06/09/2026
This September in Amsterdam 🍂
Six things worth your time this month, save it for later.
🎭 Amsterdam Fringe Festival (3-13 Sept, across the city)
Eleven days, roughly 22 venues from Noord to Zuid, packed with independent theatre, dance, and performance from artists you’ve never heard of yet. This is the one where you stumble into a show in someone’s backyard and leave talking about it for a week.
🍷 Amsterdam W**e Festival (4-6 Sept, Amstelpark)
First open-air edition at Amstelpark. Three days of tastings from around the world, live music, and food pairings scattered through the park. Bring a tote bag for the bottles you’ll inevitably buy.
🏊 Amsterdam City Swim (6 Sept, Nieuwe Herengracht to Keizersgracht)
Thousands take on the canals in a charity swim raising funds for ALS research. Watching from a bridge is a whole vibe on its own if swimming isn’t your thing.
🏛️ Open Monumentendag (12-13 Sept, across Amsterdam)
Free access to historic buildings normally closed to the public, from private canal houses to churches and old guild halls. The weekend to finally see what’s behind those doors you walk past every day.
🏃 Dam tot Damloop (19-20 Sept, Amsterdam to Zaandam)
One of the Netherlands’ most iconic road races, taking thousands of runners from Dam Square, under the IJ, and into Zaandam. Even if you’re not racing, the finish-line energy is worth showing up for.
🛍️ IJ-Hallen Flea Market (19-20 Sept, NDSM-werf)
Europe’s biggest flea market. Vintage clothes, furniture, records, things you didn’t know you needed, right on the industrial NDSM wharf. Go early, go hungry.
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📸: Manu