What the path is like right now

Snow on the path, how cold the surface is and whether frost is forming — measured by the city's own stations standing on the baana cycleways, with their cameras and today's maintenance log.

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Has the city been out?

320 maintenance passes logged on walking and cycling routes in the last 24 hours · 102 of them in the last three hours · Most recent pass logged 43 minutes ago.

The city logs its walking-and-cycling maintenance vehicles minute by minute, and this counts the passes logged across the whole city in the last 24 hours. It says whether crews are out. It cannot tell you whether your own street has been done.

How clearing works here

When the city aims to have cleared it

A Super-class main cycleway is ploughed within three hours of 2 cm of snow falling between 05:00 and 23:00, or 4 cm overnight, and gritted or roughened within three hours of the surface freezing or being found slippery. A Class I walking-and-cycling path is ploughed within four hours of 3 cm, and on weekday mornings after overnight snow it should be done by 07:00, and again by 16:00. A Class II path is ploughed within six hours of 5 cm, straight after the Class I paths, and gritted within four hours. The city notes that sudden weather can delay all of it.

The slippery-weather text messages stopped

Oulu ran an SMS service that warned people when it turned slippery. The city ended it at the start of the 2025–26 winter and asked residents to follow the weather themselves. There is no city-run slip alert any more — which is part of why the numbers below are worth reading directly.

Why the dew point is on this page

When the path surface is at or below freezing and the dew point is at or above the surface temperature, moisture in the air freezes straight onto the surface. That is the condition that turns a dry-looking path into ice, and it is close to the city's own trigger for gritting.

A sensor can be wrong, and this page says so

These stations publish faults as readings: one anemometer here reported the same impossible wind speed and the same impossible compass bearing a month apart. Every value is checked against what the instrument can physically measure, and anything outside that is left off and named. The check catches the impossible, not the merely inaccurate.

Report a path, and the official pages

Report an uncleared or slippery path — Oulu Feedback ServiceGoes straight to the contractor for that area and to the city's supervisor. For an urgent hazard, call the area contractor's on-call number, or 112.

Ploughing and anti-skid: the city's own maintenance clocksThe rules the timings on this page come from. In Finnish.

Which class is my street or path? — Oulu map serviceThe city's map of maintenance classes. In Finnish.

Contractor contacts, by areaWho to ring when it is urgent rather than a report. In Finnish.

Paths along state roads — Väylä feedback (0200 2100)Not every path in Oulu is the city's: the ones along state roads belong to the ELY Centre and are reported here.

Oulun liikenne — the city's own traffic serviceWhere the readings, the cameras and the maintenance log on this page come from.