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Discover Pakila
The district Pakila of Vantaa in Helsinki (Uusimaa) is a district in Finland a little north 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: Helsinki, Tuusula, Kauniainen, Kerava and Nurmijaervi. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 6°C / 43 °F
Morning Temperature | 4°C / 39 °F |
Evening Temperature | 5°C / 41 °F |
Night Temperature | 3°C / 37 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 54% |
Air Pressure | 1014 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 10 km/h (6 mph) from West |
Cloud Conditions | Few clouds, covering 19% of sky |
General Conditions | Few clouds |
Tuesday, 7th of May 2024
7°C (44 °F)
2°C (35 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, broken clouds.
Wednesday, 8th of May 2024
5°C (41 °F)
4°C (38 °F)
Broken clouds, moderate breeze.
Thursday, 9th of May 2024
5°C (40 °F)
5°C (40 °F)
Overcast clouds, gentle breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Park Hotel Helsinki
Cumulus City Hakaniemi Helsinki
Helsinki Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel
Haaga Hotel
Original Sokos Pasila
Break Sokos Flamingo
SCANDIC PARK
Crowne Plaza HELSINKI
Cumulus City Meilahti Helsinki
Holiday Inn HELSINKI CITY CENTRE
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
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. ;)
How to get from Tuusula to Helsinki City in 1.5 minutes
A boring drive to the inner city turns out interesting in this time-lapse animation, filmed Aug 10th, 2010.
Julia's Choice
Julia's Choice film tells the story of Julia, born in 2007, up to 2030. The film is part of the Julia2030 project, and is also available on the project's website at www.julia2030.fi. The film's...
SADVENTURES madventures parodia/tribuutti part3/3
Thevoice webawards 2009 vuoden nettivideo voittaja!!SADVENTURES the most awesome parody ever made! Sadventures is a completely improvised, shot in a few hours, lets-grab-the camera-and ...
Landing to Helsinki
Landing to Helsinki Vantaa Airport on rainy day from Chania 9.7.2009 Whit Finnair boeing 757-200 Pleace Comment!!!
Animals in Haltiala
Animals in farm of Haltiala, which is surprisingly located in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Canoeing at River Vantaa in Helsinki/Melomassa Vantaanjoella
Suomen upeimmat kesämaisemat löytää Helsingistä, tarkemmin sanottuna sen pohjoisosasta. Tuomarinkylä, Haltiala ja Keskuspuisto ovat Helsingin hidden treasureitä. Eikä melominen Vantaanjoell...
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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.
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.
Suunto
Suunto Oy, based in Finland, is a company that produces and markets sports precision instruments for Diving, Training and Outdoor sports. Headquartered in Vantaa, just outside Helsinki in Finland, Suunto employs more than 500 people worldwide, and its products are sold in over 100 countries. Suunto is a subsidiary of Amer Sports Corporation with sister brands Wilson, Atomic, Salomon, Precor, Arc’teryx and Mavic.
Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre
The Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre is the biggest and most famous fair centre in Finland. It is located in the capital city of Helsinki. The exhibition & convention centre is located in eastern part of the district of Pasila, a short walk northwards from the Pasila railway station. Visitors to the center usually stay at the Holiday Inn hotel located immediately next to the fair centre. The exhibition & convention centre holds appr.
Helsinki Motor Show
Helsinki Motor Show (HMS) is an annual national car show in Helsinki, Finland. It is organized around November to December and it has been held in the Helsinki Fair Center. It is the only annual motor show in the Nordic countries. In the beginning, HMS was a show based on motor sports but gradually more and more upcoming cars have been shown there. Most of the Finnish car importers are present. The event is organized by Team Nykopp Ltd. The show has attracted around 50,000 visitors each year.
Käpylä railway station
Käpylä or Kottby is a railway station in the Käpylä district of Helsinki, Finland. It is located between the stations of Pasila and Oulunkylä, along the main railroad track from Helsinki to Riihimäki, about 6 km north from the Helsinki Central railway station.
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.
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.
Pakila
Pakila is a neighbourhood in Northern Helsinki. It comprises Länsi-Pakila and Itä-Pakila. Pakila has approximately 9,829 inhabitants which of 6464 lives in Länsi-Pakila and 3365 in Itä-Pakila The neighborhood hosted the road cycling for the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Käpylä
Käpylä is a neighbourhood of Helsinki with 7,600 inhabitants. Administratively speaking, Käpylä is a part of the Vanhakaupunki district. It is located between Kumpula, Oulunkylä and Koskela. Käpylä has a terminus for route-1 of the Helsinki tram network. Additionally, the Olympic Village built for the 1952 Summer Olympics and another village for the cancelled 1940 Summer Olympics are located in Käpylä.
Metsälä
Metsälä is a subdivision of Helsinki with about 1,000 inhabitants. It has predominantly small houses and it is situated between Maunula and Käpylä. Administratively speaking, Metsälä is a part of the Maunula district. The distance to Helsinki City Centre is about 6 kilometres from Metsälä. The primary housing type has been wooden single-family homes, and a lot of terraced houses have been in the area in the 1970s. Nowadays Metsälä has few unbuilt lots.
Central Park (Helsinki)
Central Park (Helsingin keskuspuisto in Finnish, Helsingfors centralpark in Swedish) is a park in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 10 square kilometres. The park stretches 10 kilometres from Töölönlahti Bay in the south to the border of Helsinki and Vantaa in the north. The park is not a gardened one but instead consists mostly of lightly managed woodland crisscrossed by gravel paths. The Paloheinä forest, a northern extension of the park, is Helsinki's main center for outdoor activities.
Paloheinä
Paloheinä is one of four quarters of the Tuomarinkylä district in Northern Helsinki, Finland. Described by the municipality as "a place where habitation, traditional agricultural milieus, and the forest meet", the Paloheinä recreation area is the northern continuation of Helsingin keskuspuisto, Helsinki's "Central Park".
Koskela
Koskela, Forsby is a district in the city of Helsinki, Finland.
Helsinki Velodrome
The Helsinki Velodrome is an outdoor velodrome and football stadium in Helsinki, Finland. It was built in 1938–1940 for the 1940 Summer Olympics which were cancelled due to World War II. After the war, it was a venue of the 1952 Summer Olympics for the track cycling and field hockey events. The protected functionalist concrete building was designed by Hilding Ekelund. The track is 400 meters in length and is used for most national events. American football and lacrosse is played on the infield.
Haaga
Not to be confused with The Hague. Haaga is a district and a former municipality in the Western major district of Helsinki with a population of 25,435. Haaga is divided into four subareas, which are Pohjois-Haaga (northern Haaga), Etelä-Haaga (southern Haaga), Kivihaka and Lassila. Haaga has two railway stations: Huopalahti railway station in south and Pohjois-Haaga railway station in north.
Pirkkola
Pirkkola, Britas is a northern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Veräjämäki
Veräjämäki, Grindbacka is a central neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Länsi-Pakila
Länsi-Pakila, Västra Baggböle is a northwestern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Haltiala
Haltiala, Tomtbacka is a northwestern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Siltamäki
Siltamäki, Brobacka is a northern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland. Siltamäki is located next to Vantaa River, which forms the border with the City of Vantaa. The first signs of human activity in Siltamäki can be traced back to 2500-2000 BC. The existing buildings are derived from much later times; 1950 -, 1960 - and 1970's. In Siltamäki is a shopping center, in addition to shops, a swimming pool. Larger shops are located along the Ring III in Vantaa.
Kartanonkoski
Kartanonkoski is a housing suburb in the Southern part of the City of Vantaa. Kartanonkoski is a part of the Pakkala District and furthermore a part of Aviapolis Marketing Brand Area. The area is located on the grounds of the Backas Mansion and it has also the International School of Vantaa. Furthermore, the Jumbo Mall and the Ruutinkoski Rapids are also located nearby.