Östersund pairs its biathlon stadium and floodlit cross-country tracks with Åre's alpine slopes an hour west by train.
How do I choose between ski destinations?
Judge the season, not the brochure: altitude and latitude set how early and late the snow holds, and lift-base villages save the daily commute to the slopes. A smaller area with reliable cover and lodging at the lifts usually beats a bigger name reached by bus.
Gällivare is a municipality in Norrbotten County, north-eastern Sweden, where iron ore and the fell of Dundret shape the town beneath the Arctic light.
Åre has hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships three times, and the lifts up Åreskutan start a short walk from the village square and the railway station.
Mora is a lakeside town in the north-western part of Dalarna County, set where the Österdalälven meets Lake Siljan in central Sweden.
Sälen's fells link Lindvallen, Högfjället, Tandådalen, and Hundfjället into one of the Nordics' largest alpine ski areas, and the Vasaloppet starts here.
Storuman Municipality takes in Tärnaby and Hemavan, the fell slopes that produced Ingemar Stenmark and Sweden's slalom tradition.
Malung is a riverside town in the western part of Dalarna County, set on the Västerdalälven in central Sweden.
Skiers ride under the midnight sun at Riksgränsen, a border resort in Norrbotten County on the Norwegian frontier, far north of the Arctic Circle.
An octagonal wooden church from 1763 anchors Vemdalen, a fell village in Jämtland County with ski slopes at Vemdalsskalet and Björnrike.