Last updated: September 2026

There are many places in Amsterdam where you can buy organic products, from the regular supermarket chains to fancy boutiques, but my favourites, by far, are the farmers markets! They are lively places, packed with fresh and local products, many of them organic. This guide covers seven of them, spread across the centre, Noord, Oost and Zuid.

My favourite activity on Saturdays is to visit the market and browse the colourful stalls looking for the best vegetables, flowers and herbs. Sometimes I’ll meet a friend for a short chat over a coffee and a freshly baked muffin. Going home with bags full of tasty and healthy products gives me big satisfaction, and I’m also happy that I don’t bring back boxes upon boxes of plastic, as it is usually the case when shopping at the supermarket.

A big plus for shopping at the farmers markets is that here you can find products you don’t find in the supermarkets, like certain types of heirloom vegetables or herbs. I love buying a huge bunch of fresh herbs that I will dry and use in my cooking months from now, and try new varieties of veggies.

Between them these markets cover Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Most are small, just a couple of dozen stalls at most, and several of them have been going for decades.

Wooden crates of chicory, grapes, apples, cranberries and oranges with chalk price signs at an Amsterdam market stall

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Which Amsterdam Market Is On Today?

If you only have one free morning, this is the short version.

  • Wednesday — Boerenmarkt Haarlemmerplein (Centrum) and Biomarkt Zeeburg (Oost).
  • Saturday — Biologische Noordermarkt (Jordaan), Boerenmarkt Nieuwmarkt (Centrum), Boerenmarkt Buikslotermeerplein (Noord) and ZuiderMRKT (Oud-Zuid).
  • Sunday — Pure Markt, in Park Frankendael, the Amstelpark or the Amsterdamse Bos depending on the week.

Biologische Noordermarkt, in the Jordaan

The stalls sell vegetables and fruit, fresh pasta, cheese, honey, jams, bread, fish and mushrooms. This is my favourite market in Amsterdam, maybe because I have lived close to it for several years; but Noordermarkt truly has a lot to offer, and people from all over the city come to it. The mushroom stall is one of the best I’ve seen, with wild varieties along the regular suspects, and there are very passionate people selling their goods there.

The location is great as well — the beautiful Jordaan neighbourhood, and the market is surrounded by many cafés and restaurants. The place known for the best apple pie in town (Winkel 43) is also here, and there’s always a queue on Saturdays. The market has also non-food products, like beautiful ceramic or candles and soap.

Every Saturday from 9.00 to 16.00, at Noordermarkt (about a ten-minute walk from Central Station).

Stallholder in a red apron serving customers at a fruit stall at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
Baskets of chanterelles and wild mushrooms with handwritten chalk prices at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
 

Pure Markt, a Travelling Sunday Market

Pure Markt is a travelling Sunday market with three locations: Park Frankendael, the Amstelpark and the Amsterdamse Bos. This is a mix of food and artisan and designer products, with 70% of the stalls being food-related (although less fruit and veggies and more of already cooked food and other ingredients). The atmosphere is gezellig, and it’s almost like a fair where you can take your family or friends for a few hours of fun. If you have a look at their list of participants, you will understand what I’m talking about. There is always some music around, sometimes dancing, and entertainment for kids.

Each park has its own slot in the month: Park Frankendael on the last Sunday, the Amstelpark on the second Sunday, and the Amsterdamse Bos on various Sundays through the year.

It’s not weekly and you’ll have to check the schedule on their website, but it’s totally worth a visit. Markets usually run from 11.00 to 18.00, closing an hour earlier in late autumn and winter.

A couple dancing on the grass beside a vintage crêpe van at Pure Markt in the park
Red, white and blue striped market awnings along a park path at Pure Markt Frankendael Park

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Boerenmarkt Haarlemmerplein

A small market on Haarlemmerplein, where you can find fresh veggies and fruit, cheese, fish, garden plants and some other local and mainly organic products. The selection is not too varied, but it’s good for a weekly shopping trip. Also great for a lunch: I used to work nearby and I would buy my veggie burger there almost every week on Wednesdays.

Every Wednesday from 10.00 to 17.00, at Haarlemmerplein.

Smiling baker in a white hat behind crates of bread, muffins and pastries at a market bakery stall
Soft goat's cheese rolled in blue cornflower petals, crumbled on a wooden board with a cheese knife

Boerenmarkt Buikslotermeerplein, Amsterdam Noord

The place to buy organic vegetables, cheese and meat in Amsterdam Noord. The organic market takes place next to the regular market, and brings a great variety of fresh products like the bakery of Vlaamsch Broodhuys or the honey straight from the producer and flowers from De Pluktuin. And if you don’t live in Amsterdam Noord, you get to take the ferry across the IJ to go there, which is always a fun (and free) thing.

Every Saturday from 8.30 to 17.30, at Buikslotermeerplein.

Bouquet of scabious, zinnias and cosmos wrapped in brown paper beside a chalkboard sign at a flower stall

Biologische Boerenmarkt Nieuwmarkt

This organic and farmers market on the Nieuwmarkt takes place in the heart of the city, close to Amsterdam Centraal and the Red Light District. You can buy your fresh vegetables, bread and non-food products and have a stop for a drink afterwards in one of the many surrounding restaurants. It is also a short walk from the Oudemanhuispoort book market, if you want to make a morning of it.

Every Saturday from 9.00 to 17.00, at Nieuwmarkt.

Curly kale, broccoli and red and grey-green winter squash piled up at a market stall

ZuiderMRKT, the Cooperative Market in Oud-Zuid

ZuiderMRKT is a small organic market in the beautiful Oud-Zuid neighbourhood, unique by its cooperative character. The cooperative consists of members – enthusiastic local residents – who give the market a warm welcome and help on the market and in the vegetable stall. You can find here plenty of fresh vegetables, cheese, bread and meat. It’s a lovely neighbourhood market.

Every Saturday from 9.30 to 17.00, on the corner of Jacob Obrechtstraat and Johannes Verhulststraat.

Jars of olives, artichokes and tomato passata with bottles of olive oil at a market delicatessen stall

Biomarkt Zeeburg, Amsterdam Oost

On Wednesdays there is an organic market on Van Eesterenlaan, at the head of Borneo-eiland in the eastern docklands. It has been running for more than ten years in Amsterdam Oost and it is the only weekly organic market in this part of the city. The stalls sell vegetables, fruit, nuts, cheese, olives, bread and mushrooms, and there are hot food stands as well — roti, pizza, Lebanese mezze, fish and grilled chicken — so it works as a lunch stop as much as a shopping trip.

Every Wednesday from 10.00 to 18.00, on Van Eesterenlaan.

If the weather is against you, or you want to shop on a day when nothing is on, I have written separately about where to shop for organic products in Amsterdam and about the food of the city more generally.

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