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Sturehof

Restaurant · Fish & seafood · Östermalm · Since 1897

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

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 12:10–19:10 and 19:50–20:10, about 7.5 hours in total. In short: afternoon sun and evening sun until 20:10.

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The story of Sturehof

Sturehof began in the summer of 1897 as the beer hall Malta, opened on Stureplan by the brewery Stora Bryggeriet. In 1905 the hotel director Ture Marcus bought it and named it Sturehof, and five years later he sold it to his brother Ernst Marcus for 15,000 kronor.

Ernst Marcus turned it into an international-style fish and seafood restaurant, with its own smokehouses and fisheries in the archipelago. In the 1920s and 30s it was enlarged and decorated with murals by artists including Torsten Palm and Kurt Jungstedt, and the oyster bar opened in 1953. Dag Hammarskjöld had his own table and Ingrid Bergman was fond of the house sotare. It was here, during the crayfish season of August 1924, that Assar Gabrielsson and Gustav Larson met by chance, the meeting that led to Volvo.

The Marcus family ran Sturehof until 1976. After several changes of ownership, new owners took over in April 1995 and returned to Ernst Marcus's original idea, bringing in the designer Jonas Bohlin to renew the interior.

Sturehof in earlier days
Photo: K.W. Gullers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Wikipedia: Sturehof (restaurang) · Wikidata: Sturehof (Q7628953) · Commons: Restaurang Sturehof

When does Sturehof 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 12:10–17:30 (5.5 hours)

June

Sun 12:10–19:10 and 19:50–20:10 (7.5 hours)

August

Sun 12:20–17:30 (5 hours)

Opening hours

Mon–Sat00:00–02:00, 11:30–24:00
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, Sturehof holds a permit for a terrace of about 28 m² at Stureplan 4. The permit runs 7 May to 30 September 2026. The first permit in the city's register is from 2021.

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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Kvällssol till 20:10, 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.