The swimming season will last until September 7, following the usual calendar of recent years. The City Council will maintain three daily access shifts: morning (from 10:00 to 15:00), afternoon (from 16:00 to 21:00), and full day (from 10:00 to 21:00).
Prices remain unchanged from previous seasons. Children under five years old will have free access. For other users, morning or afternoon tickets will range from 1.35 euros (children aged 5 to 14) to 2.25 euros (adults aged 27 to 64), with a reduced rate of 0.70 euros for those over 65. Full-day tickets will cost 2.70 euros for children and 4.50 euros for adults.
Tickets can be purchased in advance through the Madrid Móvil application and the municipal sports website, maintaining advance booking and QR code access from mobile phones. However, the City Council will continue to reserve a percentage of tickets for in-person sales at the ticket office, primarily for elderly people or those with technological difficulties.
“"Madrid is not a city for dips. There is only 1 public pool spot in the capital for every 100 Madrid residents."
The Regional Federation of Neighborhood Associations of Madrid (Fravm) and the Platform for the Remunicipalization and Direct Management of Public Services have published a report titled Madrid is not a city for dips. In this document, they denounce that five districts of the capital —Centro, Retiro, Salamanca, Chamberí, and Chamartín— still lack municipal summer pools. More than 705,000 residents live in areas where accessing a public pool means traveling to other neighborhoods. According to the associations, Madrid has one of the worst pool-to-resident ratios among major Spanish cities, with one for every 145,000 inhabitants.
Neighborhood groups also warn that only one percent of Madrid's population can access a public pool daily due to the limited capacity of existing facilities. This debate is particularly relevant in a context of increasingly frequent heatwaves, where public pools are considered “climate shelters” by the City Council itself. The Fravm demands the urgent construction of at least five new municipal pools in the next two years and a comprehensive improvement of current facilities.
Among the most prominent facilities for the season are the Aluche and Cerro Almodóvar pools in the Latina district, the emblematic Casa de Campo pools, and the Moratalaz pool. The Hortaleza facilities and La Concepción in Ciudad Lineal will also be operational. Southern Madrid will concentrate a significant portion of the offerings with the Orcasitas and Moscardó pools in Usera, Palomeras in Puente de Vallecas, and Plata y Castañar in Villaverde. In Carabanchel, San Vicente de Paúl and La Mina will open, while San Blas-Canillejas will keep its facilities open. The network of aquatic spaces in southeastern Madrid is completed by the Vicálvaro and Villa de Vallecas pools.
Recent additions include the Paseo de la Dirección pools in Tetuán and the Mistral street pool in Barajas, inaugurated in 2024 after years of neighborhood demands. These are the only municipal summer pools built by the City Council in decades, a figure that associations consider insufficient for a city like Madrid.
