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New Year’s Dive in the Netherlands

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By Joop on 28 December 2022 Celebration and feast Days, Culture

Do you like cold water? On the first day of the year you can, together with thousands of Dutch people, take a New Year’s Dive into the North  Sea. Everywhere in Holland, there are New Year’s Dives organized. Most of them are on the beaches of the North Sea and the Wadden Sea but also by towns or villages near lakes, rivers, or canals are New Year’s Dive’s organized. It’s great fun, and a big challenge to start the New Year! So as we say put on your naughty shoes and dive in together with all these brave Dutch people.

Countdown to New Years Dive at Scheveningen Beach

New Years Dive locations in the Netherlands by Unox
New Year’s Dive locations by Unox

Traditional New Year’s Dive

Since 1959 the traditional New Year’s Dive started with only 28 people on the beach of Zandvoort. Nowadays thousands of people gather together by the seaside on New Year’s Day. Nearly 45.000 people take a cold water dive on the 1st day of the year. They are all shivering from the cold, waiting together on the beach for the starting signal to go. After the starting signal is given they all run together into the very cold North Sea water and back again. It’s a very jolly and happy event. Afterward, everybody is very proud that they had the guts to take the New Year’s Dive. In wintertime, the water of the North Sea is extremely cold.

New Years Dive
New Years Dive

Since the beginning of the traditional New Year’s Dive, it only happened once that it didn’t go through because of the extremely cold weather.

And if you don’t want to make a New Year’s Dive? Be part of the crowd that is looking. Just looking is a lot of fun.

Sign up for the next New Year’s dive: New Years Dive – Den Haag – Scheveningen

Scheveningen
new years dive
Scheveningen – Photo Olga Kropman

New Year’s Dive locations

Places where you must be for a New Year’s Dive on the first day of the year!
At Nieuwjaarduik you find more information about locations, dates, and time of all new years dive in the Netherlands

North Sea Beaches

Scheveningen
Zandvoort
Bloemendaal
Wijk aan Zee
Egmond aan Zee
Bergen aan Zee

Wadden Sea Islands

Texel
Terschelling
Vlieland
Ameland
Schiermonnikoog

IJsselmeer

Hoorn
Medemblik
Hindeloopen
Lemmer

Inland

Amsterdam Gaasperplas
Amsterdam IJburg
Amsterdam Sloterplas

Starting times

All the New Year’s Dive starts around 12.00 / 14.00 pm, so be on time, you don’t want to miss this.

Nudist New Year’s Dive

For nudist. There are three nudist New Year’s Dives. You can find one of them at the beach by Zandvoort. The other two are in the country, one of them in Twiske at Oostzaan and the other in Leeuwarden in the province of Frysian.

New Year’s Dive in January

There is also New Year’s Dive organized on other days in January, mostly on Sundays associated with another event.

Utrecht, on the 2nd Sunday in January there is a so-called Culture Sunday with a New Year’s Dive.

Charity

This event has been adopted by Unox, this is a food factory for soups and sausages. If you sign in by Unox you pay 3 Euros and you’ll get a goody bag with an Unox cap and after the dive a cup of soup. This soup is a traditional Dutch soup called Erwtensoup made of peas, leeks, and beef. The money made by this event goes to a charity cause.

Often there are local charity causes where people can join in.

Corona – no New Years Dive in 2020, 2021 and 2022

In 2020, 2021, and 2022 there was no New Year’s dive due to the Corona crisis.
Organized New Year’s dives could not take place due to the corona measures. Despite the fact that it was strongly discouraged, many people went into the water on their own. On the beach of Scheveningen, it was quite busy with people who ventured a New Year’s dive and in other places, people also went into the water.

During Covid, the government advised that the New Year’s dive was canceled with the request not to go to the beach because there would be no lifeguards present.

As a consolation and to create a form of New Year’s dip at home, you could order a can of seawater, a can of pea soup, and 2 Unox hats for free.

A can of Seawater and Pea soup

2023 | Hopefully, Corona will in 2023 a thing of the past.
Will you join us on January 1th for the New Years Dive ? Dive into the new year with your friends and family!

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Hello, my name is Joop and I am the creator/designer of this blog. Always looking for new adventures. I travelled the World and would like to travel some more. Well, that's who I am in a nutshell. Together with some friends and family we like to show the Netherlands to the World. I hope you will enjoy our blog and persuade you to visit our lovely country. Love to see you soon in Holland.

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