{"id":307376,"date":"2025-11-21T00:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/amsterdam\/how-to-survive-winter-in-the-netherlands-amsterdamian\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:18:33","slug":"how-to-survive-winter-in-the-netherlands-amsterdamian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=307376","title":{"rendered":"How to Survive Winter in the Netherlands | Amsterdamian"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The alarm goes off and I reach for my clock, convinced it was set at the wrong time. It\u2019s too dark in the bedroom, I hear no birds singing; it can\u2019t already be time to wake up and start working. But the little lit screen shows me I am wrong. It is the time to start a new day. My whole body hurts, my brain feels foggy and I already hate the whole world. No, I didn\u2019t party hard last night. It\u2019s just the beginning of a winter day<\/a> for me. And this goes on from mid-November to March, when the winter will be gone and the days will start to grow longer again.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not even December and I am already complaining about the depressing weather<\/strong>. The winter months can be difficult in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

I never had to fight winter so much<\/strong>. In Romania, winters can be very cold with a lot of snow, but definitely with more light hours. Here, winter brings mostly rain and many dark, grey days. Sometimes we can go as much as a few weeks without seeing the sun. I find comfort in the fact that I am not the only one, and that other people who already struggled with it have found some solutions to survive. I try to learn from them. The Dutch have a trick to survive these months<\/strong>: a holiday somewhere warm. The Danish have their hygge. Because the holiday will last a few weeks at most, and then there are still a few months to deal with, I try to mix both and find ways to cope better with the reality of Dutch winter without needing to escape to warmer places.<\/p>\n

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So, what is there to do to survive the winter months in the Netherlands and get to the spring still in all your senses?<\/h2>\n