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Bathing water quality in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Saxony-Anhalt has 72 official bathing waters in the EEA dataset for the 2025 season (71 lake and 1 river). 90.3% were classified Excellent — 0.6 points below the 90.9% across Germany — and 0 were Poor. By district, the Excellent share is highest in Anhalt-Bitterfeld (100% of 5) and lowest in Stendal (83.3% of 6). 53 sites have been Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025.

Badegewässerqualität in Sachsen-Anhalt

Von 72 offiziellen EU-Badestellen in Sachsen-Anhalt waren 2025 90,3 % „ausgezeichnet“; Zahl der als „mangelhaft“ eingestuften Badestellen: 0.

Gremminer See, a former open-cast mine lake near Gräfenhainichen
Photo: Do3hum, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
72

official bathing waters

90.3%

Excellent in 2025

0

Poor in 2025

Not live: these are annual official classifications. Check the competent authority for today’s notices before swimming.
Before you swim in Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Health

In Germany each state publishes its own bathing-water results, closures and algae warnings during the season.

Annual EEA classes do not show temporary bans, short-term pollution or algae alerts. State portal verified 3 November 2026.

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Map of official bathing waters in Saxony-Anhalt

Excellent 65Good 3Sufficient 1Poor 0Not classified 3
DITFURTER SEE: Excellent (2025)KARLSBAD ANGERSDORFER TEICHE: Excellent (2025)BREMER DAMMTEICH GERNRODE: Excellent (2025)WALLENDORFER SEE: Excellent (2025)WALDSEEBAD HASSELFELDE: Excellent (2025)PARCHAUER SEE: Excellent (2025)PLATTENSEE DANNIGKOW: Excellent (2025)CONCORDIA SEE: Excellent (2025)BERGWITZSEE: Excellent (2025)GROSSE GOITZSCHE BERNSTEINSEE MUEHLBECK: Excellent (2025)OSTERTEICH GERNRODE: Excellent (2025)GROSSE GOITZSCHE BERNSTEINSEE AM PEGELTURM: Excellent (2025)GROSSE GOITZSCHE NIEMEGKER SEE AM STADION: Excellent (2025)SEEBAD EDDERITZ: Excellent (2025)MONDSEE: Excellent (2025)NATURBAD MOSIGKAU: Excellent (2025)BARLEBER SEE I: Excellent (2025)KIESGRUBE ROSSLA: Excellent (2025)NEPTUNBAD HELBRA: Excellent (2025)STRANDSOLBAD STASSFURT: Excellent (2025)FLUSSBAD BIESE: Excellent (2025)KAMERN SEE BST KAMERN: Excellent (2025)WALDBAD WISCHER: Excellent (2025)BADETEICH TOURISTENZENTRUM PRETTIN: Excellent (2025)RISS KLOEDEN: Excellent (2025)BADESEE DIXFOERDA: Excellent (2025)SUESSER SEE SCHIFF SEEBURG: Excellent (2025)OLYMPIASEE ZIEKO: Excellent (2025)ARENDSEE BST SCHRAMPE: Excellent (2025)WALDBAD ZICHTAU: Excellent (2025)GROENINGER SEE: Excellent (2025)JERSLEBER SEE: Excellent (2025)KULK GOMMERN: Excellent (2025)ZABAKUCKER SEE: Excellent (2025)KUNSTTEICH WETTELRODE: Excellent (2025)SUESSER SEE CAMPINGPLATZ SEEBURG: Excellent (2025)FRIEDRICHSBAD ZWINTSCHOENA: Excellent (2025)KAMERN SEE BST SCHOENFELD: Excellent (2025)KOLK BISMARK: Excellent (2025)FLAEMINGBAD COSWIG ANHALT: Excellent (2025)SEEPARK BARBY: Excellent (2025)RASSNITZER SEE: Excellent (2025)STEINBRUCHSEE SUEPLINGEN: Excellent (2025)BIRNBAUMTEICH NEUDORF HARZ: Excellent (2025)NATURBAD ELBINGERODE: Excellent (2025)NIEGRIPPER SEE: Excellent (2025)ALBERTINESEE: Excellent (2025)LOEDERBURGER SEE: Excellent (2025)STRANDBAD GERLEBOGK: Excellent (2025)KOENIGSEE ROTTA: Excellent (2025)GROSSER LAUSIGER TEICH: Excellent (2025)GEISELTALSEE BST STOEBNITZ: Excellent (2025)STRANDBAD ADRIA: Excellent (2025)HEIDEBAD: Excellent (2025)STAUSEE KELBRA: Excellent (2025)HASSE ROSSBACH: Excellent (2025)MOEHLAUER SEE: Excellent (2025)GEISELTALSEE BST FRANKLEBEN: Excellent (2025)ARENDSEE BST STRANDBAD: Excellent (2025)STRANDBAD SANDERSDORF: Excellent (2025)STRANDBAD KRETZSCHAU: Excellent (2025)KIESGRUBE SOLLNITZ: Excellent (2025)WALDBAD DESSAU: Excellent (2025)HALBERSTAEDTER SEE: Excellent (2025)STRANDBAD OBHAUSEN: Excellent (2025)BADESEE KLIETZ: Not classified (2025)PAPPEL BEACH NATURBAD und STRANDBAR: Not classified (2025)NEUSTAEDTER SEE: Not classified (2025)WOLMIRSLEBENER SCHACHTSEE: Good (2025)STRANDBAD REINSDORF: Good (2025)BERGSEE GUENTERSBERGE: Good (2025)SUESSER SEE ASELEBEN: Sufficient (2025)WittenbergHarzSaalekreisMansfeld-SüdharzSalzlandkreisStendalAnhalt-BitterfeldJerichower LandBördeBurgenlandkreisMecklenburg-Western PomeraniaThuringiaBerlinSaxony
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.

Saxony-Anhalt by district

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

2025 EEA classes by district
DistrictSitesExcellentGoodSufficientPoorNot classified
Wittenberg109 (90%)1000
Harz87 (87.5%)1000
Saalekreis87 (87.5%)0001
Mansfeld-Südharz76 (85.7%)0100
Salzlandkreis76 (85.7%)1000
Stendal65 (83.3%)0001
Anhalt-Bitterfeld55 (100%)0000
Jerichower Land55 (100%)0000
Dessau-Roßlau, Kreisfreie Stadt44 (100%)0000
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel33 (100%)0000
Börde33 (100%)0000
Burgenlandkreis22 (100%)0000
Halle (Saale), Kreisfreie Stadt22 (100%)0000
Magdeburg, Kreisfreie Stadt21 (50%)0001

Sea, lakes and rivers in Saxony-Anhalt

2025 EEA classes by water type
Water typeSitesExcellentGoodSufficientPoorNot classified
Lake7164 (90.1%)3103
River11 (100%)0000

Coastal waters are assessed against stricter bacterial limits than lakes and rivers but are diluted far more; see how the classes are calculated.

Most consistent Excellent sites

53 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.

  1. ALBERTINESEE 11 seasons · Salzlandkreis
  2. ARENDSEE BST SCHRAMPE 11 seasons · Altmarkkreis Salzwedel
  3. ARENDSEE BST STRANDBAD 11 seasons · Altmarkkreis Salzwedel
  4. BADESEE DIXFOERDA 11 seasons · Wittenberg
  5. BADETEICH TOURISTENZENTRUM PRETTIN 11 seasons · Wittenberg
  6. BARLEBER SEE I 11 seasons · Magdeburg, Kreisfreie Stadt
  7. BERGWITZSEE 11 seasons · Wittenberg
  8. BIRNBAUMTEICH NEUDORF HARZ 11 seasons · Harz
  9. BREMER DAMMTEICH GERNRODE 11 seasons · Harz
  10. FLAEMINGBAD COSWIG ANHALT 11 seasons · Wittenberg
  11. FRIEDRICHSBAD ZWINTSCHOENA 11 seasons · Saalekreis
  12. GEISELTALSEE BST STOEBNITZ 11 seasons · Saalekreis
  13. GROENINGER SEE 11 seasons · Börde
  14. GROSSE GOITZSCHE BERNSTEINSEE AM PEGELTURM 11 seasons · Anhalt-Bitterfeld
  15. GROSSE GOITZSCHE BERNSTEINSEE MUEHLBECK 11 seasons · Anhalt-Bitterfeld
  16. GROSSE GOITZSCHE NIEMEGKER SEE AM STADION 11 seasons · Anhalt-Bitterfeld
  17. GROSSER LAUSIGER TEICH 11 seasons · Wittenberg
  18. HASSE ROSSBACH 11 seasons · Saalekreis
  19. HEIDEBAD 11 seasons · Halle (Saale), Kreisfreie Stadt
  20. JERSLEBER SEE 11 seasons · Börde
  21. KAMERN SEE BST KAMERN 11 seasons · Stendal
  22. KAMERN SEE BST SCHOENFELD 11 seasons · Stendal
  23. KARLSBAD ANGERSDORFER TEICHE 11 seasons · Halle (Saale), Kreisfreie Stadt
  24. KIESGRUBE ROSSLA 11 seasons · Mansfeld-Südharz

Rated Poor in 2025

None of the 72 official bathing waters in Saxony-Anhalt was classified Poor in 2025.

How Saxony-Anhalt rated since 2015

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

SeasonClassifiedExcellentExcellent sharePoor
2025696594.2%0
2024696492.8%1
2023676495.5%0
2022676292.5%2
2021656092.3%0
2020656295.4%1
2019676394%1
2018676597%1
2017676394%1
2016666192.4%0
2015666192.4%0

Places with the most bathing waters in Saxony-Anhalt

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 9 places by number of official bathing waters
PlaceDistrictSitesExcellentPoor
Burg bei MagdeburgJerichower Land22 (100%)0
CoswigWittenberg22 (100%)0
FriedersdorfAnhalt-Bitterfeld22 (100%)0
GommernJerichower Land22 (100%)0
HöhnstedtMansfeld-Südharz22 (100%)0
Luftkurort ArendseeAltmarkkreis Salzwedel22 (100%)0
MöhlauWittenberg22 (100%)0
PretzschWittenberg22 (100%)0
SandauStendal22 (100%)0

All 72 official bathing waters in Saxony-Anhalt

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

Download all 72 sites as CSV (classes 2015–2025, coordinates, nearest place; EEA data, CC BY 4.0)

Wittenberg 10 sites · 90% Excellent
Harz 8 sites · 87.5% Excellent
Saalekreis 8 sites · 87.5% Excellent
Mansfeld-Südharz 7 sites · 85.7% Excellent
Salzlandkreis 7 sites · 85.7% Excellent
Stendal 6 sites · 83.3% Excellent
Anhalt-Bitterfeld 5 sites · 100% Excellent
Jerichower Land 5 sites · 100% Excellent
Dessau-Roßlau, Kreisfreie Stadt 4 sites · 100% Excellent
Altmarkkreis Salzwedel 3 sites · 100% Excellent
Börde 3 sites · 100% Excellent
Burgenlandkreis 2 sites · 100% Excellent
Halle (Saale), Kreisfreie Stadt 2 sites · 100% Excellent
Magdeburg, Kreisfreie Stadt 2 sites · 50% Excellent

Compared with other states in Germany

#StateSitesExcellentPoor
1Berlin39100%0
2Brandenburg24995.6%0
3Hesse6195.1%0
4Bavaria37893.1%1
5Thuringia3992.3%0
6Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania29692.2%0
7Baden-Württemberg30890.3%2
8Saxony-Anhalt7290.3%0
9Schleswig-Holstein33089.4%0
10Rhineland-Palatinate6689.4%0
11North Rhine-Westphalia11788%0
12Lower Saxony27387.2%0
13Saxony3281.3%0
14Hamburg1681.3%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 Saxony-Anhalt were rated Excellent in 2025?
65 of 72 (90.3%) in the official EEA 2025 classification; 3 were Good, 1 Sufficient and 0 Poor, and 3 had no class. That ranks Saxony-Anhalt 8 of 14 Germany states by Excellent share.
Which district of Saxony-Anhalt has the highest share of Excellent sites?
Anhalt-Bitterfeld: 100% of its 5 sites were Excellent in 2025. Jerichower Land follows with 100%. Only districts with at least five sites are compared; see the full table.
Which beaches and lakes in Saxony-Anhalt have the best long-term record?
53 sites were Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025, for example ALBERTINESEE, ARENDSEE BST SCHRAMPE, ARENDSEE BST STRANDBAD. See the ranking.
Which places in Saxony-Anhalt have the most official bathing waters?
Burg bei Magdeburg (2, 100% Excellent), Coswig (2, 100% Excellent), Friedersdorf (2, 100% Excellent). See the place table; places are the nearest named settlement to each site.
Were any bathing waters in Saxony-Anhalt rated Poor?
No. None was classified Poor in 2025.
Where do I check whether swimming is allowed today?
On Bathing waters in Saxony-Anhalt, run by Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Health, and on signs at the water. The annual EEA class does not include temporary bans or algae warnings.

Germany overview · All states of Germany · Bathing season dates

Sources and method

Bathing-water records: European Environment Agency (EEA), data and coordinates reported by Germany, licensed CC BY 4.0. Region and district 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 Germany. Counts, shares and rankings are calculated by BathingWaterFinder from the official records.