Before you read on
- When you race
- 22–31 January 2027
- How many nights to book
- 3 nights
- Who this race suits
- A ten-minute airport transfer and a city you can cross on a bicycle.
- Nearest airport to the venue
- Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), About 10 min on a direct train to Amsterdam RAI, or 15 min by taxi
- Cost for the weekend
- EUR 630 (USD 702) per person, Flights and race entry.
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Should you race here?
Ten minutes from a major airport, two metres below sea level, in the cheapest month Amsterdam has.
Reasons to
- Schiphol to the venue is a ten-minute direct train for four euros.
- Metro 52 stops at the door and reaches the canal ring in fifteen minutes.
- January is the low season, so the museums are quiet and the rooms are cheap.
- The Light Festival runs through the month along the canals.
Reasons not to
- Zuid is a business district and has no evening in it.
- Seventy-one millimetres of rain in a windy, flat month with eight and a half hours of light.
- Parking is EUR 30 a day, which is among the steepest on the calendar.
Conditions on the day
HYROX Amsterdam runs January 22nd, 2027 to January 31st, 2027 at RAI Amsterdam. Here is what that specific window is like on the ground.
The catch
The lowest race on the calendar
6°C (43°F) by day, 1°C (34°F) at night
Amsterdam in late January
- At two metres below sea level this is the lowest race on the calendar, and the only one under it.
- The January average reaches 6.2°C (43°F) by day and falls to 1.2°C (34°F) at night.
- About 71mm of rain falls across the month, usually sideways: this is a windy, flat country.
- Daylight runs 08:35 to 17:10, so the light goes shortly after five.
- Daylight
- Dark
- Bar height is temperature
What racing here is like
Your race is here
RAI Amsterdam
January 22nd, 2027
HYROX Amsterdam
- Everything below describes this building first, and the other for comparison
The venue at a glance
- Address
- Europaplein 24, Amsterdam
- Nearest station
- Europaplein, metro 52, in front of the building (at the venue)
- Parking
- At the RAI, EUR 30 a day booked online. The train is ten minutes from the airport, so this is rarely worth it.
- From the nearest hotel
- 2 to 10 min from Hotels at the RAI and Zuid
- Altitude
- -2m above sea level, low enough to make no difference to your race.
- Bag drop
- Hyrox has not published the bag drop arrangement for Amsterdam.
- Supporters
- Hyrox has not published spectator ticketing for Amsterdam.
Amsterdam has moved building, moved season, and grown from a single day into the best part of a week. Where you race, and when, changes the day more than most people expect.
RAI Amsterdam, your race is in this building
The main exhibition centre of the Netherlands, in the south of the city, with a metro station and a railway station both in front of it.
Known for. The ISE technology show, the boat show, and the conferences that fill Amsterdam Zuid every winter.
The building. Founded in 1893 as a bicycle trade association and moved to Europaplein in 1961, growing into twelve halls as the district was built around it.
Race day and start times
The thing that shapes your travel is not the race date. It is when you find out what time you are racing on it.
Hyrox links individual start times on the event page about three days before the race. A provisional schedule goes up earlier.
What to bring
At the RAI, and only on the day you compete. Registration opens 90 minutes before the first wave of your division.
You do not bring a chip. You collect the ankle strap at check-in, wear it for the race, and hand it back after the line.
What your wristband does not cover
You are given a wristband at check-in. Hyrox has not published what the Amsterdam one admits you to. Check-in is open only on the day you race, so do not assume it covers a second day.
Getting there on the morning
Metro 52 to Europaplein, or the train to Amsterdam RAI. Both stop in front of the building and both run early.
What you need to book
Before you book
Book flights and the last night around the provisional schedule, not around a wave you have not been given.
If Hyrox cancels or postpones the event, its terms do not cover your flights or your room. Check the cancellation deadline on both before you pay for either.
Flying into the city
Rotterdam The Hague and Eindhoven take some low-cost routes and are an hour or more away by train.
Search flights to AmsterdamBy train
Check train times and faresSomewhere to stay
The closest beds go first, and those are the ones that matter on race morning.
Compare hotels near the venueSomething to do with the rest of the weekend
Most people fly in for one race and see nothing. The day before is dead time if you do not plan it.
Tours and tickets in AmsterdamSomewhere to put your bag
Flying out the same evening? This is the difference between a good afternoon and hauling a kit bag around a city.
Left luggage in AmsterdamYour entry
Sold by Hyrox, one ticket per division per day. We earn nothing from this link and include it because you need it.
Official Hyrox entriesEstimate weekend cost
| Item | Local currency | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Three nights Nights near the venue | EUR 450 | $501 |
| Travel, airport and around the city | EUR 40 | $45 |
| Eating, three days | EUR 140 | $156 |
| One athlete plus one supporter | EUR 630 | $702 |
Getting to Amsterdam
Schiphol is ten minutes from Amsterdam RAI station on a direct train, for four euros.
The train from Schiphol
Ten minutes, four euros, direct to Amsterdam RAI station beside the venue. The shortest airport transfer of any European race here.
Metro 52 from the centre
The north-south line runs from Centraal through the middle of the city to Europaplein in about fifteen minutes. A day ticket is ten euros.
Entry requirements
Quick tip
Trains run through the night on this line, so a late arrival is not a problem.
Getting to the venue
The RAI is in Zuid, a business district rather than a part of the city. The centre is fifteen minutes on metro 52 and De Pijp is ten.
Amsterdam RAI station is beside the venue and Schiphol is ten minutes away on a direct train for four euros. That is the shortest and cheapest airport transfer of any European race on this calendar, and it makes parking at EUR 30 a day look silly.
Where to stay
The RAI sits in Zuid, a business district with little evening in it. Metro 52 runs from the door to De Pijp in five minutes and the centre in fifteen.
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1. Hotels at the RAI and Zuid
Business hotels built for the fairs, including one attached to the venue. Closest to the hall and dull after six.
2. Hotels in De Pijp
The Albert Cuyp market, small restaurants and the Heineken brewery. The best balance of close and interesting.
3. Hotels in the centre and Jordaan
The canals, the museums and the crowds. Fifteen minutes on metro 52, and the reason to be in Amsterdam.
January is the low season here and nothing large is in the RAI that week, so rooms are at their cheapest point of the year.
Neighbourhoods worth the commute
Amsterdam is small and flat and metro 52 runs north from the venue through the middle of it. Everything below is fifteen minutes or less.
| Area | To the venue | Why | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zuid | 2 to 10 min on foot | The business district around the RAI and the Zuidas towers. Convenient, modern and without much life after work. | |
| De Pijp | about 5 min by metro | The Albert Cuyp market, a dense grid of small restaurants and the liveliest neighbourhood near the venue. | |
| The Museum Quarter | about 8 min by metro | The Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh and the Vondelpark. Leafy, expensive and quiet in January. | |
| The canal ring | about 15 min by metro | The seventeenth-century grid of canals and gabled houses. Beautiful, and busier than anywhere else here. | |
| Jordaan | about 18 min by metro and tram | Narrow streets, brown cafes and the Anne Frank House. The most charming and the furthest. |
Eating before and after
The night before a race is not the night for the best meal of your trip, which is harder discipline than it sounds in a city this good at food.
Zuid, by the venue
The business district has chain restaurants that serve early and quietly, two minutes from the hall. Nothing to recommend them except that.
De Pijp
Five minutes north on metro 52, with Italian and Middle Eastern places that will do you a plain plate of rice or pasta. The better version of the same evening.
Dutch food is not the reason to come, but Indonesian food in the Netherlands is.
A rijsttafel
The Dutch-Indonesian banquet of a dozen small dishes around a bowl of rice, which exists here and almost nowhere else. Several long-established places in the centre and in Oud-Zuid do it properly.
De Pijp, for everything else
Surinamese, Turkish and Syrian kitchens around the Albert Cuyp, most of them under twenty euros. Five minutes from the hall and better than Zuid.
Race day supplies
The practical failures that spoil a race weekend are almost never the training. They are forgetting the gels, or carrying a kit bag around a city for six hours.
Pack list
- A windproof layer rather than a heavy one. It is 1.2°C (34°F) overnight and the wind here is the problem.
- Waterproofs. Seventy-one millimetres of January rain, and no shelter anywhere flat.
- A card. The Netherlands is close to cashless and many places take no notes at all.
Quick tips
- Take the train from Schiphol rather than driving. Parking at the RAI is EUR 30 a day.
- Watch for bicycles when you step off a tram. They have right of way and they will not stop.
Zuid has supermarkets and a pharmacy within a few minutes. Dutch shops keep long hours, including Sundays in the centre.
The last race in Amsterdam
RAI Amsterdam is a recent addition to the Hyrox calendar, so there is little previous form here to pass on.
What happened
The last edition, in short.
- Metro 52 stops at Europaplein in front of the building, and Amsterdam RAI station is beside it.
- The site runs to twelve halls, so check your hall number before you choose an entrance.
What it means for you
How your race differs from that one.
- Parking is EUR 30 a day, among the steepest on the calendar. Take the train.
- Eight and a half hours of daylight, and January in the Netherlands is wet.
What else is on that weekend
A quiet January weekend, with nothing competing for the halls.
| What | When | Where | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Famke Louise | 22 and 23 January | AFAS Live, Bijlmer | Two nights in the south-east, on the same metro line as the venue. It fills the trains after eleven, not the hotels. |
| The Amsterdam Light Festival | Through January | The canals in the centre | Installations along the canals, best seen by boat. The one thing a dark January here is actually good for. |
| The National Tulip Day | Mid-January | Dam Square | Usually the third Saturday, so just before race week. Worth checking the date if you are arriving early. |
| The museums in low season | All January | The Museum Quarter | The quietest the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh get all year, and the best reason to come in winter. |
What to see
Written for someone racing tomorrow, not a tourist with a week. Each entry says how far it is, because some of these are worth a longer trip and some are not.
The Rijksmuseum
The Dutch Golden Age in one building, with the Night Watch at the end of the Gallery of Honour. Twenty-five euros, and January is the quietest it gets.
The Van Gogh Museum
Two hundred paintings and five hundred drawings in the order he made them, which is the point of coming rather than seeing them scattered. Twenty-five euros and book ahead.
The Anne Frank House
The canal house and the rooms behind the bookcase, left largely empty on purpose. Sixteen fifty, timed entry only, and tickets go weeks ahead.
The canal ring on foot
Four concentric seventeenth-century canals with the houses still leaning forward over them. Free, flat and better in the cold than in July.
What to do
The Light Festival by boat
Installations along the canals through January, designed to be seen from the water. An hour on a covered boat is the civilised way to spend a dark evening.
The Vondelpark loop
A flat, lit, 3.5km circuit through the city park, used by every runner in Amsterdam. Ten minutes from the venue by metro.
The Albert Cuyp market
A street market in De Pijp running six days a week, with stroopwafels made in front of you and herring stands. Five minutes from the venue.
A bicycle, obviously
The city is flat, the lanes are separated and the rental shops are everywhere. In January you will be cold and wet, and it is still the right way to see it.
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Last updated November 7th, 2026.