Events in Amsterdam

In Amsterdam you can go to concerts, events or festivals almost every day. Amsterdam offers a diverse array of world-class entertainment. With so many festivals, cultural events, theaters, clubs, concert halls and intimate venues, there's something for everybody in Amsterdam.

Light Festival Amsterdam

Amsterdam's winter festival returns each year to illuminate the city's streets and waterways with bewitching light installations by international artists. With more than 35 large scale installations dotted across Amsterdam city centre, there are certainly plenty of ...

Taste of Amsterdam

Late September

A culinary festival during the prolonged weekend in Amsterdam. Exhibition stands in the park with good food from the renowned Amsterdam restaurants. An occasion to meet their chefs and to drink a glass of good wine or champagne.

Holland Festival

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Holland Festival is the biggest in the Netherlands performing arts festival of international character. It brings events from all over the world on the fields of music, opera, theatre and dance, also draws attention to chosen films and art shows. Holland Festival also organises interesting conferences and workshops.

Kwaku Festival

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'Kwakoe' is a weekend event that takes place every Saturday and Sunday, in July and August. In Dutch terms, that makes for about 20 days of pure dancing, eating and anything else in between. Wind down on a hot summers day with theatre, music, film, literature, sport and everything on offer at this very buzzing ...

Gay Canal Pride Amsterdam

Pride Amsterdam Festival lasts 9 days and takes place from July 29 to August 6, 2023. The Gay Canal Pride festival presents an extensive programme with sports, cultural activities and parties. The highlight of the Amsterdam Gay ...

Grachtenfestival

August

The Grachtenfestival: For five days, special locations in the heart of Amsterdam form the backdrop for more than 80 classical concerts. The concerts can be enjoyed in houses and gardens of hospitable local inhabitants and in concert halls, historic buildings, ...

De Parade

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Nowadays, the parade stands proud as one of the few travelling festivals in the world. Inspired by traditional circuses, the park offers a brilliant kaleidoscope of brightly coloured tents making it simply picture perfect. De parade may look like an old-fashioned fairground but it promises a very action packed 17 days of ...

Prinsengracht Concert

A free traditional classical music concert held on Prinsengracht in Amsterdam every year in August since 1981. The open air concert is held on a temporary built stage directly on the canal’s ...

Draaiorgelfestival

Op de Dam in Amsterdam vindt sinds 2003 het jaarlijkse Draaiorgelfestival Amsterdam plaats. Dit festival wordt georganiseerd om aandacht te vragen voor het draaiorgel als Amsterdams cultuurgoed. Tussen ...

Heritage Days

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Open Monuments Day is held every year halfway through September, when thousands of monuments in the Netherlands are free to the public. The participating monuments can be recognized by the Open Monuments Day flag as shown here. Open Monuments Day is organized to encourage people to know more about their historical ...

Klassiek op het Amstelveld

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Klassiek op het Amstelveld is inmiddels uitgegroeid tot een internationaal podium voor jeugd en klassieke muziek samen met wereld sterren. Het festival is gratis toegankelijk. Het festival vindt ieder jaar plaats op het pittoreske Amstelveld, een van de weinige pleinen in de drukke binnenstad van ...

Marathon Amsterdam

The marathon in Amsterdam is known for its fast, flat and historic parcours. The route is full of Amsterdam's attractions. As the road passes by the world famous Rijksmuseum on ...

Amsterdam Dance Event

Over 2.000 artists from around the globe performing in 80 of the best clubs in Amsterdam, ADE's festival has grown into the world's biggest club festival for the whole spectrum of electronic sub-genres. ADE offers 320.000 clubbers 5 days of guaranteed partying with ...

Ice Amsterdam

November

Fun on the ice in Amsterdam. The greatest place to skate a few laps, come to the ice rink at the Museumplein. The smoothest ice rink will be in front of the beautiful Rijksmuseum again, ...

Arrival of Saint Nicholas

November

Every year, Sinterklaas arrives in Amsterdam by ship in mid-November. Then a whole parade accompanies him in a festive way through the city center. Hundreds of children welcome the children's friend and more than five thousand kilos of free candy are handed out along the ...

Christmas Market

December

Put on your ice skates, get the kids in their winter coats and drum up your best friends; the best days of the year are just around the corner! We've listed the 6 best Christmas markets in Amsterdam for those who want to ...

Christmas

Late November to early January

For a Christmas atmosphere with Christmas shopping, ice skating and hot chocolate you can visit the following squares in ...

Ice rink Rembrandtplein

Middle of November to early January

Also this year in Amsterdam it's slipping and sliding, laughing, falling and getting up again. But above all enjoying the ice rink on the beautiful Rembrandtplein. The ice rink will be setup in winter atmosphere again, just like every year. There are ...

2024

Tulip Day

Every year the tulip season is official started on Tulip Day. Everyone can pick tulips for free on Dam square, in a specially constructed garden. Dutch tulip growers create an enormous garden on Dam square with around 200.000 tulips. More than 10.000 ...

Funfair in Amsterdam

End April

Who didn’t like it as a child to be swirled around in a carousel or to get sticky from some cotton candy. In Amsterdam it is still possible twice a year at the Westerpark. Opening hours: Every day from 14:00 to 23:00 hrs

National Museum Week

Begin april

During this Museum week about 450 museums are to visit. There are extra activities such as workshops, guided tours, tastings, children's treasure hunts, musical performances and the possibility to dress up.

King's Day

King's Day is officially the national celebration of the birthday of the King, but this in reality is only an excuse to party hard. The celebrations takes place all over the Netherlands, but have a special atmosphere in Amsterdam. In ...

Kunst RAI

End of June

Kunst RAI is a modern art fair, which is organized each year for five days in the RAI exhibition and conference centre, in the south of Amsterdam. It is a big fair, with more than 120 galleries from the Netherlands and an increasing number of the foreign galleries, mainly from Western ...

Nationale Dodenherdenking

Jaarlijks vindt op 4 mei op de Dam de Nationale Dodenherdenking ...

National Mills Day

Tweede weekend van mei

Since 1974 the event is held every year on the second Saturday in May. It is a day when as many mills as possible are running. The National Mills Day has now become an annual event. Besides turning and grinding, all kinds of activities take place at a large number of mills, from baking pancakes to music festivals. ...