5 days in Amsterdam
A complete 5-day Amsterdam itinerary with 28 places, arranged so each stop is open when you arrive and the walking between them stays sensible.
- Days
- 5
- Places
- 28
- Time in transit
- 432 min
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 5 days this route spends 432 minutes in transit — that number is the point. Reordering the same 28 places carelessly can easily double it, and that time comes straight out of your trip.
Day 1
Central station
09:00–09:00
14 min by public transport
Rijksmuseum
09:14–11:44 2 hr 30 min
7 min walk
5 Terre Amsterdam Italian Restaurant
12:07–12:37 30 min
7 min by public transport
Van Gogh Museum
12:44–14:59 2 hr 15 min
22 min by public transport
Anne Frank House
15:21–16:51 1 hr 30 min
14 min walk
Dam Square
17:05–17:50 45 min
14 min by public transport
Moco Museum
18:04–19:34 1 hr 30 min
36 min by public transport
A'DAM Lookout
20:10–21:25 1 hr 15 min
Day 2
Central station
09:00–09:00
25 min by public transport
Vondelpark
09:25–10:55 1 hr 30 min
34 min by public transport
National Maritime Museum
11:29–13:29 2 hr
8 min walk
A Beautiful Mess - Amsterdam
13:37–14:07 30 min
12 min walk
Amsterdam Museum
14:19–15:49 1 hr 30 min
9 min walk
Rembrandt House Museum
15:58–17:43 1 hr 45 min
18 min by public transport
Amsterdam Center View
18:01–18:46 45 min
Day 3
Central station
09:30–09:30
30 min by public transport
Royal Palace Amsterdam
10:00–11:15 1 hr 15 min
8 min walk
The Seafood Bar
12:08–12:38 30 min
17 min walk
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
12:55–14:40 1 hr 45 min
21 min by public transport
Oude Kerk
15:01–16:01 1 hr
19 min by public transport
Heineken Experience
16:20–17:50 1 hr 30 min
Day 4
Central station
09:30–09:30
14 min walk
NEMO Science Museum
09:44–11:44 2 hr
9 min walk
Restaurant Olijfje
12:09–12:39 30 min
8 min walk
Hermitage Amsterdam
12:47–14:47 2 hr
8 min by public transport
Dungeon Amsterdam
14:55–16:55 2 hr
24 min by public transport
This is Holland
17:19–18:34 1 hr 15 min
Day 5
Central station
10:00–10:00
11 min by public transport
Hortus Botanicus
10:11–11:41 1 hr 30 min
7 min walk
MOAK Pancakes City Center
12:07–12:37 30 min
13 min walk
Tropenmuseum
12:50–14:50 2 hr
8 min by public transport
Verzetsmuseum
14:58–16:28 1 hr 30 min
15 min by public transport
Foam Photography Museum
16:43–17:43 1 hr
Make it your trip
The schedule above is built for a generic 5-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.
Open the Amsterdam plan