Dead Sea Hot Spring
- Location
- Ein Gedi, Dead Sea Region, Palestine
- Water type
- sodium chloride
- Temperature
- 38 °C
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Soothing — neither hot nor cold, perfect balance.
Loaded with major ions — the essential minerals (Ca, Mg).
Dense, salty water — you float without effort.
The Dead Sea Hot Springs represent one of the ancient world's most celebrated thermal hydrological environments, where naturally saline geothermal waters emerge along the shores and in the approaches to the Dead Sea — the world's lowest point on the earth's surface at approximately 430 meters below sea level — in a region whose mineral-rich mud, high-salinity waters, and unique atmospheric conditions have been associated with bathing and well-being since the time of Herod the Great, who reportedly bathed at the nearby Callirrhoe springs. The Ma'in Hot Springs (Hammamat Ma'in), flowing in spectacular hot waterfall cascades between Madaba and the Dead Sea in Jordan, exemplify the dramatic geothermal spring systems of this unique geological depression where the Dead Sea Transform fault zone creates intense tectonic and thermal activity. Bathing in Dead Sea hot springs combines the hypersaline buoyancy and mineral wealth of the Dead Sea environment with geothermal spring warmth in one of the earth's most historically significant landscapes.