Vanhakaupunki
District of Helsinki
in Helsinki of Uusimaa, Finland
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Helsinki Malmi Airport (7 mi) - Helsinki Vantaa Airport (10 mi)
- Hyvinkaa Airport (34 mi)
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Tallinn Airport (52 mi) - Forssa Airport (62 mi)
- Lahti Vesivehmaa Airport (72 mi)
- Tampere-Pirkkala Airport (97 mi)
- Halli Airport (117 mi)
- Fortress of Suomenlinna (Unesco heritage, 2 mi)
- Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn (Unesco heritage, 51 mi)
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill (Unesco heritage, 85 mi)
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Struve Geodetic Arc (Unesco heritage, 91 mi) - Korkeasaari (zoo, (2 mi)
- Keilasatama (marina, (4 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 60.170 and 24.935 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 60° 10' 10" and E 24° 56' 7"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- Finnish, Swedish
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 11:15 PM (Friday)
- Timezone: Europe/Helsinki
- UTC/GMT offset: 2 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 4:27 am and 8:07 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -44.033 and -176.367 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Ouwenga - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to Finland.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning Finland. Last Update: 2024-04-26 08:02:42
Discover Vanhakaupunki
The district Vanhakaupunki of Helsinki in Helsinki (Uusimaa) is a district in Finland and is a district of the nations capital.
Looking for a place to stay? we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Vantaa, Tuusula, Kerava, Kauniainen and Jaervenpaeae. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 4°C / 39 °F
| Morning Temperature | 2°C / 36 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 4°C / 40 °F |
| Night Temperature | 1°C / 34 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 88% |
| Air Pressure | 1006 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 7 km/h (4 mph) from North-East |
| Cloud Conditions | Broken clouds, covering 80% of sky |
| General Conditions | Broken clouds |
Saturday, 27th of April 2024
6°C (42 °F)
4°C (40 °F)
Few clouds, moderate breeze.
Sunday, 28th of April 2024
8°C (46 °F)
5°C (41 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Monday, 29th of April 2024
8°C (47 °F)
6°C (43 °F)
Overcast clouds, gentle breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Hotel Haven
Park Hotel Helsinki
Helsinki Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel
Lilla Roberts
Rivoli Jardin
Hotel F6
GLO Kluuvi
Original Sokos Helsinki
Original Sokos Pasila
SCANDIC MARSKI
Videos from this area
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Fight in the City Light - Canon 7d lowlight
Nothing big, editing some random material before our Hunted shortfilm is done. We were filming stuff for another director and decided to have our own fun when the guys were setting up lights. ;)
Landing to Helsinki
Landing to Helsinki Vantaa Airport on rainy day from Chania 9.7.2009 Whit Finnair boeing 757-200 Pleace Comment!!!
V262 Quadcopter & Mobius Flight at Viikinmäki construction site
The valley was used as a shooting range until 2005. The wind is about 4 m/s.
Kun Pukinmäki ei riitä - junavideoita Pukinmäestä 12.4.2011.
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Grace Jones Flow 09 Helsinki Live start-part 1
Star Wars Battlefront - Assault on Cloud City
Star Wars Battlefront Cloud City with Clubbed to Death by Rob Dougan.
Helsinki tramway - In Arabianranta
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X-Twin Pro 3D
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Food Design - guided culinary tour in Helsinki
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Kumpulan Kyläjuhlat - Helsinki 24 5 2014
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Oulunkylä
Oulunkylä (Swedish: Åggelby, also known as Ogeli or Oglu) is a suburb and a neighbourhood of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is located 6 kilometres north from the center of the city. It has been inhabited since the 13th century. Earlier an independent municipality, it was made part of Helsinki in 1946. A rink used for speed skating and bandy is located in Oulunkylä. It was the 1st artificial ice pad for those sports in Finland. The Bandy World Championships has been hosted here.
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Finnish: Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulu; Swedish: Aalto-universitetets högskola för konst, design och arkitektur), was formed of two separate schools: the faculty of architecture (previously part of the Helsinki University of Technology) and TaiK. TaiK was the largest art university in the Nordic countries, and was founded in 1871.
Arabianranta
Arabianranta or Arabiastranden ("coast of Arabia") is a fast growing residential part of Helsinki, Finland. It is bound by Vanhankaupunginlahti bay from east, and connects to neighboring boroughs of Vanhakaupunki in north, Hermanni in south and Toukola and Kumpula in west. Officially it is part of the greater Toukola region. On the other side of the bay lies a popular natural reserve, Viikki.
Media Lab Helsinki
The Media Lab is a unit focusing on digital design within the Department of Media at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. The lab provides MA and Doctoral education, and does research on design and production of digital culture, digital media, interaction design and technologies and the effect they have on society.
Kumpula Campus
The Kumpula Campus is a science campus of University of Helsinki. The campus is located some four kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, in the Kumpula district. Completed in 2005, it currently provides study and research facilities for about 6,000 students and 1,000 teachers/researchers.
Kalasatama metro station
Kalasatama or Fiskhamnen is a station on the Helsinki Metro, in the capital city of Finland. The station was opened on 1 January 2007, and it serves the eastern part of the central Helsinki district of Sörnäinen. The area is now mainly composed of offices, but new residential and commercial developments will be constructed in the area after the port facilities there moved to the new Port of Vuosaari in 2008.
Vanhakaupunki
Vanhakaupunki is a neighbourhood of the city of Helsinki, Finland, to the north of Toukola. The district's name (meaning "old town") is because Helsinki was originally founded at the Vanhakaupunki area. Vanhakaupunki even appears in the new Helsinki foundation document from 1639, and the forms Gamla staden or Gammelstaden went into common use later. In contrast, the Finnish translation of the name only started appearing in the late 19th century.
Oulunkylä railway station
Oulunkylä or Åggelby is a railway station in the Oulunkylä district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the stations of Käpylä and Pukinmäki, along the main railroad track from Helsinki to Riihimäki, about 7 km north from the Helsinki Central railway station. The station building in Oulunkylä is no longer in use for train traffic, and the station does not have ticket sales.
Pukinmäki railway station
Pukinmäki or Bocksbacka is a railway station in the Pukinmäki district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the stations of Oulunkylä and Malmi, along the main railroad track from Helsinki to Riihimäki, on top of Kehä I.
Kumpula
Kumpula is a verdant neighbourhood in Helsinki, bordered by Eastern Pasila to the west, Vallila to the south, Käpylä and Koskela to the north and Toukola and Arabianranta to the east. As of January 1, 2003, Kumpula had approximately 3,600 inhabitants. Kumpula is also home to the Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool, which was built for the 1952 Summer Olympics. Kumpula also has a lot of wooden single-family houses built between the wars and apartment buildings built midway through the 1980s.
Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool
The Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool is an outdoor swimming pool located in Kumpula, Helsinki. The swimming pool was built as a practice pool for the 1952 Summer Olympics and it is Finland’s third oldest outdoor swimming pool. In 2005, the swimming pool was restored to its original appearance while the saunas and dressing rooms were modernized at the same time.
Dynamicum
Dynamicum is the name of a building on the Kumpula Campus of the University of Helsinki that is shared by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Finnish Institute of Marine Research. Dynamicum is located in Kumpula, Helsinki. Construction on the building was completed in September 2005, at which point in time the Finnish Meteorological Institute and the Finnish Institute of Marine Research moved in.
Kumpula Allotment Garden
The Kumpula Allotment Garden, located at Kalervonkatu 1a in Kumpula and established in 1927, is the second oldest allotment garden in Helsinki, Finland. The garden has 268 allotments with an average size of 300 m. This area is culturally and historically valuable. From May 1 to September 15, the garden is open to the public from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The allotments themselves, however, are the private property of the garden's members. The garden area is run by Kumpulan Siirtolapuutarhayhdistys r.
IDBM
The International Design Business Management programme (IDBM) is a joint teaching and research programme of three leading Finnish universities: the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the Helsinki University of Technology. The purpose of the programme is to bring together experts in different fields within the concept of design business management.
Toukola
Toukola is a district of Helsinki, Finland, around 4 km north of the town centre, at the port of Vanhankaupunginlahti. Toukola is part of the administrative region of Vanhakaupunki. The eldest part of the town consists mostly of wooden villas and small houses. Next to the sea, in later years, the new area of Arabianranta was built, with modern tower blocks. The population of Toukola is estimated to increase from 2,500 to over 10,000.
Vanhankaupunginselkä
Vanhankaupunginselkä (also called Vanhankaupunginlahti, Swedish: Gammelstadsfjärden) is a bay area which together with parts of adjoining Viikki district constitute a natural conservation zone near downtown Helsinki in the southern part of Finland. The area is listed in Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, is part of European Union's Natura 2000 program and is also listed as BirdLife International's Important Bird Area.
Vantaa River
The Vantaa River is a 101-kilometre long river in Southern Finland. The river starts from the lake Erkylänjärvi in Hausjärvi and flows into the Gulf of Finland at Vanhankaupunginselkä in Helsinki. One of the tributaries of the Vantaa river is Keravanjoki that flows trough the town of Kerava north of Helsinki.
Aalto University Library
Aalto University Library is a service unit of Aalto University. The library is a scientific service organization free for everyone to use. It provides support for the diverse research, education, studying, and artistic activities of the university. Aalto University Library was established on January 1 2010, by the merger of the libraries of Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics, and the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Koskela
Koskela, Forsby is a district in the city of Helsinki, Finland.
Sosiaalikeskus Satama
Sosiaalikeskus Satama (Harbor Social Center) was a social center in Helsinki, Finland, opened in April 2009. It was located 500 metres north of the Kalasatama metro station along the Kyläsaarenkatu street, in an old customs building in the central Helsinki district of Sörnäinen, left empty when the harbor operations moved to the Vuosaari Harbor (hence the name satama, harbor). The building had 360 square metres in three stories.
Helsinki Prison
The Helsinki Prison, also known as Sörnäinen Prison (earlier known as Helsinki Central Prison) is a prison located in the Kalasatama district of Helsinki, Finland, opened in 1881. All persons placed in the prison have received a sentence of at least a year. At the moment it is the only prison operating in Helsinki after the Katajanokka prison was moved to Vantaa.
Veräjämäki
Veräjämäki, Grindbacka is a central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Pihlajisto
Pihlajisto, Rönninge is a northern-central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Hermanni (Helsinki)
Hermanni is a neighbourhood in Central major district of Helsinki, Finland. As of 2008, Hermanni has 3,580 inhabitants living in an area of 1.06 km. Hermanni is part of Vallila district.
Arcada University of Applied Sciences
Arcada University of Applied Sciences is a university of applied sciences in Helsinki, Finland. Arcada was established in 1996 as a merger of the Swedish Institute of Health Care Education (Sjukis), the Swedish Institute of Commercial Education (Lilla Hanken), the Institute of Technology (Verket) and the Folkhälsan Instutute of Social Education. It is owned and maintained by the Arcada Foundation. It offers education mostly in Swedish, but also in English.
These districts also belong to Helsinki.
- Alppiharju
- Alppila
- Arabianranta
- Eira
- Etu-Toeoeloe
- Friisinmaeki
- Herttoniemenranta
- Herttoniemi
- Hietalahti
- Itaekeskus
- Jaetkaesaari
- Jollas
- Kaartinkaupunki
- Kaepylae
- Kaivopuisto
- Kallio
- Kamppi
- Kaskisaari
- Katajanokka
- Kilonpuisto
- Kluuvi
- Koskela
- Kruununhaka
- Kulosaari
- Kumpula
- Kuusisaari
- Laajasalo
- Laakso
- Laensi-Herttoniemi
- Laensi-Pasila
- Lauttasaari
- Leppaevaara
- Marjaniemi
- Meilahti
- Mellunkylae
- Merihaka
- Metsaelae
- Munkkiniemi
- Munkkisaari
- Munkkivuori
- Myllypuro
- Niemenmaeki
- Pajamaeki
- Perkkaa
- Pikku-Huopalahti
- Punavuori
- Puotila
- Puotinharju
- Puotinkylae
- Roihuvuori
- Ruoholahti
- Ruskeasuo
- Salmisaari
- Sandhamn
- Siltasaari
- Soernaeinen
- Taivallahti
- Taka-Toeoeloe
- Tammisalo
- Tapiola
- Tilkka
- Toeoeloe
- Toukola
- Tullisaari
- Ullanlinna
- Uppby
- Vallila
- Vartioharju
- Vattuniemi
- Villinki
- Westend
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This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Gammelstad
