Halloween

Halloween is marked on 31 October, but in the Netherlands it is not a public holiday and the main activity is usually in the evening. It has become most visible in larger towns, newer suburbs, and neighbourhoods that organise their own routes for children. Families decorate front gardens, windows, and doorways with carved pumpkins, string lights, fake cobwebs, and plastic skeletons. Children in costume go door to door for sweets, but they usually only knock at houses that are clearly decorated or listed as taking part. Alongside the English call "trick or treat", Dutch speakers may simply wish each other "Fijne Halloween" on the street or online.

For teenagers and adults, Halloween in the Netherlands often means costume parties, bar nights, and large commercial events rather than family dinners. Cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and Eindhoven host club nights and themed pub crawls, while theme parks draw big crowds with horror mazes, scare zones, and actors in make-up. Walibi Holland's Halloween Fright Nights and Toverland's Halloween Nights are among the best-known examples, so many people travel there after dark instead of staying in their own street. Costumes often lean toward witches, zombies, vampires, and film characters, and supermarkets and party shops sell masks, face paint, and bags of mini sweets in the days before 31 October.

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