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Sundbergs

Café · Gamla stan (Old Town) · Since 1785

Sundbergs
Photo: Bysmon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 07:00–08:20 and 09:30–16:40, about 8.5 hours in total. In short: sun at lunch and afternoon sun.

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The story of Sundbergs

Sundbergs konditori was founded in 1785 by the confectioner Gustaf Adolf Sundberg. His first shop stood at the corner of Drottninggatan and Klarabergsgatan, where the Åhléns City department store is today. After he was made court confectioner in 1793, he moved the business to Järntorget in Gamla stan, where he already lived.

The café became a haunt of the Skeppsbro nobility, as Stockholm's wealthy merchants were known, and of people from the banks, which earned it the nickname Lilla Börsen, the Little Stock Exchange. It stayed in the Sundberg family until 1944.

The address has even older inn history: in 1605 Meinert Feltman opened the tavern Gripen on the same spot. Today Sundbergs calls itself the oldest café in Stockholm that is still running, and in summer its outdoor tables spread across Järntorget.

Sundbergs in earlier days
Photo: L. Nenkler, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Wikipedia: Sundbergs konditori · Thatsup: Sundbergs Konditori

When does Sundbergs 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 07:00–07:40, 09:10–12:20 and 15:20–15:40 (4 hours)

June

Sun 07:00–08:20 and 09:30–16:40 (8.5 hours)

August

Sun 07:10–08:00, 09:30–14:50 and 15:10–15:40 (6.5 hours)

Opening hours

Mon–Fri09:00–20:00
Sat–Sun10:00–20:00

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

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Sundbergs holds a permit for a terrace of about 24 m² at Järntorget 83. The permit runs 1 April to 15 October 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. Paloma Café · 0 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:10–16:00
  2. Tre Valv Restaurant · Vegetarian-friendly · 10 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–09:20 and 11:00–18:00
  3. Jerntorgith Restaurant · Café · Pizza · 20 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–10:00 and 11:50–17:40
  4. Café Piazza Café · Vegetarian-friendly · 20 m Morning sun Sun 07:00–07:50, 08:10–12:30 and 13:20–14:30
  5. Cultur Restaurant · 30 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–14:30
  6. Nova Café · Vegetarian-friendly · 30 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–16:20

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.