Overall score
Use the Gävle profile to compare affordability, transport access, and port and industrial profile alongside regional peers such as Stockholm, Uppsala, and Västerås.
Overall70/100
Affordability62/100
Air quality78/100
Energy77/100
Sweden / Northern Europe
Gävle City Intelligence
Gävle is the regional capital of Gävleborg County on Sweden's east coast with a freight-port and forestry-linked industrial profile, rail and E4 motorway access toward Stockholm, and a university and regional-hospital service base. Gävle is a northern europe city of about ~104K metro in Sweden. On the composite city-intelligence score, Gävle sits around the indexed median (70/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- ~104K metro
Image credit: Image: I99pema / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Overall city intelligence
Good70/100
Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.
Data confidence
Directional
Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.
Verified utility layers
See country hub
Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.
Gävle data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 70/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 62/100 | Gävle's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies. |
| Air Quality | 78/100 | Gävle's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated. |
| Energy | 77/100 | Gävle's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Safety | 71/100 | Gävle's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available. |
| Internet Speed | 74/100 | Gävle's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references. |
| Climate Risk | 71/100 | Gävle's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity. |
| Resilience | 71/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Emergency and public safety in Gävle
Local public safety guidance for Gävle, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Gävle, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Sweden emergency profile, which currently lists no verified national contacts.
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Gävle
Healthcare context for Gävle, with national-level information from Sweden where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Gävle, see the Sweden healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Gävle
Local mobility context for Gävle, with national-level context from Sweden where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Gävle, see the Sweden transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Gävle. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Gävle
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Gävle will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Gävle air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Gävle modules
City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.
Cost of Living in Gävle
Gävle's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality in Gävle
Gävle's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy in Gävle
Gävle's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety in Gävle
Gävle's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed in Gävle
Gävle's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk in Gävle
Gävle's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Cost of living in Gävle
Cost of living estimates for Gävle — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.
Visual guide to Gävle
Source-attributed visual context for Gävle using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.
Weekend trip planning guide for Gävle
Weekend trip planning checklist for Gävle — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.
Nearby weekend places from Gävle
Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.
Estimate a monthly budget for Gävle
Estimate a monthly budget for Gävle using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Gävle
Plan a trip budget for Gävle using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Nearby cities from Gävle
Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Gävle. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.
Uppsala, Sweden
Same region · about 96 km from Gävle. Explore Uppsala's city intelligence profile.
Västerås, Sweden
Same region · about 122 km from Gävle. Explore Västerås's city intelligence profile.
Eskilstuna, Sweden
Same region · about 148 km from Gävle. Explore Eskilstuna's city intelligence profile.
Stockholm, Sweden
Same region · about 158 km from Gävle. Explore Stockholm's city intelligence profile.
Södertälje, Sweden
Same region · about 167 km from Gävle. Explore Södertälje's city intelligence profile.
Örebro, Sweden
Same region · about 190 km from Gävle. Explore Örebro's city intelligence profile.
Sundsvall, Sweden
Same region · about 191 km from Gävle. Explore Sundsvall's city intelligence profile.
Norrköping, Sweden
Same region · about 240 km from Gävle. Explore Norrköping's city intelligence profile.
Karlstad, Sweden
Same corridor · about 247 km from Gävle. Explore Karlstad's city intelligence profile.
Linköping, Sweden
Weekend trip · about 266 km from Gävle. Explore Linköping's city intelligence profile.
Related collections
Regional discovery collections that include Gävle — named natural regions grouping nearby nature, parks, lakes, coasts, and mountains for local-first day and weekend planning.
Sweden National Parks
National parks · 19 places across 14 cities.
Weekend Escapes near Stockholm
Weekend escapes · 30 places across 10 cities.
Themed collections
Theme-first discovery collections that include Gävle — grouped by outdoor interest (mountains, lakes, coasts, forests, national parks) rather than geography.
Nordic Nature
Nordic Nature · 50 places across 27 cities.
Sweden Cycling Friendly Areas
Cycling Friendly Areas · 34 places across 16 cities.
Sweden Family Outdoor Escapes
Family Outdoor Escapes · 30 places across 16 cities.
Sweden Hiking Areas
Hiking Areas · 21 places across 15 cities.
Sweden Lake Escapes
Lake Escapes · 20 places across 14 cities.
Sweden National Park Weekends
National Park Weekends · 14 places across 13 cities.
Interpretation
Use the Gävle profile to compare affordability, transport access, and port and industrial profile alongside regional peers such as Stockholm, Uppsala, and Västerås. Its standout dimensions are air quality (78/100) and energy (77/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (62/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Sweden country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Gävle appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.