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Wirströms

Pub · Gamla stan (Old Town)

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

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 07:00–13:10 and 18:30–20:30, about 8 hours in total. In short: sun at lunch and evening sun until 20:30.

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The story of Wirströms

Wirströms takes its name from one of the oldest pâtisseries in Gamla stan. The confectioner Hans Österberg started the business in 1800, and in 1876 Fredrik Wilhelm Wirström, who had come to Stockholm from Boxholm ironworks to learn the trade, took it over at Stora Nygatan 13. His widow Amalia and later his son Oscar kept it going, and the Svensson family ran it from 1945.

The house rests on medieval cellar vaults thought to date from the 1400s, which survived the great fire of 1625; the building above went up in 1779–1780. The pâtisserie closed in 1997 and a pub moved in, keeping the well-known name and the 'founded 1800' signs.

The pub became a meeting point for Stockholm's Irish community, with open sessions of Irish folk music for decades. There is still a trad session on Mondays, and the vaulted cellar is now The Jameson Cellar.

Wirströms in earlier days
Photo: Lennart af Petersens, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Wikipedia: Wirströms konditori · Wikidata: Wirströms konditori (Q77933323) · Wirströms Pub · Commons: Category:Wirströms Pub, Gamla stan

When does Wirströms 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 09:30–13:10 (3.5 hours)

June

Sun 07:00–13:10 and 18:30–20:30 (8 hours)

August

Sun 08:30–13:10 and 19:00–19:30 (5 hours)

Opening hours

Mon11:00–24:00
Tue–Sat00:00–01:00, 11:00–24:00
Sun12:00–24:00

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

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Wirströms holds a permit for a terrace of about 16 m² at Stora Nygatan 13. The permit runs 20 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.

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  3. Goose Alley Pizza Kiosk Fast food · Pizza · Vegetarian-friendly · 30 m Evening sun until 19:00 Sun 08:00–16:50 and 18:40–19:00
  4. Barrels Burgers & Beer Restaurant · Burgers · Vegetarian-friendly · 30 m Afternoon sun Sun 07:00–17:40
  5. La Ragazza Restaurant · 40 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–18:10
  6. Jerusalem Fast food · Middle Eastern · Vegetarian-friendly · 40 m Evening sun until 19:40 Sun 08:40–19:40

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Kvällssol till 20:30, 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.