Cheese Market Alkmaar

The first cheese market is on March 29, 2024!

Thousands of visitors from all over the world come to Alkmaar especially for the cheese market. It is therefore a special spectacle with a square full of cheese and lugging cheese carriers. In 1365 Alkmaar had weighing rights and one scale, but in 1612 there were already four. When the first real cheese market took place is shrouded in mystery. Old documents have been found that clearly show that the cheese market took place in 1622, but there is also evidence that the cheese carriers' guild was founded in 1593; From this we can conclude that there must have already been a cheese market then.

A square full of cheese, cheese carriers, cheese girls, market masters and traders. You will be amazed at the Alkmaar Cheese Market. Cheese has been traded here in the same way for hundreds of years.

Alkmaar is known far beyond the national borders as the Dutch Cheese City. Historical documents show that Alkmaar already had a cheese scale in the year 1365. The city therefore has the oldest cheese market in the Netherlands. On Fridays during the cheese market season, which runs from the end of March to September, people from all over the world come to Alkmaar to enjoy this colorful spectacle.

From March 29, there will be a cheese market every Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Waagplein in the center of Alkmaar.

In the months of July and August, the cheese market takes place on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM.