Aalsmeer
Aalsmeer is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.
Aalsmeer is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Its name is derived from the Dutch for eel (aal) and lake (meer). Aalsmeer is bordered by the Westeinderplassen lake, the largest open water of the Randstad, and the Ringvaart Canal. The town is located 13 km (8 mi) southwest of Amsterdam.
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Worth seeing in and around Aalsmeer
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Aalsmeer Flower Auction
Aalsmeer Flower Auction is a flower market based in Aalsmeer, Netherlands. It is the largest flower auction in the world.
2.3 km · flower market in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Westeinderplassen
The Westeinderplassen are a complex of lakes belonging mostly to the territory of Aalsmeer, Netherlands. Their total area is about 10 square kilometres 2, making it the largest freshwater body of water in the Randstad area.
3.4 km · lake in the Netherlands · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Aalsmeer Flower Auction
- 02Petting zoo Boerenvreugd
Beethovenlaan 118,.
- 03Funzone Aalsmeer - Avontura
Indoor playground, glow-in-the-dark minigolf and a trampoline park.
- 04Floriworld
Sierteeltstraat 1, info@floriworld.nl.
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Things to do
Hop on your bicycle. While Aalsmeer itself isn't quite special, the surrounding areas are beautiful, especially Braassemermeer and Langeraarseplassen and the surrounding villages. Aalsmeer is a good hub for bicycling around the Groene Hart.
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Where to eat
Nagoya, Dorpstraat 6-10, info@nagoya-aalsmeer.nl. 16:00-22:00.
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Getting to Aalsmeer
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 5 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 41 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 100 km
- Rotterdam → Aalsmeer42 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · €6–8
- Eindhoven → Aalsmeer104 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · €12–17
- Groningen → Aalsmeer162 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · €20–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Aalsmeer
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aalsmeer. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDFDS operate an overnight ferry from Newcastle, UK to IJmuiden, which is only about 30 minutes from Haarlem by local bus.
- Get inFrom the ferry terminal, it is a walk to Planetenweg (bus stop Zwaanstraat).
From Wikivoyage: Haarlem, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Aalsmeer
Aalsmeer is 15 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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