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Almere () is a planned city and municipality in the province of Flevoland, Netherlands across the IJmeer from Amsterdam.
Bordering Lelystad and Zeewolde, the municipality of Almere comprises six official areas that are the districts of Almere Stad (which is further split up into Almere Stad Oost, Almere Stad West and Almere Centrum), Almere Buiten and Almere Pampus (which is currently being designed), and the boroughs of Almere Haven, Almere Hout and Almere Poort. Four of them feature official district or borough offices. Furthermore, it also comprises the unofficial historic district and neighborhood Oostvaardersdiep. Almere is part of the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (MRA).
Almere is the newest city in the Netherlands: the land on which the city sits, the Southern Flevoland polder, Zuiderzee Works from the IJsselmeer (also known as: Lake IJssel) from 1959 to 1968. The first house was finished in 1976, and Almere became a municipality in 1984. It has the largest population of the municipalities in Flevoland with
citizens in and the 8th largest in the Netherlands. As of April 2025, the population was estimated at 230,500. The official CBS figure was 229,574 as of 1 January 2025. In October 2007, the city council of Almere made agreements with the government to expand the city to 350,000 inhabitants by 2030. [http://www.verkeerenwaterstaat.nl/Images/27_tcm195-202814.pdf Schaalsprong Almere 2030, PDF]. Retrieved on 2008-06-09. [https://www.almere.nl/over-almere/feiten-en-cijfers/ Feiten en cijfers over Almere], Almere.nl.
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Almere consists of three boroughs and three districts (Dutch: stadsdelen), three of which are under construction. Gemeente Almere: Stadsdelen. Retrieved on 2015-08-29.
| Almere Haven ('Almere Harbor') | 1976 | |
| Almere Stad ('Almere City') | 1980 | |
| Almere Buiten ('Outer Almere') | 1984 | |
| Almere Hout ('Almere Woods') | 1991 | |
| Almere Poort ('Almere Gate') | 2000 | |
| Almere Pampus | To be constructed |
| Suriname | 22,772 | 11.33 |
| Morocco | 7,871 | 3.92 |
| Indonesia | 5,981 | 2.98 |
| Netherlands Antilles and Aruba | 4,955 | 2.47 |
| Turkey | 3,572 | 1.78 |
| Others | 36,819 | 11.50 |
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| 1975 | 47 | ||||||
| 1980 | 6,596 | 6,632 | |||||
| 1985 | 21,410 | 17,240 | 1,559 | 40,297 | |||
| 1990 | 22,355 | 37,024 | 11,499 | 71,087 | |||
| 1995 | 22,376 | 58,816 | 22,740 | 564 | 104,496 | ||
| 2000 | 22,237 | 83,934 | 35,290 | 1,336 | 142,797 | ||
| 2005 | 22,590 | 103,560 | 47,358 | 1,366 | 175,008 | ||
| 2007 | 22,507 | 105,261 | 51,751 | 1,345 | 134 | 180,998 | |
| 2016 | 22,037 | 109,863 | 55,663 | 1,678 | 10,920 | 200,812 | |
| 2024 | 24,571 | 110,946 | 58,481 | 11,510 | 22,848 | 4 | 228,360 |
Almere currently has six railway stations:
A seasonal-use station, Almere Strand, was set up for certain events, such as Libelle Zomerweek. The station was made up of iron platforms. It was opened in May 1996 under the name Muiderzand. The station was closed after June 1996 but re-opened in June 1999 under the name Muiderstrand and closed again in July 1999. It re-opened again in 2001 under the name Almere Strand as an official seasonal-use station, meaning it was now open certain seasons every year. Because of the rapid development of the adjacent borough Almere Poort, it was decided to open an official station there (see Almere Poort), thus making the station of Almere Strand obsolete. Almere Poort station opened on December 9, 2012. Therefore, Almere Strand station was officially closed just after the summer of 2012 and its iron platforms were torn down in the weekend of October 6–7, 2012. There are no remains of the station, although passengers can still see where the platforms once stood from the windows of Flevolijn trains.
| M1 | Almere Centrum Station – Almere Haven De Marken or Almere Haven De Gouwen – Almere Haven Centrum | Runs every 5 minutes Mon-Fri during daytime hours (every 7.5–15 minutes on evenings and Sundays). The bus line changes into M2 at Almere Centrum |
| M2 | Almere Centrum Station – Almere Buiten station - Almere Oostvaarders station - Almere Stripheldenbuurt | Runs every 5 minutes Mon-Fri during daytime hours (every 7.5–15 minutes on evenings and Sundays). The bus line changes into M1 at Almere Centrum |
| M3 | Almere Centrum Station - Almere Beatrixpark - Almere Muziekwijk | Runs every 5 minutes Mon-Fri during daytime hours (every 7.5–15 minutes on evenings and Sundays). |
| M4 | Almere Centrum Station – Almere Literatuurwijk – Almere Gooisekant-West – Almere Poort Homeruskwartier – Almere Poort Station | Runs every 5 minutes Mon-Fri during daytime hours (every 7.5–15 minutes on evenings and Sundays). |
| M5 | Almere Centrum station - Almere Filmwijk - Almere Danswijk - Almere Parkwijk station | Runs every 5 minutes Mon-Fri during daytime hours (every 7.5–15 minutes on evenings and Sundays). |
| M6 | Almere Centrum Station – Noorderplassen | Runs every 7 minutes Mon-Fri (every 15 minutes on Saturdays and every 30 minutes on Sundays). |
| M7 | Almere Centrum station - Almere Parkwijk station - Almere Buiten station - Almere Oostvaarders station | Runs every 5 minutes Mon-Fri during daytime hours (every 7.5–15 minutes on evenings and Sundays). |
| M8 | Almere Centrum Station– Almere Nobelhorst | Runs every 10 minutes Mon-Sat during daytime hours (everybody 15 minutes on evenings and Sundays). |
| 22 | Almere De Vaart/PIA – Almere Buiten Station | Mon-Fri only; does not run on evenings and weekends. Has 2 request stops |
| 24 | Almere Poort Station - Almere Duin | Only on Mon-Fri in rush hours. During the summer months also on weekends |
Monday to Friday, most city buses run about every 5 minutes (10 times every hour) during daytime hours. Saturdays, only a few city bus lines run every 7.5 minutes during daytime hours; most of them run every 12–15 minutes. Sunday, most of the city buses run every 15 minutes (with some buses running extra runs during certain hours) and M6 which only runs every 30 minutes.
There are a few overnight bus lines (Mon-Sat nights only): N21, N22 and N23. They run under the Keolis internal name nightGo (but are operated by R-net branded regional buses).
The bus company running almost all buses is Keolis Netherlands. Local buses (city buses) run under the name allGo. In the buses one can use the OV-chipkaart, subscriptions or one can buy bus tickets of allGo in the bus or at TVM's (the latter only Downtown).
| 323 | Almere Parkwijk station - Almere Poort Station – Muiden P+R - Amsterdam Bijlmer | Mon-Fri between 5.30 AM and 10.30 AM and between 14.00 PM until the end of the day. Sat only after 18.00 PM and Sun all day long. |
| 324 | Almere Parkwijk Station – Almere Filmwijk - Amsterdam Bijlmer | Mon-Fri, rush hours-only, express bus without stops in Amsterdam |
| 326 | Almere Centrum Station – Busstation 't Oor – Almere De Kemphaan – Blaricum Carpoolplaats | Mon-Fri only; does not run on evenings and weekends. |
| 159 | Almere Centrum Station – Almere Veluwsekant – Almere De Kemphaan – Almere Hout – Zeewolde – Harderwijk | Mon-Fri only; does not run on evenings and weekends. The last two buses of the day terminate halfway at Zeewolde Kwartiermakerslaan. Closed-system in Almere. |
| 160 | Almere Centrum Station – Busstation 't Oor – Almere De Kemphaan – Zeewolde De Eemhof – Amersfoort Vathorst Station | Runs 7 days a week, but only every 2 hours and only between 10 AM-10:30 PM. This bus is actually part of the OV Regio IJsselmond concession, but Keolis operates it under contract with Syntus Overijssel-branded buses. |
| 322 | Almere Parkwijk Station – Almere Flevoziekenhuis – Almere Gooisepoort – Almere Poort Station – Muiden P+R – Diemen Diemerknoop – Amsterdam Amstel | Is allowed to use the emergency lanes on the highway parts of the route to manoeuvre past traffic jams. |
| 327 | Almere Haven Centrum – Busstation 't Oor – Muiden P+R – Diemen Diemerknoop – Amsterdam Amstel | Is allowed to use the emergency lanes on the highway parts of the route to manoeuvre past traffic jams. |
| 328 | Almere Haven Centrum – Busstation 't Oor – Muiden P+R – Diemen Diemerknoop – Amsterdam Bijlmer | Closed-system in Amsterdam. Is allowed to use the emergency lanes on the highway parts of the route to manoeuvre past traffic jams. |
Line 159 is operated by the bus company Connexxion.
Since April 2012, there was a rush hour route, 150, to Utrecht which connected Almere directly with the University Area of Utrecht called De Uithof. (This was previously done by former bus line 295). Due to budget cuts, line 150 was scrapped on July 9, 2016.
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