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Christmas in Helsinki 2026 — the Christmas market at dusk on Senate Square, the white Helsinki Cathedral with green domes above wooden chalets and a vintage carousel

Christmas in Helsinki 2026: Tuomaan Markkinat, Lucia Day & the Honest Guide

Helsinki does not do Christmas the way the big central European cities do. There is no sprawling market running through New Year’s Eve, no month-long fairground. What the city does instead is more honest, and more Finnish: a beautiful, tightly curated market on its grandest square that closes on December 22, because in Finland Christmas […]