The Almanac Office at University of Helsinki


Do you need information on Finnish holidays for future years?

Official Finnish holidays in 2010, 2011 and 2012

The University Almanac Office was established at the end of 1994, when the old privilege of University of Helsinki to publish calendars and almanacs in Finland was abolished. The Almanac Office has a staff of three astronomers.

The Almanac Office serves all publishers who wish to make calendars in Finland from school classes to the biggest publishing houses. The main income is from the publication fees of the Finnish name-day list, which is copyrighted by the University of Helsinki, and from ready-made calendar pages that are sold in electronic form to different calendar publishers.

The Almanac Office is responsible for the University Almanac, which is a yearly Finnish best-seller with a print-run of about 200 000 copies. The Office also computes local times for sunrise and sunset for over 100 newspapers, local radio stations and airports in Finland.

The Almanac Office is publisher of the yearly University Name-day Almanac (established in 1995) which contains all the official Finnish name-day lists (Finnish, Swedish, Sami and Greek Catholic), as well as extensive lists of the most popular first names in Finland for the previous year. From 2009 on, the Name-day Almanac is published in the net.

The University Almanac Office is situated at the Observatory, University of Helsinki, and works in close cooperation with the astronomers, but it is administrationally part of Helsinki University Development Services. The Development Services Ltd is a company owned by the University of Helsinki. It was established in the middle of the 1980's to sell and market knowledge and expertise collected in the University to the whole of Finnish Society.

On these pages you will find

For international publishers we can offer following services:

  • Finnish calendar information and Finnish and Swedish name-days
  • Russian calendar information and Russian name-days
  • Estonian calendar information and Estonian name-days
  • the exact times for the phases of the Moon for any time zone in the world.

Do not hesitate to contact us at the address below or with the ready-made contact form.

Helsinki University Development Services Ltd
University Almanac Office
Box 14 (Kopernikuksentie 1)
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland

Tel. +358-9-191 22942
GSM +358-40-5531864

E-mail almanakka@helsinki.fi
Internet http://almanakka.helsinki.fi


Finnish National Public Holidays 2010, 2011 and 2012

201020112012 
Fri 1.1Sat 1.1Sun 1.1New Year´s Day
Wed 6.1Thu 6.1Fri 6.1Epiphany
Fri 2.4Fri 22.4Fri 6.4Good Friday
Sun 4.4Sun 24.4Sun 8.4Easter Day
Mon 5.4Mon 25.4Mon 9.4Easter Monday
Sat 1.5Sun 1.5Tue 1.5May Day
Thu 13.5Thu 2.6Thu 17.5Ascension
Sun 23.5Sun 12.6Sun 27.5Whitsunday
Fri 25.6Fri 24.6Fri 22.6Midsummer Eve (partly)
Sat 26.6Sat 25.6Sat 23.6Midsummer
Sat 6.11Sat 5.11Sat 3.11All Saints
Mon 6.12Tue 6.12Thu 6.12Independence Day
Fri 24.12Sat 24.12Mon 24.12Christmas Eve (partly)
Sat 25.12Sun 25.12Tue 25.12Christmas Day
Sun 26.12Mon 26.12Wed 26.12Boxing Day

On Midsummer Eve and Christmas Eve, the schools, offices etc are closed, but shops are open part of the day.

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