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Best time to visit Amsterdam

Netherlands · 52.37°N 4.90°E · monthly climate normals, judged against the Warm preset (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers)

The best time to visit Amsterdam is June to September, when mean temperatures run from 15 °C59 °F to 17 °C63 °F and rainfall runs 64–88 mm2.5–3.5 in a month.

Rain is spread through the year, 48–96 mm1.9–3.8 in a month, with November the wettest month and February the driest. July is the hottest month at 17 °C63 °F and January the coldest at 3 °C37 °F.

Figures are 30-year monthly averages (WorldClim 2.1 monthly normals 1970–2000) for the 0.25° grid cell at 52.37, 4.90 — a climate guide, not a forecast.

Amsterdam weather by month

Pick the weather you like and every month is judged against it — temperature above the month names, rain below.

Weather you like

mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showers

Good time to go for a Warm holiday: June to September.

Open Amsterdam on the interactive map ↗ the same verdict for every place on Earth, any month

▲ Temperature mean , coldest to warmest month
37°JAN722.837°FEB481.942°MAR642.546°APR481.913°55°MAY562.215°59°JUN722.817°63°JUL722.817°63°AUG642.515°58°SEP883.511°51°OCT883.544°NOV963.839°DEC803.1
▼ Rainfall per month, driest to wettest

Reading the chart. Gold is good: the month fits what you picked. Any other colour names the reason it doesn't — the temperature bar can be too cold or too hot, the rain bar too dry, too rainy or monsoon. A faded gold bar is a half that fits while the other half fails; a gold month name means both fit.

What the verdicts mean. Temperature is the monthly mean, judged against the preset's band (mean 14–24 °C57–75 °F for Warm). Rain is judged by each month's class within Amsterdam's own year rather than raw millimetres: dry under 60 mm2.4 in, showers 60–100 mm2.4–3.9 in, rainy from 100 mm3.9 in and 35 % of the wettest month. Too rainy is a rainy-season month the preset doesn't allow. Monsoon is the heaviest kind of rainy season — 180 mm7.1 in or more (120 mm4.7 in near the yearly peak) in a climate whose wettest month is at least three times its driest — so every monsoon month is rainy season too; the label says which kind. Full rules on the method page.

MonthRain Mean SeasonWarm verdict
January722.8337showerstoo cold
February481.9337drytoo cold
March642.5642showerstoo cold
April481.9846drytoo cold
May562.21355drytoo cold
June722.81559showersgood
July722.81763showersgood
August642.51763showersgood
September883.51558showersgood
October883.51151showerstoo cold
November963.8744showerstoo cold
December803.1439showerstoo cold

When to go to Amsterdam, by holiday type

Looking forRuleMonths that fit
Warmmean 14–24 °C57–75 °F, dry or showersJune to September
Tropicalmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, anything but the monsoonno month
Beachmean 24–33 °C75–91 °F, dry or showersno month
Coolmean 0–14 °C32–57 °F, anything but the monsoonOctober to May
Snowmean below 0 °C32 °F, any rainno month

Is there a rainy season in Amsterdam?

Not really. Rain is spread through the year, 48–96 mm1.9–3.8 in a month, with November the wettest month and February the driest.

July is the hottest month at 17 °C63 °F and January the coldest at 3 °C37 °F. Annual rainfall totals about 848 mm33 in.

Where to go instead when Amsterdam doesn't fit

The nearest destinations that do fit the Warm preset in the months Amsterdam doesn't:

Nearby destinations

distances in — tap a unit to switch.

The interactive map colours the whole world by how it fits your picks in any month, and shows this chart for any place you tap.