Pudagla is located between the Achterwasser lagoon about 1500 metres to the west, the Schmollensee lake directly to the southeast and the coast of the Baltic Sea approximately 5 kilometres to the northeast.

The village is situated at the foot of Glaubensberg Hill (38,8 m above sea level) and since the new layout of the Bundesstraße 111 in January 2008, directly on the transport route.

This is a transliteration of the slavic pad glowe (at the hill) and is related to present-day Glaubensberg south of the village at Schmollensee.

[2] Duke Barnim I of Pomerania gifted the village Pudagla with its tithes and all rights including to the river Pritolniza, known today as Groote Beek to Usedom Abbey on 14 October 1273.

After the abbey's secularization into a ducal domain, it at times served as an administrative center.