, so replace it with the real figure.
The link and how it works
Bridge, island and tunnel
The Öresund Link was built because the strait between Zealand and Scania is too busy with shipping for a bridge alone, and too close to Copenhagen airport, Kastrup, for tall towers. Engineers therefore combined a cable-stayed bridge with a tunnel and a new island, Peberholm, whose name means Pepper Islet, a pun on the natural island of Saltholm, Salt Islet, nearby. The bridge carries four lanes of motorway above and two railway tracks below, and its pylons rise 204 metres. Construction took four years and cost around 30 billion Danish kroner, repaid by tolls and train fares.
The toll and the tickets
Before you drive, Convert SEK to EUR for the toll in the currency you earn, and decide whether the train is cheaper.
A one-way car crossing costs about 55 euros or the equivalent in kronor or kroner at the time of purchase, a motorcycle less, and frequent commuters buy discount cards that lower the fare by half or more. The train between Copenhagen Central and Malmö Central takes about 35 minutes, with a ticket of 10 to 15 euros, and the train to Copenhagen Airport 15 minutes. Cyclists cannot use the bridge. At the invented rate, a car toll of 55 euros is 550 kronor, a train ticket of 12 euros is 120 kronor. Convert SEK to EUR for the fares you expect, and add them to your budget.
The bridge in numbers
Around 25,000 vehicles and 30,000 train passengers use the link on an average day. The number of commuters crossing daily has risen to over 20,000, mostly Swedes who work in Copenhagen, where salaries are about a quarter higher in many professions, and Danes who live in Scania and work at home. The link has made the region of Öresund a single labour market with four million people.
Three currencies, one commute
Swedish wage, Danish costs
When the wage is in kronor and the rent in kroner, Convert SEK to EUR first, since the euro is the common yardstick.
A Swede who works in Copenhagen earns Danish kroner, pays tax in Denmark, and spends most of the money in Sweden, where housing and some groceries are cheaper. The rate between the two currencies therefore matters directly: when the krona strengthens against the Danish krone, the pay slip buys more in Malmö. A commuter earning 40,000 Danish kroner a month holds about 5,400 euros at the pegged rate, and about 54,000 kronor at the invented rate. Convert SEK to EUR to check the other leg of the journey.
Danes in Sweden
A Dane who shops in Malmö can Convert SEK to EUR to compare prices with home, and then divide by 7.46 for kroner.
Since 2000, many Danes have moved across the strait to Malmö, Lund and smaller towns, because flats are cheaper and larger on the Swedish side. A two-room flat in Malmö costs 8,000 to 12,000 kronor to rent, while the same in Copenhagen costs twice as much. Some households pay in Swedish kronor and earn in kroner, which exposes them to exchange-rate swings. Others keep part of their savings in euros.
Shopping on the other side
Swedes shop for alcohol and some foods in Denmark, where prices are lower, within the limits that the European Union sets for personal use. Danes cross to Sweden for meat, fuel and household goods in certain years. Which side is cheaper depends on the exchange rate and the taxes of the day. Before a shopping trip, make a list of five items and compare their prices with a Convert SEK to EUR or a Danish crown page.
Staying in Malmö and Copenhagen
Malmö, the city of bridges and towers
Malmö, the third city of Sweden, has a medieval castle, a canal-ringed centre, the twisting skyscraper Turning Torso at 190 metres and a long beach on the Baltic. A coffee costs 35 to 45 kronor, a lunch of the day 110 to 140, a dinner 250 to 400. Hotels cost 900 to 1,800 kronor a night, hostels 300 to 500. Bicycles can be rented for 150 to 250 kronor a day. Malmö is a young, multicultural city, with excellent street food, notably falafel.
Copenhagen, the city of cycling
Copenhagen has the Tivoli amusement park, the Little Mermaid statue, the colourful harbour of Nyhavn and an unmatched cycling culture. Prices are higher than in Malmö: a coffee costs 40 to 55 Danish kroner, a lunch 110 to 160, a dinner 250 to 450, a hotel night 1,000 to 2,000. A 24-hour city pass for public transport is about 80 Danish kroner. A day trip from Malmö is easy and takes less than an hour each way.
Units, time and weather
Sweden and Denmark use kilometres, litres and Celsius. Convert km to mi converts distances into miles, Convert L to gal relates litres to gallons and Convert °C to °F gives Fahrenheit. Both countries are in Central European Time, and for Romania or Greece, Convert CET to EET shows the one-hour gap.
Money in two Scandinavian countries
Cash is rare
Because cards are used everywhere, Convert SEK to EUR once in the morning, note the rate and leave your wallet at home.
In Sweden and Denmark, cards and mobile payments are accepted almost everywhere, and cash is increasingly rare. A card from any European bank works. If a terminal asks whether to charge you in your home currency, decline and choose the local currency, because the rate on offer is worse than your bank's. Keep a small reserve of cash in case of failure.
Tipping and prices
Service is included in prices in both countries, so tipping is optional, and rounding up is enough. Prices include value-added tax at 25 per cent. For a quick calculation of costs, Convert SEK to EUR once at the start of the week and keep the factor in your head.
The strangest island in the strait
Peberholm, planted by nobody
The artificial island where the tunnel meets the bridge is called Peberholm, "Pepper Islet", a joke on its natural neighbour Saltholm, "Salt Islet", just to the north. It was built from rock and sand dredged from the seabed while the tunnel was dug, and when it was finished the planners made an unusual decision: they left it alone. No one sowed it, no one planted trees, and biologists have followed what arrived by itself. Within two decades the bare gravel had been colonised by dozens of plant species, by orchids, by a growing colony of birds and by a rare green toad that is protected in both countries. Access is restricted, but the railway and the road cross it, so every commuter passes through a nature experiment twice a day.
How the tunnel got its shape
Between Peberholm and the Danish coast runs the Drogden Tunnel, about four kilometres long, built from prefabricated concrete sections that were floated into place and sunk into a trench. The reason the link switches from bridge to tunnel is flight: the sea lane beside Copenhagen Airport is too close to the runways for tall towers, and the shipping channel needed room as well. The cable-stayed section of the bridge, with towers more than two hundred metres high, was the largest of its kind carrying both road and rail when it opened. Engineers will tell you the clearance for ships is fifty-seven metres, which is enough for nearly everything that sails here.
What the numbers say
The bridge-and-tunnel link is about sixteen kilometres in all, if the approaches are counted. The railway section is double-tracked, and the road above it carries four lanes. Traffic grew more slowly than the planners hoped in the first years, then climbed steadily, and by the late 2010s tens of thousands of vehicles crossed on a normal day, together with many thousands of rail passengers. The loan that paid for the construction was guaranteed by the two states and repaid from the tolls; the payments ended earlier than first forecast.
A weekday for a commuter
The morning train
A commuter from Malmö Central steps onto a regional train that runs every ten minutes at peak hours, and the journey to Copenhagen Central takes about half an hour, with a stop at the airport on the Danish side. A monthly pass that covers both countries costs a few thousand kronor, and many employers refund part of it. People read, sleep, answer email and, in winter, watch the dark Öresund pass beneath them. Anyone who drives pays the toll: for a private car it is in the region of fifty to sixty euros each way at a normal price, and cheaper with a subscription. Check the operator's current table before you set out, and then Convert SEK to EUR to see what the crossing costs in the money you earn.
The border that came back
For fifteen years after the opening, passengers crossed without showing papers. In 2015 and 2016, after the arrival of large numbers of refugees in Europe, Sweden introduced identity checks on the bridge, and Denmark followed with controls on its border with Germany. Commuters had to carry a passport or an identity card, and trains stopped at the Danish side for inspections that added fifteen to twenty minutes to the trip. Some of the checks were later eased, yet many people who cross every day still carry their papers, because the rules can change at short notice.
Why people cross
Malmö's housing is cheaper than Copenhagen's, and Danish salaries are higher in many professions, so a household can live in one country and work in the other. In the early years the Swedish side took most of the movement. Later, a growing number of Danes moved to Malmö for its lower rents, while a smaller number of Swedes took jobs in Danish hospitals, laboratories and offices. Statisticians call this a labour market region of more than three million people, and the Medicon Valley life-science cluster, which spans both sides, is its best-known sign.
The krona, the krone and the euro
Denmark's anchor
Denmark never adopted the euro, but its currency is tied to it. The Danish krone takes part in the European exchange rate mechanism and is held within a very narrow band around a central rate of about 7.46 kroner for one euro. That is why the Danish krone looks almost motionless against the euro, while the Swedish krona floats freely and moves every day. A person who earns in kroner and spends in kronor in Malmö is exposed to the Swedish currency's swings, and not to the euro's.
Why the exchange rate matters at the till
A sandwich in Malmö, bought with a Danish card, may be offered in Danish kroner at a rate chosen by the terminal. Always pay in the currency of the country you are in. If a sum matters, Convert SEK to EUR first for a rough reference, and divide by 7.46 if you want to think in Danish kroner. For a sum of 2,000 kronor at the invented rate of ten kronor per euro, the result is 200 euros, or about 1,490 Danish kroner.
Prices in the three currencies
Food is dearer in Denmark than in Sweden, particularly meat, dairy and alcohol, which is why Danes cross the bridge to shop on Saturdays. Restaurants, on the other hand, are often cheaper in Copenhagen's outer districts than in Malmö's centre. A coffee costs about 40 kronor, 35 kroner or 3.50 euros, depending on where and when, and a monthly rent for a modest one-room flat is 7,000 to 10,000 kronor in Malmö, against 10,000 to 14,000 kroner in Copenhagen.
Television, tourism and the bridge's fame
The Bridge, a detective series
In 2011, a Swedish-Danish crime series called Bron, in Danish Broen, began with a body found exactly on the national border in the middle of the bridge, and with two detectives, one from each country, forced to cooperate. It was shown in dozens of countries and remade for audiences in the United States and Britain, Germany and elsewhere. Visitors still ask guides in Malmö where the body was found. The honest answer is that the scene was filmed, and the place is not marked on any map.
A trip across
You can cross the Öresund as a tourist in a single day. Take the train from Copenhagen to Malmö, walk to the Turning Torso, the twisting skyscraper by the architect Santiago Calatrava, and have lunch in Lilla Torg before returning in the evening. The ride costs about 120 to 140 Danish kroner one way. The fare is easy to check beforehand if you Convert SEK to EUR for the Swedish side and keep the Danish price in mind. Walking between the two countries is not allowed, and cycling is only possible on the ferry from Helsingør to Helsingborg, a short distance to the north.
The ferry alternative
The bridge was not the first link. Ferries have crossed the narrowest part of the strait, between Helsingør and Helsingborg, for many centuries, and they still sail every fifteen to twenty minutes. A crossing for a foot passenger takes twenty minutes and costs only a few euros, and it is the pleasant way to see Kronborg Castle, the setting of Shakespeare's Hamlet, on the Danish side. For anyone with more time than money, the ferry is a tidy alternative.
Other krona conversions
If your trip continues
Travellers who go on to London can use Convert SEK to GBP, those who cross the Atlantic Convert SEK to USD, and those who head to Poland by ferry Convert SEK to PLN.
A habit worth keeping
Write down the rate and date of each exchange, and compare them later with the statement. It takes seconds.
Mistakes to avoid
Forgetting the toll
A forgotten toll is a nuisance, so Convert SEK to EUR for the sum and keep a note of it with your travel budget.
A bridge toll is a real part of the commute. Check discount cards if you cross often.
Paying in the wrong currency
A terminal may offer euros or kroner; decline both and pay in kronor, then Convert SEK to EUR at home to check what the day cost.
Choose the currency of the country you are in, not your home currency, at every terminal.
Using an old rate
A rate from last month can be wrong by several per cent. The date shown beside the result protects you each time you Convert SEK to EUR.
In short
The only thing fetched from the network is the table of daily rates, while your amount stays in the browser and no account is needed. From the platform at Malmö Central to a café in Nyhavn, the routine is the same: Convert SEK to EUR, read the date and compare every offer with the number on this page.