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Bathing water quality in Thuringia, Germany

Thuringia has 39 official bathing waters in the EEA dataset for the 2025 season — all lake. 92.3% were classified Excellent — 1.4 points above the 90.9% across Germany — and 0 were Poor. 30 sites have been Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025.

Badegewässerqualität in Thüringen

Von 39 offiziellen EU-Badestellen in Thüringen waren 2025 92,3 % „ausgezeichnet“; Zahl der als „mangelhaft“ eingestuften Badestellen: 0.

Ferry jetty on the Saale at Altenbeuthen, Thuringia
Photo: Ermell, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
39

official bathing waters

92.3%

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 Thuringia

The federal states (Länder); national overview by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA)

Bathing season in Germany: Set by each federal state. Live results are on the state portals linked from the UBA page; most German bathing waters are lakes.

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

Bathing-water quality (UBA, links to all states) →

Map of official bathing waters in Thuringia

Excellent 36Poor 0Not classified 3
NATURBAD MUENCHENBERNSDORF: Excellent (2025)TALSPERRE ZEULENRODA UFER ZEULENRODA: Excellent (2025)HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE PORTENSCHMIEDE: Excellent (2025)HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE SCHAEFERWIESE: Excellent (2025)WALDBAD KOENIGSEE: Excellent (2025)KIESSEE II IMMELBORN: Excellent (2025)STAUSEE HOHENFELDEN: Excellent (2025)PROESSDORFER SEE: Excellent (2025)TALSPERRE ZEULENRODA UFER ZADELSDORF: Excellent (2025)HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE LINKENMUEHLE: Excellent (2025)HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE HOPFENMUEHLE: Excellent (2025)KIESGRUBE LEUBINGEN: Excellent (2025)HAINBERGSEE: Excellent (2025)TALSPERRE ZEULENRODA UFER BIO SEEHOTEL: Excellent (2025)BEBRAER TEICHE: Excellent (2025)NATURSCHWIMMBAD HELDRUNGEN: Excellent (2025)BLEILOCH TALSPERRE REMPTENDORFER BUCHT: Excellent (2025)BLEILOCH TALSPERRE SAALBURG: Excellent (2025)HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE DROSCHKAU: Excellent (2025)STRANDBAD AGA: Excellent (2025)STAUSEE ALBERSDORF: Excellent (2025)STRANDBAD BREITUNGEN: Excellent (2025)NORDSTRAND: Excellent (2025)SCHLEICHERSEE: Excellent (2025)SCHOENSEE URNSHAUSEN: Excellent (2025)BIELENER KIESGEWAESSER: Excellent (2025)BLEILOCH TALSPERRE KLOSTER: Excellent (2025)HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE AM ALTER: Excellent (2025)HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE GREEZ: Excellent (2025)TAGEBAURESTLOCH PAHNA: Excellent (2025)NATURBAD TRIEBES: Excellent (2025)STRANDBAD STOTTERNHEIM: Excellent (2025)CAMPINGOASE KUEHNHAUSEN KLEINER BAGGERSEE: Excellent (2025)CAMPINGPLATZ PAULFELDTEICH: Excellent (2025)WALDBAD BERNHARDSTHAL: Excellent (2025)NATURBAD KAIMBERG: Excellent (2025)BERGSEE RATSCHER: Not classified (2025)LUETSCHE STAUSEE: Not classified (2025)WALDBAD STUETZERBACH: Not classified (2025)Saale-Orla-KreisGreizSaalfeld-RudolstadtAltenburger LandErfurt, Kreisfreie StadtGothaKyffhäuserkreisWartburgkreisHildburghausenIlm-KreisNordhausenSchmalkalden-MeiningenSömmerdaBavariaLower SaxonySaxony-Anhalt
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.

Thuringia by district

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

2025 EEA classes by district
DistrictSitesExcellentGoodSufficientPoorNot classified
Saale-Orla-Kreis77 (100%)0000
Greiz66 (100%)0000
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt44 (100%)0000
Altenburger Land33 (100%)0000
Erfurt, Kreisfreie Stadt33 (100%)0000
Gera, Kreisfreie Stadt22 (100%)0000
Gotha21 (50%)0001
Kyffhäuserkreis22 (100%)0000
Wartburgkreis22 (100%)0000
Hildburghausen10 (0%)0001
Ilm-Kreis10 (0%)0001
Jena, Kreisfreie Stadt11 (100%)0000
Nordhausen11 (100%)0000
Schmalkalden-Meiningen11 (100%)0000
Sömmerda11 (100%)0000
Sonneberg11 (100%)0000
Weimarer Land11 (100%)0000

Most consistent Excellent sites

30 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. BLEILOCH TALSPERRE KLOSTER 11 seasons · Saale-Orla-Kreis
  2. BLEILOCH TALSPERRE REMPTENDORFER BUCHT 11 seasons · Saale-Orla-Kreis
  3. BLEILOCH TALSPERRE SAALBURG 11 seasons · Saale-Orla-Kreis
  4. CAMPINGOASE KUEHNHAUSEN KLEINER BAGGERSEE 11 seasons · Erfurt, Kreisfreie Stadt
  5. CAMPINGPLATZ PAULFELDTEICH 11 seasons · Gotha
  6. HAINBERGSEE 11 seasons · Altenburger Land
  7. HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE AM ALTER 11 seasons · Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
  8. HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE DROSCHKAU 11 seasons · Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
  9. HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE GREEZ 11 seasons · Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
  10. HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE HOPFENMUEHLE 11 seasons · Saale-Orla-Kreis
  11. HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE LINKENMUEHLE 11 seasons · Saale-Orla-Kreis
  12. HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE PORTENSCHMIEDE 11 seasons · Saale-Orla-Kreis
  13. HOHENWARTE TALSPERRE SCHAEFERWIESE 11 seasons · Saale-Orla-Kreis
  14. KIESGRUBE LEUBINGEN 11 seasons · Sömmerda
  15. KIESSEE II IMMELBORN 11 seasons · Wartburgkreis
  16. NATURBAD KAIMBERG 11 seasons · Gera, Kreisfreie Stadt
  17. NATURBAD MUENCHENBERNSDORF 11 seasons · Greiz
  18. NATURBAD TRIEBES 11 seasons · Greiz
  19. NATURSCHWIMMBAD HELDRUNGEN 11 seasons · Kyffhäuserkreis
  20. NORDSTRAND 11 seasons · Erfurt, Kreisfreie Stadt
  21. PROESSDORFER SEE 11 seasons · Altenburger Land
  22. SCHLEICHERSEE 11 seasons · Jena, Kreisfreie Stadt
  23. SCHOENSEE URNSHAUSEN 11 seasons · Wartburgkreis
  24. STAUSEE ALBERSDORF 11 seasons · Greiz

Rated Poor in 2025

None of the 39 official bathing waters in Thuringia was classified Poor in 2025.

How Thuringia rated since 2015

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

SeasonClassifiedExcellentExcellent sharePoor
20253636100%0
20243737100%0
20233737100%0
20223737100%0
20213737100%0
2020383797.4%0
2019393897.4%0
2018393897.4%0
2017393897.4%0
20163939100%0
20153636100%0

Places with the most bathing waters in Thuringia

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 4 places by number of official bathing waters
PlaceDistrictSitesExcellentPoor
RanisSaale-Orla-Kreis44 (100%)0
GoßwitzSaale-Orla-Kreis33 (100%)0
RemptendorfSaale-Orla-Kreis33 (100%)0
ZeulenrodaGreiz33 (100%)0

All 39 official bathing waters in Thuringia

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

Saale-Orla-Kreis 7 sites · 100% Excellent
Greiz 6 sites · 100% Excellent
Saalfeld-Rudolstadt 4 sites · 100% Excellent
Altenburger Land 3 sites · 100% Excellent
Erfurt, Kreisfreie Stadt 3 sites · 100% Excellent
Gera, Kreisfreie Stadt 2 sites · 100% Excellent
Gotha 2 sites · 50% Excellent
Kyffhäuserkreis 2 sites · 100% Excellent
Wartburgkreis 2 sites · 100% Excellent
Hildburghausen 1 site · 0% Excellent
Ilm-Kreis 1 site · 0% Excellent
Jena, Kreisfreie Stadt 1 site · 100% Excellent
  • SCHLEICHERSEE · Lichtenhain Excellent Excellent 11 seasons in a row
Nordhausen 1 site · 100% Excellent
Schmalkalden-Meiningen 1 site · 100% Excellent
Sömmerda 1 site · 100% Excellent
Sonneberg 1 site · 100% Excellent
Weimarer Land 1 site · 100% 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 Thuringia were rated Excellent in 2025?
36 of 39 (92.3%) in the official EEA 2025 classification; 0 were Good, 0 Sufficient and 0 Poor, and 3 had no class. That ranks Thuringia 5 of 14 Germany states by Excellent share.
Which district of Thuringia has the highest share of Excellent sites?
Saale-Orla-Kreis: 100% of its 7 sites were Excellent in 2025. Only districts with at least five sites are compared; see the full table.
Which beaches and lakes in Thuringia have the best long-term record?
30 sites were Excellent in every season from 2015 to 2025, for example BLEILOCH TALSPERRE KLOSTER, BLEILOCH TALSPERRE REMPTENDORFER BUCHT, BLEILOCH TALSPERRE SAALBURG. See the ranking.
Which places in Thuringia have the most official bathing waters?
Ranis (4, 100% Excellent), Goßwitz (3, 100% Excellent), Remptendorf (3, 100% Excellent). See the place table; places are the nearest named settlement to each site.
Were any bathing waters in Thuringia rated Poor?
No. None was classified Poor in 2025.
Where do I check whether swimming is allowed today?
On Bathing-water quality (UBA, links to all states) (The federal states (Länder); national overview by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA)). Temporary bans, pollution alerts and closures are published there and on signs at the water, not in the annual EEA class.

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.