Budapest's thermal baths and lidos

Map of 9 locations in Budapest, Hungary

Budapest's bathing year splits along one line: a short list of thermal sites keeps water in the pools through winter, while the open-air strands run a season that opens in the last days of April and is shut down in the first or second week of September. Most are run by the same municipal company, Budapest Gyógyfürdői és Hévizei Zrt., which means a comparable kit of swimming pool, children's pool and thermal basin at each, and one ticket office logic across the city. What follows sorts them by which side of that line they fall on, and by what the water is actually for: lengths, slides, or sitting in something warm.

Places in this collection

  • Csepeli Strandfürdő — The south-side entry among the seven thermal beach baths operating in Budapest, and the one furthest from the centre on the Pest bank. A bu…
  • Szent Lukács Gyógyfürdő — Before anyone bathed here, the hot springs on this ground were put to work driving gunpowder production and grain milling; construction of…
  • Pesterzsébeti Jódos-sós Gyógy- és Strandfürdő — The iodine and salt water bath on Vízisport utca 2, where the wave pool was rebuilt and handed back in the second half of June, with a chil…
  • Pünkösdfürdő — A green, low-rise site near the Danube bank at the northern edge of the city, chosen more for quiet than for amenities. It is the last of t…
  • Római Strandfürdő — Set immediately back from the Danube in District III, with a swimming pool, an experience pool carrying a slide and bubble jets, and a sepa…
  • Csillaghegyi Strand — Pusztakúti út 2-6, where a bath building was raised inside the grounds of the old Csillaghegy strand and given over in part to a water play…
  • Paskál — The youngest of the city's baths, at Egressy út 178, given a refit in 2016 that added a bath building of nearly 1,400 square metres with a…
  • Dagály — Népfürdő utca 36, rebuilt and reopened a few years ago, with the children's section placed at the Árpád bridge end: a rubber-surfaced play…
  • Palatinus — The capital's oldest open-air beach bath, on Margaret Island, opened officially in 1921, and it is still among the first municipal strands…

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