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Groningen

Groningen is a lively student city in the Northern Netherlands. It is the capital of a province with the same name and home to about 217,000 inhabitants (2023), making it the largest city in the north. Wikivoyage

Population 238,147 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Netherlands

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Netherlands

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Markets

  • Vismarkt

    1. Monday: closed
    2. Tuesday: 09:00–17:00
    3. Wednesday: closed
    4. Thursday: closed
    5. Friday: 09:00–17:00
    6. Saturday: 09:00–17:00
    7. Sunday: closed

    09:00–17:00

    730 m from the centre

  • Ommelander Markt

    No hours mapped

    1.2 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 87 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Groningen Noord 1.7 km, Groningen Europapark 1.8 km, Haren 5.7 km

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