Swimming Pools
Last updated on 06/29/2026
The 10 best swimming pools in Berlin
Especially in dreary weather, Berlin's pools are ideal for keeping fit, and some of them are real bathing palaces. The Stadtbad Neukölln on Ganghoferstraße has been captivating visitors since 1914 with its neoclassical halls, columns and mosaics, and is considered one of the most beautiful swimming pools in Europe. In Mitte, the Stadtbad "James Simon" combines Weimar-era architectural history with serious sports swimming over 50 metres. The Stadtbad Charlottenburg, in turn, is Berlin's oldest pool still in operation and has delighted swimmers since 1898 with its Art Nouveau hall and glass roof. Freshly renovated, the Stadtbad Tiergarten awaits you in Moabit. Whether sporting ambition or aesthetic pleasure: swimming in halls like these is both. In which pool do you swim your lengths?
Ellen Mehrhoff-Roddewig
I love pools that offer history and atmosphere alongside clean water. It is important to me that the lanes are properly sorted and that even an ambitious swimmer has enough space. I look at opening hours, because an early swim is part of it for me. And a beautiful building turns a bit of exercise into a little experience.
Stadtbad Neukölln is one of Europe's most beautiful places to swim and sauna!
Stadtbad Mitte was built in the 1920s following the principles of New Objectivity ("Light, Air and Sun"). It was constructed around several areaways.
The Stadtbad Tiergarten in Moabit is Berlin's freshly renovated indoor swimming pool highlight right next to the main station: a 50-meter pool, a five-meter climbing wall, and a new winter garden make it one of the city's most modern public swimming pools.
A trip to the SSE is the trip of choice for those wishing to be fit and lose a bit of weight!
Stadtbad Charlottenburg offers swimming fun in a historical environment.
The Kombibad Seestraße in Wedding combines an indoor and outdoor pool under one roof, making it the year-round swimming pool for northern Berlin. Thanks to a spectacular air-supported dome that covers the outdoor pools in winter, more water area is preserved here during the cold season than elsewhere.
In the Fennpfuhl district of green Lichtenberg stands one of Berlin's solid indoor swimming pools, which has been serving its neighborhood for decades with 25-meter lanes, a paddling pool, and a sauna. The Anton-Saefkow-Platz swimming hall is not a show pool, but a genuine Berlin swimming pool for everyone who simply wants to get in the water.
Swimming at Stadtbad Spandau North in this beautiful building with the vaulted ceiling and the globe lamps is a special experience.
In the heart of Berlin, next to Nikolaiviertel and Mühlendamm Bridge, Schwimmhalle Fischerinsel invites you for swimming and enjoying a sauna session.
Schwimmhalle Finckensteinallee in Berlin-Lichterfelde is a listed building but at the same time a light and spacious sports pool for the general public!
