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Helsinki Sports Services launching new weekday product 

14.2.2025
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The new weekday product allows you to exercise more affordably in the City’s swimming and sports halls on weekdays from 11:00 to 15:00. The weekday product will become available for purchase on 1 April 2025. 

Price: €60 / 6 months or €100 / 12 months 

The weekday product is a new, 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.

You can use the weekday product 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 cost of the weekday product is the same for everyone, EUR 60 for 6 months or EUR 100 for 12 months, excluding war veterans, informal carers and children under the age of seven, all of whom can access the City’s sports facilities free of charge.

The new weekday product provides access to the following:

The City of Helsinki’s swimming halls

The City of Helsinki’s gyms and weight training halls

The City of Helsinki’s sports halls

The weekday product does NOT provide access to the following: 

  • Uimastadion Swimming Stadium and Kumpula Outdoor Swimming Pool
  • Jakomäki Swimming Hall
  • Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall, 2nd floor
  • Urheiluhallit Oy’s locations (Kallio, Kontula, Malmi, Mäkelänrinne, Siltamäki, Töölö and Vuosaari swimming halls).

The pricing is designed to meet different needs.

“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.