Women’s and men’s swimming days
- Women’s swimming days: Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
- Men’s swimming days: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Opening hours
Women’s swimming days:
– Mon 12.00-20.00 1st floor
– Wed
6.30-20.00 1st floor
13.00-20.00 2nd floor
– Fri
6.30-20.00 1st floor
13.00-20.00 2nd floor
– Sun
9.00-10.00 1st floor, only with special swimming card
11.00-20.00 1st floor
13.00-20.00 2nd floor
Men’s swimming days:
– Tue
6.30-20.00 1st floor
13.00-20.00 2nd floor
– Thu
6.30-20.00 1st floor
13.00-20.00 2nd floor
– Sat
7.00-20.00 1st floor
13.00-20.00 2nd floor
– Sun 7.00-8.00 1st floor, only with special swimming card
May Day Eve: April 30, 2026 - 6.30-15.00 1st floor only, 2nd floor closed
May Day: May 1, 2026 closed
Date period: May 2, 2026 - May 3, 2026 closed
May opening hours, women: May 4, 2026 - May 23, 2026
– Mon, Wed, Fri 14.00-20.00 1st floor only
May opening hours, men: May 4, 2026 - May 23, 2026
– Tue, Thu, Sat 14.00-20.00 1st floor only
You may swim in the pool until 8.30 pm. Please vacate the swimming hall no later than 9 pm.
The swimming hall is closed for the summer (May 24-30 August 2026).
Contact information
- Cash desk:
+358 9 310 87401(Link starts a phone call)
General advice on all services and access. - Swimming attendant:
+358 9 310 74461 (Link starts a phone call)
Questions about the swimming pool area and equipment available for loan. - Sports facility caretaker (2nd floor):
+358 9 310 74762 (Link starts a phone call)
Questions about services on the second floor. - Instructed sports:
+358 9 310 87401 (Link starts a phone call)
Questions about the sports courses held at Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall.
For the media
If you need information about Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall, are looking for interviewees or would like to visit the hall, please contact the Culture and Leisure Division’s Communication and Marketing Services. Please note that we will not be organising any more media visits to the swimming hall during spring 2026. You can find photos of the swimming hall in our media bank.
- Communication and Marketing Services email: kuva.viestinta@hel.fi(Link opens default mail program)
- Contact details for the media
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Photos of the swimming hall in the media bank(Link leads to external service)
How to get there
Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall is located in the city centre on Yrjönkatu. The swimming hall is easy to get to by public transport. There is a parking garage in the adjacent Forum shopping centre.
Lost and found
You can ask for lost and found items at the cash desk. We keep found objects on our premises for one month. We do not provide information about lost and found items by phone.
Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall building
The Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall building has a total of six floors. The swimming hall and pool proper are located on the first floor. The second floor with its services is also part of the public swimming hall. There is a separate entrance fee for the second floor.
Services of the swimming hall are also provided on floors 3–6, which are accessed via a designated stairwell as opposed to the main entrance of the swimming hall. The third floor features a small swimming pool where the City holds water exercise courses. The fourth floor features a reservable private sauna, the fifth floor features leased office facilities, and the sixth floor features a group exercise room.
In connection with the completion of the renovation of Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall in 2026, the new public and permanent artwork “Water Bodies” was presented. The work, consisting of six glass pieces, is installed in the wall along the entrance corridor of the swimming hall and was created by photographic artist Noora Sandgren.
Accessibility
- There is no parking in the immediate vicinity of Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall.
- Pick-up and drop-off traffic can stop in front of the courtyard gate at Yrjönkatu 21B. The spot is 20 metres from the entrance.
- The route from the courtyard gate to the main entrance is guided by tactile paving.
- The courtyard walkway has a hard and flat surface.
Main entrance
- The main entrance has a smart audio beacon that works with the MyMoveo app.
- The main entrance doors and the vestibule doors open automatically and simultaneously by means of an opening button, allowing you to pass through the narrow vestibule without having to open the vestibule door separately.
- The doorways of the main entrance and the vestibule have 3 cm high unrounded thresholds.
Ticket sales
- The ticket sales desk is located to the left of the entrance on floor 1.
- You can shop at the ticket sales desk both sitting and standing.
- Both ticket counters are equipped with service point loops.
- You can borrow a shower wheelchair, a walker and a lifting sling from the ticket sales desk. Visually impaired people can ask the cash desk for a tactile map of the area.
Entrance floor
- The entrance floor has a separate quiet area for guide and service dogs.
- The entrance floor has a heated storage area for prams and wheeled assistive devices.
- Swimming hall services are located on the first floor in two mezzanine floors.
- There is lift access to the dressing level.
- There are three steps from the dressing level to the pool level.
- There are shallow stairs to the swimming pool.
- The 1st floor dressing rooms and pool areas have handrails and accessible washing facilities.
- The saunas in the pool area have handrails.
- The second floor is accessible and offers several accessible services.
- The second floor can be accessed from the main lobby by a lift with a 1.4 m long and 1.1 m wide cage.
Accessible dressing room
- There is a separate accessible dressing room with a connected accessible toilet and washroom on the second floor. The dressing room must be booked in advance by contacting the swimming hall's customer service.
- The accessible dressing room, toilet and washroom are reserved for your private use during the reservation period, so you can leave your wheelchair and guide or service dog in the dressing room if you wish.
- The dressing room and accessible toilet area are equipped with a Roomer S overhead lift, which allows you to move between the rooms in the lift. You can borrow a lifting sling from the swimming hall or bring your own.
- You can also borrow the swimming hall's shower wheelchair.
Saunas
- On the second floor, there is step-free access to the wood-heated sauna and infrared sauna.
- The doorway to the washroom of the wood-heated sauna is 76 cm wide and has a 2 cm high bevelled threshold.
- The wood-heated sauna has been renovated to include a place for a shower wheelchair and an air circulation system to distribute the heat more evenly to the lower level.
- The doorway to the washroom of the infrared sauna is 80 cm wide and has a 4 cm high threshold. If necessary, the threshold can be fitted with a threshold ramp.
- The steam sauna does not have enough free space for a wheelchair.
- If the customer is entitled to a personal assistant, the assistant can access Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall free of charge with the customer’s ticket.
- A special feature of Yrjönkatu Swimming Hall is that customers are also allowed to use the swimming hall facilities in the nude. Because of this, the personal assistant must be of the same sex as the person that they are assisting.