
Sinterklaas Arrival in Amsterdam 2026
Amsterdam welcomes Sinterklaas for the 88th time with boats, floats, bands and a parade through the city centre.
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Amsterdam welcomes Sinterklaas for the 88th time with boats, floats, bands and a parade through the city centre.

Start 2027 with thousands of people in orange hats running into the North Sea at Scheveningen at 12:00.

Pick up to 10 free tulips from a garden of 200,000 blooms on Museumplein, in the middle of January.

Eleven days of independent and adventurous cinema from around the world in Rotterdam's cinemas and theatres.

More than 100 drawings by Goltzius, De Gheyn and their circle reveal a revolution in Dutch drawing around 1600.

A spring exhibition at the Mauritshuis on our age-old fascination with the bull, home of Paulus Potter's famous painting.

The world famous spring garden in Lisse opens for eight weeks, with millions of tulips, daffodils and hyacinths.

Giant floats covered in hyacinths and tulips parade all day through the bulb region from Noordwijk to Haarlem.