Changelog

When Is Electricity Cheapest in Espoo? shows today's price for each hour with Caruna's grid fee, the electricity tax and VAT already added, and the cheapest window for the washing, the sauna or the car. Index-Linked Rent checks a lease's yearly rent rise against Statistics Finland's published index figures and shows both readings, so you can compare them with your landlord's letter.

The page said Espoo announces next year's enrolment dates in December — true most years, but one recent round's dates weren't published until early January. Reworded so the page doesn't overstate how firm that timing is.

How much daylight there is today, when the sun rises and sets, and the swing from close to 19 hours around midsummer to under 6 in December — computed fresh from Espoo's coordinates every time the page loads.

Espoo publishes the rules but not the date. Put in the day you need the place from and the page works backwards to the day your application has to be in — the four months the law gives the city to decide, and the two-week route for a job or a study place you could not have anticipated, with the conditions the city actually sets on it. If that day has already gone, it tells you the earliest start date you could still apply for today instead of just saying you are late. The January rounds for pre-primary, first grade and seventh grade are listed separately, because they run on fixed dates the city sets rather than on yours, and only the dates the city has published are shown.

A new tool puts a rent you've been quoted against what people in Espoo actually pay, split across three price bands from the coast near Tapiola and Otaniemi to the districts further out, read live from Statistics Finland's quarterly figures.

Community picks from residents across Espoo's 150 nationalities — groceries from home, a good lunch near Otaniemi, finding your community — plus today's air and pollen readings.