Day Trips from Amsterdam

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The best day trips from Amsterdam by train and bus: Zaanse Schans, Keukenhof, Haarlem, Volendam and more, with times, fares and tips.

Rotterdam Day Trip from Amsterdam: Modern Architecture & Culture (2026)

A Rotterdam day trip from Amsterdam is the easiest way to see how dramatically different two cities 70 km apart can be.…

July 24, 2026

A Delft day trip from Amsterdam takes you to one of the Netherlands’ loveliest small cities — Vermeer’s birthplace, home of the…

July 12, 2026

A Giethoorn day trip from Amsterdam takes you to one of the prettiest villages in Europe — a 750-year-old car-free settlement where…

June 30, 2026

Amsterdam to Bruges is one of the most romanticised day trips in Europe — and one of the longest at nearly 3…

June 23, 2026

Haarlem is the day trip from Amsterdam that locals secretly recommend over Volendam or Zaanse Schans. Fifteen minutes by train, a beautifully…

June 11, 2026

The classic Dutch day trip from Amsterdam is the Volendam & Marken pair — two of the country’s most famous and most…

May 30, 2026

The single easiest day trip from Amsterdam is also one of the most photogenic: Zaanse Schans, a working open-air museum-village 17 minutes…

May 18, 2026

The single most asked-about day trip from Amsterdam is Keukenhof — the 32-hectare flower garden in Lisse where seven million bulbs explode…

May 6, 2026

One of the best things about visiting Amsterdam is how easy it is to explore the rest of the Netherlands — and…

April 17, 2026