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How many hours of daylight does Sweden get?

Day length from winter to summer and from south to north.

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Short answer

Daylight in Stockholm lasts about 6 hours in mid-December and more than 18 hours around midsummer, and the far north has days with no sunset or no sunrise. Across the country, day length in summer grows with latitude and in winter shrinks with it.

Polar day and polar night in Sweden Illustration of a season wheel with snow, a birch leaf, sun and rain around a red Swedish cottage

Why

  1. According to timeanddate.com, the day in Stockholm lasted 18 hours and 37 minutes on 21 June 2025 and about 6 hours and 14 minutes on 11 December 2025.
  2. According to SMHI, day length increases with latitude in summer and decreases with latitude in winter, and at the equinoxes days are about equally long across the country.
  3. According to SMHI, the sun does not rise at all north of the Arctic Circle at the winter solstice, and there is midnight sun down to roughly the latitude of Haparanda at the summer solstice.

Details

Visit Sweden gives Stockholm sun times of 8:47 am to 2:55 pm in January and 3:40 am to 10:00 pm in July. In Kiruna the midnight sun lasts from 28 May to 14 July, according to Visit Sweden. The day length figures for Stockholm come from timeanddate.com's calculation for the dates named.

Tip

For a trip, look up the day length for your own place and dates, because the figure changes by several minutes a day in spring and autumn.

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Sources

Information checked on 27 October 2026.

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    What to wear in Gothenburg depends on the month, because SMHI's normal mean temperature is about 1 °C in January and about 18 °C in July.

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    In November, wear a warm coat and scarf, because SMHI's normal mean temperature is about 4 °C in Stockholm and about 5 °C in Gothenburg.

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