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Amsterdam

Netherlands · AMS · UTC+0
52.37°N
lat
4.90°E
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EU
region
NL
country
Lively street scene in Amsterdam featuring iconic historical architecture and bustling urban life.
Avg trip cost · 5 nights
€512
mid-range, all-in
Best month
Aug
19°C · mild crowds
CO₂ from Berlin
312 kg
short/long-haul · DEFRA
Match for "city + culture"
62
category match
Cost across the year

5-night trip · all-in · per traveler

flight + lodging + on-ground · 7-day rolling median

€432
cheapest · Jan
€450 €550 €650 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec €672 · best
↑ peak summer · €672 (Jun) · ↓ winter dip · €432 (Jan)
Best time to visit

Aug. By a mile.

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Climate comfort
84
Crowd level
88
Price index
79
Sunshine
100
Event impact
72
Things to do

Six honest picks. Not sixty.

From Wikipedia + OpenStreetMap. No affiliate links, no crowd bias.

Museums

Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

The Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, previously known as Tropenmuseum between 1950 and 2023, is an ethnographic museum with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was originally founded in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1864 under the name Koloniaal Museum and later renamed Tropenmuseum.

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Museum of Illusions

Museum Van Loon is a museum located in a canalside house alongside the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The museum is named after the family Van Loon that lived in the house from the 19th century.

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Frans Hals Museum

The Frans Hals Museum is a museum in the North Holland city of Haarlem, the Netherlands, founded in 1862, known as the Art Museum of Haarlem. Its collection is based on the city's own rich collection, built up from the 16th century onwards. The museum owns hundreds of paintings, including more than a dozen by Frans Hals, to whom the museum owes its name. The Frans Hals Museum is located in the Haarlem city centre, in the 17th-century Oudemannenhuis with regent's rooms. It houses the famous paintings by Frans Hals and other ancient, modern and contemporary art, as well as the museum café. Until August 2025, location Hal regularly hosted exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.

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Amsterdam Museum

The Amsterdam Museum, known until 2010 as the Amsterdam Historical Museum, is an Amsterdam-based museum dedicated to the city's past and present. Due to the renovation of its main location, the museum is temporarily located in the Amstelhof on the Amstel River, together with H'ART Museum and the dependence of the Museum van de Geest.

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Allard Pierson Museum

The Allard Pierson Museum is the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam. It is situated at the Oude Turfmarkt 127 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Artifacts from the ancient civilizations of ancient Egypt, the Near East, the Greek World, Etruria, and the Roman Empire are curated and exhibited in this museum.

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Attractions

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Getting there

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Flight from Berlin
recommended
door-to-door · 1 traveler
time
2h 45m
cost
€138
CO₂
312 kg
Train (multi-leg)
door-to-door · 1 traveler
time
20h
cost
€220
CO₂
62 kg
Long-distance bus
door-to-door · 1 traveler
time
26h
cost
€85
CO₂
78 kg

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