Festivals in the Netherlands

Dutch festival culture is broad: field festivals on an international scale, jazz and world-music programmes with decades of history behind them, and an electronic scene that made the country a reference point for house and techno. Which editions you see below depends on the season and on what has already been announced — the list is always the current state of play, not a catalogue of everything the Netherlands has to offer.

But the scene runs far deeper than the big summer names. All year round, intimate club nights, city festivals and one-day specials keep stages busy from Groningen to Maastricht. Browse the line-ups and dates below, find the festivals worth planning your year around, and add them to your personal agenda in a couple of clicks.