How to Get to Tampere

This page lists the ways to get to Tampere. Search for flights to TMP and HEL. The train journey from HEL to Tampere is easy and comfortable.

AirBaltic has direct flights from Riga (RIX) every day. AirBaltic is not part of any alliance, but they have some code shares with lots of European airlines across alliance boundaries.

Bus 103 takes you between TMP and the hotels in Tampere city centre in under 30 minutes for about 5 Euros. If flights arriving to TMP are late, the bus waits for passengers from those flights. The bus accepts contactless credit cards, but paying with cash is not possible. You can also pay with the public transit mobile app.

Or you can just take a taxi to your hotel for about 50 Euros. Bolt and Uber also operate in Tampere, but there aren't many cars for them.

Travelling via Helsinki Airport

Flying via Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport (HEL) to Tampere is also convenient. Do not be tempted to take a taxi from HEL to Tampere, because it will cost over 500 Euros.

There's also a train station at HEL, so it is easy to just take trains to Tampere. The train ride takes under two hours and costs about 30 Euros. Be aware that the train ticket pricing is demand responsive, so it might vary wildly during peak hours.

The local transport P train takes you from HEL to the Tikkurila Railway Station every 10-20 minutes. Then you need to transfer to an InterCity or Pendolino train to Tampere. The InterCity trains run roughly once per hour between 06:00 and 22:00. Once you get to the Tampere Central Railway Station, the venue and most hotels are within walking distance.

You can buy the ticket for the whole train trip from the VR web page or using a vending machine at the airport railway station. A third alternative is the VR Matkalla app, if that's your thing.

There are also two dozen long haul busses per day between HEL and the Tampere Bus Station. A few of these busses run in the middle of the night too.

Table of Code Shares

This is an unscientific table of the code shares for flights directly to the TMP airport. I haven't found any authoritative source for this information and it tends to change from time to time, so take it with a grain of salt. Also, a lot of these flights are now discontinued, because airBaltic has a temporary shortage of planes.