Skip the plastic bottles. Find the nearest free water spot and refill your bottle right away.
This map shows public drinking water spots from OpenStreetMap: drinking fountains in parks and pedestrian areas, water taps at cemeteries or campsites, drinkable ornamental fountains, and refill stations in stores. Tap water in most European countries is among the most strictly tested foodstuffs — drinking fountains deliver the same water, for free, without a plastic bottle. The popup tells you whether the fountain is shut off seasonally and whether it's bottle-friendly.
All locations come from OpenStreetMap and are loaded live via the Overpass API. OSM is a free, community-maintained world map. Drinking water spots are tagged amenity=drinking_water, man_made=water_tap, or amenity=fountain + drinking_water=yes. Edits go live within minutes — you can contribute: create an account on openstreetmap.org, add the new fountain, done. Initiatives like Refill UK and Refill USA also feed OSM.
Yes — every point tagged drinking_water=yes or amenity=drinking_water is officially marked as drinkable. In the EU the Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) mandates regular bacteriological and chemical testing. For ornamental fountains without an explicit drinking-water tag (red "No drinking water" signs): do not drink.
Standing water in the supply pipe freezes below 0 °C and can burst the pipes. So drinking fountains in Central Europe are typically shut off from November to late March and winterized. In Southern Europe, the southern US, and the tropics, fountains usually run year-round.
A café, bakery, or shop that fills your bottle with tap water for free — no purchase required. The Refill concept started in the UK in 2015 and is now international. Look for the blue "Refill" sticker at the entrance. This map shows Refill spots tagged in OSM.
OSM is crowdsourced — if no one has added the fountain there, it's missing here too. Fix: add it yourself. Create an account at openstreetmap.org, open the "iD" editor, click the spot, set the tag amenity=drinking_water, save. It will appear on our map within minutes.
This map runs entirely in your browser. Your location is never sent to our servers — it's only used to center the map. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap.
All points come from OpenStreetMap and are fetched live via the Overpass API. Something missing or wrong? Anyone can fix it directly on OpenStreetMap — the map will reflect the change shortly after.
In many European cities tap water is one of the best food products available — strictly controlled, widely accessible, almost always free. Still, we often walk around with a half-empty bottle simply because we do not know the next public fountain. This map closes that gap and makes the network of drinking fountains, water taps and drinkable city fountains visible in one view. It does not only save money on bottled plastic — in summer it makes the difference between a relaxed stroll and a heat strike.
Behind the markers are hundreds of thousands of OSM entries. Vienna, famous for its Hochquellwasserleitung, has over 1000 public drinking fountains — all in OSM. Berlin's water utility has operated a growing "Kaiserbrunnen" network for years. Rome has its iconic nasoni, Paris the fontaines Wallace. Thanks to the unified amenity=drinking_water tag they are all reachable through one query — no matter which country you are in.
The map also supports tags like bottle=yes (the spout fits a bottle), seasonal=spring|summer (only active in warm months) and operator (city utility, district, private operator). This matters: a typical Stockholm summer fountain is shut off in October; a Viennese Hochquell fountain runs year-round. No commercial city map shows these details — our popup does, right at the marker.
We read the following tags from OSM — full reference in the OSM Wiki.
amenity=drinking_water — Classic drinking-water spout, tested and drinkable.man_made=water_tap — Water tap — typical at cemeteries, allotments, plazas.amenity=fountain + drinking_water=yes — City fountain whose water is explicitly tagged drinkable.amenity=water_point — Water point, often at campsites — drinkable depending on tag.bottle=yes — Spout is wide enough to refill a bottle.seasonal=yes|spring|summer — Fountain is only active in spring/summer/warm half-year.How travellers and city dwellers use the map:
bottle=yes along the route.All fountains come from OpenStreetMap and are published under the Open Database License (ODbL). We fetch data live via the Overpass API — you always see the latest state. OSM edits typically reach Overpass within minutes. Found a fountain that is shut off, broken or newly opened? Update it on openstreetmap.org. Mobile apps like StreetComplete and Every Door offer specific quests for drinking water — e.g. "is this fountain running?" — and make contributing easy.
We can only show what is tagged in OSM. Coverage in Vienna, Paris, Rome, Zurich or Berlin is excellent; rural areas and places outside Europe are often sparse. Seasonal tag freshness can also lag: a seasonal=summer fountain may be closed in November but still tagged as year-round. Mineralised or healing-water springs should not be drunk without a local check, even if tagged drinking_water=yes. Drinkability can change after repairs — a local sign or the water utility has the final word.
amenity=drinking_water are typically publicly maintained. Still watch out for local "not drinking water" signs. When in doubt, check the city sanitation or water-utility website.amenity=drinking_water, ideally add bottle=yes and seasonal=yes/no. If known: operator, start_date, website.