What is the lowest bridge in Haarlem?

Of the bridges that publish a clearance, Pim Mulierlaan is the lowest, at 0.52 m at the normal water level, according to Rijkswaterstaat. 38 bridges in Haarlem publish less than 1.5 m, and 120 publish no figure at all. The water level shifts every figure, so read the height board at the bridge.

How many bridges are there in Haarlem?

Floating Today maps 212 bridges on Haarlem's water, 24 of which open and 188 of which are fixed. 92 publish an official clearance.

How high can my boat be to pass under Haarlem's bridges?

It depends entirely on your route. Half of the bridges that publish a clearance give less than 1.65 m, and 57 give less than 2 m. 120 bridges publish no figure at all. Plan your route, check each bridge on it, measure your boat with any canopy up, and read the board at the bridge: the water level moves every figure.

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Haarlem boating data

Haarlem bridges: heights, clearances and openings

We mapped 212 bridges across Haarlem's waterways, including 92 with an officially published clearance, so you can see which ones your boat will pass under.

Clearances from Rijkswaterstaat and the Rijnland water board
Bridge list updated 10 October 2026
Opening times checked daily

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By the numbers

What the bridges tell you before you leave the dock.

212: bridges mapped on Haarlem's water
92: publish an official clearance
24: open for boats
120: publish no figure. We show them as unknown.

Key findings

What we found

The lowest published bridge clearance in Haarlem is 0.52 mPim Mulierlaan.
57 bridges publish a clearance below 2 metres38 of them are below 1.5 m. Half of all published clearances are under 1.65 m.
120 of 212 bridges have no published clearanceMost are fixed bridges that publish no height to the national feed. We show them as unknown rather than guess.

Lowest bridges

The tightest 10 at the normal water level.

For a bridge that opens, the figure is the gap when it is closed.

1Pim MulierlaanFixedClearance0.52 m
2OrionbrugFixedClearance0.52 m
3VerspronckbrugFixedClearance0.54 m
4Zuid SchalkwijkerwegFixedClearance0.60 m
5ZuiderfietsbrugFixedClearance0.62 m
6GhijsbrechtszbrugFixedClearance0.63 m
7Abel TasmankadeFixedClearance0.66 m
8HummeltjesbrugFixedClearance0.73 m
9VerspronckspoorbrugFixedClearance0.81 m
10SterrenbrugFixedClearance0.86 m

Source: Rijkswaterstaat FIS; Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland.

How much room

Half publish under 1.65 m. 57 give less than 2 m.

That is the middle of Haarlem's published clearances. Under 2 m is where a canopy, a windscreen or a standing passenger starts to matter. The tallest is Schoterbrug (Brug 1) at 6.20 m. Floating Today calculated this distribution from the published figures.

The 92 bridges with an officially published clearance, grouped by headroom at the normal water level. Bridges with no published figure are not in this chart at all.

No figure

120 bridges publish no height. We show them as unknown, never as a guess.

120 of Haarlem's 212 bridges have no officially published clearance. Most of them are fixed bridges that publish no height to the national feed. Tap one on the map and it says plainly that we do not have its headroom, rather than showing a number.

Water level

The figure on the board moves with the water.

A published clearance assumes the water is at its normal level. When the water is higher, every bridge clears less than its figure; when it is lower, more. Real clearance = published clearance − (today's level − the normal level). Always read the height board at the bridge before you commit.

Questions

What people ask answered from the data.

What is the lowest bridge in Haarlem?: Of the bridges that publish a clearance, Pim Mulierlaan is the lowest, at 0.52 m at the normal water level, according to Rijkswaterstaat. 38 bridges in Haarlem publish less than 1.5 m, and 120 publish no figure at all. The water level shifts every figure, so read the height board at the bridge.
How many bridges are there in Haarlem?: Floating Today maps 212 bridges on Haarlem's water, 24 of which open and 188 of which are fixed. 92 publish an official clearance.
How high can my boat be to pass under Haarlem's bridges?: It depends entirely on your route. Half of the bridges that publish a clearance give less than 1.65 m, and 57 give less than 2 m. 120 bridges publish no figure at all. Plan your route, check each bridge on it, measure your boat with any canopy up, and read the board at the bridge: the water level moves every figure.

Data and methodology

How we built it from official data to this page.

Source
Bridge positions from OpenStreetMap; clearances, phone numbers and opening times from Rijkswaterstaat; where Rijkswaterstaat has no clearance, the Rijnland water board's bridge register.
Match
We pair each official record with its bridge and remove duplicates.
Calculate
Every count, ranking and distribution on this page, recomputed with each release.
Show honestly
A bridge without a figure stays unknown. The board at the bridge always wins.

Sources: Rijkswaterstaat FIS (CC0)Hoogheemraadschap van Rijnland, bridge register (used with attribution)OpenStreetMap (ODbL)
Coverage: The bridges on our Haarlem map
Last checked: Bridge list 10 October 2026; opening times daily
Updated: Opening times daily; the bridge list and clearances with each release
About the data: Positions and names come from OpenStreetMap. Clearances, phone numbers and opening times are official Rijkswaterstaat figures, shown as published, at the normal water level. Where Rijkswaterstaat has no clearance, the figure is the Rijnland water board's measured underside minus the summer water level, less a margin on bridges of several spans, and each one says so.
What we add: We match the two sources, remove duplicates, and calculate every count, ranking and distribution on this page. Only official clearances are ranked or charted; a bridge without one is unknown, never estimated.

Planning a boat trip?

A route shows every bridge on your way, with its published clearance where there is one.

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