Lyon's public swimming pools, the ones the city runs

Map of 10 locations in Lyon, France

Lyon rotates its pools by season instead of running them all at once: seven stay open through the year, two open-air sites carry the summer, and two covered ones are listed for winter only, which is why the pool nearest you can be the one that is shut in August. Since the city stopped installing the temporary basins at Gerland and the Tête d'Or, the summer capacity comes from opening indoor pools that used to close, and from splitting the outdoor day into two timed sessions to move the queue. Single entry is 4 € full price and 2,60 € reduced for lycéens, students and visitors with a disability.

Places in this collection

  • Piscine Charial — Two covered basins close to Part-Dieu station, the larger 25 by 12.5 metres with the floor starting at 1.20 metres, which makes it the room…
  • Piscine Benjamin Delessert — A single covered basin in the 7th, and one of only two pools the city lists under the winter season. Directories describe it as open all ye…
  • Piscine Jean Mermoz — The 8th arrondissement's summer pool, listed by the city as a piscine d'été and paired with La Duchère as the two open-air sites that carry…
  • Piscine Garibaldi — One indoor basin of 33.25 by 11.25 metres with five lanes, the floor dropping from 0.80 to 3.20 metres, a short walk from the métro stop of…
  • Piscine de Vaise — A year-round pool in the 9th whose summer timetable runs opposite everybody else's: July weekdays from 7h to 14h, which makes it the early-…
  • Piscine Tronchet — The 6th arrondissement entry on the city's year-round list, and the other pool that opened its doors to the summer public when Lyon dropped…
  • Piscine Saint-Exupéry — A covered pool on the Croix-Rousse side of the 4th, on the city's year-round list and for years closed to the public over the holidays. It…
  • Piscine Mermoz — One of the two open-air municipal pools Lyon runs for the season, roughly 30 June to 29 August, on the two-slot day with Tuesday shifted to…
  • Piscine de la Duchère — The 9th arrondissement's summer site, open from late June to the end of August on the same two-slot pattern as the other outdoor pools, wit…
  • Centre nautique Tony Bertrand — Owned and run by the City of Lyon since 1965, on the Rhône embankment at Quai Claude-Bernard, and one of the seven pools the city keeps ope…

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