🎆 How Finns celebrate New Year: customs, traditions, dishes
Find out where to celebrate New Year 2025–2026 in Finland: family and city scen…
Discover Finland
By author: Ksenia
SuomiGuide Blog: Finland Travel & Living Guide – Cities, Prices, Lapland & Culture
🎅 Christmas traditions in Finland: food, family, sauna — how it really happens
❄️Find out how Christmas is celebrated in Finland: joulusauna, joulukirkko, gif…
🎁 Letter to Joulupukki 2025–2026: where to write, how to format it and when to expect a reply
❄️Find out the exact address of Santa Claus' Main Post Office (Rovaniemi), dead…
🎄 Joulurauha in Turku 2025–2026: a complete guide to 24 December (midday, Vanha Suurtori)
Find out where to stand at Vanha Suurtori, how to get there by Föli, when to tu…
🚌 Transport in Finland in winter: trams, buses, VR trains — how to travel in the cold without being late or freezing
❄️ Read about how to travel around Finland in winter: trams and buses in cities…
❄️ Scandinavian holidays: how they are celebrated in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark — dates and traditions
🕯️ Where and when to celebrate on 24 and 31 December: Finland — Joulurauha/saun…
📸 Iconic Helsinki: cathedrals, square and harbour in the frame
📸 Find out how to capture the best angles of Senate Square, the Cathedral and U…
🚣 Lake District: Saimaa and Päijänne — water, fog, kayaks
🚣 Find out when the lakes warm up to +18...+22 °C, how to plan your start afte…
🏝️ Turku and Åland archipelagos: downwind routes — warm bays, SUP and island hopping
🏝 ️ Wind thresholds (m/s), how to read the forecast and upwelling, where the wa…
🌊 The Baltic Sea by season: breeze, waves and upwelling — from Helsinki to Oulu
🌊 Baltic Sea weather in Finland: how to read the wind and swell, recognise upw…
🌞 White nights and polar day: south vs Lapland — a complete guide to light without darkness
🌞 Finland white nights & Midnight Sun: when it doesn't get dark in Helsinki, w…
🍁 Ruska and autumn: a colour calendar from Lapland to Helsinki
🍁 Autumn in Finland and ruska: peak in the north/south, weather in September–O…
🌱 Spring in Finland: thaw, kelirikko and long days
🌤 ️ Spring in Finland: when the snow melts and the ice breaks up on Lake Saimaa…
❄️ Winter in Finnish: frosty air, blue twilight and cosy evenings in the sauna
Find out how to survive and love the Finnish winter: read about kaamos and whit…
☀️ Summer in Finland: long evenings, warm bays and light breezes 🌊
☀️Read about how summer weather changes from Helsinki to Inari, learn about whi…