North Holland · Netherlands
Where to stay in Hoorn
Hoorn is a city in North Holland, Netherlands, home to about 74,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Hoorn, with about 158 rooms between them.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- June and July
- Nearest airport
- AMS44 km · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Language
- Dutch
About
About Hoorn
Hoorn is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the largest town and the traditional capital of the region of West Friesland.
According to the Frisian legend, Hoorn was founded as early as 716 AD, only to burn down eight years later and rebuilt some time after that. It's assumed that the 'original' settlement was located in what is now the Markermeer. The oldest remnants of Hoorn to have been found date from around 1200 AD. The town gained its city rights in 1356 or 1357, which gave Hoorn the ability to observe its own laws, and to collect taxes. This made Hoorn into an appealing city for trade, and before long, the city had surpassed every other trade city on the Zuiderzee barring Amsterdam.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Hoorn
See
Hoorn's compact medieval centre is home to too many beautiful late medieval buildings to mention.
- Hoofdtoren
- Oosterkerk
- Oosterpoort
- Statenlogement
- Statencollege
- Waag
- Westfries Museum
- Museum of the Twentieth Century
Do
- Take the steam tram to Medemblik
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Hoorn
1 place to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Hotel Hoorn hotel | 158 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
When to go
The best time to visit Hoorn
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Hoorn are June and July. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 93 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Hoorn: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS), about 44 km from the city centre in a straight line; Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM, 89 km) and Groningen Airport Eelde (GRQ, 113 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
From Amsterdam or Schiphol Airport, Hoorn can be reached by taking the A10, the A8 and then the A7. Hoorn has two train stations, both of which are serviced by NS. The main train station, serving the city centre, is Hoorn. The other station, Hoorn Kersenboogerd, serves mostly the east of the city, which is mostly suburban in nature. Intercity services from NS between Hoorn and Amsterdam Centraal run every half hour, taking just over half an hour to connect the two, and only stopping at Amsterdam Sloterdijk along the way.
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AMS · Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
RTM · Rotterdam The Hague Airport
GRQ · Groningen Airport Eelde
Questions
Hoorn: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Hoorn?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Hoorn are June and July. August is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 93 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Hoorn?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS), about 44 km from the city centre in a straight line; Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM, 89 km) and Groningen Airport Eelde (GRQ, 113 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Hoorn?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Hoorn
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.