Växjö best - most bathing places in the whole country

With its 41 bathing sites in the country, Växjö has the most bathing areas, followed by the capital Stockholm (37) and Västervik (34), according to recent figures from Statistics Sweden.

Last year, a total of 2,537 bathing sites were registered in Sweden by Statistics Sweden, which is just over 100 more than in 2020. The increase may be due to more municipalities submitting information on bathing sites last year than in 2020.

Few inhabitants

If, on the other hand, one were to count bathing places per inhabitant, the ranking would be different.

- Then large municipalities such as Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö end up far down the list.

Ydre, Vilhelmina and Laxå end up at the top with almost two bathing places per inhabitant, says Johannes Cleris, press officer at Statistics Sweden.

Borgholm and Vimmerby are also on the top 10 list if you count bathing places per inhabitant.

- Common to the municipalities on this top list is that they have relatively few inhabitants.

Malå, for example, has only five bathing places, but in a municipality with just over 3,000 inhabitants, there will still be quite a number per person.