“Our aim is to encourage as many people as possible to engage in physical activity and to lower the threshold to start exercising. Based on decisions issued by the National Non-Discrimination and Equality Tribunal of Finland, Helsinki had to change the criteria of its special swimming card. For this reason, too, we have been thinking about how we could meet the needs of different people through pricing. Our hope is that this new affordable product will provide opportunities and make it easier for groups such as pensioners, people with chronic illnesses, students and families with small children to engage in sports and exercise. At the same time, we are encouraging people to use indoor sports facilities at quieter times as well. In addition to this, we are encouraging people to exercise by significantly lowering the prices of seasonal tickets for our 24/7 indoor sports facilities,” says Deputy Mayor for Culture and Leisure Paavo Arhinmäki.
“We are very pleased to be able to offer this completely new opportunity to the people of Helsinki. The lower price during daytime will make our indoor sports facilities more accessible to use. This is a very nice benefit for people of all ages and fitness levels who can engage in daytime exercise flexibly according to their own schedules. I believe that we are taking a significant step towards promoting physical activity as well as more efficient use of our sports facilities,” says Head of the Sports Activation Service Tuuli Salospohja from the City of Helsinki Sports Services.
The weekday product is a discounted seasonal product that provides access to swimming halls (excluding Jakomäki Swimming Hall and the 2nd floor of Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall), gyms, weight training halls and the public hours of sports halls managed by the City. The customer must sign in at the sports facility between 11:00 and 15:00, after which they have two hours to exercise. The weekday product does not provide access to the aforementioned sports facilities at other times of day or at weekends.
The price of the weekday product is EUR 60/6 months or EUR 100/12 months for everyone, and use of the product is limited to once per day. The weekday product is personal and loaded onto the Helsinki Sports Services’ customer card that provides access to sports facilities. The customer card costs EUR 4, but if you already have one, you can load the weekday product onto your existing card instead of having to get a new card.
The new weekday product provides access to the following:
the City of Helsinki’s swimming halls
Itäkeskus Swimming Hall
Pirkkola Swimming Hall
the 1st floor of Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall (once renovated; expected completion in January 2026)
the City of Helsinki’s sports halls, gyms and weight training halls:
Kontula Kuntokellari
Latokartano Sports Hall
Liikuntamylly
Maunula Sports Hall
Oulunkylä Sports Hall (once renovated; expected completion at the end of 2025)
the gyms and weight training halls of the fields of Pirkkola Sports Park
Ruskeasuo Sports Park’s weightlifting room
Töölö Sports Hall.
The weekday product does not provide access to the following:
Uimastadion Swimming Stadium and Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool
Jakomäki Swimming Hall
the 2nd floor of Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall
Urheiluhallit Oy’s locations (such as Kallio, Kontula, Malmi, Mäkelänrinne, Siltamäki, Töölö and Vuosaari swimming halls).
