| Facility name | Location | Country | Energy | Circumference or length | Commissioned for synchrotron radiation studies | Decommissioned |
| National Synchrotron Light Source | Brookhaven National Laboratory | US | 3 | 792 | 2015 | |
| Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland | US | 0.18 | | 1961 | |
| SURF II storage ring, Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland | US | 0.25 | | 1974 | |
| SURF III Synchrotron Ultraviolet Radiation Facility | National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland | US | 0.416 | 5.27 | 2000 | |
| Frascati Synchrotron Radiation Collaboration | 1 GeV electronsynchrotron at
Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati | Italy | 1 | 12 | 1963 | 1970 |
| Institute for Nuclear Studies-Electron Synchrotron | Tokyo | Japan | 0.75 | 34.78 | 1965 | 1997 |
| Institute for Nuclear Studies-Synchrotron Orbital Radiation | Tokyo | Japan | 0.5 | 17.4 | 1974 | 1997 |
| DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron) | DESY | Germany | 7.4 | | 1967 | 1987 |
| DORIS (Doppel-Ring-Speicher) | DESY | Germany | 3.5 | 289 | 1974 | 1993 |
| DORIS III | DESY | Germany | 5 | 289 | 1993 | 2012 |
| PETRA II | DESY | Germany | 12 | 2304 | 1995 | 2007 |
| PETRA III | DESY | Germany | 6.0 | 2304 | 2009 | |
| European X-ray Free Electron Laser | Schenefeld, near DESY | Germany | 17.5 | 3400 | 2017 | |
| Tantalus at the Synchrotron Radiation Center | University of Wisconsin | US | 0.24 | 9.38 | 1968 | 1987 |
| Synchrotron Radiation Center | University of Wisconsin | US | 1 | 121 | 1987 | 2014 |
| Solidi Roma Synchrotron Radiation Facility | Recycled 1GeV electronsynchrotron at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati | Italy | 1 | 12 | 1972 | 1975 |
| Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource | SPEAR storage ring at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | US | 3 | 234 | 1973 | |
| Linac Coherent Light Source | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory | US | 8 | 3000 | 2007 | |
| Anneau de Collisions d'Orsay | Orsay | France | 0.54 | | 1973 | 1988 |
| Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY | US | 6.0 | 768 | 1979 | |
| Progetto Utilizzazione Luce di Sincrotrone | recycled Adone storage ring with wiggler at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati | Italy | 1.5 | 33.5 | 1980 | 1993 |
| Synchrotron Radiation Source | Daresbury Laboratory | UK | 2 | 96 | 1981 | 2008 |
| DCI storage ring – LURE | Orsay | France | 1 | | 1981 | 2006 |
| National Synchrotron Light Source | Brookhaven National Laboratory | US | 2.8 | 170 | 1982 | 2014 |
| Photon Factory at KEK | Tsukuba | Japan | 2.5 | 187 | 1982 | |
| Super ACO-Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique | Orsay | France | 0.8 | | 1987 | 2006 |
| ASTRID | Aarhus University | Denmark | 0.58 | 40 | 1991 | 2012 |
| ASTRID 2 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 0.58 | 45.7 | 2013 | |
| , Hefei | China | 0.8 | 66.13 | 1991 | |
| Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing | China | 2.5 | | 1991 | |
| European Synchrotron Radiation Facility | Grenoble | France | 6 | 844 | 1992 | 2019 |
| European Synchrotron Radiation Facility – Extremely Brilliant Source | Grenoble | France | 6 | 844 | 2020 | |
| Advanced Light Source | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | US | 1.9 | 196.8 | 1993 | |
| ELETTRA | Trieste | Italy | 2-2.4 | 260 | 1993 | |
| Advanced Photon Source | Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL | US | 7.0 | 1104 | 1995 | |
| Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Source | Kurchatov Institute, Moscow | Russia | 2.5 | 124 | 1999 | |
| LNLS | LNLS in Campinas, São Paulo | Brazil | 1.37 | 93.2 | 1997 | 2019 |
| SPring-8 | RIKEN | Japan | 8 | 1436 | 1997 | |
| MAX-I | MAX-lab | Sweden | 0.55 | 30 | 1986 | 2015 |
| MAX-II | MAX-lab | Sweden | 1.5 | 90 | 1997 | 2015 |
| MAX-III | MAX-lab | Sweden | 0.7 | 36 | 2008 | 2015 |
| MAX IV 1.5 GeV Storage Ring | MAX IV | Sweden | 1.5 | 96 | 2016 | |
| MAX IV 3 GeV Storage Ring | MAX IV | Sweden | 3 | 528 | 2016 | |
| BESSY II | Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Berlin | Germany | 1.7 | 240 | 1998 | |
| Indus 1 | Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore | India | 0.45 | 18.96 | 1999 | |
| DAFNE light | Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Frascati | Italy | 0.51 | 32 | 1999 | |
| Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany | 2.5 | 110.4 | 2000 | |
| Swiss Light Source | Paul Scherrer Institute | Switzerland | 2.4 | 288 | 2001 | |
| SwissFEL | Paul Scherrer Institute | Switzerland | | | 2018 | |
| Canadian Light Source | University of Saskatchewan | Canada | 2.9 | 171 | 2004 | |
| | Nakhon Ratchasima | Thailand | 1.2 | 81.4 | 2004 | |
| Indus 2 | Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore | India | 2.5 | 173 | 2005 | |
| Australian Synchrotron | Melbourne | Australia | 3 | 216 | 2006 | |
| SOLEIL | Saint-Aubin, Essonne | France | 2.75 | 354 | 2006 | |
| Diamond Light Source | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | UK | 3 | 561.6 | 2006 | |
| Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility | Shanghai | China | 3.5 | 432 | 2007 | |
| Taiwan Light Source | National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park | R.O.C. | 1.5 | 120 | 1993 | |
| Taiwan Photon Source | National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu Science Park | R.O.C | 3 | 518.4 | 2015 | |
| | Berlin | Germany | 0.6 | 48 | 2008 | |
| Beijing Electron–Positron Collider II | Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing | China | 3.7 | 240 | 2008 | |
| ALBA | Barcelona Synchrotron Park, Cerdanyola del Vallès near Barcelona | Spain | 3 | 270 | 2010 | |
| Sirius | LNLS in Campinas, São Paulo | Brazil | 3 | 518.2 | 2018 | |
| Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East | Al Balqa | Jordan | 2.5 | 133 | 2016 | |
| Qazvin | Iran | 3 | 489.6 | Under Design | |
| Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices | LSU, Louisiana | US | 1.5 | | | |
| Pohang University of Science and Technology | South Korea | 3.0 | 281.82 | 2011 | |
| CANDLE | Yerevan | Armenia | | | proposed | |
| Centre Laser Infrarouge d'Orsay | Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, Orsay | France | 0.04 | | 1991 | |
| DELTA | Technical University of Dortmund | Germany | 1.5 | 115.2 | 1999 | |
| Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center | Hiroshima University, Hiroshima | Japan | 0.7 | 22 | 1997 | |
| Institute of Free Electron Laser | Osaka University, Osaka | Japan | | | | |
| IR FEL Research Center | Tokyo University of Science | Japan | | | | |
| Medical Synchrotron Radiation Facility | National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Inage-ku, Chiba | Japan | | | | |
| | Knowledge Hub Aichi | Japan | 1.2 | 72 | 2012 | |
| Photonics Research Institute | Tsukuba Science City | Japan | | | | |
| SAGA Light Source | Tosu, Saga | Japan | 1.4 | 75.6 | 2006 | |
| Ultraviolet Synchrotron Orbital Radiation Facility | National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki | Japan | 0.75 | 53.2 | 1983 | |
| VSX Light Source | University of Tokyo | Japan | | | | |
| Free Electron Laser for Infrared eXperiments | Radboud University, Nijmegen | Netherlands | 0.015–0.060 | | 1991 | |
| Dubna Electron Synchrotron | JINR, Dubna | Russia | | | | |
| Siberian Synchrotron Radiation Centre | Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk | Russia | 2 - 6 | 366 | 1973 | |
| Technical Storage Ring Complex (TNK) | F.V Lukin Institute, Zelenograd, Moscow | Russia | 0.45 - 2.2 | | | |
| Singapore Synchrotron Light Source | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 0.7 | 10.8 | 2000 | |
| Solaris (synchrotron) | Kraków | Poland | 1.5 | 96 | 2016 | |
| UCSB Center for Terahertz Science and Technology | University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California | US | | | | |
| Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory | Duke University, Durham, North Carolina | US | 0.2 - 1.2 | 107.46 | 1994 | |
| Jefferson Laboratory Free Electron Laser | Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia | US | | | | |
| W. M. Keck Vanderbilt Free-electron Laser Center | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee | US | | | | |
| The African Light Source (AfLS) | | | | | Conceptual stage | |
| Synchrotron Radiation Center, Ritsumeikan University | Ritsumeikan University | Japan | 0.585 | 3.14 | 1996 | |
| Sendai | Japan | 3 | 349 | 2024 | |
| | Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics | Russia | 3 | 476 | 2025 | |