Amsterdam's indoor swimming pools

Map of 4 locations in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Amsterdam swims indoors for most of the year, and the city's covered pools are not interchangeable: one is a 1912 conversion of a cycling school with its original sand filter in the basement, another disinfects with salt because chlorine ruins some people's week, and two of them bolt an outdoor tank onto the hall so summer is covered as well. What matters here is pool dimensions, water treatment, whether the floor moves, and who the sessions are actually for. Each entry gives the street address and the facts that decide whether you bother crossing town.

Places in this collection

  • Noorderparkbad — Covered and open to swimmers the whole year, on the edge of the Noorderpark, with an outdoor pool for the months that justify it. The progr…
  • SportPlaza Mercator — An indoor hall paired with an open-air pool, so the same ticket covers winter lengths and summer ones. Inside there is a competition pool a…
  • Het Marnix — Two pools behind the Singelgracht frontage: a 25 by 12.5 metre competition tank with the canal in view from the water, and a 20 by 10 metre…
  • Zuiderbad — Jonas Ingenohl built this in 1897 for a bicycle importer, and the Velox cycling school had it before swimmers did: it opened as a pool on 2…

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