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Ping Test to Sweden (Stockholm)

Stockholm is the Nordic region's hosting centre and a long-standing fixture of European competitive gaming. Counter-Strike's Nordic servers, a share of Riot's European data-centre footprint and most Scandinavian infrastructure sit there. This test measures your browser's round-trip time to that region.

Measuring 🇸🇪 Stockholm

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Measured alongside Stockholm so you can tell distance apart from a bad route

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Browsers cannot send ICMP packets, so this is the warm HTTPS round-trip time to the Stockholm data-centre region — a close proxy for game ping, not a raw ping command.

What ping to Stockholm should you expect?

Typical browser round-trip times measured to the Stockholm region. These are ranges, not promises — access technology and ISP routing move the number as much as distance does.

Testing from	Typical	Why
Stockholm / southern Sweden	5–25 ms	Fibre is near-universal here; anything higher is usually Wi-Fi.
Norway / Denmark / Finland	15–45 ms	Short, direct routes between the Nordic capitals.
Northern Scandinavia	35–70 ms	Long domestic distances dominate rather than any peering issue.
Baltics / Poland	25–55 ms	Direct Baltic Sea routes; generally very clean.
Germany / Netherlands	25–50 ms	Well-provisioned north–south European backbone.
United Kingdom	30–60 ms	A direct North Sea path.
Spain / Italy	50–85 ms	Stockholm is the far corner of Europe from the Mediterranean.

Small population, excellent network

The Nordic countries built out fibre early and aggressively, and municipal open-access networks are common in Sweden in particular. The result is an access layer that rarely limits latency — if a Swedish player has a high ping, it is almost always Wi-Fi, a game routing them elsewhere, or bufferbloat, rather than the line itself.

The distances involved are larger than they look on a map, though. Sweden alone runs 1,500 km north to south, and northern Norway and Finland are further still. Someone in Kiruna is not going to see the same number as someone in Malmö, and that is geography rather than a fault.

Where Stockholm fits against the rest of Europe

For Nordic players Stockholm is usually the best European option available, comfortably ahead of Frankfurt. For Germany, Poland and the Baltics it is competitive. Further south it falls away steadily, and from Spain or Italy it is one of the worst European choices.

The useful comparison to run is Stockholm against Frankfurt. If you are in northern Europe and Frankfurt is beating Stockholm, something is odd about your route. If Stockholm wins by a clear margin, prefer Nordic servers in games that offer them — the gap is real and it is free performance.

How this measurement works

A browser cannot send the ICMP packets the ping command uses, or the UDP packets games use. Instead we open a connection to a real endpoint inside the Stockholm data-centre region, warm it up so the TCP and TLS handshakes are not counted, then keep the best of several samples. The result is a genuine network round trip to Stockholm — usually a little higher than a raw ICMP ping, and a close, consistent proxy for the latency a game server in the same city would give you.

Stockholm ping FAQ

Why do Nordic players get such low ping?

Early, widespread fibre deployment plus open-access municipal networks that forced real competition. The access layer — the part between your home and the first exchange — is where most latency is won or lost, and the Nordics simply built a better one.

Is Stockholm better than Frankfurt for me?

If you are in Scandinavia, the Baltics or northern Germany, usually yes. Everywhere else in Europe, usually no. Run the test and compare the two rows rather than assuming — routing surprises are common near the boundary.

Which games run Nordic servers?

Counter-Strike has a long-standing Stockholm presence, Riot includes Stockholm in Valorant's European data-centre set, and several Nordic-developed titles host locally. Many other games fold the region into a general EU pool in Frankfurt or Amsterdam.