Events
Not live yet. Here is exactly where it has got to, because a "coming soon" page that says nothing is worse than no page.
The feed is verified and the licence is not. The City of Helsinki's Linked Events API answers, and it carries 16,928 events. The event data is CC BY 4.0. Individual event descriptions and images are not necessarily — each record carries its own licence field, and that field has to be read per event rather than assumed for the collection.
Until that is handled per record, republishing the descriptions would be republishing somebody else's copyright. So the calendar is not shipped.
What it will be
A month per page, the way Nevada Explorer does it: what is on, where, what it costs, and whether it is worth crossing the city for — with the daylight and the aurora outlook for that month beside it, because in Finland those change what an evening looks like more than the programme does.
Helsinki first, from Linked Events. Then Tampere, Turku and Rovaniemi, each of which publishes its own feed with its own terms.
In the meantime, the part of "what is on tonight" that this site can already answer honestly is the sky: aurora tonight, and how much light is left.
Where the seasons are, without a calendar
Three things in the Finnish year are fixed and worth planning around, and none of them needs an events feed:
- Ruska, the autumn colour, peaks in Lapland in the first half of September and in the south in early October. It is also the fortnight when Lapland still has almost no dark sky — see how dark it is in September.
- Polar night runs from roughly late November to mid-January at Utsjoki, and for a few days either side of the solstice at Rovaniemi. The exact dates for each city are on the daylight pages.
- Juhannus, midsummer, is the weekend the country closes. Shops, restaurants and a lot of transport stop. It is also the point at which the aurora is impossible everywhere in Finland, whatever the activity does.