Chill radio stations, live
Chill radio is ambient, lounge, downtempo and easy listening: music for working, relaxing or sleeping, much of it from listener-supported internet stations. Skywave DX lists 25 chill stations from 9 countries (12 in the USA, 5 in the UK, 6 in the rest of Europe, 2 elsewhere), every stream test-played before it is listed; the most listened to right now are SomaFM Groove Salad, Ambient Sleeping Pill and Smooth Radio. Each one plays through the station’s own live stream, free and without an account.
Top in the USA
12 chill stations · most listened first- 1
SomaFM Groove Salad California · 191/day - 2
Ambient Sleeping Pill Ohio · 132/day - 3SomaFM Groove Salad California · 48/day
- 4
SomaFM Left Coast 70s California · 42/day - 5
Ambient Modern United States · 31/day - 6C🇺🇸Cryosleep United States · 27/day
- 7SomaFM Left Coast 70s California · 21/day
- 8
SomaFM Drone Zone California · 20/day - 9
SomaFM Groove Salad Classic California · 15/day - 10
a.m. ambient United States · 6/day - 11EO🇺🇸Echoes of Bluemars United States · 3/day
- 12
SomaFM Illinois Street Lounge California · 2/day
Top in the UK
5 chill stations · most listened first- 1
Smooth Radio Nottinghamshire · 100/day - 2Smooth Radio (London, UK) United Kingdom · 12/day
- 3
Slow Focus | NTS London · 9/day - 4Smooth Relax United Kingdom · 9/day
- 5CC🇬🇧Capital Chill United Kingdom · 6/day
Top in Europe
6 chill stations · most listened first- 1
Café del Mar Ibiza, Spain · 73/day - 2
1.FM - Chillout Lounge Radio Switzerland · 53/day - 3
- 0 N - Chillout on Radio Bayern, Germany · 31/day - 4AAC🇪🇸Costa Del Mar - Chillout Spain · 25/day
- 5
Karolina Centralna Srbija, Serbia · 14/day - 6
Радыё Relax Belarus · 13/day
Around the world
2 chill stations · most listened first- 1CAFE🇨🇦REGGAE CHILL CAFE Ontario, Canada · 52/day
- 2
dinamo.fm sleep Istanbul, Türkiye · 26/day
Chill radio: questions
How many chill radio stations can I listen to here?
25 chill stations from 9 countries, 16 of them with their own station page. Every stream was test-played when the directory was last rebuilt, and stations whose streams stop working are dropped.
Which chill station is the most popular?
SomaFM Groove Salad (California) is the most-listened chill station in the directory, with about 191 listener plays a day across apps using the Radio Browser directory. In the USA it is SomaFM Groove Salad, in the UK Smooth Radio.
Is it free to listen to chill radio on Skywave DX?
Yes. Press the Listen button next to any station to hear its own live stream in your browser, on desktop or phone, with no account and no ads added. "Listen in the app" opens the full Skywave DX player filtered to chill stations, where you can save favourites and see what is playing.
Rankings are listener plays per day across apps that use the Radio Browser community directory. Streams last test-played on October 14, 2026.