SwimNieuw-West
Sloterplas, north shore
Clean water, grassy banks, no crowds before noon. Best at 28 degrees and rising.
Volume 03 . Summer 2026
Hete Zomer is a field guide to the hottest days in Amsterdam. Where to swim before noon, where to find ten degrees of shade in the afternoon, which gelato is worth the queue, and where to be when the sun finally drops into the IJ.
Today's high
32°C
UV index
8
Water temp
23°C
Sunset
21:48
This week
Clean water, grassy banks, no crowds before noon. Best at 28 degrees and rising.
Wet stone, ferns, and the only air in the city that smells like rain in July.
Pistachio that tastes like the orchard. Cash only. Queue moves fast at six.
Flat grass, late shadow from the chimneys, the lake breeze that nobody talks about.
Twenty-minute ferry, then sand, fire, and the sun dropping into the harbour at nine-forty.
The Amstel side terrace catches an upstream breeze that the rest of the centre never gets.
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Every morning the mercury climbs past 26, you get a short email. Forecast, water temp, the three places we would go today.
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Over two hundred swim spots, terraces, parks, and sunset perches across the four corners of the city. Filterable by shade, by water, by walking distance from the tram.
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One long read each week. A new neighbourhood, a profile, a recipe for cold borscht, a route home through the longest shadow.
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