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Oktoberfest 2026 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam takes to Oktoberfest without effort. The beer gardens fill with live music, giant steins and dancing, and nobody has ever checked for lederhosen. Turn up with people and the food makes the call, bratwurst and pretzels everywhere and communal tables along the canals with a band in the corner. If a good beer with friends is the whole idea, keep it. See what's on for Oktoberfest 2026 in Amsterdam, find one that suits your mood, and book your tickets before they're gone.
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Oktoberfest events near Amsterdam
Nothing is listed in Amsterdam yet, so here is what is on nearby.
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Dress up, raise a stein, throw your own
Outfits, steins and party kit for the season. Check delivery dates before you order.
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Dirndl dressBodice, blouse, skirt and apronShop on Amazon - Wear
Men's lederhosenLeather shorts, braces and allShop on Amazon - Wear
Alpine hatGreen felt, with the featherShop on Amazon - Wear
Trachten suspendersThe look for less, over any checked shirtShop on Amazon - Drink
Lidded beer steinCeramic, with a pewter lidShop on Amazon - Drink
Das Boot glassThe boot-shaped party glassShop on Amazon - Play
Hammerschlagen gameA stump, nails, a hammer: first nail flush winsShop on Amazon - Host
Bavarian flagBlue-and-white diamonds for the yardShop on Amazon - Host
Pretzel saltCoarse salt for homemade BreznShop on Amazon - Kids
Baby lederhosenFor the smallest guestShop on Amazon - Dogs
Hot-dog dog costumeFor the dachshund racesShop on Amazon
Where to go
Amsterdam's breweries and beer cafés
Oktoberfest comes to Amsterdam for a weekend. These pour all year — a windmill brewery, the Dutch-only tap house, and the beer cafés the city was drinking in first.
Brouwerij 't IJOost, under the windmillA Zatte under the millFestbier the pale munich festival lagerBrewing in a former bathhouse since 1985, beside the tallest windmill in the country. Tours end in a beer.BrewerySince 1985Their site 
Proeflokaal ArendsnestHerengrachtAnything — it is all DutchMärzen the amber oktoberfest styleFifty-two taps and a hundred bottles, every one of them brewed in the Netherlands. Nowhere else does that.Tap houseTheir site 
In de WildemanKolksteegWhatever is on the boardBrezn the giant salted pretzelEighteen taps and 250 bottles in an old distillery tasting room, down an alley off the Nieuwendijk.Beer caféTheir site 
Oedipus BrewingNoordSomething you cannot pronounceObatzda beer-garden cheese spreadFour friends, loud labels and a taproom behind the Noord ferry — the experimental end of Dutch brewing.BreweryTheir site 
Brouwerij de PraelHouthavensA Nelis, sat by the tanksBratwurst grilled sausage in a rollA brewery built to employ people the labour market had given up on, pouring in its own taproom.BreweryTheir site 
Poesiat & KaterOostVan Vollenhoven's stoutSchweinshaxe crackling roast pork knuckleA nineteenth-century Amsterdam brewery brought back to life, with the proeflokaal in the old stables.BreweryTheir site 
Two Chefs BrewingZuidA Green Bullet in the taproomKäsespätzle cheesy egg noodlesTwo cooks who went into brewing, which is why the kitchen in the taproom is taken seriously.BreweryTheir site 
Butcher's TearsZuid, by the AmstelveensewegWhatever is fresh that weekRadi spiral-cut salted radishA small brewery with a bare-bones tasting room and no interest in decorating it. The beer is the point.BreweryTheir site 
Café GollemRaamsteeg and beyondA Belgian, in the right glassGebrannte Mandeln warm candied almondsThe city's original specialist beer café, still the easiest place to find something you have not had.Beer caféTheir site
Every link goes to the venue's own site. Hours change — check before you travel.
Asked and answered
Oktoberfest in Amsterdam: the basics
Is there an Oktoberfest near Amsterdam?
Yes: 1 more event is listed within reach of Amsterdam, in Bruinisse. The soonest is Code Oranje - Après-ski editie in Bruinisse, on Sat, Nov 28.
When is Oktoberfest in Munich in 2026?
Munich's 2026 Oktoberfest ran from September 19 to October 4, 2026, 16 days on the Theresienwiese.
Worth the trip
Cities famous for Oktoberfest
Where the season is the whole city's business, from Munich's meadow to a Bavarian village in the Cascades.
MunichThe original, since 1810
CincinnatiOktoberfest Zinzinnati
KitchenerCanada's biggest
La Crosse, WIOktoberfest USA
Frankenmuth, MIMichigan's Little Bavaria
Leavenworth, WAA Bavarian mountain village
Fredericksburg, TXHill Country's German town
New Ulm, MNSettled by Germans in 1854
DenverDenver Oktoberfest, since 1969
MilwaukeeBrew City's German roots
ChicagoStreet fests all season
New YorkStone Street and the beer halls
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