The clocks change in Sweden on Sunday October 25th at 3am, shifting back one hour to 2am. This marks the start of what is called vintertid, or "winter time" in Sweden.
Since Sweden is a "long" north-south country, sunset and sunrise times will vary a lot depending on where you live.
If you're in Malmö or Gothenburg, once the clocks go back the sun will start rising around 7am and set at 4.45pm, while if you're in Stockholm, it will rise around 6.50am and set closer to 4.15pm.
If you're farther north, in Umeå the sun will rise around 7am and set around 3.45pm after the clocks go back, while up above the Arctic Circle in Kiruna you'll be looking at a 7.20am sunrise and a 3.24pm sunset.
And across the country, it will just get darker from there, with the sun rising later and setting earlier until sometime after the winter solstice on December 21st.
But at least you’ll gain an extra hour of sleep on Sunday.
Vintertid will continue until March 28th, when the clocks go forward an hour (at 2am) and Sweden (like most of Europe) begins sommartid (summer time), as Daylight Saving Time is known in Sweden.
Daylight Saving Time was first introduced in Sweden in 1916 for a trial run between May and September. It wasn't fully instituted until 1980, when it was introduced to save energy following the 1970s oil crises.
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