The high summer party of light, Midsummer, offers a diverse range of activities and attractions around the City. Midsummer affects the traffic and opening hours. Here is a Midsummer brief to help out:

Summer brings a lot of activities to Helsinki. What are your favourites in the city?

The old Pasila train station will be closed for good on Monday 19 June 2017. At the same time, the bus stops located on Pasilansilta in front of the old station will be closed. The arrangements will be in place until autumn 2019, when the new Pasila station and Tripla shopping center will be completed.

The Union of International Associations (UIA) published its annual congress city statistics at the start of this week. Helsinki is now the most popular city for international association meetings in the Nordic region.

The new City Council of Helsinki opened its season by electing Jan Vapaavuori (National Coalition Party) as Mayor at the Council’s first meeting on Wednesday, 7 June.

Helsinki’s brand identity has changed. The City of Helsinki adopted a new Helsinki logo and other new visual symbols at the beginning of June in conjunction with the thorough reform of the City organization.

Helsinki and Espoo encourage their citizens to organize events on the city waterfronts during the summer of 2017, in accordance with the Rantakesä – Summer Waterfront – concept.

In addition to traditional threats, the Baltic Sea is threatened by climate change and micro-waste. One more threat to the sea is the expansion of cities on waterfronts.