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Blå Porten

Café · Djurgården & Skeppsholmen · Since 1916

Blå Porten
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 09:40–17:40, about 8 hours in total. In short: sun at lunch and afternoon sun.

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The story of Blå Porten

Blå Porten opened in 1916, the same year as its neighbour, the Liljevalchs art gallery. The restaurant fills the enclosed courtyard south of the gallery and was designed by the same architect, Carl Bergsten. It was the idea of restaurateur Agnar Meurling, who brought back impressions from Italy: arcades, a garden, a fountain, white tablecloths and music with dinner.

The name is older than the building. A tavern nearby, eventually called Blå porten (the Blue Gate), took its name from the blue-painted gate to the royal hunting grounds on Djurgården. It burnt down in 1869. Today you enter from Djurgårdsvägen 64 through a portal of blue glazed tiles, and two of the arcades have ceiling paintings by Alf Munthe.

Meurling sold the restaurant in 1938 to the SARA restaurant company, and it took on a more everyday character. In the 1960s it hosted the club Le discjockey, said to be Stockholm's first discotheque. From 1972 it stayed open all year. These days it serves coffee, cakes and lunch in the garden, with Swedish home cooking that leans towards the Mediterranean.

Blå Porten in earlier days
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Wikipedia: Restaurangen Blå porten · Wikidata: Q26253517 · Blå Porten

When does Blå Porten get sun?

Sun on the terrace on a clear day in the middle of the month. Yellow is sun, light blue is daylight but shade.

April

Sun 10:00–17:10 (7 hours)

June

Sun 09:40–17:40 (8 hours)

August

Sun 10:00–17:30 (7.5 hours)

Opening hours

Mon11:00–21:00
Tue11:00–21:30
Wed11:00–21:00
Thu11:00–21:30
Fri–Sun11:00–21:00

Regular opening hours from OpenStreetMap. Check with the place before you go, especially around holidays.

More terraces nearby

  1. Konsthallen Butik & Bageri Café · 60 m Morning sun Sun 07:00–12:30
  2. Restaurang Hasselbacken Restaurant · 130 m Evening sun until 19:20 Sun 15:30–19:20
  3. Mackverket Café · 150 m Evening sun until 20:20 Sun 11:00–20:20
  4. Glöd Restaurant · 170 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–18:50
  5. Spritmuseum Restaurant · 230 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–18:40
  6. Stekarna Fast food · 330 m Evening sun until 21:30 Sun 07:00–18:50 and 20:40–21:30

All terraces on Djurgården and Skeppsholmen

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Sol vid lunch, according to Stoligt

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How Stoligt works it out

Every ten minutes we draw a line from each terrace toward the sun and check whether a building or hill is tall enough to block it. Building heights come from OpenStreetMap and ground heights from Lantmäteriet, the Swedish mapping agency. The times assume a clear day, so clouds are not included here. They are on the live map, which shows today's weather.

Trees, parasols and awnings are not in the model, and we don't know exactly where on the pavement the tables stand. Treat the times as an educated guess, often accurate to within ten minutes.