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Koog aan de Zaan

Koog aan de Zaan is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland.

Koog aan de Zaan
Koog aan de Zaan · Wim van Rossem for Anefo
The place

Koog aan de Zaan is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Zaanstad, and lies about 11 km northwest of Amsterdam.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Koog aan de Zaan

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.

  1. 01
    Czar Peter House

    Museum in Zaandam, the Netherlands

    3.6 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Zaans Museum

    Museum in Zaandam, the Netherlands

    1.7 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Koog aan de Zaan

Airports
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 18 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 62 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 120 km
Stations
Zaandam railway station, 3.3 km · Wormerveer railway station, 2.5 km · Zaandijk Zaanse Schans railway station, 500 m · Koog aan de Zaan railway station, 1.1 km · Zaandam Kogerveld railway station, 1.7 km
  • Rotterdam → Koog aan de Zaan
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · €9–12
  • Eindhoven → Koog aan de Zaan
    123 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · €14–19
  • Groningen → Koog aan de Zaan
    145 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · €19–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Koog aan de Zaan

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 Koog aan de Zaan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSeveral tour companies also offer half-day trips to Zaanse Schans, with transportation to/from Amsterdam included.

From Wikivoyage: Zaanse Schans, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    91 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    466 km
  3. 03
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    648 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    666 km
  5. 05
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    735 km

If you know how people move in Koog aan de Zaan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Koog aan de Zaan

Koog aan de Zaan is 12 km from Amsterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Zaanstadmunicipality in the Netherlands1.6 km
  • Zaandamcity in Zaanstad, Netherlands4 km
  • Zaanse Schanshistoric neighborhood of Zaandam, Netherlands1.4 km
  • Assendelftvillage in Zaanstad, Netherlands3.4 km
  • Zaandijkvillage in Zaanstad, Netherlands1 km
  • Westzaanvillage in Zaanstad, Netherlands2.3 km