New Year's Day 2025

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Trams, cars, and bicyclists try to navigate Rotterdam's rush hour as Storm Benjamin makes its way across the Netherlands. 23 October 2025
1-1-2TechNature
Benjamin the third official "storm" to hit the Netherlands this autumn; fifth this year
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The Chinese New Year celebration in front of a Chinese gate in The Hague in 2015
CultureLifestyleEntertainment
Chinese New Year celebrations to take place in The Hague’s Chinatown
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Diemen Mayor Erik Boog speaking out against the national political discourse promoting division and anger instead of unity and progress. 8 January 2025
Politics
Dutch mayors angered by national politicians stirring up unrest and division
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Rain through a windshield
Nature
Third rainiest New Year’s Day since Dutch record keeping began in 1901
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The Rotterdam Eye Hospital on Schiedamse Vest in Rotterdam. Building designed by Adrianus van der Steur. 30 September 2015
Health1-1-2
Eye hospital operates on seven with fireworks injuries, another planned for Thursday
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Supermarket
Business
Supermarkets will be open in seven out of ten municipalities on New Year’s Day
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Three intercity trains at Groningen Central Station
Business
Nearly no trains will run in the Netherlands from 8 p.m. to 10 a.m. on New Year’s Eve
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About 10,000 people ran into the North Sea from Scheveningen Beach in The Hague for the annual New Year's Dive. 1 January 2020
TechNatureCultureLifestyle
New Year's Dive in Scheveningen cancelled due to strong wind
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The sun breaks through the clouds as storm force winds sweep past Rotterdam. 6 Dec. 2024
TechNature
Dutch New Year's to bring rotten weather; Only 27 hours of sunshine in gloomy December
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A Thuisbezorgd deliverer cycles through Maastricht. February 2022
CultureFood
New Year's Day will be the busiest of the year for food couriers with 40% rise in orders