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Polgári Strandfürdő és Kemping

Thermal bathPolgár, Észak-Alföld, Hungary
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Pool range
32-38 °C
Source temperature
42 °C
Well depth
960 m
Pools
3
Water area
1,000 m²

Where these facts come from

  • Water facts read from strandfurdopolgar.hu, Checked Sep 10, 2026
  • Operator's site checked Oct 5, 2026 and answering

Municipal open-air thermal bath in Polgár on a 960-metre well giving 42 °C water, with a three-section thermal pool at 32–38 °C, a 25-metre pool and an angling lake.

About

The bath dates from the start of the 1970s, when the district council of the day put up a swimming complex on what had been the local school's agricultural practice garden, paid for by a public subscription among residents together with a state grant; the operator dates the foundation to 1970. The first phase of the works sank a hot-water well 960 metres deep and added a reservoir sized for 30,000 cubic metres of thermal water and a belt of park woodland around it. The grounds now run to 75,000 square metres, of which 30,000 are taken up by the lake, another 30,000 by lawn and planting and 15,000 are held in reserve for development.

The well yields about 1,000 litres a minute, roughly 60 cubic metres an hour, and is screened at eight separate levels; total dissolved mineral content reaches 2,500 mg per litre. Left to flow freely the wellhead carries half a bar of overpressure and delivers water at 42 °C, with a pH of 8.0 that the operator credits for the water's alkaline, skin-softening feel. The hydrogen-carbonate and fluoride water holds a Hungarian medicinal certificate, which is what permits its balneological use: the bath lists locomotor, rheumatic, joint, circulatory, dermatological and gynaecological complaints among its indications, and mentions the water's use as a drinking cure for intestinal function. Current abstraction is licensed at about 50,000 cubic metres a year, a tenth of what the well could technically supply.

Bathing is spread over three basins. The centrepiece is a 500 cubic metre thermal pool in three sections, each plumbed so it can be filled and drained on its own and therefore held at a different temperature: one undivided part sits at 32–34 °C and doubles as a children's swimming-lesson pool, while the two arms of the divided part run at 34–36 °C and 36–38 °C. Under the thuja trees a two-part children's pool of more than 100 square metres, with a water slide and its own circulation plant, runs seasonally at 28–30 °C. The 25 by 12 metre swimming pool is the exception: it is filled from the town mains rather than the well and warmed through a heat exchanger to 26–28 °C, sloping gently to a maximum depth of 1.5 metres. Total water surface across the site is around 1,000 square metres.

Beyond the water the site keeps a sauna and a gym in the winter changing building, along with showers and about 100 lockers, and a summer cabin block of similar capacity. For sport there are a sand beach-football pitch, an artificial-turf football pitch, asphalt volleyball and handball courts and a foot-tennis court, and the grounds also hold garden pavilions. The 30,000 square metre lake carries six angling stands stocked with bream, carp, grass carp, silver carp and large catfish, and allows rowing and motorboating in summer, while a 5,000 square metre English garden alongside it holds barbecue and cauldron-cooking places, a lakeside walk, a playground and a foot-tennis court. Doors open daily from 09:00 to 19:00.

Water

Certified medicinal water
Yes
Minerals
Fluoride
Indications
Circulation, Gynaecological, Musculoskeletal, Rheumatic conditions, Skin

Source: strandfurdopolgar.hu · Checked Sep 10, 2026

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Location

Fürdő utca 2, 4090 Polgár

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