Amsterdam When To Go

Though relatively moderate, the weather in the Netherlands nevertheless fluctuates from season to season; its only year-round characteristic is rain—and lots of it (for average temperatures and rainfall). Throngs of human and mosquito visitors pack the city’s parks and streets in the summer high season (June-Aug.), when temperatures rarely exceed typical comfort levels. The crowds are thinner in the spring and fall, but dress gets bulkier. During these months, the Dutch are greeted almost daily with a playful, cool fog that usually dissolves into an ineffectual stream of sunshine by midday. In the depths of winter—and low season—mostly empty canals and streets frost over.

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