Edam
Edam is a city in the North Holland province of northwestern Netherlands.
Edam is a city in the North Holland province of northwestern Netherlands. Combined with Volendam, Edam forms the municipality of Edam-Volendam. Approximately 7,395 people live in Edam. The entire municipality of Edam-Volendam has 37,124 inhabitants. The name Edam originates from a dam on the little river E or IJe where the first settlement was located and which was therefore called IJedam.
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Worth seeing in and around Edam
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.
- 01Kras Stadion
The Kras Stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Volendam, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Volendam.
2.7 km · football stadium in Volendam, the Netherlands · Wikipedia - 02Purmer
Purmer is a polder and reclaimed lake in the Netherlands province of North Holland, located between the towns of Purmerend and Edam-Volendam. It is also a village located in the municipalities of Waterland and Edam-Volendam.
4.2 km · polder and reclaimed lake in Purmerend, Edam-Volendam and Waterland, Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Edam
- Airports
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 30 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 75 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 121 km
- Stations
- Purmerend Overwhere railway station, 5.7 km
- Rotterdam → Edam76 km · quickest by road, 2h · €10–14
- Eindhoven → Edam123 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · €14–20
- Groningen → Edam129 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · €18–25
- 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 Edam
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 Edam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIn summer, a ferry connection between Volendam and the peninsula of Marken every 30 to 45 minutes.
- Go nextThe ferry leaves every 30 to 45 minutes from the harbour.
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Next door to Edam
Edam is 19 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.