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![Rovaniemi](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Rovaniemi_Church_1.jpg/1920px-Rovaniemi_Church_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

# Rovaniemi

Rovaniemi is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Lapland.

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## Every way there

- Kittilä → Rovaniemi 134 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €15–21 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kittila-to-rovaniemi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kittil%C3%A4&to=Rovaniemi)
- Oulu / Oulunsalo → Rovaniemi 175 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · €23–33 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/oulu-oulunsalo-to-rovaniemi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Oulu+%2F+Oulunsalo&to=Rovaniemi)
- Ivalo → Rovaniemi 253 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · €29–41 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/ivalo-to-rovaniemi) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Ivalo&to=Rovaniemi)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Rovaniemi, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Rovaniemi has

- Y Scheduled flights Rovaniemi (RVN), 8 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 4 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

66.500°, 25.733°

It is located near the Arctic Circle in the northern interior of the country. The population of Rovaniemi is approximately 66,000, while the sub-region has a population of approximately 70,000. It is the 17th most populous municipality in Finland, and the 11th most populous urban area in the country.

Get in

## Getting to Rovaniemi

1. Rovaniemi Airport
2. Rovaniemi

See

## Worth seeing

Most tourists come to Rovaniemi for precisely one thing: Santa.

Do

## Things to do

Various Arctic safari companies can arrange all sorts of cold and snowy activities like snowmobile safaris, husky sledding and reindeer sledding. Most of the tour operators have summer activities available too. Try e.g. a wild moose safari; you'll get half of the price back if you don't see a moose. In total, there are nearly a hundred companies that serve travellers with a variety of activities!

Eat

## Where to eat

Considering the size of the city, Rovaniemi has a remarkably wide range of restaurants. You will find anything from sushi to bear meat and from hamburgers to traditional delicacies. As elsewhere in Lapland, the traditional restaurant meal is sautéed reindeer (poronkäristys), consisting of slices of reindeer meat stewed in a frying pan with butter and water.

1. Alvari food
2. Korundi Kitchen and Café Lapinkävijäntie 4 (at Culture House Korundi).
3. Lapin Krassi Raidetie 1 (on the way to Saarenkylä from the airport, in a small industry park), jouko@lapinkrassi.fi.
4. Restaurant Rinne Feenix Koskikatu 25,.
5. Roka Street Bistro Non-expensive 25-seat street food bar and bistro.

How locals move

## Getting around Rovaniemi the local way

- Get in There are also scheduled flights from international destinations and a remarkable number of seasonal charter flights, mostly from the UK.
- Get in However, Santa Claus Bus provides a minibus shuttle service between the airport and hotels in the city centre at a fare of €7 per person one way.
- Get in Unless you like driving long distances or visit destinations along the route, a good alternative is to take a ferry from Travemünde to Helsinki, then board an overnight train (see above) from Helsinki and unload your car in Rovaniemi, ready for any local trips.

From [Wikivoyage: Rovaniemi](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Rovaniemi), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rovaniemi) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Rovaniemi), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: kallerna (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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