Sweden's highest mountains: every summit over 2,000 metres

Sweden's highest mountain is Kebnekaise, and the highest point in the country today is its north summit at 2,096.8 metres. In all, twelve summits rise above 2,000 metres, spread over eight mountains, all of them in Lapland.

Lists of Sweden's highest mountains look different depending on where you read them, for three reasons: a summit made of ice that keeps shrinking, new surveys that have shifted old figures, and different views on what counts as a separate summit. Here is the list, and why it looks the way it does.

The summits over 2,000 metres

The table follows the list published by the Swedish mapping authority in 2020, when summit heights across the mountains were revised after a new, more precise survey. For Kebnekaise it also gives the latest measurement from the Tarfala research station, which surveys the summits every late summer.

#	Summit	Height (m)	Area
1	Kebnekaise, north summit	2,097 (Tarfala 2026: 2,096.8)	Kebnekaise massif
2	Kebnekaise, south summit	2,095 (Tarfala 2026: 2,088.3)	Kebnekaise massif
3	Sarektjåkkå, Stortoppen	2,089	Sarek
4	Kaskasatjåkka	2,071	Kebnekaise massif
5	Sarektjåkkå, Nordtoppen	2,054	Sarek
6	Kaskasapakte	2,040	Kebnekaise massif
7	Sarektjåkkå, Buchttoppen	2,030	Sarek
8	Sarektjåkkå, Sydtoppen	2,025	Sarek
9	Palkattjåkkå	2,016	Sarek
10	Akka, Stortoppen	2,011	Stora Sjöfallet
11	Pårtetjåkkå	2,007	Sarek
12	Sielmmatjåkkå	2,004	Kebnekaise massif

Twelve summits, but only eight mountains: Sarektjåkkå alone has four tops over 2,000 metres, and Kebnekaise two.

The south summit that keeps shrinking

Kebnekaise's south summit is capped by a glacier and so has no fixed height. It is measured every year at the end of summer, when the melt has gone as far as it will. In 2026 it stood at 2,088.3 metres, ten centimetres lower than the year before, according to Stockholm University. It was the eighth year in a row that the south summit was lower than the north. In 1951 it was 2,119 metres. The map value of 2,095 is a snapshot from when the summit was surveyed for the map.

The north summit is solid rock and stays at 2,096.8. Since 2019 it has therefore been Sweden's highest point, which we explain in our piece on Kebnekaise's two summits.

Anyone comparing the figures will notice that the south summit now measures lower than the map height for Sarektjåkkå's highest top, 2,089 metres. But these are two different kinds of number: an annual measurement of an ice summit against a map value for a rock summit. So it is not possible to say that the order of the list has changed, only that the margin is small.

New surveys, new figures

The second reason lists differ is that older lists rely on older map values. When the heights were revised in 2020, several summits moved by a few metres, some up and some down. Kaskasatjåkka, long given as 2,076 metres, is now 2,071. Palkattjåkkå rose from 2,002 to 2,016.

Sielmmatjåkkå is the clearest example. It was long thought to be just under 2,000 metres, but a survey in 2016 showed it to be 2,004 metres, making it Sweden's northernmost summit over 2,000 metres. It lies between the Tjäktja hut on the Kungsleden trail and the Vistas hut.

Why a summit's height changes at all, and how it is measured, is covered in our piece on how a mountain's height is measured.

Kebnekaise on the wall

The Kebnekaise piece holds both summits and the massif around them, with the glaciers in the hollows below. Its nameplate reads 2,106 metres, an older 20th-century map value for the south summit. If you would rather have the terrain without a number, the piece also comes without text, with the whole square given to terrain.

Sarek and Akka are not available as ready-made pieces. If you want one of them, you can draw the square yourself in FRMD by You.