Recreational, competitive or for health reasons, Scandinavians aren't short on excuses for jumping into the cold winter waters of the north. In Skellefteå they even celebrate it with a yearly festival.
Residents and visitors to Malmö have been warned to avoid swimming at all beaches and bathing spots along the southern city's coastline due to dangerous algae bloom in the water.
As Sweden starts to get the first proper heat of the summer, there's good news for fans of open air swimming: close to 90 percent of Sweden's bathing spots are ranked as good quality.
Images of a group of Swedes turning the inconvenience of flooding in central Uppsala into an opportunity to relax have gone viral, after they were photographed swimming through the central rail station’s underpass with inflatables and water pistols.
The dry, hot Stockholm weather means there is currently a ban on using portable barbecues in the open air, putting a dampener on a staple of the Swedish summer. But fear not: there are some special spots where grilling is still permitted. We've picked out five of the best locations in the Swedish capital.
The exceptionally warm Swedish summer has had unfortunate consequences when it comes to the frequency of accidental drownings occurring in the country, with the number of child fatalities between May and June reaching the same level as the entirety of 2017.
Sarah Sjöström says there is more in the tank, with the women's 100m freestyle world record again under threat after powering her way into Friday's final at the world championships.
Sweden's Sarah Sjöström has booked a place in the 100m freestyle semi-finals at the World Aquatics Championships with the fastest time in the morning heats.
Sweden's Sarah Sjöström became the first woman to win four golds in the women's 100 m butterfly on Monday at the world championships, and the swimming hero was shocked at how close she came to matching her own world record.
Swedish swimming ace Sarah Sjöström clocked a world record of 51.71secs for her leg of the women's 4x100m freestyle relay final at the world championships on Sunday.
Sweden’s heatwave has seen many people heading to enjoy a swim in one of the country’s countless lakes. But just as the water has become warm enough to enter, authorities are warning that high levels of bacteria have made many bathing spots unsafe.
Men and boys are being temporarily banned from a swimming pool in southern Sweden on Tuesday, but the International Women's Day initiative is making a splash for all the wrong reasons.
A rising number of public swimming pools across Sweden are launching blanket bans on smartphones and tablets in a bid to make inattentive parents help protect their children from drowning accidents.
Sweden's Sarah Sjöström broke the women's 100 metre butterfly world record for the second time in 24 hours to win gold in the final at the world swimming championships on Monday.
Swedish swimming champion Sarah Sjöström broke the women's 100m butterfly record on Sunday as China’s Sun Yang and America’s Katie Ledecky kept their 400m freestyle titles at the World Championships.
A Swedish synchronized swimming team have performed their world champion routine while drunk – to highlight the dangers of drinking and diving during the summer months.
Swimming spots on the Swedish coast are among the dirtiest in Europe, with only Estonia and Finland recording a poorer water quality, according to a new EU report.
Swedish teenager Sarah Sjöström regained her women's 100m butterfly title at swimming's world championships on Monday as defending champion and world record-holder Dana Vollmer had to settle for bronze.
Beach bums in Malmö have been left out to dry after high levels of bacteria caused the city to impose bathing bans at two of its popular swimming spots.
A woman who was swimming in Lake Mälaren near Stockholm on Sunday afternoon was struck and seriously injured by a passing water scooter that then disappeared from the scene.
The small Swedish town of Emmaboda has vetoed a petition to introduce women-only hours at the municipal swimming pool, and instead wants to start selling burkinis to its observant Muslim female bathers.
