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3 days in Amsterdam

A complete 3-day Amsterdam itinerary with 18 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.

Days
3
Places
18
Time in transit
311 min
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Why the stops are in this order

Most itineraries you find online are a list of places worth seeing, left in whatever order the writer thought of them. That is the part that falls apart on the day: you arrive somewhere at 17:40 and it closed at 17:00, or you cross the city twice because two neighbouring sights sat on different days.

This plan is sequenced instead of listed. Every stop below is checked against the opening hours of the place itself, and the gaps between them are real door-to-door travel times, not straight-line distance on a map. The visiting windows shown are what is actually achievable in a day.

Across all 3 days this route spends 311 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 18 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.

Day 1

09:00–21:30 · 7 places · 114 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 14 min by public transport

    Rijksmuseum

    09:14–11:44 2 hr 30 min

  3. 7 min walk

    5 Terre Amsterdam Italian Restaurant

    12:07–12:37 30 min

  4. 7 min by public transport

    Van Gogh Museum

    12:44–14:59 2 hr 15 min

  5. 22 min by public transport

    Anne Frank House

    15:21–16:51 1 hr 30 min

  6. 14 min walk

    Dam Square

    17:05–17:50 45 min

  7. 14 min by public transport

    Moco Museum

    18:04–19:34 1 hr 30 min

  8. 36 min by public transport

    A'DAM Lookout

    20:10–21:25 1 hr 15 min

Day 2

09:00–20:00 · 6 places · 106 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:00–09:00

  2. 25 min by public transport

    Vondelpark

    09:25–10:55 1 hr 30 min

  3. 34 min by public transport

    National Maritime Museum

    11:29–13:29 2 hr

  4. 8 min walk

    A Beautiful Mess - Amsterdam

    13:37–14:07 30 min

  5. 12 min walk

    Amsterdam Museum

    14:19–15:49 1 hr 30 min

  6. 9 min walk

    Rembrandt House Museum

    15:58–17:43 1 hr 45 min

  7. 18 min by public transport

    Amsterdam Center View

    18:01–18:46 45 min

Day 3

09:30–20:00 · 5 places · 91 min travelling

  1. Central station

    09:30–09:30

  2. 30 min by public transport

    Royal Palace Amsterdam

    10:00–11:15 1 hr 15 min

  3. 8 min walk

    Il Vicolo

    12:08–12:38 30 min

  4. 13 min walk

    Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

    12:51–14:36 1 hr 45 min

  5. 21 min by public transport

    Oude Kerk

    14:57–15:57 1 hr

  6. 19 min by public transport

    Heineken Experience

    16:16–17:46 1 hr 30 min

Make it your trip

The schedule above is built for a generic 3-day visit. Open it in the planner to set your own dates — the timings recalculate against the opening hours for those specific days, which matters more than it sounds when a museum closes on Mondays. You can drag stops between days, swap anything you are not interested in, and the rest of the day re-sequences around the change.

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