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Cyberpunk City Rooftop

Stable Diffusion
By Varun Sharma Tested with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Cyberpunk City Rooftop is a tested Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 prompt for wallpaper work. It runs at Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0 · Aspect ratio 16:9 · Steps 30 · CFG scale 6 · Sampler DPM++ 2M Karras, and ships below with the exact prompt text, usage notes, and 2 pasteable variations.

Last tested: July 2026 with Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0

Part of the Stable Diffusion prompt library · see more cyberpunk prompts .

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Lone coated figure on a rainy rooftop overlooking a neon skyline with flying cars and holographic ads at night
Cyberpunk City Rooftop — Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0, Aspect ratio 16:9

Prompt 

A lone figure in a long coat standing at the edge of a rain-slicked rooftop, overlooking a dense neon cityscape at night, towering skyscrapers wrapped in holographic advertisements, flying vehicles trailing light between the buildings, magenta and teal glow reflecting in puddles at the figure's feet, low clouds lit from below, drifting rain and atmospheric haze, dark moody atmosphere, cinematic wide establishing shot

Negative prompt 

text, watermark, logo, signature, cartoon, oversaturated, rainbow, blurry, deformed, extra limbs, flat lighting, daylight, low detail

Settings

Model
Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
Aspect ratio
16:9
Steps
30
CFG scale
6
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras

How to use this prompt

Depth is everything in this shot: "flying vehicles trailing light between the buildings" plus "atmospheric haze" build the layered midground that makes the city feel vast — without them the skyline flattens into a wallpaper backdrop. Keep the figure small and off-centre at the rooftop edge; a large centred figure turns an epic vista into a portrait and wastes the 16:9. Hold onto the reflective puddles, since they double the neon and physically ground the rain. Two-hue lighting (magenta + teal) keeps it cohesive, and "low clouds lit from below" is the trick that stops the top of the frame dying to flat black.

Variations to try

  • Dawn variant — swap night for a smoggy orange sunrise behind the towers, neon dimmed, warmer haze
  • Ground-level reverse — the same city from a flooded street below, looking up at the rooftop and towers
cyberpunk neon wallpaper gaming

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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON 
{
  "title": "Cyberpunk City Rooftop",
  "prompt": "A lone figure in a long coat standing at the edge of a rain-slicked rooftop, overlooking a dense neon cityscape at night, towering skyscrapers wrapped in holographic advertisements, flying vehicles trailing light between the buildings, magenta and teal glow reflecting in puddles at the figure's feet, low clouds lit from below, drifting rain and atmospheric haze, dark moody atmosphere, cinematic wide establishing shot",
  "negative_prompt": "text, watermark, logo, signature, cartoon, oversaturated, rainbow, blurry, deformed, extra limbs, flat lighting, daylight, low detail",
  "model": "Stable Diffusion",
  "model_version": "SDXL 1.0",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "16:9",
    "steps": 30,
    "cfg": 6,
    "sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "cyberpunk",
    "neon"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "wallpaper",
    "gaming"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/stable-diffusion/cyberpunk-city-rooftop/"
}

The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.