PEIL reads your surroundings.
Water, building, neighbourhood. Measurements and registers in one row: the number, what it means, where it comes from. For everyone in Amsterdam, starting on the water.
state: beta · the app by invitation, the checks without an account
The target level of the city's canal system: where the water is meant to stand.
source: Waterschap AGV · set: target level of the stadsboezem · limit: not a live measurement
Readable in 765 neighbourhoods: year built, foundation, energy, what is coming up.
source: BAG, BRO, EP-Online a.o. · baked: 04-09-2026 · limit: registers, no site visit
The quarter-hour price and a green estimate sit at the top of PEIL je Buurt; this page freezes no price.
source: EnergyZero and Open-Meteo · measured: per quarter-hour on the check itself
Energy labels, solar on the roofs and gas-free status per neighbourhood, with source and year.
source: EP-Online, CBS, City of Amsterdam · baked: 04-09-2026 · limit: neighbourhood, not address
What we gauge
Six things, one way of looking
PEIL Amsterdam
Rules, routes, bridges and places on the Amsterdam water, in the app.
closed betaPEIL je Pand
Type your address and read that building's dossier: year built, foundation, energy, costs and what is coming, with your neighbourhood, this building as an office and the groundwater as chapters inside it.
betaPEIL je Verzekering
The health insurance check: eleven questions answered in your own browser. No comparison, no insurer, nothing leaves your browser.
first versionChampagne van PEIL.
PEIL's champagne shop: bottles from three houses we visited ourselves. A shop, not editorial.
shop not open yet · 18+The pages behind them
Each chapter also has a page of its own, to link to and to read without a particular address in mind. They no longer ask for your address; you open them from your dossier or through a direct link.
PEIL je Buurt
The energy state of a neighbourhood, and this quarter-hour's electricity price. That price is national and stands there without an address.
betaPEIL je Kantoor
The label-C duty explained: the exceptions, the waves to 2030 and grid congestion. Stands there without an address.
first versionPEIL je Fundering
Groundwater levels around an address in Amsterdam, with distance and measurement date. No verdict on the foundation. This page still has an address field of its own.
first versionworks for: the app in Amsterdam, the checks in Amsterdam, Almere and Blaricum (765 neighbourhoods · 342,752 BAG buildings); PEIL je Fundering works in Amsterdam only, because that is where the monitoring wells PEIL holds are; the shop delivers in Amsterdam and its surroundings. Berths and pitches have no building check, and about 0.94 percent of address designations lack the primary building route. Beyond that PEIL says it does not work there, never half.
Every number comes with three things.
Who measured or set it. A number without a name does not appear here.
When. Always a real date, never "recently".
What the number does not say. A monitoring well in the street is not a measurement under your house.
Responsible by design
Useful without following you
- On peil.nu and peilje.nl: no advertising, trackers or cookies.
- In the app, your trips stay on your device. Your location does too, except when you switch on Friends yourself: the app then temporarily shares your name and latest position with the same invitation group.
- An account will be optional and is not active yet.
- Paid features are not live yet.
Explained
What PEIL is, and what it is not
PEIL is an independent initiative from Amsterdam that makes government measurements and registers readable. Not a government service, not a valuer, not an adviser, not an official navigation aid. Where we estimate something ourselves it says "inschatting van Peil" (PEIL's estimate); where we do not know it says "onbekend" (unknown).
Where the data comes from
National base registers (BAG, BRO, AHN, Kadaster), national monitoring networks and models (RIVM, CBS, EP-Online, RVO), the City of Amsterdam and the water boards, and what we collect ourselves. Every page states which source delivers which number.
What goes out from you
An address you type into a check goes to the Kadaster address search (PDOK) and nowhere else; peilje.nl only learns which neighbourhood was asked for. We count visits on the server without putting anything on your device. The details are in the privacy statement.