Saaler Bodden, Coastal lagoon in Vorpommern-Rügen District, Germany.

The Saaler Bodden is a shallow lagoon in the southwestern part of the Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain, located east of the Fischland peninsula near the Baltic Sea coast. With an average depth of about two meters, it creates ideal conditions for reed beds and shallow water habitats.

The Permin and the Loop were two channels linking the Saaler Bodden with the Baltic Sea; both silted up in the 14th century. Since then the bodden has been almost entirely cut off from the open sea by the Fischland isthmus, and water exchange runs through the Koppelstrom to the Bodstedter Bodden.

The Recknitz, a 72-kilometre river, empties into the southern part of the bodden, called the Ribnitzer See, and divides Ribnitz-Damgarten into Ribnitz on the west bank and Damgarten on the east. The town is the only city on the Saaler Bodden. Smaller streams also reach the water: the Klosterbach near Ribnitz, the Körkwitzer Bach and Fischergraben near Körkwitz, and the Saaler Bach, called Ziegelgraben in its lower course, near Saal.

The average depth of about two metres restricts the lagoon to pleasure craft and sport fishing. The Ribnitzer See, the southern section by Ribnitz-Damgarten, is where the Recknitz enters; the Koppelstrom leads northeast to the Bodstedter Bodden. A small part of the northeast belongs to the Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park.

The Saaler Bach, called Ziegelgraben in its lower reaches, enters the bodden near Saal, while the Klosterbach reaches the Ribnitzer See at Ribnitz. The two old Baltic channels, Permin and Loop, have been silted up since the 14th century. The northeast corner of the water lies within the Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park.