where the best saunas are.
Rigorously researched and ultra thorough. These are the best saunas in the world.
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1LAMP Nojiriko – The Sauna
Shinano-machi (Lake Nojiri), Japan · wood-fired · open-water cold · 100/100
Japan's cult lakeside sauna village: wood-fired huts on Lake Nojiri at a small guesthouse, SAUNACHELIN No. 3 in both 2022 and 2023.
2Yuyado Daiichi (湯宿だいいち)
Yoroushi Onsen, Nakashibetsu, Japan · wood-fired · open-water cold · 97/100
The 2025 SAUNACHELIN Grand Prix winner: a riverside onsen inn in eastern Hokkaido where hot spring water pours over the stones and the cold plunge is the river.
3Mifuneyama Rakuen Hotel – Rakan-no-Yu (御船山楽園ホテル らかんの湯)
Takeo Onsen, Japan · wood-fired · 96/100
Three straight SAUNACHELIN No. 1s (2019–2021) and a Hall of Fame place: hojicha löyly, two wood-fired rooms and a bonfire rooftop beside an Edo-era garden.
4Ziedlejas · Latvian Nature Spa
near Sigulda (Gauja National Park), Latvia · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 96/100
A design-award-winning pirts retreat in Gauja National Park: three saunas including a spruce smoke sauna, four-hour rituals led by trained pirts masters, and four glass guest cabins.
5Kurhotel Skodsborg
Skodsborg (Rudersdal), 18 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark · electric · open-water cold · 95/100
Saunas, steam rooms, a hydro pool and a 21-metre pool among 16 bathing experiences in its spa, open to guests over 15.
6Alpenresort Schwarz (Sauna Village)
Mieming, Austria · electric · open-water cold · 95/100
A 650 m² Tyrolean 'Sauna Village' with a 70-95 °C mountain lake sauna, a 90 °C hunter's sauna and a natural bathing pond; guests call the aufguss 'a show'.
7Fell Centre Kiilopää (Hotel Niilanpää) · Kuurakaltio smoke sauna
Kiilopää, near Saariselkä (Inari), Finland · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 94/100
A soot-black log smoke sauna for about 25 people run by the Finnish outdoor association at the edge of Urho Kekkonen National Park, with a fell-stream dip, for €21.
8Arctic Bath
Harads, Sweden · wood-fired · open-water cold · 94/100
A circular timber bathhouse floating on the Lule River, where the cold plunge is the river itself, inside the ring.
9Hotel Krallerhof (Spa ATMOSPHERE)
Leogang, Austria · finnish · open-water cold · 93/100
A Hadi Teherani-designed adults' spa built around a 5,500 m² natural swimming lake, picked by SAUNA37 2026 and voted Best Spa by Wellness Heaven 2027.
10vabali spa & hotel Hamburg
Glinde (Hamburg), Germany · finnish · open-water cold · 92/100
A Balinese-style spa resort with 13 saunas, 4 steam baths, 5 pools and a natural swimming pond, plus its own hotel rooms. The spa is not in the room rate: guests buy a ticket like everyone else (from €36.50 for 2 hours, €51.50 for the day, more at weekends). Textile-free in the German way, open 9am to midnight. In Glinde, about 20 minutes east of the city by car.
11Ochiairo (おちあいろう)
Yugashima, Izu, Japan · electric · open-water cold · 92/100
An 1874 riverside ryokan with five saunas, including a riverside barrel sauna, where you cool off in the Kano River; SAUNACHELIN Hall of Fame 2025 and SAUNA37 2026.
12Alpin Panorama Hotel Hubertus (Heaven & Hell Sky Spa)
Olang / Valdaora, Italy · electric · 91/100
A cantilevered two-level 'upside-down' spa with saunas hanging beneath a steel platform over the Pustertal, plus a 7,000 m² sauna park.
13Sauna & Hotel Karumaru Ikebukuro (かるまる池袋)
Tokyo (Ikebukuro), Japan · wood-fired · 91/100
Tokyo's deepest sauna bench in one building: granite rock room, kelo room, a wood-fired room and a sub-10 °C whirlpool plunge, with capsules upstairs.
14Spa Hotel Rauhalahti · Jätkänkämppä smoke sauna
Kuopio, Finland · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 91/100
One of the world's largest traditional smoke saunas (record 108 bathers) beside a 1950s lumberjack lodge on Lake Kallavesi, 600 m from the spa hotel, with accordion music and a buffet on Tuesday nights.
15Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort
Mackenzie Sound (Great Bear Rainforest), Canada · wood-fired · open-water cold · 90/100
Saunas that float in a rainforest inlet, reached by kayak or paddleboard, with the Pacific as the plunge and grizzlies on the shore.
16Yama no Yado Kan no Jigoku Ryokan (山の宿 寒の地獄旅館)
Kokonoe, Japan · wood-fired · 90/100
A mountain inn built on a natural cold spring at 13–14 °C; since 2023 a very hot sauna sits beside it, and the pair made SAUNACHELIN 2023.
17Rukan Salonki Resort
Ruka (Kuusamo), Finland · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 90/100
Log villas around a private lake at the foot of Ruka with a modern smoke sauna and lake dips; on SAUNA37 2025.
18AQUA DOME – Tirol Therme Längenfeld (hotel)
Längenfeld, Austria · finnish · 90/100
A thermal-spa hotel in the Ötztal with a sauna world rebuilt in 2025 (€6.4 million) and up to 12 aufguss sessions a day.
19Juvet Landscape Hotel · Badehuset
Valldal (Fjord Norway), Norway · wood-fired · open-water cold · 89/100
A wood-fired sauna behind a 15 m glass wall over a river gorge, at the hotel built for 'Ex Machina'.
20Ballynahinch Castle (Woodland Saunas)
Recess, Connemara, Ireland · wood-fired · open-water cold · 89/100
Private wood-fired saunas with one-way glass in Connemara oak woods, with a lake dip on a 700-acre castle estate.
21Dalen Hotel · Soria Moria Sauna
Dalen (Telemark Canal), Norway · finnish · open-water cold · 89/100
A gold-shingled architect sauna on stilts in Lake Bandak, beside an 1894 'fairytale' wooden hotel; on SAUNA37 2026.
22Wellbe Sakae (ウェルビー栄)
Nagoya (Sakae), Japan · finnish · 89/100
Japan's 'sauna sanctuary' in Nagoya, SAUNACHELIN No. 1 in 2018 and again in 2023 (Hall of Fame), with overnight stays and a 2023 rebuild adding a women's Forest House and a whisking house.
23Hotel & Spa Resort Järvisydän · Sauna World
Rantasalmi (Lake Saimaa), Finland · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 89/100
A beach smoke sauna for 15 and two more lakeside saunas on Lake Saimaa, home of the ringed seal, with year-round swimming and a Lake Spa built with 500-year-old submerged logs.
24Sahanlahti Resort
Puumala (Lake Saimaa), Finland · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 89/100
A former sawmill on Saimaa's cliffs with a smoke sauna, wood-fired lake saunas, a winter ice sauna and three ice holes, from €129 a night.
25Janu Tokyo – Spa House (banya)
Tokyo (Azabudai Hills), Japan · steam & hammam · 89/100
The only Tokyo hotel on SAUNACHELIN 2025 (No. 9): a private banya house with venik whisking, plunge and terrace.
26Kitakobushi Shiretoko Hotel & Resort (北こぶし知床 ホテル&リゾート)
Utoro, Shari, Japan · electric · 88/100
Two TTNE-designed saunas with windows on the Sea of Okhotsk, where drift ice fills the view from late January to March; twice on SAUNACHELIN (2022, 2024).
27The Well (spa and hotel)
Sofiemyr (Nordre Follo), 15 km south of Oslo, Norway · smoke sauna · 88/100
Northern Europe's biggest spa, with about 15 saunas and steam rooms in a pine forest, a textile-free culture and a 104-room adults-only hotel on site.
28Naturhotel Forsthofgut (waldSPA)
Leogang, Austria · wood-fired · open-water cold · 88/100
A forest spa with a lake sauna and swimming lake, rated 100/100 in the Falstaff Spa Guide 2027.
29Skýra Retreat · Skýra Nordic Spa
Lake Norvajärvi, Rovaniemi, Finland · finnish · open-water cold · 88/100
A restored 1950s schoolhouse on Lake Norvajärvi with a private folklore sauna where a host greets the löyly, whisks with birch and leads the ice-hole plunge; Michelin Key in its first year.
30Schloss Elmau (Badehaus + Nature Spa)
Krün, Germany · steam & hammam · open-water cold · 88/100
Six spas in one Alpine valley, including a rustic Nature Spa sauna with a stream-fed pool and ice baths, and saunas with floor-to-ceiling mountain windows.
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Yellowstone Peaks Hotel
Island Park, USA · wood-fired · 87/100
Stylish modern cabin hotel in a small Yellowstone gateway settlement, with communal bathing and art installations.
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Breac.House
Dunfanaghy / Horn Head, Ireland · wood-fired · 87/100
Intimate modern coastal guesthouse in a remote Atlantic landscape, with locally crafted objects and an outdoor bathing ritual.
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Futangue Hotel & Spa
Riñinahue, Lago Ranco, Chile · wood-fired · 87/100
Small nature hotel in a private Patagonian park, with locally grounded wood-and-volcanic-stone spa architecture near a rural lake village.
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Outbound Mammoth
Mammoth Lakes, USA · wood-fired · 87/100
Redesigned mountain lodge with a communal bar, firepits and outdoor programming in a small Sierra resort town; larger than Society but socially similar.
35Shinagawa Sauna (泊まれるサウナ屋さん 品川サウナ)
Tokyo (Oimachi, Shinagawa), Japan · electric · 87/100
A capsule sauna hotel that made SAUNACHELIN five months after opening: eight aufguss sessions a day, a tatami tea-löyly room and a planted rooftop.
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Sun Ranch
Coopers Shoot, near Bangalow, Australia · wood-fired · open-water cold · 87/100
Design-led micro resort on regenerated farmland, with retro communal lounge, barns and a pool club; an especially close social/design match.
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AZUMA FARM Koiwai
Shizukuishi / Koiwai Farm, Japan · wood-fired · 87/100
Twenty-four-room rural design retreat on historic farmland at Mount Iwate, with a strong 2026 design-press profile and freestanding sauna architecture.
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Monachyle Mhor
Balquhidder, UK · wood-fired · open-water cold · 87/100
Remote Highlands hotel in a tiny glen village with a riverside wood-fired Finnish sauna open to guests and public sessions.
39Yasuragi
Saltsjö-Boo (Stockholm), Sweden · electric · open-water cold · 87/100
A 1,200 m² Japanese sento-style bathhouse on the Stockholm archipelago, with an outdoor sauna by a 12 °C bath; on SAUNA37 2025 and Sweden's best hotel spa seven times.
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Magic Mountain Lodge
Lyngseidet, Norway · wood-fired · 87/100
Independent activity lodge with a bar, guest kitchen and shared outdoor sauna in a small Lyngen village; modest design pedigree but strong communal/outdoor format.
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Ultima Thule Lodge
Chitina River wilderness (access via Chitina), USA · wood-fired · 87/100
Small, carefully furnished wilderness cabins, shared dining and a bathhouse; a remote lodge interpretation of the pattern.
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Horizons Getaways, South Carolina
Patrick, USA · wood-fired · 87/100
Six standalone cabins and a guesthouse around a private lake in a tiny Sandhills town; communal outdoor fireplace and a simple social sauna setting.
437132 Hotel (Therme Vals)
Vals, Switzerland · geothermal · 87/100
Peter Zumthor's quartzite thermal baths, where hotel guests get exclusive morning hours (7:00-11:00) and late-night bathing; SAUNA37 2025's first listing.
44SANA MANE – Sauna SAZAE
Naoshima, Japan · open-water cold · 87/100
A spiral seashell sauna by Taichi Kuma of Kengo Kuma & Associates, 5,000 stacked plywood pieces, on Japan's art island; SAUNACHELIN No. 7 in 2022.
45Bettei Senjuan (別邸 仙寿庵)
Tanigawa Onsen, Minakami, Japan · finnish · 87/100
An 18-room luxury ryokan under Mt Tanigawa, SAUNACHELIN No. 6 in 2024, with a paid private sauna that guests single out.
46Hotel Union Øye
Øye (Norangsfjorden, Hjørundfjord), Norway · finnish · 87/100
A glass-walled floating sauna on the fjord in front of an 1891 timber hotel under the Sunnmøre Alps.
47Noboribetsu Grand Hotel – Oni Sauna (登別グランドホテル 鬼サウナ)
Noboribetsu Onsen, Japan · electric · open-water cold · 87/100
A classic Noboribetsu onsen hotel whose 110 °C 'Oni' sauna and stream-water löyly room were the only Hokkaido pick in SAUNACHELIN 2023 (No. 5).
48The Retreat at Blue Lagoon Iceland
Grindavík, Iceland · geothermal · 87/100
A hotel-only spa cut into an 800-year-old lava flow: a sauna with panoramic windows, a steam cave and a cold well beside a private arm of the Blue Lagoon.
49Manshausen Island Resort
Manshausen island, Steigen, Norway · finnish · open-water cold · 87/100
Award-winning glass sea cabins on an Arctic island, with a sauna beside a seawater pond added in the 2018 extension.
50Red Rock Hut
Bungaree, King Island, Australia · wood-fired · open-water cold · 87/100
A single hut on 32 oceanfront acres of King Island with its own wood-fired barrel sauna facing the Southern Ocean and a path to the beach.
51Shiriuchi Onsen – Kokyu no Ma (知内温泉 呼吸の間)
Shiriuchi (Yunosato), Japan · 87/100
A cedar, gassho-style sauna house run by a ryokan with nearly 800 years of onsen history, where hot spring water runs through the sauna room; SAUNACHELIN 2025, Good Design Award 2025 and SAUNA37 2026.
52Alyeska Nordic Spa (Alyeska Resort)
Girdwood, USA · finnish · open-water cold · 86/100
Alaska's first year-round outdoor Nordic spa: 50,000 sq ft in the Chugach Mountains with cedar barrel, Finnish and salt saunas and four cold pools.
53Pałac Saturna · Termy Rzymskie
Czeladź (Silesia), Poland · finnish · 86/100
A Pompeii-themed sauna complex with a 'Colosseum Sauna Arena' inside a 27-room palace hotel, where bath access is included with the room; on SAUNA37 2025 and host of Poland's sauna-master championship.
54Kananaskis Nordic Spa (Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge)
Kananaskis Village, Canada · finnish · open-water cold · 86/100
An adults-only outdoor Nordic circuit beside a Rockies ski lodge: two barrel saunas, two sauna buildings, steam and a cold plunge under the peaks.
55Jeris Lakeside Resort · Arctic Sauna World (Harriniva group)
Muonio, Finland · finnish · open-water cold · 86/100
Five lakeside saunas named for Finnish nature spirits on Lake Jerisjärvi near Pallas-Yllästunturi, with lake and ice-hole dips, included in hotel packages.
56Hotel Jungbrunn – Der Gutzeitort
Tannheim, Austria · electric · open-water cold · 85/100
Spa with a Finnish sauna and plunge pool.
57Hagastrand (Autograph Collection)
Solna (Stockholm), on Brunnsviken, Sweden · steam & hammam · open-water cold · 85/100
Stockholm's new 2,500 m² hotel spa built around a 60-seat event sauna with five sauna masters, plus a −10 °C snow room.
58Taylor River Lodge (Eleven Experience)
Almont, USA · finnish · open-water cold · 85/100
An eight-cabin river lodge whose bathhouse pairs a cedar sauna with dips in the Taylor River.
59Finn Lough (Elements Trail)
Enniskillen, United Kingdom · finnish · open-water cold · 85/100
A private two-hour forest trail of cabins on Lough Erne: a lake-view Finnish sauna with a lake plunge, a herbal sauna and a float room.
60Kakslauttanen Arctic Resort
Saariselkä (Inari), Finland · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 85/100
Three riverside smoke saunas, one billed as the world's largest, at the glass-igloo resort; the dressing rooms are heated by open fires.
61Ilmaveere (boutique stay and nature-spa smoke sauna)
Obinitsa, Setomaa, Estonia · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 85/100
A small boutique stay on the Obinitsa slope where the archaic smoke sauna, part of Võromaa's UNESCO-listed tradition, is generally included in the room price.
62Corinthia London (Biome by Corinthia)
London, United Kingdom · electric · 84/100
London's best-known hotel sauna: a glass-walled KLAFS amphitheatre sauna, now with a cold plunge and a guided towel-ritual session.
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Pacific Sands Beach Resort
Tofino, Canada · wood-fired · open-water cold · 84/100
Independent coast-outlier resort with a communal beach sauna ritual; larger and more resort-like than Society, but strong setting and bathing fit.
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Scribner’s Catskill Lodge
Hunter, USA · electric · 84/100
Mountain lodge with a distinct architectural identity and a communal outdoor sauna built to match the hotel.
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Gravity Haus Breckenridge
Breckenridge, USA · electric · 84/100
Design-conscious adventure hotel with a restaurant, coffee shop, coworking and communal recovery facilities in a walkable mountain town.
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Hattvika Lodge
Ballstad, Norway · electric · 84/100
Restored fishermen's cabins plus contemporary hillside rooms around a working village harbour, with a restaurant and pier sauna.
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Hotel Alpenstern
Damüls, Austria · electric · 84/100
Contemporary mountain hotel and panoramic bathhouse in a very small Bregenzerwald ski village; a larger spa interpretation of the pattern.
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Hotel Antumalal
Pucón, Chile · electric · 84/100
Small Bauhaus hotel in a lakeside park near a resort town; unusually strong architectural identity for a traditional boutique property.
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Hotel Schwarzschmied
Lana, Italy · electric · 84/100
Yoga/design hotel integrated into village vineyards, with art, slow food and communal wellness; a strong small-town lifestyle-hotel match.
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INNESS
Accord, USA · electric · 84/100
Rural design retreat whose Taavo Somer/Post Company bathhouse is central to its appeal; Condé Nast describes the architectural spa.
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MIRAMONTI Boutique Hotel
Avelengo / Hafling, Italy · electric · 84/100
Architecturally distinctive mountain hotel above Merano, combining intimate contemporary interiors, forest immersion and panoramic bathing.
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Madbush Falls
Waitsfield, USA · electric · 84/100
Small outdoor-oriented hotel and restaurant with an independently operated sauna overlooking a waterfall, serving locals as well as travelers.
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Maruia Hot Springs
Maruia Springs / Lewis Pass, New Zealand · electric · 84/100
Small boutique hot-spring property in an alpine reserve, with overnight rooms/pods and communal bathing; strong bathhouse-first match.
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Maruia River Retreat
Shenandoah, near Murchison, New Zealand · electric · open-water cold · 84/100
Small villa retreat on a forested river estate, with a communal wellness centre and strong nature focus.
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Naturhotel Lüsnerhof
Lüsen / Luson, Italy · wood-fired · open-water cold · 84/100
Village-scale nature hotel with timber bathhouses, forest paths and a bathing pond; more extensive spa than Society but similarly landscape-led.
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Osborn House
Bundanoon, Australia · infrared · open-water cold · 84/100
Individually designed country hotel and forest lodges in a small Southern Highlands village; renovated historic house with a substantial outdoor wellness setting.
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Piaule Catskill
Catskill, USA · electric · 84/100
Minimalist landscape hotel with freestanding cabins and a secluded spa reached by a short walk.
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Rockhill House & The Wellhouse
Letterkenny outskirts, Ireland · electric · 84/100
Restored country-house estate with individually styled rooms and an architecturally considered thermal garden; rural setting outside a regional town.
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Scarlet Hotel
Mawgan Porth, UK · electric · 84/100
Thirty-seven-room contemporary eco hotel in a coastal village, with architecture-led communal bathing and strong travel-press coverage.
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Spruce & Shore Motel
Fish Creek, USA · electric · 84/100
Reimagined historic Door County motel with professionally designed rooms, walkable village setting and shared outdoor amenities.
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The Jennings Hotel & Sauna
Joseph, USA · wood-fired · 84/100
Kickstarter-funded artist hotel in tiny Joseph, OR: design rooms, communal kitchen-library, and a named sauna as the house amenity.
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The Josie
Rossland, Canada · electric · 84/100
Design-conscious boutique ski hotel at RED Mountain in a small Kootenay town; an Autograph Collection exception to the independent preference.
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The Spring Resort & Spa
Desert Hot Springs, USA · electric · 84/100
Intimate adults-only mineral-water resort in a desert spa town; a quieter, smaller alternative to metropolitan wellness hotels.
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The Viewpoint
York, USA · electric · 84/100
Locally owned independent 18-room coastal hotel with a compact communal bathhouse and Nubble Lighthouse setting.
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ume, yamazoe
Yamazoe, Japan · wood-fired · 84/100
Tiny rural ryokan in a renovated village house, with a landscape-focused outdoor bathing ritual and independent design/travel coverage.
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Eastwind Oliverea Valley
Oliverea, USA · electric · 84/100
Small Scandinavian-style cabin-and-room retreat beside Esopus Creek; one representative property avoids filling the list with siblings.
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Gilpin Hotel, Spa Lodges and Spa Suites
Crook, near Windermere, UK · wood-fired · 84/100
Small country hotel with contemporary cedar-clad spa lodges and individually designed suites in the Lake District countryside.
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Hasbrouck House
Stone Ridge, USA · electric · 84/100
Historic boutique country-house hotel on landscaped rural grounds with an intimate outdoor wellness setup.
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Hutton Brickyards
Kingston, USA · wood-fired · 84/100
Adaptive-reuse brickworks on the Hudson with cabin lodging and a gated spa garden built around river views.
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Kenoza Hall
Kenoza Lake, USA · electric · 84/100
Wallpaper-praised lakeside Catskills hotel with Hemlock Spa, Kneipp-inspired wellness, outdoor barrel sauna, hot tub, and pool.
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Le Germain Charlevoix Hotel & Spa
Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada · electric · 84/100
Design hotel in a small Charlevoix arts town with a pastoral spa overlooking sheep fields; larger regional-hotel exception.
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Lime Wood
Lyndhurst, UK · wood-fired · 84/100
Thirty-three-room country hotel in the New Forest, with a forest-facing bathhouse and shared dining; more luxurious than Society but intimate and place-specific.
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Long Beach Lodge Resort
Tofino, Canada · electric · 84/100
Coastal lodge on Cox Bay with a small surf-and-spa atmosphere, suitable for a remote weekend-drive cluster.
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Petite Acres
New Buffalo, USA · electric · 84/100
French-inspired cottage compound with communal wellness and gathering spaces near a small Lake Michigan town; covered by Axios Chicago.
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Tierra Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile · electric · 84/100
Architecture-led desert hotel in a small oasis town, with a coherent communal indoor/outdoor bathing setting and extensive design/travel coverage.
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WIESERGUT
Hinterglemm, Austria · electric · 84/100
Boutique design hotel organised around a restored farmstead and contemporary bathhouse in a small ski village.
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Arroyo Pinion
Sedona, USA · electric · open-water cold · 84/100
Boutique Ascend Collection hotel on Hwy 89A with a dedicated Fire & Ice wellness suite; design-forward desert stay in a small red-rock town, closest Southwest match to Society's sauna-first hospita...
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Bracken Hide
Portree, UK · electric · 84/100
Cabin hotel grouped around a social hub on the edge of a small island town; rustic contemporary interiors and an outdoor bathing focus.
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EOLO, Patagonia's Spirit
El Calafate area (La Anita valley), Argentina · electric · 84/100
Relais & Châteaux lodge on a vast estancia near Perito Moreno; intimate Patagonia design stay with a residents-only dry sauna spa.
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Forest Springs Resort
Eureka Springs, USA · electric · 84/100
Reimagined Traveler's Inn on ten wooded acres five minutes from downtown Eureka Springs; Nordic sauna + cold plunge as headline amenities for a boutique Ozarks stay.
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Homer Inn & Spa
Homer, USA · electric · 84/100
Oceanfront boutique inn and spa in a working Alaska fishing town (not a wilderness fly-in); thermal circuit is the product.
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Satoyama Jujo THE HOUSE, Kiroku
Kiroku, Minamiuonuma, Japan · electric · 84/100
Design-focused rural house stay associated with Satoyama Jujo, with a shrine-view private sauna rather than a generic large onsen resort.
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Sou’wester Lodge & Vintage Travel Trailer Resort
Seaview, USA · electric · 84/100
Arts-focused historic lodge, vintage trailers and cabins in a tiny coastal town, with shared music/art spaces and a garden sauna; one of the closest format matches.
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The Pinetree Hotel
Idyllwild, USA · electric · 84/100
Mountain cabins and communal amenities in a tiny San Jacinto town; sauna and cold plunges marketed as core wellness amenities alongside yoga and fire pits.
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The Swan Hotel & Spa (Holte Spa)
Newby Bridge, UK · electric · open-water cold · 84/100
Boutique hotel at the south end of Windermere with a full thermal spa; authentic outdoor Finnish sauna is the standout for Lake District countryside.
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Wunderland Resort
Old Fort, USA · electric · 84/100
Forest villas and glamping pods with shared gathering spaces at a small Appalachian gateway; a strong format match, though independent design press was not established.
107Hotel Vitznauerhof (Saunagondel)
Vitznau, Switzerland · finnish · open-water cold · 84/100
A retired cable-car gondola turned into a sauna on the shore of Lake Lucerne, with the lake a few steps away.
108Das Kranzbach
Krün (Klais, near Garmisch and Mittenwald), Germany · finnish · 84/100
An adults-only retreat in an alpine meadow near Klais, with a 3,600 m² bathhouse of 8 saunas and steam baths, 5 pools and a Kengo Kuma meditation house; no outside day guests.
109Romantik SPA Hotel Seefischer (Seesauna)
Döbriach, Austria · finnish · open-water cold · 84/100
A Finnish sauna house built on stilts in the Millstätter See, with the swim a few steps from the bench.
110Aman New York – Spa House banya
New York (Midtown, Crown Building), USA · steam & hammam · 84/100
A private banya house with venik work, terrace hot bath and cold plunge inside the 1921 Crown Building; the most talked-about hotel banya in the US, at a price to match.
111Fogo Island Inn
Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island, Canada · wood-fired · open-water cold · 84/100
Two wood-burning rooftop saunas by Rintala Eggertsson on Todd Saunders' stilted inn at the edge of the North Atlantic.
112Isfjord Radio Adventure Hotel · Kokeriet sauna
Kapp Linné, Spitsbergen, Norway · wood-fired · open-water cold · 84/100
A mobile sauna with a panoramic window on the cliffs of Cape Linné at 78° N, where the cold plunge is the Arctic sea and guards watch for polar bears.
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Journey Inn, an eco-retreat
Maiden Rock, USA · electric · 84/100
Small eco inn in the Driftless countryside, with communal hospitality and a forest spa rather than a large destination resort.
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Saltmoore
Sandsend / Whitby, UK · electric · open-water cold · 84/100
Design-focused coastal country-house retreat outside Whitby, with a small private lakeside sauna alongside its larger spa.
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The Terwa, Nordic Hideaway
Loppi countryside, Finland · wood-fired · open-water cold · 84/100
Small lakeside nature estate and charter hotel with restored buildings, shared sauna spaces and rural Finnish character; a group-stay variant of the pattern.
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Dunton River Camp
Near Dolores, USA · electric · open-water cold · 84/100
Small luxury tented riverside retreat with a communal nature-facing sauna; a different physical property from Dunton Hot Springs.
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Lightwell Hotel & Spa
Hood River, USA · electric · 84/100
Restored 1904 Waucoma Hotel in Bingen’s sister Gorge town, with design-led rooms and a subterranean spa.
118Farris Bad
Larvik, Norway · electric · open-water cold · 84/100
A seafront spa hotel on the Larvik shore with a beach-entrance event sauna, regular aufguss sessions and a daily-sea-dip creed.
119Pädaste Manor
Muhu Island, Estonia · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 84/100
A 16th-century manor on a Baltic island with a newly installed smoke sauna and a Siberian cold tub between rounds.
120The Standard Spa, Miami Beach
Miami Beach (Belle Isle), USA · steam & hammam · 84/100
The one US city hotel built around a bathing circuit: hemlock sauna, hammam, ice room and a 50 °F plunge on Biscayne Bay, free to guests.
121V Spa Hotel and Conference Centre
Tartu, Estonia · finnish · 84/100
An 86-room city hotel above Tartu's old town with a 13-sauna water and sauna centre; on SAUNA37 2026.
122Gáldu Hotel & Spa
Laanila, Saariselkä (Inari), Finland · wood-fired · 83/100
A new 31-room Small Luxury Hotels boutique by Urho Kekkonen National Park with three panoramic saunas, one wood-burning, and an outdoor cold plunge.
123Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol
Telfs-Buchen, Austria · finnish · 83/100
A 5,400 m² spa at 1,300 m on the Seefeld plateau with an 11-room 'Tyrolean sauna village', rated 100/100 in the Falstaff Spa Guide 2027.
124Ästad Vingård · Sinnenas Spa
Ästad, near Varberg, Sweden · finnish · 83/100
A vineyard hotel whose spa has a sauna sunk below the waterline of a lake, with fish passing the windows.
125Hotel & Wellness Zuiver
Amsterdam, Netherlands · wood-fired · 83/100
A 13,000 m² Dutch sauna resort with a 70-room hotel at the Amsterdamse Bos: eight heat rooms and at least eight free aufguss sessions a day.
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The Society Hotel Portland
Portland, USA · electric · 83/100
Sibling of ranked Society Hotel Bingen.
127Hotel Quelle Nature Spa Resort
St. Magdalena, Gsieser Tal, Italy · electric · open-water cold · 83/100
A South Tyrol sauna-heavy spa hotel with 12 saunas, an event sauna with stadium seating, daily aufguss and a snow room.
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The Inn at Mazama
Mazama, USA · electric · 83/100
Small all-season trail-side lodge in a tiny Methow Valley settlement; stronger geographic fit than design-press fit.
129Cyprianerhof Dolomit Resort (hay barn sauna)
Tiers / Tires, Italy · finnish · open-water cold · 83/100
A rustic hay-barn sauna alone in an Alpine meadow facing the Rosengarten, plus a clay-dome sauna with a central round stove at about 95 °C.
130Sauna & Capsule Hotel Hokuo (北欧)
Tokyo, Japan · electric · 82/100
A men-only Ueno capsule sauna running since 1992 with self-löyly over 100°C and a rooftop rest deck; third in Japan by want-to-go votes and second by visit logs among the top 20.
131Hotel Esencia (Temazcal + Esencia Spa)
Xpu-Ha, Mexico · steam & hammam · 82/100
A 50-acre beach estate whose spa is built around a temazcal, with steam rooms, an ice chamber and a cold pool beside a cenote.
132Hanaholmen · Glass Sauna
Espoo (Hanasaari island, next to Helsinki), Finland · electric · open-water cold · 82/100
A mirrored glass sauna in the trees on a private island 15 minutes from Helsinki, steps from a sea-swimming pier; Time Out ranks it 4th in Finland.
133Highland Base Kerlingarfjöll · Highland Baths
Kerlingarfjöll (Central Highlands), Iceland · geothermal · open-water cold · 82/100
A Basalt Architects highland hotel from the Blue Lagoon group, with a sauna, cold plunge and geothermal pools in a valley 200 km from Reykjavík.
134Hotel Tjampuhan & Spa
Ubud, Indonesia · finnish · open-water cold · 82/100
A near-100-year-old Ubud hotel whose spa has hot and cold spring-water pools set inside a carved stone cave above the river.
135sankara hotel & spa Yakushima – sauna agni
Yakushima, Japan · electric · 82/100
A hillside resort on World Heritage Yakushima with a poolside sauna lined in local cedar and löyly scented with island shell ginger; SAUNACHELIN 2022 No. 9.
136Ten Thousand Waves
Santa Fe, USA · finnish · 82/100
A Japanese-style mountain bathhouse above Santa Fe with 16 lodge rooms: a large wet/dry sauna at 175–185 °F and a 55–60 °F plunge beside an outdoor tile pool, plus private suites each with their own sauna.
137Rio Palena Lodge (Eleven Experience)
Palena (North Aysén), Chile · wood-fired · open-water cold · 82/100
A seven-suite adventure lodge on the Río Palena with a wood-fired sauna cabin by a pond and hot tubs on the riverbank.
138Grand Hôtel Stockholm · Nordic Spa & Fitness
Stockholm, Sweden · electric · 82/100
Two-Key 1874 waterfront hotel whose Nordic Spa runs a hot-cold Nordic Bathing Ritual with Gotland rauk stones in the sauna.
139Mori no Spa Resort Hokkaido Hotel (森のスパリゾート 北海道ホテル)
Obihiro, Japan · electric · open-water cold · 81/100
A forested city hotel in Obihiro with its own plant-based moor hot spring and a birch-lined sauna where hot water is thrown on Tokachi birch rounds; SAUNACHELIN 2020 No. 9.
140Stanly Ranch (Halehouse spa, Springhouse circuit)
Napa, USA · finnish · 81/100
A Napa resort spa with a large glass-fronted cedar sauna on wave-shaped tiers looking over a small vineyard, in a Nordic-style hot-cold circuit.
141Amangalla
Galle (Galle Fort), Sri Lanka · steam & hammam · 81/100
Aman's 17th-century building inside UNESCO-listed Galle Fort, with two private hydrotherapy suites (sauna, steam, warm pool, cold pool); on TTNE's SAUNA37 2025 world list.
142Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine Spa
Bürgenstock, Switzerland · electric · 81/100
A 10,000 m² cliff-top spa where the panoramic saunas look 500 m down onto Lake Lucerne, beside the famous infinity pool.
143CERVO Mountain Resort (Ātman Mountain Spa)
Zermatt, Switzerland · electric · open-water cold · 81/100
An 85 °C sauna, a natural cold pool and an outdoor onsen tub facing the Matterhorn, plus a Bhutanese hot-stone bath hut.
144Tschuggen Grand Hotel (Tschuggen Bergoase)
Arosa, Switzerland · electric · open-water cold · 81/100
Mario Botta's 5,000 m² spa built into the mountain under glass 'light sails', with a mountain sauna that opens onto a snow terrace.
145Hotel Klosterbräu (Heiß-Zeit sauna)
Seefeld in Tirol, Austria · finnish · 81/100
A 16th-century monastery hotel with seven themed saunas, including a hand-carved 'Heiß-Zeit' sauna; SAUNA37 2025 pick.
146FORESTIS Dolomites
Brixen / Bressanone (Plose), Italy · electric · 80/100
A 1,800 m forest retreat facing the Geisler peaks, with seven saunas and twice-daily therapist-led sauna rituals.
147Suvretta House (new Suvretta Spa)
St. Moritz, Switzerland · electric · 80/100
A 4,670 m² three-level spa opened in winter 2025-26 at the historic grand hotel, with an Alpine herbal sauna, an 85-90 °C sauna, a separate ladies' sauna and a 15 °C glacial cold pool.
148Hotel Castell (rock water sauna)
Zuoz, Switzerland · steam & hammam · 80/100
A small open-air Finnish sauna and rock pool on an artist-built terrace above the Engadin, plus a 250 m² hammam.
149The Lodge at Blue Sky (Edge Spa)
Wanship (near Park City), USA · finnish · open-water cold · 80/100
A cliff-edge spa on a 3,500-acre ranch with a Wim Hof-led cold plunge in spring-fed cedar tubs and a Scandinavian dry sauna.
150Hoshino Resorts Aomoriya – Aomori Nebuta Sauna
Misawa, Japan · 80/100
The first Aomori facility ever named in SAUNACHELIN (2024, No. 9), for a sauna themed on the Nebuta festival floats.
151Sommerro · Vestkantbadet
Oslo, Norway · electric · 80/100
Oslo's 1932 Art Deco public baths, restored inside a Michelin Key hotel: a cold plunge in the old Roman bath and a year-round rooftop sauna and pool over the city.
152Tallinn Viimsi SPA (spa hotel)
Haabneeme (Viimsi), near Tallinn, Estonia · finnish · 80/100
A spa hotel on the Viimsi peninsula with 17 saunas split between a family complex and an adults-only SPA18+ with sauna ceremonies; on SAUNA37 2025.
153The Society Hotel Bingen
Bingen (Columbia River Gorge), USA · electric · 80/100
A 1938 schoolhouse turned hotel, with a ring of cabins around a cedar-sauna bathhouse in the Columbia River Gorge.
154Rifugio Lagazuoi (summit sauna)
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy · finnish · open-water cold · 80/100
A six-person larch barrel sauna at 2,752 m on the Lagazuoi summit hut, with a 360° view over the Dolomites.
155Hotel Traube Tonbach
Baiersbronn, Germany · steam & hammam · 80/100
A 4,500 m² Black Forest spa with a forest sauna, a sound sauna and an ice igloo at one of Germany's great gastronomic hotels.
156Schutzhütte Schöne Aussicht
Schnals / Val Senales, Italy · open-water cold · 80/100
A mountain refuge at 2,842 m by the Hochjochferner glacier with a Swedish barrel sauna billed as Europe's highest outdoor sauna.
157Cimer at Paradise City (씨메르)
Incheon (Yeongjong-do, by Incheon Airport), South Korea · finnish · 79/100
A 13,200 m² European-styled spa at the Paradise City resort by Incheon Airport, with a Korean jjimjil floor (bulgama, hinoki room) and a rooftop infinity pool.
158Rakkojae Seoul (락고재)
Seoul, South Korea · wood-fired · 79/100
Korea's tourism board describes a wood-fired red-clay sauna at the Bukchon hanok hotel; confirm the exact building, access and reservation before booking.
159Le Grand Bellevue (Le Grand Spa)
Gstaad, Switzerland · steam & hammam · 79/100
A 3,000 m² underground spa with 17 wellness zones, about eight themed saunas and steam rooms, a hammam and an ice grotto; rated 98/100 by Falstaff (hotel claim).
160Posthotel Leavenworth
Leavenworth, USA · steam & hammam · 79/100
An adults-only Alpine spa hotel in the Cascades with several saunas and steam rooms, plunge pools and a swim-out saltwater pool, all reserved for guests.
161Hotel Kämp · Kämp Spa
Helsinki, Finland · electric · 78/100
Central Helsinki's biggest luxury spa (1,200 m², opened summer 2026) in the city's grand 1887 hotel, with a Finnish sauna and a cold plunge.
162High Country Motor Lodge
Flagstaff, USA · finnish · 77/100
A 2022 makeover of a Route 66 motor lodge into a Nordic spa: two private sauna suites with firepits and a plunge pool at 7,000 ft.
163Banyan Tree Club & Spa Seoul
Seoul, South Korea · steam & hammam · 77/100
A Korean-bathhouse-style sauna (herbal room, aroma steam, ice fountain, three pools) in a resort hotel on the slope of Namsan.
164Sparkling Hill Resort & Spa
Vernon (Okanagan), Canada · steam & hammam · 76/100
A crystal-studded Okanagan spa hotel with seven aromatherapy saunas and steam rooms plus an igloo room, all free for guests.
165Storfjord Hotel
Glomset (Skodje), near Ålesund, Norway · finnish · 76/100
A traditional sauna in a bungalow above the fjord at one of only two Norwegian hotels with Two MICHELIN Keys.
166Urban Cowboy Lodge (Catskills)
Big Indian, USA · 76/100
A Catskills lodge with an Estonian Iglucraft sauna hidden in the trees and a creekside swimming hole.
167Wineport Lodge (lakeside sauna + floating hot tub)
Glasson, Athlone, Ireland · finnish · open-water cold · 76/100
A Nordic-style lakeside sauna paired with a floating hot tub on Lough Ree, with the cool-down in the lake.
168Six Senses Crans-Montana
Crans-Montana, Switzerland · finnish · 76/100
A ski-in/ski-out Six Senses with a 2,000 m² spa: Finnish, rock, infrared and bio-salt saunas, steam, an ice fountain and a cold plunge, wrapped in biohacking kit.
169Hotel St. George · St. George Care
Helsinki, Finland · electric · 75/100
Time Out ranks its St. George Care spa the best spa in Helsinki: two saunas and a pool in an art-filled 1840s building.
170The William Vale – Winter Spa
New York (Williamsburg, Brooklyn), USA · 75/100
Seasonal outdoor barrel saunas and red-cedar hot tubs on a fourth-floor patio facing the Manhattan skyline.
171La Mamounia (Spa and hammams)
Marrakech, Morocco · steam & hammam · 75/100
The storied Marrakech palace hotel's 2,500 m² spa with two traditional hammams, an indoor pool and Arab-Andalusian design.
172Royal Mansour Marrakech (The Spa)
Marrakech, Morocco · steam & hammam · 75/100
A 2,500 m² white wrought-iron spa atrium at the edge of the medina; guidebooks call its marble hammam the most glamorous in Marrakech.
173The Gaia Hotel (大地酒店), Beitou
Taipei (Beitou), Taiwan · finnish · 75/100
One of Beitou's top hot-spring hotels, with a full hot-cold circuit in its separate-sex public bath: hot spring pool, cold pool, sauna and steam room.
174VALO Hotel & Work Helsinki
Helsinki (Pasila), Finland · electric · 75/100
Top-floor wellness with two log saunas looking over Helsinki, a steam sauna, pools and a cold plunge; Time Out ranks it 8th among the city's spas.
175Aman Le Mélézin
Courchevel 1850, France · wood-fired · 74/100
A 31-room Courchevel Aman with a two-floor spa: stone hammam, wooden sauna, cold plunge and a 14 m pool; two Michelin Keys.
176Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga · pirts ritual
Riga, Latvia · 74/100
The one city hotel in the Baltics found offering a full Latvian pirts ritual with a professional pirts master and birch brooms.
177The Rockaway Hotel – Winter Pool House
New York (Rockaway Park, Queens), USA · open-water cold · 73/100
A beach hotel in the Rockaways that turns its pool deck into a winter sauna house with outdoor cedar barrel saunas and a heated pool, from $35.
178Lapland Hotels Bulevardi
Helsinki, Finland · electric · 72/100
More than 100 of its rooms have their own Finnish sauna, the most saunas of any hotel in Helsinki, in a concept certified by Sauna from Finland.
179Villa Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark · 72/100
The sauna beside Copenhagen's year-round heated rooftop lap pool, on the old Central Post and Telegraph building.
180Hewing Hotel (rooftop sauna)
Minneapolis, USA · finnish · 72/100
A North Loop hotel with a rooftop dry sauna and heated spa pool open to guests 365 days a year, plus guided Thermaculture sessions.
181Tierra Patagonia (Uma Spa)
Torres del Paine, Chile · finnish · 71/100
A guests-only spa with sauna, steam, glass-walled indoor pool and outdoor whirlpool facing the Torres del Paine massif.
- 1LAMP Nojiriko – The SaunaShinano-machi (Lake Nojiri), Japan100/100
- 2Yuyado Daiichi (湯宿だいいち)Yoroushi Onsen, Nakashibetsu, Japan97/100
- 3Mifuneyama Rakuen Hotel – Rakan-no-Yu (御船山楽園ホテル らかんの湯)Takeo Onsen, Japan96/100
- 4Ziedlejas · Latvian Nature Spanear Sigulda (Gauja National Park), Latvia96/100
- 5Kurhotel SkodsborgSkodsborg (Rudersdal), 18 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark95/100
- 6Alpenresort Schwarz (Sauna Village)Mieming, Austria95/100
- 7Fell Centre Kiilopää (Hotel Niilanpää) · Kuurakaltio smoke saunaKiilopää, near Saariselkä (Inari), Finland94/100
- 8Arctic BathHarads, Sweden94/100
- 9Hotel Krallerhof (Spa ATMOSPHERE)Leogang, Austria93/100
- 10vabali spa & hotel HamburgGlinde (Hamburg), Germany92/100
- 11Ochiairo (おちあいろう)Yugashima, Izu, Japan92/100
- 12Alpin Panorama Hotel Hubertus (Heaven & Hell Sky Spa)Olang / Valdaora, Italy91/100
- 13Sauna & Hotel Karumaru Ikebukuro (かるまる池袋)Tokyo (Ikebukuro), Japan91/100
- 14Spa Hotel Rauhalahti · Jätkänkämppä smoke saunaKuopio, Finland91/100
- 15Nimmo Bay Wilderness ResortMackenzie Sound (Great Bear Rainforest), Canada90/100
- 16Yama no Yado Kan no Jigoku Ryokan (山の宿 寒の地獄旅館)Kokonoe, Japan90/100
- 17Rukan Salonki ResortRuka (Kuusamo), Finland90/100
- 18AQUA DOME – Tirol Therme Längenfeld (hotel)Längenfeld, Austria90/100
- 19Juvet Landscape Hotel · BadehusetValldal (Fjord Norway), Norway89/100
- 20Ballynahinch Castle (Woodland Saunas)Recess, Connemara, Ireland89/100
- 21Dalen Hotel · Soria Moria SaunaDalen (Telemark Canal), Norway89/100
- 22Wellbe Sakae (ウェルビー栄)Nagoya (Sakae), Japan89/100
- 23Hotel & Spa Resort Järvisydän · Sauna WorldRantasalmi (Lake Saimaa), Finland89/100
- 24Sahanlahti ResortPuumala (Lake Saimaa), Finland89/100
- 25Janu Tokyo – Spa House (banya)Tokyo (Azabudai Hills), Japan89/100
- 26Kitakobushi Shiretoko Hotel & Resort (北こぶし知床 ホテル&リゾート)Utoro, Shari, Japan88/100
- 27The Well (spa and hotel)Sofiemyr (Nordre Follo), 15 km south of Oslo, Norway88/100
- 28Naturhotel Forsthofgut (waldSPA)Leogang, Austria88/100
- 29Skýra Retreat · Skýra Nordic SpaLake Norvajärvi, Rovaniemi, Finland88/100
- 30Schloss Elmau (Badehaus + Nature Spa)Krün, Germany88/100
- 31Yellowstone Peaks HotelIsland Park, USA87/100
- 32Breac.HouseDunfanaghy / Horn Head, Ireland87/100
- 33Futangue Hotel & SpaRiñinahue, Lago Ranco, Chile87/100
- 34Outbound MammothMammoth Lakes, USA87/100
- 35Shinagawa Sauna (泊まれるサウナ屋さん 品川サウナ)Tokyo (Oimachi, Shinagawa), Japan87/100
- 36Sun RanchCoopers Shoot, near Bangalow, Australia87/100
- 37AZUMA FARM KoiwaiShizukuishi / Koiwai Farm, Japan87/100
- 38Monachyle MhorBalquhidder, UK87/100
- 39YasuragiSaltsjö-Boo (Stockholm), Sweden87/100
- 40Magic Mountain LodgeLyngseidet, Norway87/100
- 41Ultima Thule LodgeChitina River wilderness (access via Chitina), USA87/100
- 42Horizons Getaways, South CarolinaPatrick, USA87/100
- 437132 Hotel (Therme Vals)Vals, Switzerland87/100
- 44SANA MANE – Sauna SAZAENaoshima, Japan87/100
- 45Bettei Senjuan (別邸 仙寿庵)Tanigawa Onsen, Minakami, Japan87/100
- 46Hotel Union ØyeØye (Norangsfjorden, Hjørundfjord), Norway87/100
- 47Noboribetsu Grand Hotel – Oni Sauna (登別グランドホテル 鬼サウナ)Noboribetsu Onsen, Japan87/100
- 48The Retreat at Blue Lagoon IcelandGrindavík, Iceland87/100
- 49Manshausen Island ResortManshausen island, Steigen, Norway87/100
- 50Red Rock HutBungaree, King Island, Australia87/100
- 51Shiriuchi Onsen – Kokyu no Ma (知内温泉 呼吸の間)Shiriuchi (Yunosato), Japan87/100
- 52Alyeska Nordic Spa (Alyeska Resort)Girdwood, USA86/100
- 53Pałac Saturna · Termy RzymskieCzeladź (Silesia), Poland86/100
- 54Kananaskis Nordic Spa (Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge)Kananaskis Village, Canada86/100
- 55Jeris Lakeside Resort · Arctic Sauna World (Harriniva group)Muonio, Finland86/100
- 56Hotel Jungbrunn – Der GutzeitortTannheim, Austria85/100
- 57Hagastrand (Autograph Collection)Solna (Stockholm), on Brunnsviken, Sweden85/100
- 58Taylor River Lodge (Eleven Experience)Almont, USA85/100
- 59Finn Lough (Elements Trail)Enniskillen, United Kingdom85/100
- 60Kakslauttanen Arctic ResortSaariselkä (Inari), Finland85/100
- 61Ilmaveere (boutique stay and nature-spa smoke sauna)Obinitsa, Setomaa, Estonia85/100
- 62Corinthia London (Biome by Corinthia)London, United Kingdom84/100
- 63Pacific Sands Beach ResortTofino, Canada84/100
- 64Scribner’s Catskill LodgeHunter, USA84/100
- 65Gravity Haus BreckenridgeBreckenridge, USA84/100
- 66Hattvika LodgeBallstad, Norway84/100
- 67Hotel AlpensternDamüls, Austria84/100
- 68Hotel AntumalalPucón, Chile84/100
- 69Hotel SchwarzschmiedLana, Italy84/100
- 70INNESSAccord, USA84/100
- 71MIRAMONTI Boutique HotelAvelengo / Hafling, Italy84/100
- 72Madbush FallsWaitsfield, USA84/100
- 73Maruia Hot SpringsMaruia Springs / Lewis Pass, New Zealand84/100
- 74Maruia River RetreatShenandoah, near Murchison, New Zealand84/100
- 75Naturhotel LüsnerhofLüsen / Luson, Italy84/100
- 76Osborn HouseBundanoon, Australia84/100
- 77Piaule CatskillCatskill, USA84/100
- 78Rockhill House & The WellhouseLetterkenny outskirts, Ireland84/100
- 79Scarlet HotelMawgan Porth, UK84/100
- 80Spruce & Shore MotelFish Creek, USA84/100
- 81The Jennings Hotel & SaunaJoseph, USA84/100
- 82The JosieRossland, Canada84/100
- 83The Spring Resort & SpaDesert Hot Springs, USA84/100
- 84The ViewpointYork, USA84/100
- 85ume, yamazoeYamazoe, Japan84/100
- 86Eastwind Oliverea ValleyOliverea, USA84/100
- 87Gilpin Hotel, Spa Lodges and Spa SuitesCrook, near Windermere, UK84/100
- 88Hasbrouck HouseStone Ridge, USA84/100
- 89Hutton BrickyardsKingston, USA84/100
- 90Kenoza HallKenoza Lake, USA84/100
- 91Le Germain Charlevoix Hotel & SpaBaie-Saint-Paul, Canada84/100
- 92Lime WoodLyndhurst, UK84/100
- 93Long Beach Lodge ResortTofino, Canada84/100
- 94Petite AcresNew Buffalo, USA84/100
- 95Tierra AtacamaSan Pedro de Atacama, Chile84/100
- 96WIESERGUTHinterglemm, Austria84/100
- 97Arroyo PinionSedona, USA84/100
- 98Bracken HidePortree, UK84/100
- 99EOLO, Patagonia's SpiritEl Calafate area (La Anita valley), Argentina84/100
- 100Forest Springs ResortEureka Springs, USA84/100
- 101Homer Inn & SpaHomer, USA84/100
- 102Satoyama Jujo THE HOUSE, KirokuKiroku, Minamiuonuma, Japan84/100
- 103Sou’wester Lodge & Vintage Travel Trailer ResortSeaview, USA84/100
- 104The Pinetree HotelIdyllwild, USA84/100
- 105The Swan Hotel & Spa (Holte Spa)Newby Bridge, UK84/100
- 106Wunderland ResortOld Fort, USA84/100
- 107Hotel Vitznauerhof (Saunagondel)Vitznau, Switzerland84/100
- 108Das KranzbachKrün (Klais, near Garmisch and Mittenwald), Germany84/100
- 109Romantik SPA Hotel Seefischer (Seesauna)Döbriach, Austria84/100
- 110Aman New York – Spa House banyaNew York (Midtown, Crown Building), USA84/100
- 111Fogo Island InnJoe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island, Canada84/100
- 112Isfjord Radio Adventure Hotel · Kokeriet saunaKapp Linné, Spitsbergen, Norway84/100
- 113Journey Inn, an eco-retreatMaiden Rock, USA84/100
- 114SaltmooreSandsend / Whitby, UK84/100
- 115The Terwa, Nordic HideawayLoppi countryside, Finland84/100
- 116Dunton River CampNear Dolores, USA84/100
- 117Lightwell Hotel & SpaHood River, USA84/100
- 118Farris BadLarvik, Norway84/100
- 119Pädaste ManorMuhu Island, Estonia84/100
- 120The Standard Spa, Miami BeachMiami Beach (Belle Isle), USA84/100
- 121V Spa Hotel and Conference CentreTartu, Estonia84/100
- 122Gáldu Hotel & SpaLaanila, Saariselkä (Inari), Finland83/100
- 123Interalpen-Hotel TyrolTelfs-Buchen, Austria83/100
- 124Ästad Vingård · Sinnenas SpaÄstad, near Varberg, Sweden83/100
- 125Hotel & Wellness ZuiverAmsterdam, Netherlands83/100
- 126The Society Hotel PortlandPortland, USA83/100
- 127Hotel Quelle Nature Spa ResortSt. Magdalena, Gsieser Tal, Italy83/100
- 128The Inn at MazamaMazama, USA83/100
- 129Cyprianerhof Dolomit Resort (hay barn sauna)Tiers / Tires, Italy83/100
- 130Sauna & Capsule Hotel Hokuo (北欧)Tokyo, Japan82/100
- 131Hotel Esencia (Temazcal + Esencia Spa)Xpu-Ha, Mexico82/100
- 132Hanaholmen · Glass SaunaEspoo (Hanasaari island, next to Helsinki), Finland82/100
- 133Highland Base Kerlingarfjöll · Highland BathsKerlingarfjöll (Central Highlands), Iceland82/100
- 134Hotel Tjampuhan & SpaUbud, Indonesia82/100
- 135sankara hotel & spa Yakushima – sauna agniYakushima, Japan82/100
- 136Ten Thousand WavesSanta Fe, USA82/100
- 137Rio Palena Lodge (Eleven Experience)Palena (North Aysén), Chile82/100
- 138Grand Hôtel Stockholm · Nordic Spa & FitnessStockholm, Sweden82/100
- 139Mori no Spa Resort Hokkaido Hotel (森のスパリゾート 北海道ホテル)Obihiro, Japan81/100
- 140Stanly Ranch (Halehouse spa, Springhouse circuit)Napa, USA81/100
- 141AmangallaGalle (Galle Fort), Sri Lanka81/100
- 142Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine SpaBürgenstock, Switzerland81/100
- 143CERVO Mountain Resort (Ātman Mountain Spa)Zermatt, Switzerland81/100
- 144Tschuggen Grand Hotel (Tschuggen Bergoase)Arosa, Switzerland81/100
- 145Hotel Klosterbräu (Heiß-Zeit sauna)Seefeld in Tirol, Austria81/100
- 146FORESTIS DolomitesBrixen / Bressanone (Plose), Italy80/100
- 147Suvretta House (new Suvretta Spa)St. Moritz, Switzerland80/100
- 148Hotel Castell (rock water sauna)Zuoz, Switzerland80/100
- 149The Lodge at Blue Sky (Edge Spa)Wanship (near Park City), USA80/100
- 150Hoshino Resorts Aomoriya – Aomori Nebuta SaunaMisawa, Japan80/100
- 151Sommerro · VestkantbadetOslo, Norway80/100
- 152Tallinn Viimsi SPA (spa hotel)Haabneeme (Viimsi), near Tallinn, Estonia80/100
- 153The Society Hotel BingenBingen (Columbia River Gorge), USA80/100
- 154Rifugio Lagazuoi (summit sauna)Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy80/100
- 155Hotel Traube TonbachBaiersbronn, Germany80/100
- 156Schutzhütte Schöne AussichtSchnals / Val Senales, Italy80/100
- 157Cimer at Paradise City (씨메르)Incheon (Yeongjong-do, by Incheon Airport), South Korea79/100
- 158Rakkojae Seoul (락고재)Seoul, South Korea79/100
- 159Le Grand Bellevue (Le Grand Spa)Gstaad, Switzerland79/100
- 160Posthotel LeavenworthLeavenworth, USA79/100
- 161Hotel Kämp · Kämp SpaHelsinki, Finland78/100
- 162High Country Motor LodgeFlagstaff, USA77/100
- 163Banyan Tree Club & Spa SeoulSeoul, South Korea77/100
- 164Sparkling Hill Resort & SpaVernon (Okanagan), Canada76/100
- 165Storfjord HotelGlomset (Skodje), near Ålesund, Norway76/100
- 166Urban Cowboy Lodge (Catskills)Big Indian, USA76/100
- 167Wineport Lodge (lakeside sauna + floating hot tub)Glasson, Athlone, Ireland76/100
- 168Six Senses Crans-MontanaCrans-Montana, Switzerland76/100
- 169Hotel St. George · St. George CareHelsinki, Finland75/100
- 170The William Vale – Winter SpaNew York (Williamsburg, Brooklyn), USA75/100
- 171La Mamounia (Spa and hammams)Marrakech, Morocco75/100
- 172Royal Mansour Marrakech (The Spa)Marrakech, Morocco75/100
- 173The Gaia Hotel (大地酒店), BeitouTaipei (Beitou), Taiwan75/100
- 174VALO Hotel & Work HelsinkiHelsinki (Pasila), Finland75/100
- 175Aman Le MélézinCourchevel 1850, France74/100
- 176Grand Hotel Kempinski Riga · pirts ritualRiga, Latvia74/100
- 177The Rockaway Hotel – Winter Pool HouseNew York (Rockaway Park, Queens), USA73/100
- 178Lapland Hotels BulevardiHelsinki, Finland72/100
- 179Villa CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark72/100
- 180Hewing Hotel (rooftop sauna)Minneapolis, USA72/100
- 181Tierra Patagonia (Uma Spa)Torres del Paine, Chile71/100
1Mooska smoke sauna farm
Haanja (Võru County), Estonia · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 98/100
The best-known farm keeping Võromaa's UNESCO-listed smoke sauna tradition: three-hour whisk sessions, smoked ham and a pond plunge.
2Löyly
Helsinki, Finland · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 96/100
Helsinki's waterfront design sauna: a smoke sauna and wood-heated rooms with the Baltic as the plunge, on SAUNA37's first list.
3Rauhaniemi Folk Spa
Tampere, Finland · wood-fired · open-water cold · 95/100
Tampere's best-loved lakeside folk sauna since 1929, open every day of the year with an ice hole into Näsijärvi in winter.
4Kuusijärvi smoke saunas (Café Kuusijärvi)
Vantaa, Finland · smoke sauna · open-water cold · 95/100
The only place with several public smoke saunas heated every day, now with two new architect-built smoke saunas (2025), 20 minutes from Helsinki.
5Oslo Badstuforening (floating sauna rafts incl. Trosten)
Oslo, Norway · finnish · 95/100
A nonprofit with over 18,000 members running architect-built sauna rafts on the Oslo waterfront; its Trosten raft made TIME's World's Greatest Places 2025.
6Ribersborgs Kallbadhus
Malmö, Sweden · wood-fired · open-water cold · 95/100
A heritage-listed 1898 cold-bath house at the end of a pier, with wood-fired saunas and the Öresund straight below.
7SATAMA Sauna Resort & Spa
Wendisch Rietz, Germany · finnish · open-water cold · 94/100
A lakeside sauna resort an hour from Berlin built around a sauna theatre; it hosted Aufguss World Championships in 2013, 2016 and 2018 and the 2025 playoffs.
8Kulttuurisauna
Helsinki, Finland · wood-fired · open-water cold · 94/100
An architect couple's quiet, wood-fired seaside sauna in Merihaka, built as a public building for Helsinki's World Design Capital year.
9Sanduny Baths (Sandunovskie Bani)
Moscow, Russia · finnish · 94/100
Moscow's grand 1808 bathhouse, rebuilt as a palace in 1896 and still operating: the reference point for Russian banya culture.
10Lonna Sauna
Helsinki, Finland · wood-fired · open-water cold · 93/100
Wood-fired loft saunas on a small fortress island a short ferry ride from Market Square, open in summer only.
11Russian & Turkish Baths
New York, USA · wood-fired · 92/100
The oldest bathhouse in New York, open since 1892: a basement banya with a granite-mass Russian room, platza with oak veniks and an ice pool, walk-in only, every day of the year.
12Therme Erding (Saunaparadies)
Erding (near Munich), Germany · finnish · 92/100
The world's largest sauna complex: about 30 textile-free saunas under an opening glass roof, with show-style aufguss through the day.
13Rudas Baths
Budapest, Hungary · finnish · 92/100
A working 16th-century Ottoman bath: octagonal pool under a pierced dome, a modern sauna wing and a rooftop pool over the Danube.
14Sauna Tokyo (サウナ東京)
Tokyo, Japan · finnish · 92/100
Japan's most decorated new urban sauna: five rooms, three tiered cold plunges and serious aufguss, SAUNACHELIN #2 three years running and now in its hall of fame.
15Nordik Spa-Nature (Nordik Village Chelsea)
Chelsea, Canada · finnish · 92/100
Seven named heat rooms, including a 60-seat Finlandia sauna for free Aufguss and a Maa room that reaches 100 °C, on a forested hillside.
16TOTOPA Meiji Park (TOTOPA 都立明治公園店)
Tokyo, Japan · wood-fired · 90/100
A park-side spa next to the National Stadium that won SAUNACHELIN 2024 outright and placed again in 2025, open to women and men on separate floors.
17Aquardens
Pescantina (Verona), Italy · finnish · 90/100
Italy's largest thermal park hosted the 2025 Aufguss World Championship finals in a new 300-person sauna theatre it bills as the world's largest.
18Friedrichsbad
Baden-Baden, Germany · steam & hammam · 90/100
An 1877 Roman-Irish bath: 17 stations over three hours, from hot-air rooms to a domed thermal pool and cold plunge, all nude.
19La Banchina
Copenhagen (Refshaleøen), Denmark · wood-fired · open-water cold · 90/100
A tiny glass-walled, wood-fired harbour sauna attached to a natural-wine bar, with a ladder into the harbour; the Copenhagen sauna people name first.
20Tamina Therme
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland · finnish · open-water cold · 90/100
A 1,300 m² Alpine sauna world fed by 36.5 °C Tamina gorge water, with what it called Switzerland's largest infusion sauna (2019).
21Bathhouse (Flatiron, Williamsburg, Atlantic Avenue)
New York, USA · finnish · 90/100
New York's strongest aufguss programme across three bathhouses; the 32,000 sq ft Atlantic Avenue site, with a 100-plus-seat sauna, hosted the 2026 Aufguss Championship.
22Kaupinojan Sauna
Tampere, Finland · wood-fired · open-water cold · 90/100
A lakeside Tampere sauna with a continuously heated wood stove that Time Out says gives intense but moist löyly.
23Thermen Bussloo
Voorst (near Apeldoorn), Netherlands · finnish · 90/100
A Dutch forest-and-lake thermal resort with a sauna theatre, a Kelo aufguss room and a Latvian-style pirts; on SAUNA37 2024.
24Sky Lagoon
Kópavogur (Reykjavík), Iceland · finnish · open-water cold · 89/100
A geothermal ocean-edge lagoon whose 7-step Skjól ritual runs through a sauna with Iceland's largest window, framed on the North Atlantic.
25Chochołowskie Termy · Chochołowskie Saunarium
Chochołów (near Zakopane), Poland · finnish · 89/100
A Podhale thermal complex whose sauna floor faces the Tatras, with a 300-seat 100 °C aufguss arena (Sauna Pierońska) and seven aufguss sessions a day.
26Arasan Wellness & Spa (Arasan baths)
Almaty, Kazakhstan · steam & hammam · 89/100
A 1982 Soviet-modernist bath palace, a listed monument, with Russian venik steam rooms, a Finnish sauna and an oriental bath in mirror-image men's and women's wings.
27Kotiharjun Sauna
Helsinki, Finland · wood-fired · 89/100
Helsinki's last public wood-burning sauna, running since 1928, with professional washers and the famous street-side cool-down.
28Rajaportin Sauna
Tampere, Finland · wood-fired · 89/100
Finland's oldest public sauna still operating (1906), a volunteer-run Pispala institution where Tampere was named sauna capital.
29Cedar & Stone Nordic Sauna
Duluth, USA · open-water cold · 89/100
Duluth waterfront saunas, including a floating barge sauna, with plunges straight into Lake Superior; covered by the New York Times, Star Tribune, AP and Outside.
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Claudius Therme
Cologne, Germany · finnish · 89/100
Cologne's thermal bath in the Rheinpark with a panorama sauna looking straight at the cathedral, a banya and hourly booked aufguss.
31Kuuma Nature Sauna
Margate (near Hobart), Australia · wood-fired · open-water cold · 89/100
Australia's first purpose-built, fully mobile sauna pontoon: a wood-fired sauna that cruises out of Margate Marina so you can dive into the channel.
32Tupaswilla Great Smoke Sauna (Mahtisavusauna)
Laukaa (near Jyväskylä), Finland · smoke sauna · 89/100
Billed as the world's largest smoke sauna: up to 150 bathers at once in a heritage village, with 17th-century log beams.
33Koganeyu (黄金湯)
Tokyo, Japan · electric · 88/100
A neighbourhood sento rebuilt in 2020 with a hiba-wood sauna, a deep cold bath and a DJ booth plus taproom at the desk; it now has the most イキタイ (want-to-go) votes of any sauna in Japan.
34Arc
London (Canary Wharf), United Kingdom · finnish · 88/100
A 5,000 m² contrast-therapy club with a 65-person aufguss sauna, billed as the UK's largest, and host of the 2025 UK Aufguss Championships.
35Frihamnen public sauna (Jubileumsparken)
Gothenburg, Sweden · finnish · open-water cold · 88/100
Raumlabor's rust-steel harbour sauna on stilts, built from recycled material and free for anyone to book, rebuilt as a permanent building in 2024.
36Sky Spa YOKOHAMA (スカイスパYOKOHAMA)
Yokohama, Japan · electric · 88/100
A 14th-floor spa connected to Yokohama Station with an IKI-stove room, a kelo löyly room, aufguss and a 100-seat co-ed sauna theatre; in the SAUNACHELIN hall of fame.
37Wild Haus Floating Saunas
Seattle, USA · wood-fired · open-water cold · 88/100
Wood-fired sauna boats that cruise Lake Union with a captain, stopping so guests can jump off the roof into the lake.
38Yurakkusu (サウナと天然温泉 湯らっくす)
Kumamoto, Japan · electric · open-water cold · 88/100
Kyushu's sauna pilgrimage stop: Aso groundwater fills what is billed as Japan's deepest cold bath, and it sits in the SAUNACHELIN hall of fame.
39Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Budapest, Hungary · finnish · 88/100
Budapest's neo-baroque thermal palace: 18 pools fed by 74–77 °C springs, outdoor pools steaming all winter, saunas and steam rooms inside.
40Hot Huts Mobile Sauna
Cape Town (Dalebrook, St James, Camps Bay tidal pools and more), South Africa · wood-fired · open-water cold · 88/100
South Africa's first mobile sauna: wood-fired trailers parked by Cape Town's tidal pools, so the plunge is the Atlantic or False Bay.
41Floating Sauna Lake Derby
Derby, Australia · wood-fired · open-water cold · 88/100
A wood-fired sauna floating on a forest-ringed lake in Tasmania's mountain-bike town, with floor-to-ceiling windows and the lake as the plunge.
42Kiln Floating Sauna (Navy Pier)
Chicago, USA · finnish · open-water cold · 88/100
A six-seat cedar sauna floating at Navy Pier with guided rounds and plunges into Lake Michigan under the Centennial Wheel.
43Spa Metsa Ootaka Ryusenji no Yu (スパメッツァおおたか 竜泉寺の湯)
Nagareyama, Japan · electric · 87/100
A super-sento outside Tokyo whose Dragon Sauna fires five HARVIA stoves at once every hour; SAUNACHELIN 2022 grand prix at sento prices.
44Othership Flatiron
New York, USA · electric · 87/100
The Toronto-born guided-sauna club's biggest site: a 100-person sauna with music-led group sessions and ice baths a local sauna writer calls the coldest in the city.
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Jangheung Chamsutgama (장흥참숯가마)
Yangju (Jangheung-myeon), South Korea · wood-fired · open-water cold · 87/100
A working charcoal-kiln sauna an hour from Seoul: five kilns graded from warm to 'scorching', an open kiln at the door, and pork grilled on the fresh charcoal.
46Satoyama Terrace (SATOYAMA TERRACE)
Futtsu, Japan · wood-fired · 87/100
Countryside outdoor saunas on the Boso Peninsula, including a forest Mountain Sauna with a wood-fired hearth and a Waterfall Sauna that releases a cascade every 30 minutes; SAUNACHELIN 2025 #4.
47Shibuya SAUNAS (渋谷SAUNAS)
Tokyo, Japan · finnish · 87/100
Nine themed sauna rooms five minutes from Shibuya Station, open to women and men on alternating floors, tattoo-friendly, with food by a Michelin-starred chef.
48Laugarvatn Fontana
Laugarvatn, Iceland · geothermal · open-water cold · 87/100
Steam huts built straight over hot springs, used by locals since 1929, with a cold dip in the lake and rye bread baked in the ground.
49Nowhere Baths
Singapore, Singapore · finnish · 86/100
Singapore's design-led bathhouse: an 85–90 °C sauna with a window onto greenery, a 13 °C plunge, quiet rules and a 20-person cap per session.
50KEDR Spa & Sauna
Phuket (Bang Tao / Thalang), Thailand · finnish · 86/100
Phuket's hottest public sauna (90–97 °C), with 4–7 °C ice tubs and a rain room. Walk in, no booking.
51Bains des Pâquis (winter sauna, hammam, bain turc)
Geneva, Switzerland · steam & hammam · open-water cold · 86/100
A community-run lake bath on a Geneva jetty: two mixed saunas, hammams and a Turkish bath all winter, then Lake Geneva for the plunge, for CHF 22.
52The Sauna Wānaka
Wānaka, New Zealand · wood-fired · open-water cold · 86/100
A wood-fired sauna with a big mountain window at the outlet of Lake Wānaka, with guided, social and silent sessions and the lake as the plunge.
53Archimedes Banya
San Francisco, USA · steam & hammam · open-water cold · 86/100
San Francisco's Russian-style banya with a two-tier cedar sauna, a hotter dry room, a Turkish hamam, free aromatherapy steam sessions and a roof deck over the Bay.
54vabali spa Berlin
Berlin, Germany · finnish · 86/100
Berlin's big Balinese-styled sauna park beside the Hauptbahnhof: a dozen saunas, hourly aufguss, garden and pools, textile-free.
55Banya No.1
London (Hoxton), United Kingdom · finnish · 86/100
London's Russian banya: an intense, steamy parilka with venik treatments, on SAUNA37 2025.
56Scandinave Spa Whistler
Whistler, Canada · finnish · 86/100
A silent outdoor bath circuit in old-growth rainforest by Lost Lake, with dry saunas, eucalyptus steam and cold plunges under the Coast Mountains.
57Sauna Museum (Pirts muzejs)
Sēja (about 40 km from Riga), Latvia · smoke sauna · 86/100
A private open-air museum of six historic Latvian bathhouses, including a black (smoke) sauna, where a pirtnieks leads traditional rituals.
58sauna kolme kylä
Okayama, Japan · finnish · 86/100
A booking-only Okayama sauna that entered SAUNACHELIN 2025 at no. 8: 90 °C with löyly, 15–16 °C water and outdoor rest.
59Sauna Shikiji (サウナしきじ)
Shizuoka, Japan · electric · open-water cold · 85/100
Japanese sauna fans call it the holy land: a no-frills Showa-style 110°C room and a cold bath of drinkable natural spring water that flows straight through.
60Watershed Saunas
Queenstown, New Zealand · electric · open-water cold · 85/100
Two saunas on a floating pontoon off St Omer Wharf, each with a hole in the floor straight down into Lake Whakatipu.
61Allas Sea Pool
Helsinki, Finland · finnish · open-water cold · 85/100
Saunas and a seawater pool floating in the harbour next to Market Square, the most central sea-dip in Helsinki.
62Fjord (Sausalito floating sauna)
Sausalito, USA · electric · open-water cold · 85/100
Two aspen saunas on a platform at the end of a Sausalito marina, with plunges straight into San Francisco Bay.
63Kılıç Ali Paşa Hamamı
Istanbul, Turkey · steam & hammam · 85/100
Mimar Sinan's 1580s complex in Tophane: a restored Ottoman hammam with a hot marble navel stone, and the best-rated of Istanbul's historic baths.
64Kalma Saun
Tallinn, Estonia · wood-fired · 85/100
Tallinn's 1928 Art Deco neighbourhood bathhouse in Kalamaja; the men's side keeps the city's only wood-heated public sauna.
65Strøm Spa Nordique Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec)
Quebec City, Canada · finnish · 85/100
Canada's Best Day Spa at the World Spa Awards in 2024 and 2025, on the St. Lawrence below Old Quebec, with river-view baths and saunas.
66Othership Yorkville (the original)
Toronto, Canada · electric · 85/100
The first Othership, which started North America's guided social-sauna wave; SaunaTimes' Toronto circuit lists it for its guided aufguss sessions.
67Termy Maltańskie · Świat Saun
Poznań, Poland · steam & hammam · open-water cold · 85/100
A 1,000 m² textile-free sauna world by Lake Malta with a 90-100 °C 'fire' room, an outdoor kelo sauna, Latvian-style pirts ceremonies and recurring sauna-art festivals and battles.
68Mermaid Spa
New York, USA · finnish · open-water cold · 84/100
A traditional Russian banya in gated Sea Gate at the tip of Coney Island, with ice-fed plunge pools, platza and the ocean five minutes away.
69Sauna Seebad Enge
Zürich, Switzerland · finnish · open-water cold · 84/100
A winter sauna on Zurich's lake bath platform: three sauna cells, a city-and-lake view, and a ladder into 4–6 °C water.
70Hellasgården
Stockholm (Nacka), Sweden · finnish · open-water cold · 84/100
Stockholm's classic forest-lake sauna in the Nacka nature reserve, 20 minutes from Slussen, with a winter ice-hole culture.
71Ivãnas Muša Gongã
Vilnius, Lithuania · wood-fired · 84/100
A boutique urban sauna on Kalvarijų street with wood-burning stoves, a 14-person themed sauna run by sauna masters daily, and courtyard ice baths; its sister 'Vytautas Beats the Gong' is an igloo sauna at the old Lukiškės Prison.
72SaunaLab Kanda (サウナラボ神田)
Tokyo, Japan · 84/100
The Tokyo outpost of Nagoya's Finnish-design Sauna Lab, SAUNACHELIN 2021 #5.
73Serlachius Art Sauna
Mänttä, Finland · finnish · 84/100
An art-museum sauna at the Serlachius museums, open to everyone on Tuesdays, on both SAUNA37 2026 and Time Out's 2026 Finland list.
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Go Sauna Cape Town
Cape Town (Camps Bay, Sea Point, Blouberg), South Africa · wood-fired · open-water cold · 84/100
A wood-fired mobile sauna running 80-95 °C that parks beside the Camps Bay tidal pool, Saunders' Rock and Blouberg, with the Atlantic as the plunge.
75SPA ONE
Oosterhout, Netherlands · finnish · 84/100
A Brabant wellness resort with one of the strongest ratings among big Dutch sauna parks; on SAUNA37 2026.
76Spa LaQua (東京ドーム天然温泉 Spa LaQua)
Tokyo, Japan · finnish · 84/100
A big Tokyo Dome City spa fed by hot-spring water from 1,700 m down, with seven saunas, an aufguss room and outdoor baths; the easiest serious sauna for a first-time visitor to Tokyo.
77Thermëa by Nordik Spa-Nature, Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Canada · finnish · open-water cold · 84/100
The prairie outpost of Nordik with an Aufguss programme run several times a day, a cold waterfall and outdoor baths through Winnipeg's winter.
78Scandinave Spa Mont-Tremblant
Mont-Tremblant, Canada · finnish · open-water cold · 84/100
The original Scandinave, on the Diable River in the Laurentian forest, with Finnish sauna, eucalyptus steam, cold plunges and a strict silence rule.
79KIWAMI SAUNA Osu (KIWAMI SAUNA 大須)
Nagoya, Japan · finnish · 84/100
A central Nagoya sauna picked 6th in SAUNACHELIN 2025, with self-service löyly at about 88–90 °C and a 15 °C water bath.
80Rooftop Saunas Hackney
London, United Kingdom · finnish · 84/100
Saunas on a London Fields rooftop with a skyline view; National Geographic's 2026 list put 'sitting in an urban sauna' in London at No. 7 worldwide, naming this one.
81Sauna Deco
Amsterdam, Netherlands · finnish · 84/100
A small canal-house sauna in Amsterdam's Jordaan fitted out in Art Deco, mixed and textile-free; on SAUNA37 2024.
82Sibéria Station Spa
Quebec City (Charlesbourg), Canada · finnish · open-water cold · 83/100
A forest Nordic spa a few minutes from Quebec City where a stretch of the Rivière Jaune serves as the cold plunge, winter included.
83Pirts Nr. 1
Riga, Latvia · wood-fired · 83/100
A Riga public bathhouse with what it calls the two largest wood-burning sauna stoves in the Baltics, an 8 °C pool and a shashlik bar, for about €13 an hour.
84World Spa
New York, USA · steam & hammam · open-water cold · 83/100
A 50,000 sq ft, three-floor bathing complex in Brooklyn that puts a banya, Finnish sauna, hammam and snow room under one roof.
85Onsen Balcony King & Queen
Tokorozawa, Japan · steam & hammam · 83/100
Billed as the largest spa entertainment complex in Kanto, with multi-tier lava saunas and rooftop outdoor saunas; SAUNACHELIN 2025 #3.
86Thermëa Spa Village Whitby
Whitby, Canada · steam & hammam · open-water cold · 83/100
A Nordic spa village east of Toronto with more than 25 thermal installations and scheduled aufguss rituals.
87Ebb & Ember (Columbia River floating sauna)
Portland, USA · finnish · open-water cold · 83/100
A floating sauna on the Columbia River, opened January 2026, where guests jump from the roof into the river.
88Pilaitė Mill Sauna (Pilaitės Malūno Pirtis)
Vilnius (Pilaitė), Lithuania · open-water cold · 83/100
Three bathhouses at a former manor mill on the edge of Vilnius, one built on the foundations of the manor's coach house, with pirtis rituals by a sauna master and a pond and stream at the door.
89The Sauna Project Sydney (Vaucluse pop-up)
Sydney (Vaucluse), Australia · wood-fired · open-water cold · 83/100
A small wood-fired pop-up on the Vaucluse Beach paddock that Time Out called Sydney's most scenic sweat, with the harbour as the plunge.
90612 Sauna Society
Minneapolis, USA · wood-fired · open-water cold · 83/100
The first member-owned sauna co-op in the US, running mobile wood-fired saunas such as The Forge at Theodore Wirth Park each winter.
91Liquidrom
Berlin, Germany · finnish · 83/100
A saltwater float pool under a concrete dome with underwater music, plus Finnish, Himalayan-salt and Kelo saunas in Kreuzberg.
92Bota Bota, spa-sur-l'eau
Montreal, Canada · finnish · 83/100
A converted ferry moored in Montreal's Old Port with a sauna pavilion, daily guided Badstu sauna sessions and Aufguss, facing Old Montreal and Silo No. 5.
93Cağaloğlu Hamamı
Istanbul, Turkey · steam & hammam · 83/100
One of the last great Ottoman hammams (1741), a double bath in Ottoman Baroque near Hagia Sophia, with the highest review volume of Istanbul's historic baths.
94Hotta-yu (堀田湯)
Tokyo, Japan · 83/100
An 80-plus-year-old Adachi sento with a herbal sauna and an outdoor cold plunge, tattoo-friendly, and #20 in Japan by want-to-go votes.
95Spadium Japon (スパジアムジャポン)
Higashikurume, Japan · electric · 83/100
A big suburban Tokyo spa whose tiered tower sauna fires automatic aroma löyly at set intervals, with 12°C and 16°C cold baths.
96Ice House – Ice Bath & Sauna
Bangkok, Thailand · finnish · 82/100
Bangkok's top-rated sauna club: a big, very hot sauna next to 2–4 °C ice tubs, in a garden house and a rooftop branch.
97Kobe Sauna & Spa (神戸サウナ&スパ)
Kobe, Japan · 82/100
Kobe's long-running sauna house in Sannomiya, SAUNACHELIN 2022 #6 and among the most-logged saunas in western Japan.
98Steamul Sauna
Mississauga, Canada · finnish · 82/100
A family-run banya with brick-stove rooms that Toronto's SaunaTimes scout calls the hottest in town, with an Eastern European kitchen.
99Therme Wien
Vienna, Austria · finnish · 82/100
Vienna's big city thermal bath with a large sauna area, on SAUNA37 2024 and one of the most-reviewed baths in Austria.
100Spa Land Centum City (스파랜드 센텀시티)
Busan, South Korea · finnish · 81/100
The best-known jjimjilbang in Korea for visitors: 13 themed sauna rooms and 18 hot-spring baths fed from about 1,000 m down, inside the Shinsegae Centum City department store.
101Banya 5
Seattle, USA · electric · 81/100
Seattle's Russian-style bathhouse with a stone sauna listed at 190-220 °F, oak-leaf venik, a Turkish steam room, a salt pool and a cold plunge.
102Voda Spa
West Hollywood (Los Angeles), USA · finnish · 81/100
The LA bathhouse that sauna regulars call the hottest in the city, with wet and dry banyas, a Finnish room, platza and a cold plunge.
103Banya Forrest
Dubai (Bluewaters Island), United Arab Emirates · steam & hammam · open-water cold · 81/100
Billed as the UAE's first fully equipped Slavic banya: two steam rooms run off a 20-tonne stove, a 6 °C plunge and a snow room.
104Peninsula Hot Springs (Bath House)
Fingal (Mornington Peninsula), Australia · steam & hammam · 81/100
Australia's big geothermal bathing complex; the Bath House has wet and dry saunas plus an underground sauna reached through the Bathing Gully, with cold plunges for contrast.
105Eastend Sauna
Chicago, USA · finnish · 81/100
A 40-seat Finnish sauna set to 194 °F, which WBEZ says is Chicago's legal maximum, with Chicago's only sauna group classes.
106Kabuki Springs & Spa
San Francisco, USA · finnish · 81/100
San Francisco's Japanese-style communal bath in Japantown, run on silence (no talking, no phones), with single-sex days where swimsuits are optional.
107Osaka Sauna DESSE (大阪サウナDESSE)
Osaka, Japan · 81/100
Osaka's highest-ranked new-wave sauna: SAUNACHELIN 2024 #4 and in the top 40 nationally by want-to-go votes.
108The Yard / Sauna Village (Superior Sauna & Steam)
Minneapolis, USA · wood-fired · open-water cold · 81/100
A year-round backyard sauna village in south Minneapolis with three saunas, five cold tubs and 20-seat community steam sessions.
109Aquapalace Praha · Saunový svět
Čestlice (Prague), Czechia · finnish · 81/100
A big sauna world on the edge of Prague, with Finnish rooms, Roman baths, a panoramic terrace sauna and an outdoor Nordic log cabin and earth banya; it hosts SaunaFest and the international Sauna Herbal Cup.
110Matsumoto-yu (松本湯)
Tokyo, Japan · finnish · 81/100
A rebuilt Nakano sento with a stone sauna and a 15-17°C cold bath, tattoo-friendly, and #12 in Japan by want-to-go votes.
111Sauna Hermanni
Helsinki, Finland · finnish · 80/100
A retro neighbourhood sauna heating since 1953, the locals' alternative to Kotiharju; on SAUNA37 2025.
112Bath House (formerly Red Square Spa)
Chicago, USA · steam & hammam · 80/100
One of Chicago's oldest Eastern European banyas, renamed Bath House, with hot steam rooms, a cold plunge and a full restaurant.
113Bondi Icebergs pool sauna
Sydney (Bondi Beach), Australia · finnish · open-water cold · 80/100
A plain deck-level sauna included in the A$10 entry to the Bondi Icebergs ocean pool, so the plunge is the cliffside tidal pool.
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Brooklyn Banya
New York, USA · finnish · 80/100
The Brooklyn banya closest to Manhattan, praised for very hot rooms, high ceilings and unlimited towels.
115Termas Geométricas
Coñaripe / Pucón, Chile · geothermal · open-water cold · 79/100
Eighteen slate hot pools linked by a red timber boardwalk up a rainforest gorge, designed by Germán del Sol; no sauna, but South America's most celebrated bathing site.
116Supsok Hanbang Land (숲속한방랜드)
Seoul, South Korea · wood-fired · 79/100
The last Seoul jjimjilbang with outdoor pinewood charcoal-burning kilns, on the forest edge above Sinchon; now drawing a young crowd.
117Watershed Spa
Minneapolis, USA · finnish · 79/100
A quiet, self-guided communal bathhouse by the Mississippi riverfront with sauna, steam, hot soaking pool and cold plunge.
118Asahiyu Gensen Yuiru (朝日湯源泉ゆいる)
Kawasaki, Japan · 79/100
A natural-hot-spring sento in Kawasaki that made SAUNACHELIN 2021 and sits #18 in Japan by want-to-go votes.
119Kairyo-yu (改良湯)
Tokyo, Japan · electric · 79/100
A small Shibuya neighbourhood sento with a sauna and cold plunge that ranks sixth in all of Japan by want-to-go votes, and is tattoo-friendly.
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Aquafield Hanam (아쿠아필드 하남)
Hanam (Starfield Hanam), South Korea · finnish · 79/100
A premium modern jjimjilbang in the Starfield Hanam mall with 70–80 °C rooms, a 15 °C cold bath and an outdoor footbath facing the mountains.
121Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa
Hepburn Springs, Australia · steam & hammam · 79/100
A mineral-spring bathhouse founded in 1895 in Victoria's spa country, with a dry sauna, steam room and hammam, a walk-in cool-down pool and creekside mineral pools.
122Sauna Wisła (floating sauna, Port Czerniakowski)
Warsaw, Poland · finnish · open-water cold · 79/100
A year-round floating Finnish sauna in a Vistula harbour, paid for by Warsaw's citizens' budget, with cold tubs, port-view terraces and a floating library, at 45 zł for 90 minutes.
123Hot Voyage (Indian Arm floating sauna)
Vancouver (Deep Cove / Indian Arm), Canada · electric · open-water cold · 79/100
A sauna boat that sails up the Indian Arm fjord from Vancouver for plunges in glacial water below waterfalls and forest.
124Wi Spa
Los Angeles, USA · finnish · 78/100
LA's 24-hour Korean jjimjilbang, with five heated rooms in the co-ed floor and dry and steam saunas in the nude single-sex baths.
125Löyly Floating Sauna Toronto
Toronto, Canada · finnish · 78/100
Toronto's first floating sauna: a cedar sauna barge on Queens Quay with a glass front onto Lake Ontario and the skyline.
126Community Sauna Baths (Hackney Wick)
London, United Kingdom · finnish · 78/100
The not-for-profit community sauna that started London's sauna boom: cheap 90-minute sessions and plunges in a Hackney Wick yard, now with sister sites.
127Atlantis Water Park · Atlantis Wellness (Sauna Land)
Ljubljana (BTC City), Slovenia · finnish · 78/100
A city water park's sauna world with 14 saunas including a panoramic and a 'mine' sauna, with daily sauna-master programmes and guest aufguss days.
128Löyly Portland (Southeast and Northeast)
Portland, USA · electric · 78/100
One of Portland's original sauna houses, two locations with deep-heat IKI stoves, monthly aufguss and whisking days, at $35 for two hours.
129Hurshimchung (허심청) at Hotel Nongshim
Busan, South Korea · finnish · 77/100
A huge Dongnae hot-spring bathhouse (capacity about 3,000) on the site of one of Korea's oldest spa towns, with about 40 bath types and dry saunas.
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The Ice Bath Club – Kennedy Town
Hong Kong, Hong Kong · finnish · 77/100
Hong Kong's main social sauna: a 90 °C wood room with open rock beds and communal 3–10 °C plunges.
131Therme București · Elysium
Balotești (Bucharest), Romania · steam & hammam · 77/100
The giant thermal park outside Bucharest that AAA calls Europe's biggest thermal spa; its Elysium zone has about ten themed saunas (Himalaya, Bavaria, Hollywood, Alhambra...) and a long aufguss menu.
132Çemberlitaş Hamamı
Istanbul, Turkey · steam & hammam · 77/100
Nurbanu Sultan's 1584 double hammam on the Divanyolu, attributed to Sinan's office; historic but now almost entirely a tourist bath.
133Huerto Roma Verde temazcal
Mexico City, Mexico · wood-fired · 77/100
A wood-heated community temazcal inside a volunteer-run urban garden in Roma, the cheapest real sweat-lodge ceremony in Mexico City.
134Suntago Water World · Saunaria
Wręcza (Mszczonów, about 50 km from Warsaw), Poland · finnish · open-water cold · 77/100
The adults-only sauna zone of the Suntago water park near Warsaw: 15 themed saunas and steam rooms over 2,500 m², with ten aufguss sessions a day.
135Vizlas pirts
Riga (Ķengarags), Latvia · wood-fired · 77/100
A Russian-style wood banya in Ķengarags built around a 20-tonne stove, with oak, birch and eucalyptus brooms for sale and €15 entry.
136Hammamat Ma'in sauna cave
Hammamat Ma'in (near Madaba), Jordan · geothermal · 76/100
A cave behind a hot waterfall in a desert canyon below sea level, where spring water pours out of the rock and turns the cave into a natural sauna.
137Les Bains de Marrakech
Marrakech (Kasbah, Bab Agnaou), Morocco · steam & hammam · 75/100
A long-running Kasbah hammam spa of carved stucco and brass lanterns with private and couples' hammams, renovated in 2021.
138Qinghe Peninsula Hot Spring Resort & Bath Center (清河半岛)
Shenyang, China · finnish · 75/100
The flagship of Northeast China's mega-bathhouse culture: about 100,000 m² of themed hot springs, a giant iron-pot bath and a 168 m outdoor infinity pool.
139Aquapark Wrocław · Saunarium
Wrocław, Poland · finnish · 75/100
A 2,000 m² sauna village with six 25-person saunas, earth saunas and a salt-tower sauna, where sauna masters run themed ceremonies late into the night.
140Druskininkai Aquapark (bathhouse area)
Druskininkai, Lithuania · steam & hammam · 74/100
The Baltic spa town's adult bathhouse floor: 19 dry and steam baths themed on different national traditions, with programmes by bath attendants.
141Abanotubani sulphur baths (e.g. Gulo's Thermal Spa)
Tbilisi, Georgia · geothermal · 74/100
Tbilisi's domed bath district, built over hot sulphur springs and the city's founding legend; private rooms with a kisi scrub are the usual way in.
142The Bathhouse Spa Queenstown
Queenstown, New Zealand · finnish · 74/100
Queenstown's European-style bathhouse on Brecon Street: a wood-lined Finnish sauna with a fireplace, two infrared rooms, a scented steam room, and 38 °C and 12 °C pools.
143Shui Guo Life Style – Wujiaochang branch (Shanghai bathhouse)
Shanghai, China · finnish · 71/100
A 13,000 m² all-day Shanghai bathhouse that state media now feature as the place foreign visitors go to try Chinese bath culture.
- 1Mooska smoke sauna farmHaanja (Võru County), Estonia98/100
- 2LöylyHelsinki, Finland96/100
- 3Rauhaniemi Folk SpaTampere, Finland95/100
- 4Kuusijärvi smoke saunas (Café Kuusijärvi)Vantaa, Finland95/100
- 5Oslo Badstuforening (floating sauna rafts incl. Trosten)Oslo, Norway95/100
- 6Ribersborgs KallbadhusMalmö, Sweden95/100
- 7SATAMA Sauna Resort & SpaWendisch Rietz, Germany94/100
- 8KulttuurisaunaHelsinki, Finland94/100
- 9Sanduny Baths (Sandunovskie Bani)Moscow, Russia94/100
- 10Lonna SaunaHelsinki, Finland93/100
- 11Russian & Turkish BathsNew York, USA92/100
- 12Therme Erding (Saunaparadies)Erding (near Munich), Germany92/100
- 13Rudas BathsBudapest, Hungary92/100
- 14Sauna Tokyo (サウナ東京)Tokyo, Japan92/100
- 15Nordik Spa-Nature (Nordik Village Chelsea)Chelsea, Canada92/100
- 16TOTOPA Meiji Park (TOTOPA 都立明治公園店)Tokyo, Japan90/100
- 17AquardensPescantina (Verona), Italy90/100
- 18FriedrichsbadBaden-Baden, Germany90/100
- 19La BanchinaCopenhagen (Refshaleøen), Denmark90/100
- 20Tamina ThermeBad Ragaz, Switzerland90/100
- 21Bathhouse (Flatiron, Williamsburg, Atlantic Avenue)New York, USA90/100
- 22Kaupinojan SaunaTampere, Finland90/100
- 23Thermen BusslooVoorst (near Apeldoorn), Netherlands90/100
- 24Sky LagoonKópavogur (Reykjavík), Iceland89/100
- 25Chochołowskie Termy · Chochołowskie SaunariumChochołów (near Zakopane), Poland89/100
- 26Arasan Wellness & Spa (Arasan baths)Almaty, Kazakhstan89/100
- 27Kotiharjun SaunaHelsinki, Finland89/100
- 28Rajaportin SaunaTampere, Finland89/100
- 29Cedar & Stone Nordic SaunaDuluth, USA89/100
- 30Claudius ThermeCologne, Germany89/100
- 31Kuuma Nature SaunaMargate (near Hobart), Australia89/100
- 32Tupaswilla Great Smoke Sauna (Mahtisavusauna)Laukaa (near Jyväskylä), Finland89/100
- 33Koganeyu (黄金湯)Tokyo, Japan88/100
- 34ArcLondon (Canary Wharf), United Kingdom88/100
- 35Frihamnen public sauna (Jubileumsparken)Gothenburg, Sweden88/100
- 36Sky Spa YOKOHAMA (スカイスパYOKOHAMA)Yokohama, Japan88/100
- 37Wild Haus Floating SaunasSeattle, USA88/100
- 38Yurakkusu (サウナと天然温泉 湯らっくす)Kumamoto, Japan88/100
- 39Széchenyi Thermal BathBudapest, Hungary88/100
- 40Hot Huts Mobile SaunaCape Town (Dalebrook, St James, Camps Bay tidal pools and more), South Africa88/100
- 41Floating Sauna Lake DerbyDerby, Australia88/100
- 42Kiln Floating Sauna (Navy Pier)Chicago, USA88/100
- 43Spa Metsa Ootaka Ryusenji no Yu (スパメッツァおおたか 竜泉寺の湯)Nagareyama, Japan87/100
- 44Othership FlatironNew York, USA87/100
- 45Jangheung Chamsutgama (장흥참숯가마)Yangju (Jangheung-myeon), South Korea87/100
- 46Satoyama Terrace (SATOYAMA TERRACE)Futtsu, Japan87/100
- 47Shibuya SAUNAS (渋谷SAUNAS)Tokyo, Japan87/100
- 48Laugarvatn FontanaLaugarvatn, Iceland87/100
- 49Nowhere BathsSingapore, Singapore86/100
- 50KEDR Spa & SaunaPhuket (Bang Tao / Thalang), Thailand86/100
- 51Bains des Pâquis (winter sauna, hammam, bain turc)Geneva, Switzerland86/100
- 52The Sauna WānakaWānaka, New Zealand86/100
- 53Archimedes BanyaSan Francisco, USA86/100
- 54vabali spa BerlinBerlin, Germany86/100
- 55Banya No.1London (Hoxton), United Kingdom86/100
- 56Scandinave Spa WhistlerWhistler, Canada86/100
- 57Sauna Museum (Pirts muzejs)Sēja (about 40 km from Riga), Latvia86/100
- 58sauna kolme kyläOkayama, Japan86/100
- 59Sauna Shikiji (サウナしきじ)Shizuoka, Japan85/100
- 60Watershed SaunasQueenstown, New Zealand85/100
- 61Allas Sea PoolHelsinki, Finland85/100
- 62Fjord (Sausalito floating sauna)Sausalito, USA85/100
- 63Kılıç Ali Paşa HamamıIstanbul, Turkey85/100
- 64Kalma SaunTallinn, Estonia85/100
- 65Strøm Spa Nordique Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec)Quebec City, Canada85/100
- 66Othership Yorkville (the original)Toronto, Canada85/100
- 67Termy Maltańskie · Świat SaunPoznań, Poland85/100
- 68Mermaid SpaNew York, USA84/100
- 69Sauna Seebad EngeZürich, Switzerland84/100
- 70HellasgårdenStockholm (Nacka), Sweden84/100
- 71Ivãnas Muša GongãVilnius, Lithuania84/100
- 72SaunaLab Kanda (サウナラボ神田)Tokyo, Japan84/100
- 73Serlachius Art SaunaMänttä, Finland84/100
- 74Go Sauna Cape TownCape Town (Camps Bay, Sea Point, Blouberg), South Africa84/100
- 75SPA ONEOosterhout, Netherlands84/100
- 76Spa LaQua (東京ドーム天然温泉 Spa LaQua)Tokyo, Japan84/100
- 77Thermëa by Nordik Spa-Nature, WinnipegWinnipeg, Canada84/100
- 78Scandinave Spa Mont-TremblantMont-Tremblant, Canada84/100
- 79KIWAMI SAUNA Osu (KIWAMI SAUNA 大須)Nagoya, Japan84/100
- 80Rooftop Saunas HackneyLondon, United Kingdom84/100
- 81Sauna DecoAmsterdam, Netherlands84/100
- 82Sibéria Station SpaQuebec City (Charlesbourg), Canada83/100
- 83Pirts Nr. 1Riga, Latvia83/100
- 84World SpaNew York, USA83/100
- 85Onsen Balcony King & QueenTokorozawa, Japan83/100
- 86Thermëa Spa Village WhitbyWhitby, Canada83/100
- 87Ebb & Ember (Columbia River floating sauna)Portland, USA83/100
- 88Pilaitė Mill Sauna (Pilaitės Malūno Pirtis)Vilnius (Pilaitė), Lithuania83/100
- 89The Sauna Project Sydney (Vaucluse pop-up)Sydney (Vaucluse), Australia83/100
- 90612 Sauna SocietyMinneapolis, USA83/100
- 91LiquidromBerlin, Germany83/100
- 92Bota Bota, spa-sur-l'eauMontreal, Canada83/100
- 93Cağaloğlu HamamıIstanbul, Turkey83/100
- 94Hotta-yu (堀田湯)Tokyo, Japan83/100
- 95Spadium Japon (スパジアムジャポン)Higashikurume, Japan83/100
- 96Ice House – Ice Bath & SaunaBangkok, Thailand82/100
- 97Kobe Sauna & Spa (神戸サウナ&スパ)Kobe, Japan82/100
- 98Steamul SaunaMississauga, Canada82/100
- 99Therme WienVienna, Austria82/100
- 100Spa Land Centum City (스파랜드 센텀시티)Busan, South Korea81/100
- 101Banya 5Seattle, USA81/100
- 102Voda SpaWest Hollywood (Los Angeles), USA81/100
- 103Banya ForrestDubai (Bluewaters Island), United Arab Emirates81/100
- 104Peninsula Hot Springs (Bath House)Fingal (Mornington Peninsula), Australia81/100
- 105Eastend SaunaChicago, USA81/100
- 106Kabuki Springs & SpaSan Francisco, USA81/100
- 107Osaka Sauna DESSE (大阪サウナDESSE)Osaka, Japan81/100
- 108The Yard / Sauna Village (Superior Sauna & Steam)Minneapolis, USA81/100
- 109Aquapalace Praha · Saunový světČestlice (Prague), Czechia81/100
- 110Matsumoto-yu (松本湯)Tokyo, Japan81/100
- 111Sauna HermanniHelsinki, Finland80/100
- 112Bath House (formerly Red Square Spa)Chicago, USA80/100
- 113Bondi Icebergs pool saunaSydney (Bondi Beach), Australia80/100
- 114Brooklyn BanyaNew York, USA80/100
- 115Termas GeométricasCoñaripe / Pucón, Chile79/100
- 116Supsok Hanbang Land (숲속한방랜드)Seoul, South Korea79/100
- 117Watershed SpaMinneapolis, USA79/100
- 118Asahiyu Gensen Yuiru (朝日湯源泉ゆいる)Kawasaki, Japan79/100
- 119Kairyo-yu (改良湯)Tokyo, Japan79/100
- 120Aquafield Hanam (아쿠아필드 하남)Hanam (Starfield Hanam), South Korea79/100
- 121Hepburn Bathhouse & SpaHepburn Springs, Australia79/100
- 122Sauna Wisła (floating sauna, Port Czerniakowski)Warsaw, Poland79/100
- 123Hot Voyage (Indian Arm floating sauna)Vancouver (Deep Cove / Indian Arm), Canada79/100
- 124Wi SpaLos Angeles, USA78/100
- 125Löyly Floating Sauna TorontoToronto, Canada78/100
- 126Community Sauna Baths (Hackney Wick)London, United Kingdom78/100
- 127Atlantis Water Park · Atlantis Wellness (Sauna Land)Ljubljana (BTC City), Slovenia78/100
- 128Löyly Portland (Southeast and Northeast)Portland, USA78/100
- 129Hurshimchung (허심청) at Hotel NongshimBusan, South Korea77/100
- 130The Ice Bath Club – Kennedy TownHong Kong, Hong Kong77/100
- 131Therme București · ElysiumBalotești (Bucharest), Romania77/100
- 132Çemberlitaş HamamıIstanbul, Turkey77/100
- 133Huerto Roma Verde temazcalMexico City, Mexico77/100
- 134Suntago Water World · SaunariaWręcza (Mszczonów, about 50 km from Warsaw), Poland77/100
- 135Vizlas pirtsRiga (Ķengarags), Latvia77/100
- 136Hammamat Ma'in sauna caveHammamat Ma'in (near Madaba), Jordan76/100
- 137Les Bains de MarrakechMarrakech (Kasbah, Bab Agnaou), Morocco75/100
- 138Qinghe Peninsula Hot Spring Resort & Bath Center (清河半岛)Shenyang, China75/100
- 139Aquapark Wrocław · SaunariumWrocław, Poland75/100
- 140Druskininkai Aquapark (bathhouse area)Druskininkai, Lithuania74/100
- 141Abanotubani sulphur baths (e.g. Gulo's Thermal Spa)Tbilisi, Georgia74/100
- 142The Bathhouse Spa QueenstownQueenstown, New Zealand74/100
- 143Shui Guo Life Style – Wujiaochang branch (Shanghai bathhouse)Shanghai, China71/100
three hotel picks per city: the best sauna if money is no object, the best in a mid-range hotel, and the cheapest hotel with a sauna worth using.
amsterdam
Amsterdam's best hotel sauna is not in a luxury hotel: Zuiver is a full Dutch sauna resort with rooms, and the canal-belt five-stars mostly have small spa saunas.
balling · money no object
from $445 a night · sauna included
The only central Amsterdam luxury hotel with a real hot-cold circuit (fire bath plus deep ice bath) rather than just a sauna cabin.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $140 a night · sauna fee
The best sauna in any Amsterdam hotel at any price, at mid-range room rates plus a €29.95 spa add-on.
budget · cheapest real sauna
Volkshotel (Badplaats rooftop)
from $65 a night · sauna included
Cheapest real sauna in Amsterdam: an outdoor rooftop barrel sauna with a cold bucket shower, included in rooms from about $60-$90.
barcelona
Barcelona hotel saunas are small spa extras; the sea is the city's real cold plunge, and only a few hotels run a full hot-cold circuit.
balling · money no object
W Barcelona (GETAWAY / AWAY Spa)
from $341 a night · sauna included
The only Barcelona luxury hotel sauna with sea views and the sea itself a short walk away, and Marriott lists it as included for guests.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
Yurbban Passage Hotel & Spa (Signature Spa)
from $151 a night · sauna included
The only mid-priced Barcelona hotel with a real contrast circuit rather than a lone sauna cabin, and guests get daily time in it.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $89 a night · sauna included
A four-star near the beach in the $$ band whose own FAQ includes the sauna and hammam in the stay.
berlin
Berlin's best sauna culture is in day spas (vabali, SATAMA, Liquidrom); among hotels, the grand spas around Pariser Platz have the hottest rooms and the 25hours has the most fun one.
balling · money no object
Hotel Adlon Kempinski (Adlon Spa by Resense)
from $323 a night · sauna included
The hottest, most complete hotel sauna circuit in central Berlin, in its most famous hotel.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $253 a night · sauna included
The most memorable hotel sauna in Berlin at a mid price, and it is free.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $211 a night · sauna fee
A real sauna plus a historic pool hall for €5, in a hotel that usually prices below the big-name spas.
chicago
Chicago's best saunas are bathhouses and studios (WBEZ's 2025 top ten has no hotel); hotel heat means locker-room saunas, with one well-loved herbal-and-salt sauna ritual at the Langham.
balling · money no object
The Langham, Chicago (Chuan Spa)
from $730 a night · sauna included
The hotel sauna Chicagoans actually recommend, with a real two-sauna ritual.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $89 a night · sauna included
A free sauna and pool 43 floors up at a mid-range rate.
budget · cheapest real sauna
Holiday Inn Chicago Downtown Wolf Point
from $96 a night · sauna included
Cheapest downtown option in the data with a free sauna and pool.
copenhagen
Copenhagen's sauna life runs through public harbour saunas; the hotel standouts are a seaside kurhotel north of the city and a few courtyard and rooftop spas in town.
balling · money no object
from $175 a night · sauna fee
The only Copenhagen-area hotel where a sauna master pours and you finish in the sea.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $200 a night · sauna included
Free sauna, steam and an outdoor heated pool in a good-looking mid-price hotel next to the harbour.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $110 a night · sauna included
The cheapest central Copenhagen hotel found with a real sauna you don't pay extra for.
hamburg
Hamburg has German sauna culture at full strength: a Balinese-style sauna park with its own hotel on the eastern edge, a rooftop infinity-pool spa on the Alster, and plenty of cheaper hotels with real 90 °C rooms.
balling · money no object
from $400 a night · sauna included
The most beautiful hotel sauna setting in Hamburg, included with every room.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $215 a night · sauna fee
A mid-price room attached to one of Europe's best sauna parks; on sauna quality it beats every hotel in Hamburg.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $138 a night · sauna included
Spa with a sauna, indoor pool and whirlpool; free for hotel guests.
helsinki
Almost every Helsinki hotel has a sauna and most include it in the rate, but locals send visitors to public saunas; the hotel picks win on a pool, a cold plunge or a sea view.
balling · money no object
Hotel St. George (St. George Care spa)
from $260 a night · sauna included
The best-reviewed hotel spa in Helsinki right now, with a real cold plunge, and it comes with almost every room.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
Hilton Helsinki Kalastajatorppa
from $120 a night · sauna included
The only mid-price Helsinki hotel where the sauna sits on the sea with its own patio and a beach to swim from.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $50 a night · sauna included
The cheapest bed in Helsinki that comes with a real, free Finnish sauna twice a day.
lisbon
Lisbon has few hotel saunas and no sauna culture to speak of; the Four Seasons' eucalyptus sauna with crushed ice is the most complete, and the cheapest options sit outside the centre.
balling · money no object
Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon
from $808 a night · sauna included
The only Lisbon hotel in the catalogue that pairs its sauna with a dedicated cold element, inside the city's most complete luxury fitness floor.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $190 a night · sauna included
The fullest heat circuit in a Lisbon five-star priced in the catalogue's $$$ band rather than $$$$.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $150 a night · sauna included
The only Lisbon hotel in the catalogue's lowest price band ($$) with a sauna; it is by the airport, not the centre.
london
London hotel saunas are mostly small cabins in leisure clubs; Corinthia's glass amphitheatre is the only one sauna press singles out, and the city's best sauna culture is in bathhouses, not hotels.
balling · money no object
from $630 a night · sauna included
The one London hotel sauna that sauna press names; the 2026 relaunch added a cold plunge and guided sauna sessions, and hotel guests use it free.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
The Westin London City (Heavenly Spa)
from $360 a night · sauna included
The hottest-sounding sauna with a real cold option among London's four-star-price hotels, included in the room.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $135 a night · sauna included
The cheapest central London hotel where the official page confirms a free sauna for all guests.
los angeles
LA hotel saunas are mostly small spa or locker-room cabins and many 'saunas' are infrared; the city's serious sauna culture lives in Koreatown bathhouses, not hotels.
balling · money no object
from $265 a night · sauna fee
LA's sauna scene is weak in hotels (r/Sauna regulars send people to Korean spas); this is the most complete heat circuit in an LA luxury hotel and the best-reviewed day pass.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
Los Angeles Athletic Club (hotel)
from $133 a night · sauna included
The most real-gym, real-sauna stay in central LA at four-star prices, with club access built into the room.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $88 a night · sauna included
The lowest-priced LA hotel in the catalogue ($ band) where recent guests confirm a usable sauna.
madrid
Madrid's hotel saunas are spa-floor extras; the best value is a €5 glass-walled sauna with Royal Palace views, and the city's real bathing culture is hammam (Hammam Al Ándalus).
balling · money no object
Four Seasons Hotel Madrid (The Spa)
from $685 a night · sauna included
The only Madrid hotel spa with a Forbes Five-Star spa rating and the most space; no Madrid hotel sauna gets sauna-specific praise, so size and quality decide it.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $387 a night · sauna included
The best hot-cold pairing free to all guests in a Madrid hotel below palace prices.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $101 a night · sauna fee
Madrid's cheapest real hotel sauna: a four-star with a glass-walled Finnish sauna and palace views for a €5 fee.
miami
Miami does hotel bathing as full thermal circuits with cold plunges and ice fountains at the top end; below about $300 a night, saunas shrink to gym rooms with thin evidence.
balling · money no object
Acqualina Resort & Residences (Acqualina Spa)
from $579 a night · sauna included
The most complete hot-cold circuit in a Miami hotel, with an ice fountain and a cold plunge, on the beach.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $296 a night · sauna included
A real hot-cold bathing circuit included with a mid-price room.
budget · cheapest real sauna
The Mutiny Hotel, Coconut Grove
from $143 a night · sauna included
Cheapest mainstream Miami hotel found with a sauna; treat as provisional.
milan
Milan's hotel saunas are small spa cabins; the luxury spas win on design and pools, and no independent source singles out a Milan hotel sauna.
balling · money no object
Armani Hotel Milano (Armani/SPA)
from $985 a night · sauna included
The only Milan luxury spa that puts the sauna on a top floor with city views and pairs it with an ice fountain and pool.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $317 a night · sauna included
The hottest stated hotel sauna in central Milan outside the palace hotels, free for every guest.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $110 a night · sauna included
Lowest catalogue price band ($$) in Milan with a sauna that is free for every guest and open all day.
munich
Munich has German sauna habits but few standout hotel saunas; the famous one is a rooftop spa on the Bayerischer Hof, and good-value 90 °C rooms sit in small private hotels.
balling · money no object
Hotel Bayerischer Hof (Blue Spa)
from $422 a night · sauna included
The best-known hotel spa in Munich, on the roof of its grandest hotel; verify before publishing.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
Schwabinger Wahrheit by Geisel
from $150 a night · sauna included
A properly hot 90 °C sauna in a mid-price design hotel, and you can wear swimwear.
budget · cheapest real sauna
Leonardo Hotel München City West
from $107 a night · sauna included
Cheapest Munich hotel in the data with a Finnish sauna included in the room.
new york
New York's serious sauna scene is in bathhouses (Bathhouse, Wall Street Bath, Othership); among hotels there is one true banya, a few penthouse and winter-deck saunas, and gym saunas at the low end.
balling · money no object
Aman New York (Banya Spa House)
from $2,707 a night · sauna treatment only
If money is no object, a private banya with a venik master and terrace plunge beats every other hotel heat in the city.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
The Hotel Chelsea (penthouse spa)
from $565 a night · sauna included
A free penthouse sauna in a landmark hotel, endorsed by local press, without the day-pass crowds.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $130 a night · sauna included
The cheapest Manhattan hotel in the data with a real sauna included.
paris
Paris palace spas have saunas, almost always split by sex inside the changing areas, and nobody writes about them; the city's real heat culture is in hammams, not hotels.
balling · money no object
The Peninsula Paris (The Peninsula Spa)
from $1,800 a night · sauna included
No Paris palace sauna gets independent praise, so the pick goes to the most complete circuit with the least crowding: the pool and wet areas are closed to the public.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $446 a night · sauna included
Paris has almost no mid-priced hotel sauna worth the trip; this small Saint-Germain hotel has a real designed sauna room at the low end of five-star prices.
budget · cheapest real sauna
Novotel Paris Centre Tour Eiffel
from $157 a night · sauna included
The cheapest central Paris hotel where the hotel's own page confirms a sauna guests can use; the pool is free with a booked slot.
reykjavik
Reykjavik bathes in public geothermal pools and lagoons; hotel saunas are small add-ons, and most luxury hotels charge their own guests to use them.
balling · money no object
from $328 a night · sauna fee
No Reykjavik hotel has a great sauna; this is the most complete heat circuit in the best hotel.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $146 a night · sauna included
A free, unfussy sauna and hot tub in the middle of town at a mid price.
budget · cheapest real sauna
Hótel Ísland Spa & Wellness (Silfra Spa)
from $97 a night · sauna fee
Cheapest real hot-cold circuit attached to a Reykjavik hotel: a small fee buys sauna, steam and a cold tub.
san francisco
San Francisco's sauna culture is in bathhouses and swim clubs (Archimedes Banya, Kabuki Springs, Dolphin Club); hotel saunas are locker-room cabins, and only Hotel Nikko adds a cold plunge.
balling · money no object
Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco (Equinox Sports Club)
from $387 a night · sauna included
San Francisco's best hotel sauna access at the top end: a full sports club included with the room; the city's real sauna scene (Archimedes Banya, Kabuki Springs, Dolphin Club) is outside hotels.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $153 a night · sauna included
The only Union Square hotel that pairs its sauna with a cold plunge, open around the clock to guests at four-star prices.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $115 a night · sauna included
Cheapest central SF hotel in the catalogue where the hotel itself says the sauna is free for all guests.
st. moritz
St. Moritz hotel saunas are mostly classic Swiss spa floors; the town's public OVAVERVA spa is the best-value sauna and some hotels include it.
balling · money no object
Suvretta House (new Suvretta Spa)
from $1,432 a night · sauna included
The strongest in-town hotel sauna in St. Moritz: an 85-90 °C sauna, an Alpine herbal sauna, a separate ladies' sauna and a 15 °C glacial cold pool, on the hotel's own spa page.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
Hotel San Gian St. Moritz (+ free OVAVERVA access)
from $262 a night · sauna included
Two sauna options for one room rate: the hotel's own sauna floor and free access to St. Moritz's main public spa next door.
budget · cheapest real sauna
Schweizerhof Swiss Quality Hotel
from $338 a night · sauna included
Spa with a sauna and steam bath; free for hotel guests.
stockholm
Stockholm's serious hotel saunas sit at the edges, a Japanese bathhouse on the archipelago and a new event-sauna spa on Brunnsviken; in town it is gym saunas, with one hostel that heats a free sauna every night.
balling · money no object
from $300 a night · sauna included
The one Stockholm hotel sauna with international sauna-award recognition, and the bath comes with the room.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
Hagastrand, Autograph Collection
from $140 a night · sauna fee
Rooms at mid-range prices with the most ambitious sauna programme in Stockholm.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $30 a night · sauna included
The cheapest bed in central Stockholm with a sauna that is free and heated every night.
tokyo
Tokyo has the world's deepest hotel-sauna culture: business hotels and capsule hotels run 100°C rooms with 12-15°C cold baths, while luxury hotels lag behind them.
balling · money no object
from $1,601 a night · sauna treatment only
The one Tokyo hotel sauna with a national sauna award and a full hot-cold ritual; it is a private paid session, which suits 'money no object'.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
Tosei Hotel Cocone Tsukiji Ginza Premier
from $83 a night · sauna included
The most-wanted Tokyo hotel sauna open to women and men in a mid-priced hotel, with a 100°C room and a real cold bath on both sides.
budget · cheapest real sauna
Centurion Hotel & Spa Ueno Ekimae (Sauna Resort Oriental Ueno)
from $59 a night · sauna included
The most-wanted Tokyo hotel sauna that women can also use (2nd of 108 on Sauna Ikitai), in a cheap station hotel where guests bathe free as often as they like.
vienna
Vienna's hotel saunas are mostly small spa rooms beside a pool; the city's sauna culture lives in public baths (Therme Wien, Amalienbad), so the hotel picks here are convenience, not destinations.
balling · money no object
The Ritz-Carlton, Vienna (ANGATI Spa)
from $547 a night · sauna included
The verified luxury option with sauna, steam and a pool open until midnight.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $206 a night · sauna included
Central, well reviewed and mid-priced, with a real sauna and steam room.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $138 a night · sauna included
Cheapest well-rated central Vienna hotel in the data with a Finnish sauna.
warsaw
Warsaw is the cheapest city on this list for hotel saunas: most 4- and 5-star hotels have a dry sauna and steam room beside a pool, usually included, and 5-star rooms often cost mid-range money.
balling · money no object
InterContinental Warszawa (RiverView Wellness)
from $116 a night · sauna included
The best hotel sauna setting in Warsaw: saunas and a pool 44 floors up.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
Radisson Collection Hotel, Warsaw (Heart Gym & Wellness)
from $253 a night · sauna included
Two saunas and a pool, free with a 5-star room at mid-range money.
budget · cheapest real sauna
from $80 a night · sauna included
Budget-band hotel with a free pool and sauna that guests rate highly.
zermatt
Almost every Zermatt hotel has a sauna; few have real cold, and CERVO is the only one that pairs a natural cold pool with an outdoor hot pool facing the Matterhorn.
balling · money no object
CERVO Mountain Resort (Ātman Mountain Spa)
from $512 a night · sauna included
The strongest hotel sauna setting in Zermatt and the only one with a natural cold pool and an outdoor hot pool looking at the Matterhorn.
mid-range · about $180–350 a night
from $337 a night · sauna included
The most complete sauna floor among Zermatt's four-star family hotels: two Finnish rooms, a crushed-ice bowl and a Kneipp bath, adults only.
budget · cheapest real sauna
Swiss Alpine Hotel Allalin (Alpine Recovery Spa)
from $306 a night · sauna included
The cheapest-looking Zermatt hotel (it sells a 'Double room basic' category) where the hotel's own page confirms both a sauna and a cold plunge.