About Lido & Steam

I'm Markus. I like being somewhere warm where I can hop in the water, so I wanted a list of where that's still possible, even in October, to know if a trip is worth it. I live in Nice with the sea right here, but it's still nice to get out from time to time.

My wife likes the sea too, but her half of the wish list runs a few degrees warmer: thermal baths and bathhouses. I couldn't decide which site to build, so I built one that works for both of us (and hopefully for you as well).

Where each fact comes from

• Prices, opening hours, swimwear rules and age limits come from the operator's own website and nowhere else. Each carries the month it was read. Nothing older than twelve months stays on a live page.
• Access, parking, crowding and season on swimming spots are written from visits and local knowledge, not from reviews.
• Bathing water classifications are from the European Environment Agency's Bathing Water Directive reporting and always shown with the season year they describe.
• Water temperatures are long-term monthly averages, not forecasts.
• Maps are drawn from Natural Earth for countries and thermal regions, and for towns, places and swimming areas from © OpenStreetMap contributors and © OpenMapTiles. They're stored on this site.

What this site does not do

It does not say a place is safe to swim. It does not republish reviews. It carries no advertising and no analytics. If a fact is wrong, the operator's site wins and this page gets corrected.