ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) — festival guide
multiple venues, Amsterdam, Netherlands20–23 Oct 2026 · 4 days1 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 20–23 Oct 2026 (4 days)
- Location
- multiple venues, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sound
- variety
- Crowd
- around 1,200 people
- Tickets
- €795 · 1 tier tracked
- Nearest airport
- Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Nearest station
- Amsterdam Central Station
- Venue type
- Urban venue
- Best nearby base
- Amsterdam · 0 km · about 0 min
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) is a prominent electronic music festival and conference held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Celebrating 30 years, it hosts over 1,200 events, attracting industry professionals and fans alike. The event features multiple stages and areas, such as ADE Pro and ADE Lab, promoting networking and cultural exchange within the dance music community. The atmosphere combines learning experiences with live performances across the city.
ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) is a 4-day variety festival at multiple venues in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The October 2026 edition runs 20–23 Oct 2026. It draws around 1,200 people.
At around 1,200 attendees it stays on the intimate side, which usually means shorter bar queues and a crowd that is there for the music rather than the spectacle. Everything happens at multiple venues, in Amsterdam. Amsterdam · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.
ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Tuesday and closing on a Friday. It falls in autumn, after the summer circuit closes, when flights and rooms come back down in price. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Amsterdam are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.
- 30 years of ADE celebrations
- Features 1,200+ events
- Various stages including ADE Pro and ADE Lab
- Networking opportunities through Pro Pass
- Promotes arts and culture within the electronic music scene
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Urban venue
- Best nearby base
- Amsterdam · 0 km · about 0 min
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
- Getting to the gates
- Accessible via public transport and walking
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€795
Return transport
€57
bus · 7h 58m each way
Place to stay
€1,092
Hostel / camping · 4 nights
Total door to door
€1,944
Door to door from Paris, a trip to ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) works out at roughly €1,944 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
The ticket is only 41% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.
Cheapest travel we price is bus · 7h 58m each way, at €57 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
- 3Reserve 5 nights rather than 4: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4If you fly into Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, check the transfer time to Amsterdam before booking the earliest departure — the airport bus is usually the cheapest leg of the whole trip.
- 5Follow ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.
Full line-up
Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for ADE (Amsterdam Dance Event) yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
Past editions
Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.
2025
20–23 Oct 2025 (approx.)
2024
20–23 Oct 2024 (approx.)
2023
20–23 Oct 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- Fly into Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the closest airport to the site.
- Rail arrivals come through Amsterdam Central Station; shuttles usually run from there.
- The site itself is multiple venues, in Amsterdam.
- Accessible via public transport and walking
- Book a bed in Amsterdam early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- bus7h 58m · €57
- car6h 32m · €131
- air4h 6m · €138
- train4h 48m · €148