Convert SEK to PLN Swedish krona ↔ Polish zloty Free Online Secure
Type an amount in Swedish krona and read it in Polish zloty 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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The last thirty days
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.
The Deluge: when Sweden marched into Poland, what it carried away and what a krona buys there now
In the summer of 1655 an army of Swedish soldiers under King Charles X Gustav crossed the Polish border and, in a few weeks, took Warsaw, then Kraków, then most of the country. The Poles remembered the following five years as the Potop, the Deluge, a flood of foreign troops, plague and burning villages that is said to have cost the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania a third of its population. In December 1655 the invaders reached the hilltop monastery of Jasna Góra at Częstochowa, home of the Black Madonna, the holiest icon in Poland, and laid siege to it with several thousand men. A garrison of a few hundred soldiers, monks and local nobles held out for forty days, and the Swedes withdrew on Christmas week. The defence turned the tide: a national revolt began, the Polish king returned from exile, and in 1660 the Treaty of Oliva ended the war. Today the two nations are partners in the European Union and neighbours across the Baltic, and the most common Swedish contact with Poland is a wallet. Use this page to Convert SEK to PLN with the daily reference rates published by the European Central Bank, in which the Swedish krona and the Polish zloty are quoted against the euro; the page combines them into a krona-zloty figure and prints its date under the result. The amount you type never leaves your browser.
Using the converter
Kronor in, zloty out
Type your sum, Convert SEK to PLN and keep the date written on the answer, since it belongs to the number.
Enter a sum in Swedish kronor and the page returns the value in Polish zloty with groszy, together with the date of the fixing used. A krona buys somewhere around 0.35 to 0.45 zloty, so the result is a little under half of the number you typed. A new fixing appears once on each working day; on weekends and public holidays the page repeats the last one and says so. A table of round sums and a graph of the past thirty days sit below the box. To go the other way, from zloty into kronor, open Convert PLN to SEK.
A yardstick for any quote
Before you accept any rate at a counter, Convert SEK to PLN and see how far the quote is from the reference.
The number shown is the midpoint of the market on a working day, before a bank has added its margin. Counters, apps and cards give you slightly less, and the difference in per cent is the price of the service: under one per cent is very good, two or three per cent is normal, above four deserves a second opinion. Treat every Convert SEK to PLN as the yardstick against which to measure an offer. The examples in this text assume an invented, round rate of two and a half kronor to the zloty, which is simply to keep the arithmetic neat. It is not a forecast and not today's price, so replace it with the live figure.
The Vasa connection
One family, two thrones
The war was in part a family quarrel. In 1523 Gustav Vasa became king of Sweden, and his grandson Sigismund, whose mother was a Polish princess of the Jagiellon line and whose father was the king of Sweden, was elected king of Poland in 1587. He inherited the Swedish crown in 1592 and for seven years ruled both countries. But he was a Catholic in a Lutheran land, and in 1599 the Swedes deposed him in favour of his uncle. His descendants kept the claim to Sweden alive for generations, and that dispute provided the pretext for decades of war between the two countries, including the invasion of 1655, which Charles X Gustav launched in part to settle old accounts.
What the Swedes took
Objects have no exchange rate, but a modern museum ticket does; Convert SEK to PLN before you plan your visit.
The army carried away enormous quantities of loot: books, manuscripts, paintings, coins, tapestries, cannons and church bells. Much of it ended up in Stockholm and Uppsala, and a great deal of it is still there. The Swedish national library holds manuscripts that came from Polish collections, and the royal armoury keeps trophies. In recent decades, Poland has asked for the return of some items and the two countries have exchanged lists, with a few objects being returned as gestures of friendship. A visitor to the Royal Castle in Warsaw, rebuilt from rubble after the Second World War, sees the interiors that the Swedes once stripped.
The Black Madonna and the defence
At Jasna Góra, a prior named Augustyn Kordecki led the defence, and the place became a symbol for Polish resistance for centuries after. Pilgrims in their hundreds of thousands arrive every August, on foot, from all over the country. Entry to the monastery is free, a small museum charges a few zloty and the treasury a little more. Queues for the icon form in the morning, so arrive early.
Poland today, from a Swedish pocket
Why Swedes cross the sea
A ferry, a car and a night in a hotel are the main costs; Convert SEK to PLN for each and add them up.
Ferries run all year between Poland and Sweden: from Gdynia to Karlskrona, from Gdańsk to Nynäshamn and from Świnoujście to Ystad, with sailings overnight and by day. A car with passengers can cross for 1,500 to 3,000 kronor return, depending on the season, and a foot passenger pays far less. Thousands of Swedes make the trip to shop for food and spirits, to visit dentists and beauty clinics, and to take advantage of lower prices in restaurants. Plenty of Poles go the other way as well, because Sweden is one of the largest destinations for Polish workers, with some tens of thousands registered in the country.
The cost of a day in Poland
A coffee costs 12 to 18 zloty, a lunch in a milk bar 25 to 40, a restaurant dinner 70 to 130, a beer 12 to 20, and a ticket for a city tram about 5. At the invented rate of two and a half kronor to the zloty, a 30-zloty lunch is 75 kronor, a 100-zloty dinner 250. A hotel room in a good central hotel runs from 300 to 600 zloty per night, or 750 to 1,500 kronor. Run Convert SEK to PLN on each of these items and your budget takes shape in a minute.
The zloty, a currency with a history
The name zloty means golden, from the old gold coins of the Polish kingdom, and the currency is divided into one hundred groszy. In the 1990s Poland went through a period of very high inflation, and in January 1995 the government cut four zeros from the old currency, so that 10,000 old zloty became one new one. Poland is a member of the European Union but has not adopted the euro, and it keeps its own central bank, which is why the zloty moves against the krona every day.
Two cities for a weekend
Gdańsk, the Hanseatic port
Museums are inexpensive, so Convert SEK to PLN for the tickets and add the cost of a lunch by the river.
Gdańsk is only a few hours by ferry and bus from southern Sweden. Its old town, rebuilt after the war, with tall gabled houses along the Long Market, is a joy on foot. The Museum of the Second World War and the European Solidarity Centre, about the shipyard where a trade union movement began in 1980, give the history of the century. Tickets are 25 to 35 zloty each. Amber, the fossilised resin of the Baltic, is the local speciality, and shops along Mariacka Street sell it as jewellery. Before buying amber, check for a certificate of authenticity.
Kraków, the old capital
A short flight or a long night train leads to Kraków, the capital of Poland until 1596, which was spared much of the wartime destruction. Wawel Castle on its hill has the cathedral where Polish kings were crowned and buried, the main market square is one of the largest in Europe, and the Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, is full of cafés and synagogues. Entry to the Wawel royal chambers costs 30 to 50 zloty; the tour of the Wieliczka salt mine nearby, with its carved chapels underground, around 120 to 140. Convert SEK to PLN before you book the tickets and you will see how inexpensive a city break can be.
Numbers, units and time
Poland uses metric units, so there is little to calculate; for comparisons with Britain or the United States, Convert km to mi and Convert °C to °F are enough. Poland is in the same time zone as Sweden. To see the gap with other zones, Convert CET to EET shows an hour ahead.
Money matters
Cards, cash and cash machines
Take a small amount of cash, but Convert SEK to PLN for the whole budget so you know how much to bring.
Cards and mobile payments are accepted almost everywhere in Poland, even in market stalls, and contactless is the standard. Cash machines sometimes offer to convert the withdrawal into kronor at their own rate, which is worse than your bank's. Refuse and take zloty. Small bills are useful for public toilets, church donations and a few rural shops. A bureau in the old town of any big city may offer a rate that looks good but hides a fee, so compare it with the figure on this page before you exchange.
Tipping and service
A tip of ten per cent is usual in restaurants if the service was good, and it is normally left in cash on the table or added when you pay. Some places add a service charge to the bill, in which case no extra is expected. Taxi drivers appreciate the fare rounded up. Convert SEK to PLN once for the daily budget and again for the tips so that nothing surprises you.
Two football nations, one qualifier each
Seville, 2021
In the summer of 2021, at the European Championship that had been postponed for a year, Sweden and Poland met in Seville for the last group match. Poland, with the world-class striker Robert Lewandowski, needed a win to stay in the competition, and Sweden were chasing first place in the group. Lewandowski scored twice, but Sweden scored three, and the winning goal came in the ninety-fourth minute, in added time, from Viktor Claesson. The Swedish bench ran onto the pitch and the Polish team went home. For the next year, the result was a favourite subject for Polish radio hosts and Swedish pub quizzes alike.
Chorzów, 2022
The two sides met again in March 2022 in a play-off for a place at the World Cup, this time in Chorzów in southern Poland, with a full stadium in red and white. Poland won two goals to nil, with a penalty by Lewandowski and a goal by Piotr Zieliński, and Sweden stayed at home. Fans who travelled from Sweden paid for flights to Katowice, a night in a modest hotel and a ticket of about 100 to 200 zloty, and many were surprised at how welcoming the hosts were. Convert SEK to PLN before you book a trip like that, and add the match ticket at the end.
Following a team abroad
Away matches are expensive but rewarding. Buy tickets only from the national federation or from the club, not from strangers outside the stadium, and bring a passport or identity card. Public transport is cheap in Polish cities, and a day ticket costs 15 to 20 zloty. Cash machines in the stadium area may offer you a conversion into kronor at a poor rate; always choose zloty.
Christmas Eve in two countries
Twelve dishes without meat
On the evening of 24 December, Polish families gather for Wigilia, a meal that begins when the first star appears in the sky. There are traditionally twelve meatless dishes, among them beetroot soup with small dumplings, carp or herring, pierogi with cabbage and mushrooms, poppy-seed cake and a dried-fruit compote. A place is often set for an unexpected guest, and a wafer, the opłatek, is broken and shared among the family before the meal. Swedish Christmas is also eaten on the evening of the 24th, but the table is the julbord, with ham, herring, meatballs, rice porridge and mulled wine. The two traditions share a fondness for herring and for long evenings with candles.
Markets in December
The Christmas markets of Kraków and Gdańsk sell gingerbread, smoked cheese, mulled wine and hand-painted baubles, usually in the main square. Prices are lower than at the markets of Stockholm, which makes a December trip popular with Swedish shoppers. A cup of mulled wine costs about 15 to 20 zloty, a gingerbread heart 10 to 25, a hand-blown bauble 25 to 60. Run Convert SEK to PLN for your list and carry only what you plan to spend.
Gifts from the old country
Popular things to bring home are amber jewellery, linen tablecloths, painted wooden boxes from the Tatra mountains, glass and crystal, and cured sausage if the customs rules allow it. Rules on bringing food into Sweden from other EU countries are relaxed for personal use, but alcohol and tobacco allowances still apply. Keep the receipts for larger purchases.
Working across the sea
Polish workers in Sweden
After Poland joined the European Union in 2004, Sweden was one of the few countries that did not impose a waiting period on workers from the new members. Poles came for jobs in construction, cleaning, farming, health care and in the berry fields of the north. Many stay for a season, others settle, and today Polish is among the more widely spoken foreign languages in Sweden. A worker who is paid in kronor and has a family in Poland sends money home each month. A transfer of 5,000 kronor at the invented rate is 2,000 zloty, though the amount actually received depends on the fee and the margin. Convert SEK to PLN before the transfer and compare with what arrives.
Swedish companies in Poland
Swedish firms were among the first big investors in post-communist Poland. Furniture, packaging, telecoms and retail brands have factories and shops all over the country, and tens of thousands of Poles work for Swedish employers at home. The relationship is one of the quiet success stories of European trade, with a trade volume of tens of billions of kronor a year.
A salary comparison
An average monthly pay in Sweden is somewhere between 35,000 and 40,000 kronor before tax, in Poland roughly 8,000 to 9,000 zloty, which at the invented rate is 20,000 to 22,500 kronor. The difference narrows when you take prices into account, since rent and food in Poland cost about half as much. Comparing salaries requires a conversion, but also a basket of goods: a loaf of bread, a litre of milk and a bus ticket give a clearer picture than a single exchange rate.
Cooking and eating
The milk bar
Poland's milk bars, bar mleczny, are cafeterias that began in the communist era as subsidised canteens and survive as some of the cheapest places to eat in Europe. A plate of dumplings, a cutlet with potatoes or a bowl of soup costs 15 to 30 zloty, which is less than 80 kronor. Service is quick, the menus are in Polish, and you pay at the counter before you eat. Go at lunchtime for the best choice.
What to order
Try żurek, a sour rye soup served in a bread bowl, bigos, a stew of cabbage and meats, and kopytka, small potato dumplings. For dessert, sernik, a baked cheesecake, and makowiec, a poppy-seed roll, are common. Wash it down with a compote or a glass of kefir. The portions are generous, and a single meal can serve as dinner as well.
Other krona conversions
If your trip carries on
Travellers who continue to the Czech Republic can use Convert SEK to CZK, those heading to Hungary Convert SEK to HUF, and those who return through Germany Convert SEK to EUR. For the zloty against the euro, see Convert PLN to EUR.
A small routine
Jot down the rate and date every time you exchange money. When the statement arrives, a glance at the note is all you need.
Mistakes to avoid
Ignoring the sea fare
Forgetting the fare is easy, so Convert SEK to PLN for the shore costs and write the crossing next to them.
The ferry is often the biggest single cost of a Polish weekend, so Convert SEK to PLN for the shore costs and add the crossing in kronor separately.
Accepting the machine's offer
A Polish cash machine that offers to charge you in kronor is using its own rate. Choose zloty.
Relying on a stale rate
A rate that is a month old can be several per cent off. The date beside the result is there to protect you each time you Convert SEK to PLN.
In short
The only thing fetched from the network is the table of daily rates; your amount stays in the browser and no account is needed. From a monastery on a hill to a market square in Kraków, the routine is the same: Convert SEK to PLN, read the date and set every offer against the number on this page.