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Chokladkoppen

Café · Vegetarian-friendly · Gamla stan (Old Town) · Since 1997

Chokladkoppen
Photo: Alisdair McDiarmid from Glasgow, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 07:00–18:10, about 11 hours in total. In short: sun at lunch and afternoon sun.

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The story of Chokladkoppen

Chokladkoppen has been at Stortorget 18 in Gamla stan since 1997. It is a small café with tables out on the square, a short walk from the Royal Palace.

The house was probably built as early as the 1520s and keeps medieval masonry over three floors, with a stepped gable facing the square. In the 1620s it belonged to the skinner Hans Seyfridzt, which is why it is still known as Seyfridtzska huset. Its yellow facade dates from an 18th-century renovation. The neighbouring house to the left is home to Café Kaffekoppen.

Chokladkoppen is known as a gay-friendly café, with a rainbow flag outside, and has long been a favourite with Stockholm's gay community.

Sources: Chokladkoppen: Om Chokladkoppen · Chokladkoppen

When does Chokladkoppen 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 11:10–16:40 and 17:00–17:20 (6 hours)

June

Sun 07:00–18:10 (11 hours)

August

Sun 11:10–18:00 (7 hours)

Opening hours

Every day10:00–22:00

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

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Chokladkoppen holds a permit for a terrace of about 21 m² at Stortorget 18. The permit runs 1 March to 16 November 2026. The terrace has been in the city's register since 2020, as far back as the register goes.

Source: the City of Stockholm's register of street-space permits (open data). We calculate the sun where the permit says the tables stand.

More terraces nearby

  1. Kaffekoppen Café · Vegetarian-friendly · 10 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–07:40 and 10:00–17:10
  2. Stacks Restaurant · 10 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–18:50
  3. Misteln Café · 20 m Sun at lunch Sun 10:00–17:10
  4. Stortorgskällaren Restaurant · 30 m Sun at lunch Sun 11:00–15:40
  5. Kryp In Restaurant · Swedish · 30 m Evening sun until 19:10 Sun 11:10–19:10
  6. Sten Sture Café · 40 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–08:00, 09:00–15:00 and 16:30–17:40

All terraces in Gamla stan

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Sol vid lunch, according to Stoligt

Times look wrong, for example because the terrace is on the other side of the building? Fix the location in OpenStreetMap and Stoligt will follow at the next update.

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.