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Mälarpaviljongen

Restaurant · Kungsholmen

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 07:00–20:30, about 13.5 hours in total. In short: morning sun, sun at lunch, afternoon sun and evening sun until 20:30.

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The story of Mälarpaviljongen

Mälarpaviljongen sits in the Norr Mälarstrand park on Kungsholmen. The park was laid out in 1941 to 1943 to plans by the city's head gardener Holger Blom and Erik Glemme, in what became known as the Stockholm style. A café on piles out in the water was already here in the 1940s, and the small pavilion from that time still stands as the seed of today's restaurant.

Arto Winter has run the place since the mid-2000s, and it has grown to around 700 seats spread over three floating barges on Riddarfjärden. The season runs from early April to late September.

Mälarpaviljongen is known as an openly LGBTQ+ friendly venue, flying the rainbow flag and holding a yearly Pride celebration. The restaurant has long employed asylum seekers.

Mälarpaviljongen in earlier days
Photo: C. G. Rosenberg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Wikipedia: Norr Mälarstrands strandpromenad · Scan Magazine: Mälarpaviljongen, a meeting place with a mission (issue 192, July 2026) · Mälarpaviljongen

When does Mälarpaviljongen 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 07:00–19:40 (12.5 hours)

June

Sun 07:00–20:30 (13.5 hours)

August

Sun 07:00–20:20 (13.5 hours)

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Mälarpaviljongen holds a permit for a terrace of about 158 m² at Norr Mälarstrand 63. The permit runs 1 April to 1 October 2025. The first permit in the city's register is from 2025.

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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  5. Bastard Burgers Restaurant · Burgers · 310 m Evening sun until 19:00 Sun 08:50–19:00
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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.