Amsterdam's best clubs for clubbing (2024)

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Amsterdam is renowned worldwide for its DJs, festivals and vibrant nightlife. You'll find a club for every taste in Amsterdam. From industrial buildings with raw parties to chic venues with slick parties. Clubs pop up everywhere in and around the city, attracting thousands of dance lovers on weekends.

Amsterdam is known for its nightlife. All over the city you will find a diversity of great clubs in factory halls, churches, basem*nts, boats, rooftops, gas holders, etc. In short, the choice is huge! Amsterdam Magazine tips the best clubs in town.

Air

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On the spot where the world-renowned iT used to have its years of success, you will now find the ultra-hip club AIR. With a sound system ahead of its time and a beautiful interior designed by Marcel Wanders, AIR belongs to the absolute top of the Amsterdam club scene. You go to AIR if you want to party. The musical range goes from house music to cutting edge and everything in between. The space looks...

Amstelstraat 16, Amsterdam

Jimmy Woo

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The iconic club Jimmy Woo is one of Amsterdam's most exclusive entertainment venues. This is the place where creatives, Dutch celebrities, international celebrities and other hipsters like to meet. In this club, everything is right down to the last detail. The best sound system in the world is imported from London, the co*cktails are shaken by the best shakerboys in Amsterdam, the crowd is among the biggest party people in town and...

Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 18, Amsterdam

At Chin Chin Club you will experience the most fun night out

Socialclub Chin Chin is a restaurant, karaoke bar and club all in one

Socialbar the Chin Chin Club is a fine addition to Amsterdam's nightlife scene. This hot spot offers Asian food, delicious co*cktails, fun games and turns into a lively club with a great crowd after ten o'clock at night. Every weekend at the Chin Chin you can dance late into the night to the best R&B and pop music. Also fun: they have a karaoke booth!

Rozengracht 133, Amsterdam

Escape

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The Escape has been the nighttime focal point of Rembrandtplein for many years. The club is considered one of the largest and oldest clubs in Amsterdam. In addition to the club, there are several lounges, VIP areas, bar areas and a restaurant in the various connected buildings. Despite being one of the oldest clubs in the city, Escape has a boundless drive to keep innovating in terms of club, decor and...

Rembrandtplein 11, Amsterdam

Nyx

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On the spot where the illustrious club Exit used to be the mecca of Amsterdam's gay scene, the new gay club NYX recently opened its doors. Under the motto "after nyx the sun rises," the famous Reguliersdwarsstraat finally has its gay nightclub back. In the club that feels underground, with a fat nod to Berlin, gays dance shoulder to shoulder with straight people. The three-story...

Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, Amsterdam

Galaxy

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Melkweg is one of the most famous music venues in the Netherlands and abroad. The special thing about the Melkweg is its programming. As many as five art disciplines are united under one roof: music, dance/theater, film, photography and media art. Five venues host concerts, dance events, theater and dance performances, film screenings, media art presentations and photo exhibitions. The old, empty milk factory was transformed in the summer of 1970 into one of Amsterdam's most important hotspots with international allure. The...

Lijnbaansgracht 234, Amsterdam

Panama

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Panama can be found just outside the center of Amsterdam but is well worth a short trip to the Oostelijke Handelskade. Panama is a club and restaurant in one with a large sun terrace where it is nice to spend the summer. After tasting the Spanish cuisine in restaurant Mercat, step into the atmospheric nightclub where great parties take place every week. The world's...

Oostelijke Handelskade 4, Amsterdam

Club Maïa: International allure and state of the art sound

A new addition to Leidseplein

Club Maïa is a new addition to Amsterdam's nightlife scene, located on the same street as the iconic Jimmy Woo and the always busy Chicago Social Club. This is where you go for great nights out with fine people and dancing to R&B, disco and house music.

Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 14, Amsterdam

Doka in Volkshotel converted to sound bar

Underground where night, music and culture converge

Doka, Volkshotel's co*cktail bar, has been converted into a sound bar. Doka thus becomes an underground and intimate place where the night, music and other forms of culture come together.

Wibautstraat 150, Amsterdam

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