Smögen
Sweden · Bohuslän · 10 m
Description
Smögen is a fishing island turned summer town, and everything happens on one wooden boardwalk six hundred metres long with boathouses on one side and moored yachts on the other. The fish auction still runs on weekday mornings and still sets prices for the whole coast. The granite here is pink and rounded and goes straight into the water with no beach in between, so people swim off the rock. In July the population multiplies several times over and in November there is almost nobody left on the boardwalk at all, which is the deal everywhere on this coast.
Length of stay
Recommended length of stay: 2 to 5 days (optimal 3 days)
Travel season
Best time to visit: July – August
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Highlights
- Smögenbryggan boardwalk
- Fish auction on the quay (every weekday)
- Swimming off the pink granite rocks
- Hållö island and its lighthouse(Day trip)
- Sotenkanalen and the boat traffic
- Kosterhavet National Park(Day trip)
- Shrimp and lobster straight off the boats
- Kungshamn and the Sotenäs coast road
- Sea kayaking between the skerries (May - September)
- Diving the Kosterhavet cold water reefs(Day trip)
- Boathouses and the summer harbour life
Getting there
- Seaport:
- Reachable by ship or ferry