Light pollution in Sweden

23 cities · estimated Bortle class at each city centre

2 of 23 cities read Bortle 8–9 · 18 of 23 cities read Bortle 7–8 · 3 of 23 cities read Bortle 6–7. The darkest city centre on the list is Karlskrona (Bortle 6–7).

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Cities, brightest first

#	City	Bortle (est.)	Brightness	2 classes darker
1	Stockholm	8–9	255	~25 km SE
2	Gothenburg	8–9	255	~25 km SW
3	Malmö	7–8	255	~25 km SW
4	Haninge	7–8	255	~25 km SE
5	Helsingborg	7–8	239	~25 km WNW
6	Södertälje	7–8	255	~25 km NNW
7	Lund	7–8	255	~25 km W
8	Gävle	7–8	255	~25 km ENE
9	Karlstad	7–8	255	~25 km SSE
10	Sundsvall	7–8	254	~25 km E
11	Linköping	7–8	255	~25 km SSW
12	Västerås	7–8	255	~25 km ESE
13	Uppsala	7–8	255	~25 km NNE
14	Jönköping	7–8	253	~25 km NNE
15	Luleå	7–8	255	~25 km SSE
16	Eskilstuna	7–8	255	~25 km NE
17	Halmstad	7–8	254	~25 km W
18	Örebro	7–8	255	~25 km E
19	Norrköping	7–8	255	~25 km NNE
20	Borås	7–8	255	~25 km N
21	Växjö	6–7	254	~25 km S
22	Umeå	6–7	255	~25 km SE
23	Karlskrona	6–7	254	~25 km SSE

Brightness is the NASA VIIRS Black Marble 2016 value at the city centre on a 0–255 scale; 255 is saturated. Cities are ordered by estimated sky brightness, which also counts the light within 30 km.