The short answer
It opens 09:30 to 17:00, Monday to Saturday, and closes on Sundays and on public holidays. The holiday part is in one line at the foot of its own site and it is the one that ruins a Christmas or King's Day visit.
- Sunday is the problem, and not only here: four of the five markets below are shut. The one that runs on a Sunday is a travelling food market that changes location, so it needs checking before you walk anywhere.
- Walking in costs nothing. No ticket, no gate. It is a public street with about a kilometre of stalls, and you can do the whole length and spend zero.
- Go in the morning. Stalls come down at 17:00 sharp and the last hour is people packing up, which is a different market from the one in the photographs.
- Nobody can give you honest stall prices, including us. They are not published anywhere, they move by stall and by season, and any exact figure is somebody's memory of one visit.
The hours, and the two closures worth knowing
The market runs Monday to Saturday, from 09:30 to 17:00, on Albert Cuypstraat in De Pijp. It has been there for about 120 years and it is free to walk into.
What its own site adds, in one line in Dutch, is that it closes on Sundays and public holidays. The Sunday part is widely known. The holiday part is not, and it is the one that matters if you are visiting around Christmas, New Year or King's Day, when a lot of people have a free weekday and assume a street market will be the one thing still running.
The stalls worth knowing, with their street numbers
The market publishes its own list of traders, and the useful part of it is that every entry carries a house number. 260 stalls over a kilometre is a lot of street to wander hoping to stumble on the right one, so here are the food stops with where to find them.
Food stalls on the Albert Cuyp, by street number
| Stall | Where | What |
|---|---|---|
| Happy Wafels | Albert Cuypstraat 241 | Stroopwafels pressed to order |
| Vishandel Albert Cuyp | Albert Cuypstraat 155 | The fish stall: herring, kibbeling |
| Van Hilten Fruit | Albert Cuypstraat 103 | Fruit, and the juice pressed in front of you |
| Markthandel Pals, Brood & Banket | Albert Cuypstraat 232 | Bread and pastries |
| Benny's Chicken | Albert Cuypstraat 177 | Roast chicken, one of two on the same stretch |
| Chris Kip | Albert Cuypstraat 181 | The other chicken stall, four doors along |
| Li Yuan Jian Bing | Albert Cuypstraat 243 | Chinese jianbing crepes |
| Kusinang Pinoy | Albert Cuypstraat 267 | Filipino food |
| Pietersma Snacks | Albert Cuypstraat 271 | Dutch fried snacks |
| Koffiehuis De Markt | Albert Cuypstraat 122B | Somewhere to sit down with a coffee |
| Mister Nata | Van Woustraat 48 | Portuguese custard tarts, just off the market |
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The 1905 founding date, the 260 stalls, the stall names with their street numbers and the tram and metro lines all come from the market's own website, read on 27 October 2026 across its about, hotspots and getting-here pages. That it is the largest day market in Europe is the market's own claim, repeated here as that.
Two things to notice in that list. The numbers run the length of the street, so the food is not grouped: the fish stall is at 155 and the stroopwafels at 241, which is a few minutes apart. And the chicken stalls at 177 and 181 are four doors from each other, which tells you something about how this market works.
The one landmark on the market's own list is not a stall: the Andre Hazes monument, at Eerste Sweelinckstraat 12. A statue of the singer, who grew up in De Pijp and is still a local institution. If you see flowers at the foot of it, that is why.
If your free day is a Sunday
This is the question everyone ends up asking, and the answer is not just about Albert Cuyp. Amsterdam's street markets are a Monday to Saturday business, and if Sunday is the day you have, you need a different plan rather than a different market.
Amsterdam's main street markets, by day
| Market | Days | Hours | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Cuypmarkt | Monday to Saturday | 09:30 to 17:00 | The big one. Food, flowers, clothes and souvenirs over about a kilometre |
| Waterloopleinmarkt | Monday to Saturday | Not published | The flea market: second hand, vintage and junk, in the centre |
| Dappermarkt | Monday to Saturday | Not published | A neighbourhood market in the east, less visited and cheaper |
| Noordermarkt | Saturday, and Monday | 09:00 to 16:00 Saturday, 09:00 to 14:00 Monday | Organic farmers' market on Saturday, flea and fabrics on Monday. Running since 1623 |
| Pure Markt | Sundays | 12:00 to 19:00 | A travelling Sunday food market: artisan producers, a different location each time |
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Each market's days from its own website on 27 October 2026, except Waterlooplein, whose own site returned a server error that day and whose days come from the city tourist board instead. Where an opening time is missing from this table it is because that market does not publish one, not because it was not looked for.
The one that does run on a Sunday is the Pure Markt, 12:00 to 19:00, and it is a different proposition: artisan food producers rather than a daily street market, and it travels, setting up in a different place each time. That last detail is the one to check, because turning up at last month's location is an easy mistake to make.
The Noordermarkt is the other one worth knowing, because it is really two markets in the same square: 09:00 to 16:00 Saturday, 09:00 to 14:00 Monday. Saturday is the organic farmers' market and Monday is flea and fabrics. It has been running since 1623.
What to eat, and what it will cost you
The queues form at the same places: stroopwafels pressed while you wait, which are a different thing entirely from the packet version, raw herring with onion and pickle, poffertjes, and orange juice squeezed in front of you. Past the food the market sells cheese, fish, flowers, fabric and clothes, and a good stretch of the souvenir end is the same stock as everywhere else.
On prices we are going to be straight with you: stall prices are not published anywhere. They vary by stall, by season and by day, so any guide quoting you an exact figure for a stroopwafel is quoting one person's visit, not a rate. What we can give you is the comparison that puts it in scale, and it is our own measurement: the same Dutch classics sitting down in a cafe run from 6,50 EUR for a cheese tosti to 9,50 EUR for pickled herring, 8,50 EUR for bitterballen and 8 EUR for aged gouda, read off a menu in the Jordaan and set out in full in our guide to Amsterdam food tours. A market stall undercuts those, which is the whole point of eating at one.
Why this market and not one of the others
It has been on this street since 1905 and runs 260 stalls six days a week. The market describes itself as the largest day market in Europe, which is its own claim rather than a measurement anyone has published, but the scale is real: it is a continuous kilometre rather than a square with thirty stands.
It sits in De Pijp, a dense 19th century neighbourhood that the market's own pages call the Quartier Latin of Amsterdam. That matters for how you plan the visit: the market is the spine of the area, not an isolated attraction, and the cafes and shops either side of it are the reason to stay once you have walked the length.
Where it is, and what else is on the same walk
Albert Cuypstraat runs through De Pijp, south of the centre. It is about ten minutes on foot from the Rijksmuseum and a few minutes from the Heineken Experience, which is the combination most people end up doing without planning it.
The detail that saves the most walking is that metro 52 has its own exit onto the market street. Get off at De Pijp, take the Albert Cuypstraat exit, and you come up on the market rather than four streets from it.
Getting to the market, as the market lists it
| Line | Stop | From there |
|---|---|---|
| Metro 52 | De Pijp | Direct from Centraal. Take the Albert Cuypstraat exit and you are on the market |
| Tram 4 | Albert Cuypmarkt | On Van Woustraat, cross over into Albert Cuypstraat |
| Trams 3 and 12 | Ceintuurbaan, Ferdinand Bolstraat or Van Woustraat | Walk north to the market |
| Tram 24 | Marie Heinekenplein | Five minutes on foot, and the stop for the Heineken Experience |
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The 1905 founding date, the 260 stalls, the stall names with their street numbers and the tram and metro lines all come from the market's own website, read on 27 October 2026 across its about, hotspots and getting-here pages. That it is the largest day market in Europe is the market's own claim, repeated here as that.
By car the answer is a garage rather than the street, and the market's own page lists 7 park and ride sites around the city to leave the car at and come in on public transport. One of them, VUmc, only operates at weekends, which is worth checking before driving to it on a Tuesday.
Because it is a street rather than a building, there is no entrance and no closing gate: you join it wherever you arrive and leave the same way. That also means the market has no indoor section, so a wet Tuesday in February is a thinner market than the same Tuesday in June, with fewer stalls out and the clothing end covered over.
Checked on the Viator API on 27 October 2026 with two different search wordings. One product names the market; its price, duration and review count are quoted as the platform shows them. Nobody on this site has taken it or been to the market.
Questions people actually ask
What days is Albert Cuyp Market open?
Monday to Saturday, from 09:30 to 17:00. It is closed every Sunday, and its own site adds that it also closes on public holidays, which is the part that catches people out around Christmas, New Year and King's Day. There is no late opening and no evening market: at five in the afternoon the stalls come down.
Is Albert Cuyp Market open on Sunday?
No. Neither is Waterlooplein, nor the Dappermarkt, nor the Noordermarkt, which runs on Saturday and Monday. Amsterdam's street markets are a Monday to Saturday business almost without exception. If Sunday is your only free day, the one that does run is the Pure Markt, a travelling artisan food market that sets up from 12:00 to 19:00 in a different location each time, so check where it is before you set off.
How much does it cost to visit Albert Cuyp Market?
Nothing. It is a street market on a public street: there is no ticket, no gate and no opening fee, and you can walk the length of it and buy nothing. What it costs is whatever you eat. Stall prices are not published anywhere, and they move by stall and by season, so anyone quoting you exact figures is guessing. For a sense of scale, the same Dutch classics sitting down in a cafe run from about 6,50 for a cheese tosti to 9,50 for pickled herring.
What should you eat at Albert Cuyp Market?
The things people queue for are the stroopwafels made on the spot, which is a different object from the packet ones, raw herring with onion and pickle, poffertjes, and fresh orange juice pressed in front of you. The market also sells cheese, fish, flowers, fabric and clothing, so it is not only food. Note that the famous stroopwafel stall draws a line most of the day and it moves quickly.
Is Albert Cuyp Market worth visiting?
It depends what you want from it. As a sight it is a working street market that has been going for about 120 years, a kilometre of stalls in De Pijp, and it is free. As shopping it is ordinary: much of the clothing and souvenir end is the same stock you find anywhere. The honest version is that it is worth an hour on the way to somewhere else rather than a morning in itself, and that it is considerably better before midday than at four in the afternoon.
Where is Albert Cuyp Market and how do you get there?
On Albert Cuypstraat, in De Pijp, south of the centre and a short walk from the Heineken Experience. Trams run along the top of the street and the walk from the Rijksmuseum takes about ten minutes. It is one continuous street market, so there is no entrance as such: you join it at whatever end you arrive from.
Is there a food tour of Albert Cuyp Market?
One tour on the booking platforms names the market in its title, at 162,42 euros for four hours, and it carries a single review, which is not enough to recommend anything. The operator that actually works this neighbourhood regularly is Eating Europe, whose morning tour with a stroopwafel workshop is 78 euros for two and a half hours and three stops, booked on its own site. Our guide to Amsterdam food tours prices all of them side by side.
About this guide
Written by Diego Fresno, who spent five days in Amsterdam in November 2018 and publishes this guide independently. Checked for this page: the opening hours, the days, and the closure on Sundays and public holidays, read on the market's own site on 27 October 2026. The days of the other four markets come from each market's own website the same day, except Waterlooplein, whose site returned a server error and whose days come from the city tourist board instead. The cafe prices used for scale are our own, read off a menu in the Jordaan on 6 October 2026. The tour price and its single review are from the Viator API on 27 October, checked with two different search wordings. The 1905 date, the 260 stalls, the stall names with their street numbers and the tram and metro lines come from the market's own about, hotspots and getting-here pages the same day, and the self-guided tour's price, exclusions and no-refund policy from the Viator API on 27 October. Not checked: stall prices, and deliberately so: the stalls do not publish them, they change by stall and by season, and estimating them would be inventing a number. Opening times for Waterlooplein and the Dappermarkt are missing for the same reason, because neither publishes one. Nobody on this site has been to the market, so there is no account here of what the stalls are like, which one has the best stroopwafel, or how long the queue is. That it is the largest day market in Europe is the market's own claim, repeated here as its claim and not checked against other markets. Corrections sent to hola@diegofresno.com get published, not quietly edited. About the author.