The first dips in the Madrid City Council pools can be taken on May 15, when the summer season begins. They will be operational until next September 8.
The Madrid City Council will open a total of 28 swimming pools this summer, 20 outdoors and eight covered ones that will have a solarium. Four of those that are outdoors will remain closed for construction.
The Madrid town hall will recover its pre-Covid capacity, with 20% more additional seats compared to 2023, and will include dynamic tickets that will allow that ticket to be sold again when someone leaves the pool. There will be three shifts: from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and the continuous one from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Prices for morning or afternoon shifts start at 2.25 euros for adults; Children under five years old enter for free, children from 5 to 14 years old pay 1.35 euros, young people from 15 to 26 years old pay 1.80 euros and those over 65 years old pay 0.70 euros. And the full day rate is 4.50 euros for adults, 2.70 euros for children from 5 to 14 years old, 3.60 euros for young people from 15 to 26 years old and 1.35 for those over 65 years. Children under five years old enter for free.
“This is the year that there will be the most pools open in Madrid,” said yesterday Mayor José Luis Martínez Almeida, who highlighted the opening this summer of two new ones in the districts of Tetuán and Barajas after 32 years without opening new pools. Of summer.
Of course, the summer pool of Peñuelas, in the Arganzuela district, Vicente del Bosque, in Fuencarral-El Pardo, Luis Aragonés, in Hortaleza and the Vallecas Municipal Sports Center will remain closed. These closures due to works, according to the opposition, affect some 800,000 citizens, as La Vanguardia reported on April 16. In addition, the one located on Paseo de la Direction, in the district of Tetuán will not open until August and the one in Vallehermoso, which is indirectly managed, will in principle open on June 1.
In principle, tickets are purchased online on the municipal website or through the mobile application, although 10% of the tickets are reserved for sale at the box office, half an hour before the start of each shift.
