Aalsmeer (Dutch: [aːlsˈmeːr] ⓘ) is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

[5] Aalsmeer is bordered by the Westeinderplassen lake, the largest open water of the Randstad, and the Ringvaart Canal.

The strawberry became the symbol for the flag of Aalsmeer: red (fruit), green (leaf), and black (soil).

The growers would sell their strawberries and flowers to distributors who would bring them with barges to the market in Amsterdam.

The highest supreme commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, Friedrich Christiansen, was a regular visitor.

[9] The flowers that are grown and sold here are carnations, roses, lilacs, freesias, chrysanthemums, cyclamens, and begonias.

Dominating the Ringvaart canal are the large building halls of Royal De Vries Scheepsbouw.

Dairy, beef, potatoes, vegetables, and fruit are the areas within agriculture, and the types of manufacturing in the city are farm products, sporting goods, boats, and packaging material.

Other annual events are the "Pramenrace", every second Saturday in September and the Bands Night (Bandjesavond) in June.