Helsinki · Sports & events

HJK play the Veikkausliiga here from April to October — Finnish football is a summer sport. The ground sits beside the Olympic Stadium in Töölö.

HIFK and the city's other sides play from September to April, with playoffs into spring. The old ice hall is louder and cheaper than the new arena.

Run in August along the shoreline, with a half marathon in May on the City Running Day. Both are flat and the light lasts all evening.

Public saunas on the waterfront keep a hole open in the sea ice through winter. Pay one entry, watch how everyone else does it, then follow.