The lighthouse of Egmond aan Zee is called J.C.J. van Speijk

The name of the tower is J.C.J. van Speijk. Beyond that this page is deliberately thin: the year of building, the height, the light character and the opening hours we could not get from a source we were able to check, so they are not here.

Where exactly does the lighthouse stand?

In the village. The coordinate under this page, 52.61831 / 4.62563, is the one for the centre of Egmond aan Zee, the same one that sits under the village itself. We have not measured the position of the tower separately. Egmond aan Zee is a seaside village on the North Sea coast of Noord-Holland; Alkmaar, the nearest town with a railway station, lies inland to the east.

From that village point, Pompadour at Voorstraat 93 is 24 metres away, Restaurant De Parel van Egmond at Voorstraat 85-A is 33 metres and Visrestaurant Vissuper at Voorstraat 79 is 63 metres. Restaurant Van Speijk stands at Westeinde 1, 338 metres away. Those are distances from the centre, not from the tower.

How high is the lighthouse, and what year is it from?

We do not know. The height, the year of building, the light character and the monument status we have not been able to verify, and a figure we cannot check is a figure we do not print.

The Klimduin in Schoorl does carry 51 metres, and the Catrijper Nok 55.4 metres, because those figures come from a measurement. Here we have no such measurement. If you know the source, we would like to hear it.

Can you go inside the tower?

Not checked. Whether the tower is open to visitors, or only on certain days, and what it costs if so, we have not been able to verify. So do not count on getting to the top. Who manages the tower and whether there is a visiting arrangement will appear here once we have checked it.

Where can you park?

Paid. Egmond aan Zee is on the list of paid parking areas of the municipality of Bergen, together with Bergen, Schoorl, Bergen aan Zee and Hargen aan Zee. The municipal hourly rate is 2.45 euros (2026 rate). From 1 November to 1 March you pay on Saturday and Sunday only, so on winter weekdays you stand for free.

Which parking zone Egmond aan Zee falls into and what the daily maximum is there, we have not been able to establish. For comparison, in Bergen aan Zee that maximum is 14.70 euros and at Hargen aan Zee 7.35 euros. Read the sign at the ticket machine before you park. How many spaces the car parks in the village hold and how many metres you walk from the car to the tower, we have not counted or measured.

Can the dog come?

Whether the dog may go into the tower we do not know, because we do not even know whether you may. On the beach at Egmond aan Zee the beach rules of the municipality of Bergen apply. From 1 May to 1 October your dog may run free before 10.00 and after 19.00. In between he may come on a lead on the activity beaches, recognisable by the orange post caps. On the sun beach (yellow posts) and the naturist beach (pink posts) he may not come at all between 10.00 and 19.00, lead or no lead. From 1 October to 1 May more is allowed. Those coloured posts are how the Dutch mark out beach sections; the colour on the cap tells you which rules you are standing in.

Which post colour stands where on this beach, we have not walked. These rules were checked for this guide on 3 September 2026 with the municipality of Bergen. New beach rules come into force on 1 January 2027.

Is it busy?

We have no visitor numbers, and nobody here publishes them. We do know how often it is searched for: 480 times a month on Google, measured on 5 September 2026, at difficulty 0. Those are Dutch-language searches.

Within that same measurement people search 6,600 times a month for the Klimduin in Schoorl and 2,400 times for the Palendorp near Petten. For Egmond aan Zee itself it comes to 1,900 searches a month on parking and 1,900 on the beach. So the lighthouse is not the most searched place on this coast, but people do look for it by name.

What else is nearby?

Two viewpoints are in OpenStreetMap. Torensduin lies roughly 160 metres south of the centre (52.61690 / 4.62616), with no height in the source. Uitkijkpunt De Bleek lies 1.2 kilometres south-east of the village (52.61035 / 4.63688), at 33 metres. That is the only viewpoint here whose height we have firm.

About two kilometres inland lie the ruins of Kasteel Egmond, the Egmond castle (52.62188 / 4.65427 in OpenStreetMap). What is still standing there and whether the site is freely accessible, we have not checked.

As the crow flies, worked out from the coordinates in this guide: Bergen aan Zee lies 4.7 kilometres to the north, Schoorl a good 10 kilometres and Camperduin a good 12 kilometres. That is not the driving distance, which we have not measured.