Outdoor pool season in and around Wiesbaden: Bad start, great ending

The outdoor pool season is slowly coming to an end. In Wiesbaden and the Rheingau, the operators say: It was a good year! “Thank you for the great summer weather of the last few weeks,” say many outdoor pool operators in the region in conversation with HIT RADIO FFH.

Sarah Silbermann from the Wiesbaden swimming pool operator mattiaqua also said: “We have had a good 266,000 visitors to date. The summer holidays in particular were great.”

Rain in June

Compared to 2023, it was a very good season, and overall a normal one – because the bad weather in May and June caused a proverbial cold start. But things got better: the top temperatures and lots of sunshine in July and August once again attracted tens of thousands of visitors to the outdoor pools.

Eltville outdoor pool open until 21 September

The outdoor pool in Eltville is expecting a roughly similar number of visitors this year as last year. In 2023 there were around 57,400 visitors, and in 2024 so far around 49,700. “Despite the bad weather phase in May/early June, we have been able to catch up enormously in the last few weeks thanks to the mostly consistently good weather phase, mostly on weekends and during the holidays,” says Hannah Oechler from the city of Eltville. And it will be open for almost three more weeks – until September 21st.

Season ticket buyers help

Thumbs up at the outdoor pool in Bad Schwalbach too. Richard van Rijn is delighted: “We had a really good season. We bought lots of season tickets and that helped us a bit through the dry spell at the beginning.” The outdoor pool there will be closed on September 8th.

Wiesbaden gradually closes outdoor pools

The last day of swimming at the Kallebad and the Maaraue outdoor pool in Wiesbaden will be September 8th. The Opelbad will remain open a week longer (until Sunday, September 15th). You can continue swimming at the Kleinfeldchen outdoor pool until Sunday, September 15th. The non-swimmers’ pool will even remain open until Sunday, September 29th. However, it will be heated exclusively with solar energy.