Driving time map. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the highway numbering starts with roads (roughly) from Helsinki. So I drew a map around this to help with planning my holidays. Places are included primarily if when drawing I cared how long it would take me to drive there.

19 comments

1. I’ll go directly to Rovaniemi to find the Sami & their magic mushrooms 🍄

2. In winter you can add about 30% for times. Speed limits are 80km/h where in summer it was 100km/h. Also, blizzards will slow you down…

3. I garbled the title slightly: I actually meant to say that the single-digit highways start with the roads travelling out radially from Helsinki-ish, starting with *Valtatie 1* to Turku, and proceeding clockwise from there.

   Some times may be a little off as I used Google maps to do this over a long period of time, and so speed limits will have changed in the meantime.

4. The road numbering in Finland is really really good…

5. I don’t know why noone has said it yet, but this is such a beautiful and neat design! I’m really pleased. Clever designs really do make my day. Thanks for this!

6. Neat! Sodankylä is also worth a visit (Route 4) and Kemijärvi (Route 5).

7. It only takes 2 hours to get from Helsinki to Turku? I’m not Finnish, but when I look at a map, it seems like Turku is so much further

8. I think this needs to go on /r/dataisbeautiful because it’s data and might actually be beautiful.

9. less than 4 hours to savonlinna is rarely possible, you’ll have to drive topspeed a lot and not stop at all, that would be a bad and dangerous way to drive…..

   4.5 hours is the minimum i’ve done it with no stops in a nice car and low traffic, wintertime, 5.5 hours minimum.

10. Olisi hyvä nähdä hylätyt radat jotka voisi ottaa käyttöön. Porista lähtee johonkin Parkanoon rata ainakin.

11. Why is Kouvola even on the list? Ain’t nobody going to Kouvola willingly on their holiday lmao.

12. Also the road 5 merges back to road 4 at sodankylä

13. From my personal experience I can say it takes closer to 6 hours to get to St. Petersburg, and not under 5. You have to stop at the border too, and there might be queue.

    Also, you could add Vyborg between Kotka and Saint Petersburg. The only russian city that has Finnish shop names and signs and even some Finnish speakers 🙂

14. Driving from Helsinki to Oulu, without too many stops, can definitely be done in less time. Superb map though! So cool.

15. Delete Koulova

16. Most people drive to Joensuu via Varkaus when going from Helsinki. Driving via Lappeenranta is much longer.

17. What a great graph! Have you thought about sharing it with Visit Finland organisation? As someone mentioned, many tourists may find this helpful.

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19. No Hämeenlinna, that is a nice place too.