Kontula
District of Kurkimäki
in Helsinki of Uusimaa, Finland
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Helsinki Malmi Airport (2 mi) - Helsinki Vantaa Airport (7 mi)
- Hyvinkaa Airport (30 mi)
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Tallinn Airport (57 mi) - Forssa Airport (62 mi)
- Lahti Vesivehmaa Airport (66 mi)
- Tampere-Pirkkala Airport (95 mi)
- Halli Airport (113 mi)
- Fortress of Suomenlinna (Unesco heritage, 7 mi)
- Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn (Unesco heritage, 56 mi)
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill (Unesco heritage, 78 mi)
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Struve Geodetic Arc (Unesco heritage, 93 mi) - Korkeasaari (zoo, (5 mi)
- Keilasatama (marina, (9 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 60.233 and 25.067 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 60° 13' 59" and E 25° 4' 2"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Euro - EUR
- Spoken languages:
- Finnish, Swedish
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 05:28 AM (Monday)
- Timezone: Europe/Helsinki
- UTC/GMT offset: 2 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 7:45 am and 2:28 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: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Discover Kontula
The district Kontula of Kurkimäki in Helsinki (Uusimaa) is a district in Finland a little north-east of Helsinki, the country's capital city.
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When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Vantaa, Helsinki, Kerava, Tuusula and Sibbo. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 7°C / 44 °F
| Morning Temperature | 4°C / 38 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
| Night Temperature | 8°C / 46 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 4% |
| Air Humidity | 92% |
| Air Pressure | 1006 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (8 mph) from North |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
| General Conditions | Rain and snow |
Tuesday, 26th of November 2024
7°C (44 °F)
6°C (43 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Wednesday, 27th of November 2024
4°C (40 °F)
2°C (36 °F)
Sky is clear, light breeze, clear sky.
Thursday, 28th of November 2024
4°C (40 °F)
1°C (35 °F)
Light rain, light breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Original Sokos Vantaa
Hotel Rantapuisto
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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.
Kontula
Kontula is a quarter of Helsinki, Finland, part of the Mellunkylä neighbourhood. Due to its little higher than average concentration of government tenant housing complexes, immigrant and refugee population it is regarded as an average eastern Helsinki suburb. Kontula has been built mostly in the 1960s and 1970s when apartments were required in Helsinki. Many people from the city centre moved to Kontula. Metro expanded to Kontula in 1986 which made it easy to reach the area.
Itäkeskus metro station
Itäkeskus or Östra centrum is a ground-level station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the Itäkeskus shopping centre and surrounding areas in East Helsinki. After the Itäkeskus station, there is a fork in the metro line: one branch continues north towards Mellunmäki, while another goes east towards Vuosaari. The Itäkeskus station was one of the first metro stations opened in Helsinki, on 1 June 1982, and was designed by Jaakko Ylinen and Jarmo Maunula.
Myllypuro metro station
Myllypuro or Kvarnbäcken is a ground-level station on the northern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Myllypuro in East Helsinki. The station was opened on 21 October 1986, designed by the architect bureau Toivo Karhunen Oy. It is located 1.9 kilometres from the Itäkeskus metro station, and 1.4 kilometres from the Kontula metro station.
Kontula metro station
Kontula or Gårdsbacka is a ground-level station on the northern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Kontula in East Helsinki. The station was opened on 21 October 1986, designed by the architect bureau Toivo Karhunen Oy. It is located 1.4 kilometres from the Myllypuro metro station, and 1.6 kilometres from the Mellunmäki metro station.
Mellunmäki metro station
Mellunmäki or Mellungsbacka is a ground-level bridge station on the northern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the district of Mellunmäki in East Helsinki, and is the terminus of the northern branch. The station was opened on 1 September 1989, designed by the architect bureau Toivo Karhunen Oy. It is located 1.6 kilometres from the Kontula metro station. The terminus at the other end, Ruoholahti metro station, is 17 kilometres away.
Puotila metro station
Puotila or Botby gård is a ground-level 'cut-and-cover' station on the eastern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the districts of Puotila and Puotinharju in East Helsinki. The station was opened on 31 August 1998, making it one of the newest stations in the Helsinki Metro. It was designed by the architect bureau Kaupunkisuunnittelu Oy Jarmo Maunula. It is located 1.0 kilometres from the Itäkeskus metro station, and 2.0 kilometres from the Rastila metro station.
Rastila metro station
Rastila or Rastböle is a ground-level station on the eastern branch of the Helsinki Metro. It serves the residential areas of Meri-Rastila and Rastila in the district of Vuosaari, in East Helsinki. The station was opened on 31 August 1998, making it one of the newest stations in the Helsinki Metro. It was designed by Irmeli Grundström and Juhani Vainio. The station is located 2.0 kilometres from the Puotila metro station, and 1.2 kilometres from the Vuosaari metro station.
Itis shopping centre
Itis (formerly Itäkeskus) is a shopping centre in the district of Itäkeskus in East Helsinki, Finland. It is the largest fully enclosed shopping centre in the Nordic countries, with a gross leasable area of 120,300 square metres containing nearly 300 different shops and 3000 parking spaces. Located nearby is also the Itäkeskus metro station. The shopping centre is divided into four sections: Pasaasi, Pikku-Bulevardi, Bulevardi, and Piazza.
Itäkeskus
Itäkeskus is a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä (as of 1980s) in the eastern part of Helsinki. The district's main attraction is the largest covered-in shopping mall in the Nordic countries, Itis. The district has a station on the Helsinki Metro. The Itäkeskus swimming hall was built in 1993.
Roihuvuori
Roihuvuori (Swedish: Kasberget, or Roihis and Roihika) is a quarter, part of Herttoniemi neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. The population of Roihuvuori is approximately 8,000 and its area is 1.47 km². There is a church, two schools, shops and restaurants in Roihuvuori. There is also a water tower, Japanese style garden and playground Tuhkimo. Each street in Roihuvuori were named after fairy tales, with the exception being Roihuvuori's main street (Roihuvuorentie).
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.
Vartiokylä
Vartiokylä is a neighbourhood in eastern Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Its name is derived from the ruins of an eleventh century fortress on the Linnanvuori hill in Vartioharju, one of Vartiokylä's subdivisions. The working population of Helsinki started building their houses in the area after the completion of Uusi Porvoontie, a road to the downtown, in the 1930s. Nowadays the area has a few high density apartment areas as well as houses. Vartiokylä became a part of Helsinki in 1946.
Hakunila
Hakunila, is a town located within eastern Vantaa, a city in southern Finland bordering Helsinki. It has a population of 10,936, and a population density of 3,645/km². To the west, it is bordered by Lahdenväylä, a constituent of European route E75, to the south, it is bordered by the Kehä III ring road, to the east by the towns of Ojanko and Sotunki, and to the north by the town of Itä-Hakkila.
Radio Sputnik
Radio Sputnik is a Finnish radio station with programming in the Russian language.
Helsingin yhteislyseo
Helsingin yhteislyseo (HYL) is a school in Kontula, Helsinki Finland consisting of a lower secondary school and an upper secondary school with over 50 teachers and 700 students in total. The school was founded in 1908 and it is privately maintained by Maanviljelyslyseo (Agricultural Lyceum). The school celebrated its 100th birthday in 2008. Helsingin yhteislyseo and Lapinlahden yhteislyseo relocated to a new building and to its present location on the Rintinpolku street in Kontula in 1971.
Marjaniemi
Marjaniemi is a seaside residential area in eastern Helsinki, Finland, with a population of approximately 2,000. Administratively it forms a quarter in the neighbourhood of Vartiokylä. Marjaniemi is a sought-after neighborhood, and the real estate prices rank among the highest in the city.
Mellunkylä
Mellunkylä is a neighbourhood in East Helsinki, Finland. The area of Mellunkylä is 9,9 km and it has population of 36,360 (2005). There are five suburbs in Mellunkylä: Kontula (Gårdsbacka) Vesala (Ärvings) Mellunmäki (Mellungsbacka) Kivikko (Stensböle) Kurkimäki (Tranbacka) Mellunkylä had some suburban settlements already before World War II. In 1960s, Kontula, the largest suburb in Finland was built in record time.
Jakomäki
Jakomäki is a quarter, part of Suurmetsä neighbourhood in Helsinki, Finland. It has an area of 1,92 km and a population of 5,481 (2005). The suburb was built within a few years in 1960s, and it contained only council houses. In 1970s, blocks of flats were built in northern area of Jakomäki. Jakomäki is located near the border of Vantaa. It is bordered by Kivikko, Heikinlaakso and Tattarisuo.
Heikinlaakso
Heikinlaakso, Henriksdal is a northeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Tattarisuo
Tattarisuo, Tattarmossen is a northeastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland, east of the Helsinki-Malmi airport. It has a population of 70 (in 2005), and contains 1084 jobs (December 2003). The neighbourhood consists mostly of small industry and warehouses. Many of the companies in the area deal with recycling metal. The woods in the area is known for their bird life and are popular among birdwatchers in Helsinki.
Vartioharju
Vartioharju, Botbyåsen is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Puotinharju
Puotinharju, Botbyhöjden is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Kurkimäki
Kurkimäki, Tranbacka is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Meri-Rastila
Meri-Rastila, Havsrastböle is an eastern neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland.
Suurmetsä
Suurmetsä, Storskog is a subdistrict of Helsinki, Finland.
These districts also belong to Kurkimäki.
Other districtsThese are districts that are close by, but belong to a different city than Kurkimäki.
Popular in vicinityThese are some bigger and more relevant cities in the wider vivinity of Kurkimäki.
Helsinki: Tie 4 Tattarisuo − Lahteen, Helsinki (source)
Helsinki: Tie 4 Tattarisuo − Helsinkiin, Helsinki (source)
Helsinki: Tie4 Tattarisuo − Tienpinta, Helsinki (source)
Vantaa: Tie 50 Porvoonväylä, Vantaa (source)
Helsinki-Malmi Airport › West, Helsinki-Malmi Airport (source)
Vantaa: Tie 50 Lahdenväylä, Vantaa (source)
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