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Snaps

Bar · Södermalm · Since 1987

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

On a clear day in June the terrace has sun 07:00–17:40, about 10.5 hours in total.

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The story of Snaps

Snaps Bar & Bistro has been in the Lillienhoff Palace on Medborgarplatsen since 1987, with its entrance and a large terrace facing the square.

The palace was built in 1668–1670 for the merchant Joachim Potter, ennobled as Lillienhoff, to designs by Johan Tobias Albinus. In the 18th century the English envoy Robert Jackson lived here for twenty years, which is why it is also known as the English House. From 1745 it served as the Katarina parish poorhouse, and today the city museum lists it among Stockholm's most valuable buildings.

There have been restaurants in the house since 1940: the cellar restaurant Fatburen served lunches here in the 1940s, and Källaren Drufvan moved in during the late 1960s and stayed until 1980.

Sources: Wikipedia: Lillienhoffska palatset · Snaps

When does Snaps 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 07:00–17:00 and 17:30–18:10 (10.5 hours)

June

Sun 07:00–17:40 (10.5 hours)

August

Sun 07:00–16:50 and 17:30–18:00 (10.5 hours)

Opening hours

Mon–Thuclosed
Fri19:00–24:00
Sat00:00–03:15, 19:00–24:00
Sun00:00–03:15

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

About the terrace

According to the City of Stockholm, Snaps holds a permit for a terrace of about 188 m² at Götgatan 48. The permit runs 16 October 2025 to 12 March 2026. 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.

More terraces nearby

  1. Bodarna Restaurant · 10 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–17:50
  2. Medis kök & bar Bar · 40 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–16:50 and 17:10–18:00
  3. Ylias Bistro Restaurant · 50 m Sun 07:00–15:00
  4. Kvarnens uteservering Beer garden · 60 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–16:20 and 17:10–17:40
  5. Crazy Horse Bar · 70 m Sun at lunch Sun 10:00–16:20
  6. Babylon Restaurant · 80 m Sun at lunch Sun 07:00–18:30

All terraces on Södermalm

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Eftermiddagssol, 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.