Amsterdam Dance Event — festival guide
Various Amsterdam venues, Amsterdam, Netherlands21–25 Oct 2026 · 5 days2 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 21–25 Oct 2026 (5 days)
- Location
- Various Amsterdam venues, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Sound
- Electronic · Afro House
- Crowd
- around 1,200 people
- Tickets
- €795 · 1 tier tracked
The story
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is an annual electronic music festival held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This year marks its 30th anniversary, celebrating three decades of diverse music and cultural programming. The festival includes a full conference, festival, and various networking events, showcasing a broad range of activities across the city.
Amsterdam Dance Event is a 5-day electronic, afro house festival at Various Amsterdam venues in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The October 2026 edition runs 21–25 Oct 2026. It draws around 1,200 people.
Expect stages split between Electronic and Afro House.
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 Various Amsterdam venues, in Amsterdam. Amsterdam is the base for the trip: it is where the affordable beds, the late trains and the after-parties are, and where prices climb fastest as the dates approach.
Amsterdam Dance Event keeps the same calendar slot each year: October 2026 for this edition, opening on a Wednesday and closing on a Sunday. 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.
- 30th anniversary celebration
- Over 1,200 events
- ADE Pro Pass for conference and festival access
- Various stages and locations throughout Amsterdam
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€795
Return transport
€57
bus · 7h 58m each way
Place to stay
€765
Hostel / camping · 5 nights
Total door to door
€1,617
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Amsterdam Dance Event works out at roughly €1,617 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
The ticket is only 49% 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 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 6 nights rather than 5: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow 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 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
21–25 Oct 2025 (approx.)
2024
21–25 Oct 2024 (approx.)
2023
21–25 Oct 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Various Amsterdam venues, in Amsterdam.
- 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