Zaandam

Worth seeing in and around Zaandam

5 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
   North Sea Canal

   Dutch ship canal

   4.9 km · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Czar Peter House

   Museum in Zaandam, the Netherlands

   200 m · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Zaans Museum

   Museum in Zaandam, the Netherlands

   3.9 km · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Millennium Tower

   Building in Amsterdam

   5.1 km · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Tio University

   University in the Netherlands

   5.8 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.

Getting to Zaandam

Airports

Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 15 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 60 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 116 km

Stations

Port of Amsterdam, 3.2 km · Amsterdam Sloterdijk, 5.5 km · Westpoort, 3.7 km · Zaandam railway station, 800 m · Isolatorweg, 5.1 km

• Rotterdam → Zaandam

  62 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · €8–11
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• Eindhoven → Zaandam

  120 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · €14–19
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• Groningen → Zaandam

  146 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · €19–27
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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 Zaandam

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 Zaandam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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