The best Swimming Pools in Vienna (with a map!)

The best Swimming Pools in Vienna (with a map!)

Free map of public swimming pools in Vienna, Austria

You probably got used to this already – wherever I can, I create custom maps of the best spots, travel plans, and guides through the countries. This time I prepared a map of all Public Swimming Pools in Vienna. This map is my extended version, with all the city’s water areas, swimming pools, and watersports places.

Map legend:

🔵 dark blue icon – you have all the swimming pools
🟢 green icon – shows all the natural spots where you can swim in the Danube
🟠 orange icon – indicates the spots where you can do all kinds of watersports in Vienna, including windsurfing, SUP rental, and kayaking
🔴 red icon – marks all the spots where you can rent a boat or a swimming island (yes, you are reading this correctly)
👯‍♀️The icon of two people without clothes – marks all the FKK places in Vienna. FKK (pronounced ‘ef-ka-ka’) marks places of “frei-körper-kultur,” or in other words, the nude zones where you can enjoy the swim and sun without the need to cover your body. Vienna is a very open city when it comes to nudity. While sunbathing and swimming in Austria, visitors will soon discover nudity is common.

To see the map in full size, the new browser tab – click on the “square” icon on the top right.
To save the map, click the star ⭐️ icon. This way, it will be saved to your mymaps.google.com account.

How to enter Vienna Swimming Pools for the lowest price possible?

Before I get into all my recommendations, I need to share my “Summer in Vienna City – PRO TIP” which I use already for four summers in a row. Some swimming pools entry tickets are around 6€, but some are even 18€ (!), and there is a way to lower those prices. Each year I buy myself a myClubs subscription – “the unlimited package.” With this, you can enter every venue – 4x times per month. This way, I pay 99€ for four times entering ten swimming pools or more, and I have my gym classes in this too – this lowers my monthly spending and allows me to enter many swimming pools in Vienna for very little. White working full-time job anyhow I can’t go more than maybe 8 times per month. Then in September, I usually resign from my membership because I do not use it as much, just by writing them an email. It’s super easy.

→ With this link, you can register for myClubs with a 10€ discount code (you get -10€ and I do ❤️)


PS. Here, when you scroll down, you can see all the swimming pools available with the myClubs.

6 top swimming pools in Vienna

1. Schafbergbad

The area of this swimming pool is green, and you can enjoy a panoramic view of the city at the entrance. There are 3 swimming areas, 2 smaller ones and one big with the longest waterslide in Vienna. The slide opens every other hour, so you must pay attention to when the lifeguards signal to open it. There are free lockers and sunbeds available.

Opening hours of Schafbergbad

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00 am – 19:30 pm
  • Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 pm – 19:30 pm

Price of the daily ticket to Schafbergbad

  • Infants (2016 to 2022): free
  • Children (2008 to 2015): €2,10
  • Young people (2004 to 2007): €3,40
  • Adults (2003 and below): €6,20
  • Family ticket (1 adult and 1 child): €7,30
  • Afternoon ticket from 1 p.m.: €4,80
  • Afternoon ticket from 4 p.m.: €3,70

How to get to Schafbergbad

Josef-Redl-Gasse 2
1180 Vienna

2. Krapfenwaldlbad

Amazing swimming area with green zones, playgrounds for the children, and a great pool with a panoramic view of Vienna city. Like every other swimming pool in Vienna, it will be crowded on the weekends, but the place is big so that everyone can find a space for themselves. Check the TikTok video I made about Krapfenwaldlbad in Vienna – to see the view from this place.

Since I made this TikTok, the price has changed. Right now, for 6,20 Euro (price for an adult) – you can enjoy the whole day at Krapfenwaldbad.

@kasiawhotravels Swimming pool with panoramic views! #wien #foryoupage #fürdich #austria #summer ♬ Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World – Robin Schulz & Alle Farben & Israel Kamakawiwo’ole

Opening hours of Krapfenwaldlbad

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00 am – 19:30 pm
  • Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 pm – 19:30 pm

Price of the daily ticket to Krapfenwaldlbad

  • Infants (2016 to 2022): free
  • Children (2008 to 2015): €2,10
  • Young people (2004 to 2007): €3,40
  • Adults (2003 and below): €6,20
  • Family ticket (1 adult and 1 child): €7,30
  • Afternoon ticket from 1 p.m.: €4,80
  • Afternoon ticket from 4 p.m.: €3,70

How to get to Krapfenwaldlbad

Krapfenwaldgasse 65-73
1190 Wien

3. Döblinger Bad

The Döblinger Bad is a combination pool owned by the city of Vienna. In addition to the indoor pool, it also has a summer pool. It is located in the 19th district of Vienna, Döbling, between the Heiligenstädter Park and the Hohe Warte. It consists of three pools in the indoor pool and four pools in the outdoor area.

Opening hours of Döblinger Bad

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00 am – 19:30 pm
  • Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 pm – 19:30 pm

Price of the daily ticket to Döblinger Bad

  • Infants (2016 to 2022): free
  • Children (2008 to 2015): €2,10
  • Young people (2004 to 2007): €3,40
  • Adults (2003 and below): €6,20
  • Family ticket (1 adult and 1 child): €7,30
  • Afternoon ticket from 1 p.m.: €4,80
  • Afternoon ticket from 4 p.m.: €3,70

How to get to Döblinger Bad

Geweyegasse 6
1190 Vienna

4. Schönbrunner Pool

This is one of the more expensive swimming pools in the city. To enter for the whole day, you need to pay 16 euros (11 after 17:00 pm), or you can use a MyClubs subscription to enter for free, up to 4 times a month. The entry tickets include just the swimming area; you must pay extra for the fitness and sauna.

This swimming pool has some interesting history too! The swimming pool was mentioned in a letter by Emperor Franz Josef in 1838. In a letter to his brother Maximilian, he mentioned that he spent the whole day in the Obelisk’s water reservoir, now the Schönbrunnerbad, and learned to swim. At the end of the 19th century, an imperial swimming school was set up there. After the Second World War, the bath was used by the British occupying soldiers and only opened to the public again in 1955.

© Schönbrunnerbad

Opening hours of Schönbrunner Bad

Monday to Sunday: 8:30 am–10:00 pm

Price of the daily ticket to Schönbrunner Bad

  • Adults: € 16,00
  • Adults, after 17:00 pm: € 11,00
  • With MyClubs: For free (up to 4 times a month)

How to get to Schönbrunner Bad

The swimming pool is in Schönbrunn Park; the best way to get there is to enter the park via Meidlinger Tor (Gate) and go left, up to the swimming pool or go through the date at the Hohenbergstraße (shown on the map below) and turn right and walk a bit down.

Schönbrunn Palace, 1130 Wien

How to enter the Schönbrunner Bad

5. Stadionbad

The Stadionbad is one of the largest sports and leisure pools in Vienna and is located in the Prater in the 2nd district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt, next to the Ernst Happel Stadium, which influenced its name. This open-air swimming pool has the largest artificial water area in Austria. As of May 2021, the pool has two 50 m swimming pools, a 33 m water polo pool, and a 10 m diving board pool. Also included are a wave pool with a wave machine whose wave output has been greatly reduced since 2010, several pools for children, and two water slides.

Opening hours of Stadionbad

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00 am – 20:00 pm
  • Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 pm – 20:00 pm

Price of the daily ticket to Stadionbad

  • Adults: € 6,00
  • Children (born 2008 – 2015) with ID: € 2,00
  • Pupils, apprentices, young people (born up to 2004) with ID, as well as students and military service up to the age of 26: € 4,00

How to get to Stadionbad

6. Kongressbad

is an open-air swimming pool in Vienna’s 16th district of Ottakring, named after the Kongressplatz on which it was built at the same time as the neighboring Kongresspark. Located on the border between Ottakring and Hernals, the Kongressbad was opened in 1928 as Vienna’s most modern and largest artificial outdoor pool – originally equipped with a 100-meter pool.

Opening hours of Kongressbad

  • Monday to Friday: 9:00 am – 19:30 pm
  • Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 pm – 19:30 pm

Price of the daily ticket to Kongressbad

  • Adults: € 6,20
  • One Adult + one child: € 7,30
  • Youths (born 2004 to 2007) with ID: € 3,40
  • Children (born 2008 to 2015) with ID: € 2,10

How to get to Kongressbad

Julius-Meinl-Gasse 7a
1160 Vienna

Swimming Pools in Vienna – Things you should know

There are free swimming pools for kids

There are special pools around the city that are free for kids, they are called Familienbäder. You cannot enter this area as an adult without kids. All children up until 15 years old can enter those places for free.

There is a swimming Pool on a boat on the Danube river

When walking down the Danubekanal in the 2nd District of Vienna, you may notice a swimming pool on the water of a Danube. Yes, you’ve read this correctly. You can enjoy a swim there and then go upstairs for a nice drink and a relaxing evening with a beautiful sunset. The Badeschiff (pool boat) offers the best way to go swimming right in the middle of Vienna city.  The swimming pool is 27 meters long and open until 10.00 pm. Here is my Tiktok video of the pub above the swimming pool:

@kasiawhotravels Starting Viennese Summer nights at 📍Badeschiff Wien – a trendy venue on a boat #vienna #fürdich #foryou #dlaciebie #austria ♬ Just The Two of Us – Kauai45 & Sweet Cocoa

Bring your own equipment or not

Most of the swimming pools in Vienna offer free sunbeds – but you can get one only if you come early! Otherwise, 2 hours after the opening, they all will be taken. They are free of charge and usually just waiting on the grass for you to take them. Many people in Vienna bring their own equipment, games, picnic stuff, and sunbeds.

You won’t get hungry or thirsty at the swimming pool

All places mentioned above have restaurants, bars, or shops around them. Even if it is Sunday in Vienna (all shops are closed)- and you find yourself without shopping, you can buy all the necessary equipment or food during your day at the pool.

Nude swimming in Vienna

As I mentioned above, Vienna (or Austria) is a very friendly place for everyone who wants to enjoy their summer days without clothes or tan lines. Have a look at the map I’ve prepared of all Nude Zones in Vienna; they are marked with the people icon. If you want to avoid those places, just remember they are usually marked with FKK “frei-körper-kultur” (free body culture).

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