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Bathing water quality in Styria, Austria

Styria has 31 official bathing waters in the EEA dataset for the 2025 season — all lake. 96.8% were classified Excellent — 0.3 points above the 96.5% across Austria — and 0 were Poor. By area, the Excellent share is highest in Liezen (100% of 10) and lowest in Östliche Obersteiermark (80% of 5). 28 sites have been Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025.

Badegewässerqualität in Steiermark

Von 31 offiziellen EU-Badestellen in Steiermark waren 2025 96,8 % „ausgezeichnet“; Zahl der als „mangelhaft“ eingestuften Badestellen: 0.

Aerial view of Lake Altaussee, Styria — Photo: Carsten Steger, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

official bathing waters

96.8%

Excellent in 2025

Poor in 2025

Not live: these are annual official classifications. Check the competent authority for today’s notices before swimming.

Before you swim in Styria

Federal health ministry with the provinces and AGES

Bathing season in Austria: 15 June – 31 August. AGES publishes per-province maps and a bathing-water app on behalf of the ministry.

Annual EEA classes do not show temporary bans, short-term pollution or algae alerts. National information last checked 2026-11-01.

Season status: Today (6 November 2026) is outside the official bathing season (15 June – 31 August). Official monitoring is tied to the season (a first sample may be taken shortly before it opens), so there are no current official water-quality results now. The next season starts on 15 June 2027.

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Map of official bathing waters in Styria

Excellent 30Good 1Poor 0

How to read this map: Each dot is one official bathing water, coloured by its 2025 rating; select a dot to open that site. The white area is this region; neighbouring regions are shaded. Sea and large lakes are blue, neighbouring countries grey. Positions: official EEA coordinates. Boundaries: Eurostat NUTS 2024, generalised (© EuroGeographics); lakes: Natural Earth. Outlines are simplified, so a few shoreline dots can sit just offshore.

Styria by area

Sites are placed in the Eurostat NUTS 3 areas that contain their reported coordinates.

2025 EEA classes by area
Area	Sites	Excellent	Good
Liezen	10	10 (100%)	0
Östliche Obersteiermark	5	4 (80%)	1
West- und Südsteiermark	5	5 (100%)	0
Graz	4	4 (100%)	0
Oststeiermark	4	4 (100%)	0
Westliche Obersteiermark	3	3 (100%)	0

Most consistent Excellent sites

28 sites were Excellent in all eleven seasons. Ordered by the length of the unbroken Excellent run ending in 2025; the first 24 are shown and every site is in the full list below.

ALTAUSSEERSEE NORD 11 seasons · Liezen
ALTAUSSEERSEE SÜD 11 seasons · Liezen
ALTAUSSEERSEE WEST 11 seasons · Liezen
BADESEE GROßSTEINBACH 11 seasons · Oststeiermark
BADESEE KUMBERG 11 seasons · Graz
BADESEE MÖNICHWALD 11 seasons · Oststeiermark
BADESEE MÜHLEN 11 seasons · Westliche Obersteiermark
BADESEE STEINER, KRAUBATH/MUR 11 seasons · Östliche Obersteiermark
BADESEE WEIHERMÜHLE, GRATWEIN 11 seasons · Graz
FREIZEITSEE AICH 11 seasons · Liezen
FREIZEITSEE AU BEI TURNAU 11 seasons · Östliche Obersteiermark
FREIZEITSEE WALD/SCHOBERPASS 11 seasons · Östliche Obersteiermark
FREIZEITZENTRUM COPACABANA, KALSDORF 11 seasons · Graz
FREIZEITZENTRUM PIBERSTEIN 11 seasons · West- und Südsteiermark
FURTNERTEICH, MARIAHOF 11 seasons · Westliche Obersteiermark
GRASLUPPTEICH, ZEUTSCHACH 11 seasons · Westliche Obersteiermark
GRUNDLSEE NORD 11 seasons · Liezen
GRUNDLSEE NORD-WEST 11 seasons · Liezen
GRUNDLSEE OST 11 seasons · Liezen
GRUNDLSEE SÜD 11 seasons · Liezen
LEOPOLDSTEINER SEE, EISENERZ 11 seasons · Östliche Obersteiermark
ÖDENSEE, KAINISCH 11 seasons · Liezen
PUTTERERSEE, AIGEN 11 seasons · Liezen
RÖCKSEE, GOSDORF 11 seasons · Oststeiermark

Rated Poor in 2025

None of the 31 official bathing waters in Styria was classified Poor in 2025.

How Styria rated since 2015

Counts for the sites in today’s 2025 inventory; the Excellent share is calculated over classified sites only.

Season	Classified	Excellent	Excellent share
2025	31	30	96.8%
2024	31	30	96.8%
2023	31	31	100%
2022	31	30	96.8%
2021	31	31	100%
2020	31	31	100%
2019	31	31	100%
2018	31	30	96.8%
2017	31	30	96.8%
2016	31	29	93.5%
2015	31	30	96.8%

Places with the most bathing waters in Styria

Each site is matched to its nearest named place (GeoNames, within 8 km in a straight line), so beaches of one resort or lake shore can be compared together. Select a place to show only its sites in the full list.

Top 3 places by number of official bathing waters
Place	Area	Sites	Excellent
Altaussee	Liezen	3	3 (100%)
Bad Aussee	Liezen	3	3 (100%)
Seggauberg	West- und Südsteiermark	2	2 (100%)

All 31 official bathing waters in Styria

Grouped by area, alphabetical within each group. Open a site for its 2015–2025 history, nearby alternatives, weather forecast and the national profile link.

Download all 31 sites as CSV (classes 2015–2025, coordinates, nearest place; EEA data, CC BY 4.0)

Liezen 10 sites · 100% Excellent

ALTAUSSEERSEE NORD · Altaussee Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
ALTAUSSEERSEE SÜD · Altaussee Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
ALTAUSSEERSEE WEST · Altaussee Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
FREIZEITSEE AICH Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
GRUNDLSEE NORD Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
GRUNDLSEE NORD-WEST · Bad Aussee Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
GRUNDLSEE OST Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
GRUNDLSEE SÜD · Bad Aussee Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
ÖDENSEE, KAINISCH · Bad Aussee Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
PUTTERERSEE, AIGEN · Aigen im Ennstal Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row

Östliche Obersteiermark 5 sites · 80% Excellent

BADESEE STEINER, KRAUBATH/MUR · Kraubath an der Mur Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
FREIZEITSEE AU BEI TURNAU Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
FREIZEITSEE WALD/SCHOBERPASS · Wald am Schoberpaß Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
LEOPOLDSTEINER SEE, EISENERZ Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
ZENZSEE, TRAGÖß · Vordernberg Good

West- und Südsteiermark 5 sites · 100% Excellent

BADESEE WILDON, WILDON Excellent Excellent 9 seasons in a row
FREIZEITZENTRUM PIBERSTEIN · Maria Lankowitz Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
SILBERSEE · Seggauberg Excellent Excellent 7 seasons in a row
STAUSEE SOBOTH Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
SULMSEE · Seggauberg Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row

Graz 4 sites · 100% Excellent

BADESEE KUMBERG Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
BADESEE WEIHERMÜHLE, GRATWEIN Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
FREIZEITZENTRUM COPACABANA, KALSDORF · Wagnitz Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
SCHWARZL FREIZEITZENTRUM, UNTERPREMSTÄTT · Oberpremstätten Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row

Oststeiermark 4 sites · 100% Excellent

BADESEE GROßSTEINBACH · Gersdorf an der Feistritz Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
BADESEE MÖNICHWALD Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
RÖCKSEE, GOSDORF Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
STUBENBERGSEE · Stubenberg Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row

Westliche Obersteiermark 3 sites · 100% Excellent

BADESEE MÜHLEN Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
FURTNERTEICH, MARIAHOF Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
GRASLUPPTEICH, ZEUTSCHACH Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row

Compared with other states in Austria

#	State	Sites	Excellent	Poor
1	Carinthia	32	100%	0
2	Vienna	17	100%	0
3	Vorarlberg	16	100%	0
4	Salzburg	36	97.2%	0
5	Tyrol	35	97.1%	0
6	Styria	31	96.8%	0
7	Upper Austria	44	95.5%	1
8	Burgenland	19	94.7%	0
9	Lower Austria	30	90%	0

States with at least 15 official bathing waters. Size, water type and how densely sites are designated differ, so the table is context rather than a verdict.

Quick answers

How many bathing waters in Styria were rated Excellent in 2025?: 30 of 31 (96.8%) in the official EEA 2025 classification; 1 were Good, 0 Sufficient and 0 Poor. That ranks Styria 6 of 9 Austria states by Excellent share.
Which area of Styria has the highest share of Excellent sites?: Liezen: 100% of its 10 sites were Excellent in 2025. West- und Südsteiermark follows with 100%. Only areas with at least five sites are compared; see the full table.
Which beaches and lakes in Styria have the best long-term record?: 28 sites were Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025, for example ALTAUSSEERSEE NORD, ALTAUSSEERSEE SÜD, ALTAUSSEERSEE WEST. See the ranking.
Which places in Styria have the most official bathing waters?: Altaussee (3, 100% Excellent), Bad Aussee (3, 100% Excellent), Seggauberg (2, 100% Excellent). See the place table; places are the nearest named settlement to each site.
Were any bathing waters in Styria rated Poor?: No. None was classified Poor in 2025.
Where do I check whether swimming is allowed today?: On AGES bathing-water database (Federal health ministry with the provinces and AGES). Temporary bans, pollution alerts and closures are published there and on signs at the water, not in the annual EEA class.

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Sources and method

Bathing-water records: European Environment Agency (EEA), data and coordinates reported by Austria, licensed CC BY 4.0. Region and area boundaries: Eurostat NUTS 2024 (© EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries). Place names: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). A site belongs to the area that contains its reported coordinates; a site up to 10 km off the generalised coastline is placed in the nearest area of Austria. Counts, shares and rankings are calculated by BathingWaterFinder from the official records.