Live Webcams in Amsterdam

Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, is watched from its front room, and the live webcams in Amsterdam start there: the central square, the Dam, with the Royal Palace on one side, the trams and bicycles crossing it, the street performers, and the pigeons that outnumber everyone. The city keeps Central European Time, UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer, and the square is at its liveliest from late morning to early evening, roughly 10:00 to 18:00 UTC, with the light on the palace best in the late afternoon. The palace was built as the city hall and opened in 1655, on 13,659 wooden piles driven into the mud below the square. King's Day on 27 April turns the whole city orange; April brings the tulips and September the mildest light.