Mobil­i­ty

In Oulu, the days roll by on people’s terms. In the cycling city, dai­ly des­ti­na­tions and big­ger dreams can be reached eas­i­ly and eco­log­i­cal­ly. Oulu is easy to vis­it, but you may notice that you would rather stay a while longer!

Just think about it: Traf­fic jams and con­ges­tion will not stretch your days in Oulu! Smooth and swift mobil­i­ty to work, hob­bies and oth­er every­day errands direct­ly means more time for pre­cise­ly what you val­ue the most. A max­i­mum of 20 min­utes any­where – here you will spend much less time on trips.

Oulu is also very acces­si­ble – loca­tion-wise, that is. Although our lat­i­tude is in the north, com­ing here is effort­less. In fact, we are rather close to every­thing: just 50 min­utes to the nation’s cap­i­tal, a cou­ple of hours to Cen­tral Europe, and all around the north in a flash. The near­est fell is just an hour and a half away! The air­port serv­ing our live­ly tech­nol­o­gy and uni­ver­si­ty city is the sec­ond busiest in Fin­land, and the rail­ways are a green option for com­ing and going around the clock.

The cap­i­tal of year-round cycling

You can sense Oulu at its best when rid­ing a bike, be it sum­mer or win­ter. When the weath­er is warm, the streets and cycling routes are hot with local peo­ple bik­ing every­where. Spe­cial, wide cycling high­ways will lead you to the most impor­tant loca­tions in town, and you can eas­i­ly ride to oth­er munic­i­pal­i­ties around Oulu if you wish. But what hap­pens when it gets windy, and snow is fly­ing every­where? The res­i­dents of the win­ter cycling cap­i­tal do not mind – it is easy to keep ped­alling, for spe­cial atten­tion is being paid to cycling and the main­te­nance of bike routes also in the win­ter­time.