About us
Who makes gothenburgtram.com, how we work, and where every figure here comes from.
An independent guide to the Gothenburg tram
We are a small group who travel and build websites. gothenburgtram.com puts the practical things in one place — a page for each of the twelve all-day lines (line 13, with a few morning trips, is covered on the map and the stop pages) and each stop, the network map, the timetable, fares, a route planner and guides to the places the tram reaches. It is free, needs no sign-up, and runs in Swedish and English.
We are not Västtrafik or Göteborgs Spårvägar. We sell no tickets and cannot help with fines, refunds or lost property.
Where the data comes from
Västtrafik's published tariff
Every price comes from Västtrafik's own ticket pages, with the month we checked it — and, where a price changed, the date it changed. Gothenburg fares moved twice in five weeks in 2026, which is exactly why the date matters more than the number.
Västtrafik's own announcements
The July halving of 30-day tickets and the Gothenburg residents' subsidy come from Västtrafik's press material, not from other guides.
If we cannot verify it, we say so
Västtrafik does not publish a stop-by-stop table of first and last departures, so the times on this site are network-level and labelled as approximate. For a specific departure the To Go app is the only reliable answer.
Why nothing here says «live»
Västtrafik has an open API for service disruptions. We have had a key since August 2026, but nothing on the site pulls data from it yet. Until it does, nothing on this site is labelled real time — the displays at the stop and the To Go app are where live departures actually live.
What we fixed on our own pages
The 30-day ticket price was wrong, and wrong in an expensive way
We showed 890 kr and described 445 kr as a discount for registered Gothenburg residents. Since 1 July 2026 the state-funded halving means everyone pays 445, and residents pay 305. A visitor staying a month was being told to expect twice the real price.
Two blocks repeated word for word on 264 pages
«Connecting transport» and «Services at the stop» said exactly the same thing at every stop in the network. They are gone (October 2026), replaced by one line pointing to the pages where that information belongs.
The stop FAQ was the same five answers with the name swapped
Fares, accessibility and bicycles are network-wide rules; repeating them 264 times helped nobody. The FAQ now answers what actually differs at each stop — which lines call there and what is next to it — and links out for the rest.
Corrections
We make mistakes, and fares change. Write to [email protected] with a link to the page — we check it against Västtrafik and fix it. The date we last checked stays on the page.
How the site is funded
The site is free. Hosting and development are paid for by advertising. Advertising does not influence the content: we receive nothing from Västtrafik or the city, sell no tickets, place no paid links in the text and do not sell reader data.
Questions and answers
No. gothenburgtram.com is an independent information site, with no connection to Västtrafik or Göteborgs Spårvägar.
A zone A single is 38 kr (29 kr youth). A 30-day ticket is 445 kr — half price since 1 July 2026 — or 305 kr if you are registered as living in Gothenburg.
Because nothing on the site is connected to Västtrafik’s live data yet. We would rather say that than show a countdown we cannot stand behind.
Checked in August 2026 against Västtrafik, and each change carries the date it took effect.
Who is behind this site
This site is run by the team at GoRandom, a small group based in the Basque Country in Spain who do two things that go together better than they sound: travel, and build websites.
We were in Gothenburg in January 2024, and the city guide on gorandom.es came out of that trip. We liked it enough to want to go back, and after enough hours spent staring at network maps and comparing travel passes this turned up: a site about nothing except how you actually get around here.
The other half of what we know how to do is web development, and this site is the excuse to put the two together. We do not leave it sitting there: every fare and every timetable carries its source and the date we checked it, and they get revised when the operator changes something. The last thorough revision was in August 2026: the 30-day ticket was still listed at 890 kr when since 1 July 2026 it costs 445 kr for everyone — twice the real price for someone staying a month.
He decides what goes up, checks the data before it does, and answers the email. If you find a fare that has expired or a timetable that no longer holds, there is a specific person to write to.