Egmond aan Zee: parking, the beach and where to eat

Egmond aan Zee has 4,655 inhabitants and falls under the gemeente Bergen (Bergen municipality). That last point decides two things you notice straight away: you pay to park here, and the beach rules of that same municipality apply on the sand.

For your bearings: the village sits on the North Sea coast of the province of Noord-Holland. Alkmaar, the nearest city, lies about 9 kilometres inland to the east, and Amsterdam roughly 35 kilometres to the south-east. Both are straight-line distances worked out from coordinates. The drive we have not measured.

Where can you park?

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

Two things we could not establish for Egmond aan Zee: which parking zone the village falls in, and what the daily maximum is there. For comparison, at Bergen aan Zee that maximum is 14.70 euros and at Hargen aan Zee 7.35 euros. Read the sign at the machine before you leave the car. How many spaces the car parks hold and exactly where they lie, we have not counted here either.

Expect traffic marshals in fine weather. If Bergen aan Zee is full, the municipality sends cars here, among other places. If Egmond aan Zee is full, they carry on to Hargen aan Zee.

Where is the beach?

On the west side of the village, behind the boulevard, as the seafront promenade is called here. The coordinates of the beach pavilions we measured give an occupied strip of about 1.3 kilometres. A strandpaviljoen is a beach pavilion: a permanent restaurant standing on the sand, not a summer stall.

From north to south: Evi Beach (Strand 2), De Jongens (Boulevard Noord), Restaurant Bad Egmond (Westeinde 7), The Lookout (Westeinde 5), Nautilus aan Zee (Strand 10) and De Zilvermeeuw on the Dokter Helleboulevard as the southernmost.

The four pavilions around Westeinde and Strand stand close together, within a few hundred metres. Evi Beach lies a good half kilometre north of them, De Zilvermeeuw a good 350 metres south of Nautilus.

Can the dog run off the lead on the beach?

From 1 May to 1 October your dog may run off the lead before 10.00 and after 19.00. In between he may come along on a lead on the activity beaches, recognisable by the orange post tops. On the sunbathing beach (yellow posts) and the naturist beach (pink posts) he is not allowed between 10.00 and 19.00, not even on a lead. From 1 October to 1 May more is permitted.

Which post colour stands where on the beach at Egmond aan Zee, we have not checked. So walk past the posts before you settle down. These rules were checked for this guide on 3 September 2026 with the gemeente Bergen. New beach rules come into force on 1 January 2027.

Where can you eat?

This guide holds twenty measured eating places in Egmond aan Zee, collected on 5 September 2026. Four of them stand at 4.6 or higher: De Chinese Muur at Zuiderstraat 42 (4.7 from 762 reviews), Restaurant Vlackbij at Julianastraat 29 (4.7 from 480), Visrestaurant Vissuper at Voorstraat 79 (4.6 from 869) and Pompadour at Voorstraat 93 (4.6 from 507).

The addresses with the most reviews stand on the sea: Nautilus aan Zee has 4,146 and stands at 4.4, The Lookout 3,285 at 4.4, De Zilvermeeuw 2,138 at 4.3. In the village itself Restaurant Van Speijk (Westeinde 1, 4.4 from 2,136) and Het Wapen van Egmond (Voorstraat 150-154, 4.5 from 1,989) are the most reviewed. The lowest mark of the twenty is a 3.9, for De Jongens on Boulevard Noord, from 805 reviews.

Ratings move. This is a snapshot from 5 September 2026, not a ranking that still holds next month.

What is there to do in Egmond aan Zee?

There is a lighthouse in the village. The year it was built, its height and whether you can go up it we have not been able to verify, so those numbers are not here.

About two kilometres inland, directly east of the village, lie the ruins of Egmond castle (52.62188, 4.65427 in OpenStreetMap). How much of it still stands and whether the grounds are freely accessible, we have not checked.

For the neighbours: Bergen aan Zee lies 4.7 kilometres north as the crow flies, Schoorl a good 10 kilometres and Camperduin a good 12. Those are straight-line figures worked out from the coordinates in this guide, not the driving distance. That we have not measured.

Where do you get a view over the dunes?

Two viewpoints are in OpenStreetMap. Torensduin lies close by, about 160 metres south of the centre (52.61690, 4.62616). How high that point is, is not recorded there.

Uitkijkpunt De Bleek, the De Bleek viewpoint, lies 1.2 kilometres south-east of the village (52.61035, 4.63688), at 33 metres. That is the only viewpoint here for which we have a firm height.