Keukenhof is a famous spring flower garden located in the town of Lisse in the Dutch flower bulb region (Bollenstreek) of South Holland. Since opening in 1950, the gardens near Amsterdam have become one of the most visited seasonal attractions in Europe.
More than 60 million people have now visited Keukenhof, with around 1.4 million visitors each spring season.
Below we look at the historic visitor statistics, milestone figures and some interesting facts about the world-famous tulip gardens.
Keukenhof Key Statistics
Milestone: Keukenhof surpassed 60 million total visitors in 2025, 75 years after opening. |
Source: AmsterdamTips.com archival research using Dutch newspaper archives and historic Keukenhof records.
Keukenhof Visitor Statistics
Keukenhof has grown from a regional flower exhibition into one of the most visited seasonal attractions in Europe. The figures below highlight the scale of the park and its visitor numbers today.
The 77th edition of Keukenhof runs 19 March to 10 May 2026 – meaning the gardens are open just 53 days in 2026.
In 2025, Keukenhof attracted just over 1.4 million visitors, an average of about 26,500 per day. This represents the highest average daily attendance of any attraction in the Netherlands.
Keukenhof surpassed 60 million cumulative visitors during the 2025 season, reaching around 60.8 million visitors since opening in 1950.
Around 20% of visitors are from the Netherlands, while 80% are international tourists. The largest visitor groups typically come from Germany, the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Because the park is only open for a short spring season, visitor numbers are heavily concentrated into a few weeks during the peak tulip bloom in April.
Since the year 2000 alone, more than 24 million people have visited Keukenhof.
Facts About Keukenhof Gardens
Keukenhof contains around 7 million flowers – that is the equivalent of 1 flower for every woman aged over 20 living in the Netherlands.
It’s not only tulips at Keukenhof – in fact there are approximately 1,600 varieties of flowers which includes 800 varieties of tulips.
The bulbs are hand-planted strategically by a team of 40 gardeners during the autumn – to produce waves of blooming flowers throughout the spring season.
The park also has 2,500 trees with 100 tree species.
About 1,100 people work at Keukenhof when the park is open.
Keukenhof park is 32 hectares (320,000m² or 79 acres) in size.
In comparison, this is about half the size of Amsterdam’s Vondelpark, a quarter of the size of London’s Kew Gardens and about one tenth the size of New York’s Central Park.
There are 15km of walking paths around the park at Keukenhof.
The park has 6 indoor exhibition pavilions named after the Dutch royals – Willem-Alexander, Oranje-Nassau, Wilhelmina, Juliana, Beatrix and Irene.
Plan your visit to Keukenhof with our complete visitor guide.
Keukenhof Visitor Numbers Timeline
Below is a timeline of key milestones in Keukenhof’s visitor history based on archival research and historic newspaper reports compiled by AmsterdamTips.com.
- Keukenhof was opened on Thursday 23 March 1950.
- On its very first Sunday – 26 March 1950 – it received 10,000 visitors.
- Dutch Queen Juliana visited Keukenhof on Tuesday 2 May 1950 with Princesses Beatrix, Irene and Margriet.
- In the first 1950 season Keukenhof had a total of 325,000 visitors. This is widely inaccurately reported as 235,000 or 236,000 visitors – probably someone mixed the figures up at some point. Here is a local newspaper report from 6 May 1950 announcing Keukenhof passing its 300,000th visitor.
- Keukenhof had its 1 millionth visitor in around May 1952.
- In 1954 it surpassed 500,000 visitors in a single season.
- In 1959 it set a record of 640,000 seasonal visitors.
- On 2 May 1962 Keukenhof was visited by a large royal party including Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
- In 1965 a record 742,000 visitors came to the park and by 1967 it reached 800,000 visitors in a season.
- Keukenhof received its 7 millionth visitor in May 1964 – a Mrs J. Houter from Bergen (Netherlands).
- Keukenhof had its 10 millionth visitor in May 1968 – a Mrs E. Roos-van den Brandt from Amsterdam.
- In its 25th anniversary year in 1974 Keukenhof set a new season record of 907,000 visitors.
- In 1978 the record was again broken with 940,000 visitors.
- Keukenhof received its 20 millionth visitor in May 1980 – a Miss Janice Warren from England.
- Keukenhof received its 25 millionth visitor in April 1986 – a Mrs F. Maubach from Cologne, Germany.
- Keukenhof received its 35 millionth visitor in April 1998 – a Mrs Pauline Emslie from Newcastle, England.
- Keukenhof received a total of just over 36 million visitors in the 20th century (1950-1999).
- In 1999, to mark its 50th anniversary Keukenhof also held a 7 hectare summer flower festival called Zomerhof which ran 19 August to 19 September. It was only held 2 more times.
- In 2014 Keukenhof reached the 1,000,000 visitors mark for the first time.
- Keukenhof received its 50 millionth visitor in 2015.
- 2019 was the all-time record year with 1,540,000 visitors to Keukenhof.
- Since 2000 Keukenhof has had 24 million visitors and counting.
- Keukenhof has welcomed around 60.8 million visitors between 1950 and 2025.
Annual Visitor Numbers (2000-2025)
The table below shows recorded annual visitor numbers to Keukenhof since 2000.
| Year | Visitors | Year | Visitors |
| 2000 | 798,000 | 2014 | 1,000,000 |
| 2001 | 755,000 | 2015 | 1,175,000 |
| 2002 | 700,000 | 2016 | 1,100,000 |
| 2003 | 670,000 | 2017 | 1,400,000 |
| 2004 | 770,000 | 2018 | 1,400,000 |
| 2005 | 700,000 | 2019 | 1,540,000 |
| 2006 | 760,000 | 2020* | 0 |
| 2007 | 825,000 | 2021* | 27,000 |
| 2008 | 835,000 | 2022 | 1,100,000 |
| 2009 | 850,000 | 2023 | 1,400,000 |
| 2010 | 800,000 | 2024 | 1,400,000 |
| 2011 | 900,000 | 2025 | 1,400,000 |
| 2012 | 875,000 | 2026 | – |
| 2013 | 849,000 |
* In 2020-21 the park did not open as normal – due to the imposed lockdowns.
Historic Keukenhof Ticket Prices
In 2026, an entrance ticket to Keukenhof is €21.00 for adults, €10.00 for children 4-17. Free entry for children 0-3.
Let’s look back at some historic entry prices for Keukenhof. Bear in mind that prior to 2002 the Dutch Guilder (f,-) was used. We will give the equivalent price in euros but we won’t account for inflation – which is the main reason for the price increases.
- In 1953 Keukenhof entrance was 1 guilder – roughly equivalent to €0.45.
- In 1957 Keukenhof entrance was 1.50 guilders (€0.68).
- In 1960 Keukenhof entrance was 2 guilders (€0.90).
- In 1973 Keukenhof entrance was 4 guilders (€1.80).
- In 1984 Keukenhof entrance was 8 guilders (€3.60).
- In 2001 (last year of the guilder), Keukenhof entrance was 20 guilders (€9.10).
- In 2002 (first year of the euro), a Keukenhof entrance ticket cost €11.
- In 2010 Keukenhof entrance was €14.
- In 2015 Keukenhof entrance was €16.
- In 2020 Keukenhof entrance was set at €17 – but the park remained closed that year.
- In 2025 Keukenhof entrance reached €20
Historic Keukenhof Themes (2006-2022)
Keukenhof traditionally ran a special theme for the park each year – however this has been discontinued since 2023.
These are the themes at Keukenhof for the seasons 2006 to 2022:
2006 400 Years of Rembrandt
2007 Linnaeus: King of Flowers Turns 300
2008 Beijing Olympic Games
2009 USA, 400 years New Amsterdam – New York
2010 From Russia with Love
2011 Germany – Land of Poets and Philosophers
2012 Poland – Heart of Europe
2013 United Kingdom – Land of Great Gardens
2014 Holland
2015 Van Gogh
2016 Golden Age
2017 Dutch Design
2018 Romance in Flowers
2019 Flower Power
2020/2021 A World of Colours
2022 Flower Classics
Keukenhof Stats – Summing Up
For more than 75 years, Keukenhof has been one of the Netherlands’ most famous seasonal attractions, welcoming visitors from around the world each spring.
Methodology: Historic visitor statistics were compiled by AmsterdamTips.com using archival newspaper reports, historic Keukenhof publications and official records where available.
A complete year-by-year dataset for the early decades of Keukenhof is not publicly available, so milestone figures were reconstructed by reviewing digitised Dutch newspaper archives and contemporary reports.
Sources: Keukenhof Archive.org Dutch Central Bureau Statistics (CBS) Dutch National Archive (Nationaal Archief) Leidsch Dagblad (archives) Leidse Courant (archives) Nieuwe Leidsche Courant (archives) De Voorhouter (archives)
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Keukenhof Visitor Statistics was first published 18 March 2025. Last updated 15 March 2026.
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