Viikki
District of Pihlajamäki
in Helsinki of Uusimaa, Finland
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Helsinki Malmi Airport (2 mi) - Helsinki Vantaa Airport (6 mi)
- Hyvinkaa Airport (29 mi)
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Tallinn Airport (57 mi) - Forssa Airport (61 mi)
- Lahti Vesivehmaa Airport (67 mi)
- Tampere-Pirkkala Airport (94 mi)
- Halli Airport (112 mi)
- Fortress of Suomenlinna (Unesco heritage, 6 mi)
- Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn (Unesco heritage, 56 mi)
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill (Unesco heritage, 79 mi)
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Struve Geodetic Arc (Unesco heritage, 94 mi) - Korkeasaari (zoo, (4 mi)
- Keilasatama (marina, (8 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 60.236 and 25.011 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 60° 14' 9" and E 25° 0' 40"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- Finnish, Swedish
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 01:21 PM (Friday)
- Timezone: Europe/Helsinki
- UTC/GMT offset: 2 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 4:08 am and 8:25 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: 2024-05-03 08:06:06
Discover Viikki
The district Viikki of Pihlajamäki in Helsinki (Uusimaa) is a district in Finland a little north-east of Helsinki, the country's capital city.
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, Helsinki, Tuusula, Kerava and Jaervenpaeae. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 7°C / 45 °F
| Morning Temperature | 8°C / 47 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
| Night Temperature | 5°C / 41 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 75% |
| Air Pressure | 1022 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Light breeze with 5 km/h (3 mph) from West |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 99% of sky |
| General Conditions | Overcast clouds |
Saturday, 4th of May 2024
16°C (61 °F)
9°C (48 °F)
Broken clouds, gentle breeze.
Sunday, 5th of May 2024
10°C (50 °F)
6°C (42 °F)
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Monday, 6th of May 2024
6°C (43 °F)
4°C (39 °F)
Broken clouds, light breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Hotel Haven
Park Hotel Helsinki
Break Sokos Flamingo
Rivoli Jardin
GLO Kluuvi
Helsinki Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel
Hotel F6
Original Sokos Helsinki
Original Sokos Vantaa
Lilla Roberts
Videos from this area
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Kiuruvesi Milky City Farmers @ Malmi Blaze 6/7/14 (condensed)
KIURUVESI MILKY CITY FARMERS @ MALMI BLAZE Played on Saturday 6/7/14 @ Aava-Areena, Pihlajamäki, Helsinki, Finland SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HEROES! http://www.malmiblaze.com ...
Joensuu Wolves @ Malmi Blaze 6/15/13 (condensed)
JOENSUU WOLVES @ MALMI BLAZE Played on Saturday 6/15/13 @ Aava-Areena, Pihlajamäki, Helsinki, Finland SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HEROES! http://www.malmiblaze.com ...
The Fortifications of the WW1 Base X:5 (Pihlajamäki, Helsinki, Finland)
This base has many machine gun bunkers, concrete trenches and a special design concrete passageway trench leading to the lower levels of the base. There are some nice graffiti. It was designed...
Seinäjoki Gators @ Malmi Blaze 6/7/14 (condensed)
SEINÄJOKI GATORS @ MALMI BLAZE Played on Saturday 6/7/14 @ Aava-Areena, Pihlajamäki, Helsinki, Finland SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HEROES! http://www.malmiblaze.com ...
Muuttolintuja Viikissä (valkoposkihanhia) Migratory birds
Siisteintä ikinä. Muutama hanhi päätti lähteä lentämään meidän ylitse, kun olimme lenkillä.Huh :)
Biking in Helsinki, Finland
It was beautiful and sunny day in Helsinki. I took my bike and camera, went to ride and here is part of the trip.
Pihlajamäki bouldering - Nyrkkirauta
Location: Pihlajamäki - Ylävahtimestari Route: Nyrkkirauta 6B no rules, 2011.
V262 Quadcopter & Mobius cam test Flight #3 at Viikki
Filmed at 30fps/1080p. My third test flight with the V262 and Mobius cam mounted on the bottom. The place is the garden of the Viikki manor house. I removed the protective ring and made modificatio...
Wild Helsinki, Time-Lapse
The first attempt to make a time-lapse movie. Shot in Viikki Wildlife preserve, which is close to the geographical center of the city, Helsinki, Finland. The...
EasyStar with camera and gyros
Flying my Multiplex EasyStar above Viikki in Helsinki, Finland. Pretty windy conditions, gyros on elevator and rudder. In the beginning of video until the first cut, gyros are switched off....
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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.
Arndt Pekurinen
Arndt Juho Pekurinen was a Finnish pacifist and conscientious objector. In 1926, Pekurinen repeatedly refused mandatory conscription, leading to his imprisonment between 1929 and 1931. He refused to either wear a uniform or take arms. While Pekurinen was deeply religious, his motives were not based on his faith. While his contemporaries suggested he was Communist, he was not interested in politics.
Herttoniemi
Herttoniemi is a neighbourhood and a suburb of Helsinki, the Finnish capital. It is located about 7 km east of the city centre and can be easily reached by metro in 10 minutes. It has an older northern suburb and a newer coastal suburb with ferry connections to the city centre. There once was a large harbour in Herttoniemi, but in the 1990s, this industrial harbour area was demolished and converted to a tightly populated residential area and marina.
Kulosaari metro station
Kulosaari or Brändö is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the island district of Kulosaari in East Helsinki. The station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.8 kilometres from Kalasatama metro station, and 1.4 kilometres from Herttoniemi metro station.
Herttoniemi metro station
Herttoniemi or Hertonäs is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Herttoniemi in East Helsinki. The station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.4 kilometres from the Kulosaari metro station, and 1.4 kilometres from the Siilitie metro station.
Siilitie metro station
Siilitie or Igelkottsvägen is a ground-level bridge station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the northern part of the district of Herttoniemi in East Helsinki. The station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.3 kilometres from the Herttoniemi metro station, and 2.1 kilometres from the Itäkeskus metro station.
Kulosaari
Kulosaari is an island and a suburb in Helsinki, Finland. It is also the 42nd neighbourhood of the city. Construction of villas on the island started in the beginning of the 20th century, and a bridge from Sörnäinen was opened in 1919. Kulosaari was an independent municipality since 1922 until 1946, when it was merged to Helsinki. Trams served the island from 1910 to 1951 – before the first bridge was completed, ferries were used to transport the trams.
Siilitie
Siilitie, literally "Hedgehog Road", is a road in the suburb of Herttoniemi in eastern Helsinki, Finland. The surrounding district and its metro station are also named Siilitie, according to the road. The metro station is one of the original stations of the Helsinki Metro. Most of the low-rise apartment blocks in Siilitie district were built in the 1950s, but a few taller buildings as well were erected in the 1990s.
Viikki
Viikki is a neighbourhood of about 5,500 inhabitants in Helsinki, Finland. It is located at the bottom of Vanhankaupunginlahti bay, some 7–10 km from the city centre. The district hosts the Viikki Campus with four of the faculties of the University of Helsinki (biosciences, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and agriculture and forestry) as well as other university units such as research centres, science library and teacher training school. Viikki is known for its natural environment.
Kivikko
Kivikko is the name of a quarter of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Part of the Mellunkylä district, it was built during the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s. The quarter is located on the west side of Kontula, an important subregional centre and will have a population of 5000 once completed. Kivikko is especially favoured by families with children. 14% of the inhabitants are immigrants or have immigrant roots, which is more than in most of Helsinki.
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.
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.
Malmi railway station
Malmi or Malm is a railway station in the Malmi district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the stations of Pukinmäki and Tapanila, along the main railroad track from Helsinki to Riihimäki, about 11 kilometres north from the Helsinki Central railway station.
Tapanila railway station
Tapanila or Mosabacka is a railway station in the Tapanila district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the stations of Malmi and Puistola, along the main railroad track from Helsinki to Riihimäki, about 13 kilometres northeast from the Helsinki Central railway station. The original station building at Tapanila has been moved to Pikku-Huopalahti as a part of cultural heritage.
Viikki Campus
The Viikki Campus is a campus area of the University of Helsinki in Finland, focusing on biological sciences. It comprises following units: Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry Faculty of Biosciences Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Institute of Biotechnology Viikki Science Library Besides these units of the University of Helsinki, the campus area also hosts the Helsinki Science Park and the Finnish Food Safety Authority.
Malmi, Helsinki
Malmi is a regional center and a major district on the north-eastern part of Helsinki, Finland. It has a population of 24,312 (2008). Malmi (Malmin kaupunginosa) is divided into six subareas, which are Ylä-Malmi, Ala-Malmi, Pihlajamäki, Tattariharju, Malmin lentokenttä and Pihlajisto. Malmin peruspiiri is a related but distinct subdivision of Helsinki (used for certain administrative purposes) which does not include Pihlajamäki and Pihlajisto, but instead includes Tapanila and Tapaninvainio.
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.
Playground Tuhkimo
Playground Tuhkimo (Leikkipuisto Tuhkimo in Finnish, Lekparken Askungen in Swedish) is a public, free of charge park at Roihuvuori district in Helsinki, Finland.
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.
Veräjämäki
Veräjämäki, Grindbacka is a central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Ylä-Malmi
Ylä-Malmi, Övre Malm is a northern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Ala-Malmi
Ala-Malmi, Nedre Malm is a northern-central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Pihlajisto
Pihlajisto, Rönninge is a northern-central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Länsi-Herttoniemi
Länsi-Herttoniemi, Västra Hertonäs is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Tullisaari
Tullisaari, Turholm is a southeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Kurkimäki
Kurkimäki, Tranbacka is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
These are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Pihlajamäki.
Helsinki: Tie 4 Tattarisuo − Lahteen, Helsinki (source)
Helsinki: Tie 4 Tattarisuo − Helsinkiin, Helsinki (source)
Helsinki: Tie4 Tattarisuo − Tienpinta, Helsinki (source)
Helsinki-Malmi Airport › West, Helsinki-Malmi Airport (source)
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This place is known by different names. Here the ones we know:
Viikki, Vik
