Guides · Amsterdam · 4 on file
Guides to the weather, and the evenings it sends you indoors
Longer pieces on the practical side of the year. Each one takes a season or a condition, says what it changes and what it leaves alone, and ends with the questions that condition tends to raise.
- Old buildings, cold floors: keeping an Amsterdam room warm through the dark monthsBetween the middle of October and the end of March, the temperature of the room is the one part of an Amsterdam booking the house cannot arrange for you. This guide explains why the buildings here make that harder than it sounds, and what actually works in the hour before she arrives.2026-07-14
- An Amsterdam year for a visitor: the weather month by month, and the evenings to stay inAmsterdam has a reputation for one kind of weather and actually has four distinct ones, arriving in an order that rarely matches what a visitor has packed for. This guide walks through the year month by month and says, plainly, which evenings tend to end up indoors.2026-06-23
- Arriving wet: umbrellas, bicycles and a therapist at your door in the rainRain rearranges more Amsterdam evenings than anything else in the forecast, and it changes less about a booking than visitors expect. What it does change sits almost entirely in the first ten minutes, on both sides of the door.2026-05-19
- Oil, skin and cold air: why the season changes how body to body feelsThe same hour, booked in February and in July, is not the same hour. The format does not change and neither do the figures, but oil, skin and air temperature interact in ways that make a winter session and a summer session feel like different things.2026-04-28