Rotterdam · Nightlife

Two blocks of bars, galleries and kitchens running from the Museumpark to the old harbour. The default night out, and busy every night of the week.

The old dockers' peninsula across the water, now the best eating in the city, with the Fenix warehouses and Hotel New York out on the point. Water taxi both ways.

Three days at Rotterdam Ahoy every July across jazz, blues, soul, funk, hip hop and r&b. The 2027 edition is 9 to 11 July, and beds in the city go long before the line-up is out.

A grain silo on the Maashaven turned into a club, all concrete rooms and the kind of sound system that suits them. Check the calendar; it is not open every night.

Rotterdam's answer to having no old town is to put the bars on the roofs. The Depot's is the easiest to reach and the Euromast has the highest.