Kotka
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About
Kotka is a town in Finland, located on the southeastern coast of the country at the mouth of the Kymi River. The population of Kotka is approximately 50,000, while the sub-region has a population of approximately 79,000. It is the 21st most populous municipality in Finland, and the 16th most populous urban area in the country.
Wikipedia →Summary excerpted from the Wikipedia article Kotka, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text may be clipped or paraphrased to fit this page.
The next week in Kotka
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Overcast
17° / 8°
UV Moderate
Sat
Rain
15° / 10°
16.1 mm
UV Moderate
Sun
Overcast
13° / 9°
UV Moderate
Mon
Overcast
21° / 7°
UV Moderate
Tue
Showers
21° / 13°
31.5 mm
UV Moderate
Wed
Drizzle
15° / 11°
0.9 mm
UV Moderate
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
26° / -2°
Typical high / low
2 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
17.2h
04:32 – 21:43local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near Kotka
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is Lappeenranta Airport (LPP) at 91 km.
Getting around Kotka
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain.
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.