Kauniainen
Kauniainen (also known by its Swedish name Grankulla) is a small bilingual town in southern Finland, fully enclosed within the city of Espoo and part of the Helsinki metropolitan area. Founded in 1906 as a villa suburb, it carries the lowest municipal tax rate in Finland, which has drawn high-income families and produced unusually high average incomes for a town its size. Finnish and Swedish are both official languages.
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- Population10,200
- Nearest water from center 0.3 km0.2 mi
- Nearest mountain from center 1.1 km0.7 mi
Nearest airports
Nearest train stations
Kauniainen: quick answers
Where is Kauniainen?
Kauniainen is in Finland, about 4.2 km2.6 miles in a straight line from Espoo.
How do you get to Kauniainen?
The nearest airport is Helsinki (Vantaa) (HEL), about 28 min away by road. The nearest train station is Kauniainen, about 2 min away by road.
What's the weather like in Kauniainen?
The warmest month is July, averaging 18°C64°F across day and night; the coolest is February, at -5°C23°F. The wettest month is August, with about 76 mm3.0 in of precipitation. (Monthly averages, 1991–2020.)
What's in Kauniainen?
OpenStreetMap lists 2 museums, 15 restaurants, 5 cafés and 4 places of worship within 2 km of the centre.