National Tulip Day in the centre of Amsterdam

Name: National Tulip Day in the centre of Amsterdam
Start: 2023-01-21T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2023-01-21T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Museum Square

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January 21 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

At the end of the Winter Festival Amsterdam, it is time to start the tulip season. This is celebrated every year with the National Tulip Day. During this day you can pick a bunch of tulips for free on the Museum Square (new location) in the centre of Amsterdam.

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It’s the third Saturday in January: National Tulip Day

If you are in Amsterdam on the third Saturday in January you are very lucky. Normally there are no blooming tulips to enjoy in January but on the third Saturday of January it’s National Tulip Day in Amsterdam! With this unique event the Dutch are celebrating the start of the tulip season. From that day the tulip flowers will be promoted at the flower shops.

Visitors are allowed to pick tulips for free in a specially designed tulip pick-up garden. There will be around 200.000 tulips in the free pick-up garden.

Photo’s with tulips in January

The pick-up garden is perfect to collect some beautiful tulips for you hotelroom but you also can take great pictures with blooming tulips.

Tulip Day in figures

In 2023 its the 11th year that National Tulip Day will be held
In 2019 there where 17.000 visitors enjoying and picking the blooming tulips
More than 100 nationalities did visit the pick-up garden in 2019
30 national and international tv and radio stations talked about Tulip Day in 2019

Tulips in January?

The tulips that you can pick-up at the tulip garden are grown indoors. In big greenhouses farmers are growing tulips from November / December. The tulip fields near Amsterdam only start to bloom at the end of March. Please follow our flower forecasts.