Best Saunas in London, United Kingdom
Arc Canary Wharf
Arc is a communal contrast therapy club on Minus Level 2 of 1 Crossrail Place in Canary Wharf, next to Barry's and Everyman Cinema. Its large sauna holds 60 people, and sessions move between the heat, ice baths and a lounge built around a central altar with herbal teas. Guided sessions add meditation, breathwork, stretching, aromatherapy and sound therapy, with free-flow sessions and evening socials too. Single passes, class packs and memberships are sold; a three-class intro pack is £49.
AUTM HAUS
AUTM HAUS is a riverside social wellness club on Autumn Street in Fish Island, Hackney Wick, where guests move between a handcrafted Western Red Cedar sauna, cold plunges and outdoor rest spaces beside the River Lea, with a small fireplace in the evenings. Sessions are pre-booked and limited in number to keep the space calm, and include contrast therapy rituals, shorter morning resets and private hire. Open from 7:00 AM most days, until 11:30 PM Thursday to Saturday, closed Wednesday.
Community Sauna Baths Camberwell
Community Sauna Baths' Camberwell site stands in Ruskin Park on Denmark Hill in south London. It has three saunas, one of them accessible, and four cold plunges ranging from 5 to 10 °C, with massage and treatments in an adjacent yurt and sessions for women, families and NHS workers. Weekday sessions cost £11 for an hour at peak times or £11.60 for 90 minutes off-peak; the site opens daily until 9:30 PM with the last session starting at 8:00 PM.
Community Sauna Baths Peckham
Community Sauna Baths' Peckham site is an off-grid sauna in Glengall Wharf Community Garden, with proceeds supporting the garden that hosts it. It runs two wood-fired saunas with a refreshing shower for cooling but no cold plunges, and opens Friday to Sunday during daylight hours from 9:00 AM to 7:15 PM. A 75-minute session costs £8, making it the cheapest of the not-for-profit network's London sites.
Community Sauna Baths Stratford
Community Sauna Baths' Stratford site occupies a community garden setting on Penny Brookes Street in the East Village, next to the Olympic Park. It has three saunas, including a wheelchair-accessible cabin, and three cold plunges ranging from 3 to 15 °C, with women's and NHS sessions and private hire on the programme. Weekday sessions cost £11 for an hour at peak times or £11.60 for 90 minutes off-peak, and it is open every day until 9:30 PM.
Community Sauna Baths Walthamstow
Community Sauna Baths' Walthamstow site is an outdoor sauna garden on a converted industrial plot on Sutherland Road. It runs three electric saunas plus an octagonal aufguss sauna, and a plunge island with four cold plunges, with women-only, FLINTA and addiction-recovery sessions alongside general ones. Weekday sessions cost £11 for an hour at peak or £11.60 for 90 minutes off-peak, weekends from £9.50 for 30 minutes, and it opens at 7:00 AM most days.
Finnish Church in London Sauna
The Finnish Church in London on Albion Street in Rotherhithe runs a traditional Finnish sauna that is open to everyone, not only the Finnish community. The sauna operates from Wednesday to Sunday and is booked through an online system; the public sauna costs from £12 per person per hour, while private bookings start from £25 for two people per hour on weekdays and £28 at weekends. Guests shower first, sit on a seat cover and throw water on the stones for löyly.
Rooftop Saunas Brixton
Rooftop Saunas Brixton sits on the roof of the 11-storey International House on Canterbury Crescent in south London, with timber Finnish sauna cabins, cold plunge pools and waterfall buckets. Cabins are booked privately for groups of up to four people; a 30-minute Express session costs from £11 per person, 60 minutes from £16.50 and 90 minutes from £22, with the longer sessions including a private cool-down room. Open Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM to 10:20 PM and Sunday 9:00 AM to 7:40 PM.
Rooftop Saunas Hackney
Rooftop Saunas Hackney offers contemporary Finnish sauna cabins at Netil Corner on Bocking Street, between Broadway Market and Victoria Park. Cabins are booked privately for groups of up to four, with sessions of 30 to 90 minutes, outdoor cold plunge pools at 5 to 7 °C, waterfall buckets, private showers and a cool-down room with tea and coffee. A 30-minute Express session costs from £11 per person off-peak; open Monday to Saturday 7:30 AM to 10:20 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM to 7:50 PM.
Sauna Social Club
Sauna Social Club is a sauna and listening lounge in a railway arch on Brayards Road in Peckham, opened in 2024 as a healthy alternative to London's drinking-led social culture. It has two Finnish-style saunas with water buckets and four ice baths at different temperatures, plus a lounge with art installations where DJs and musicians play during Ambient Sauna sessions. Aufguss runs on alternating Tuesdays and Sundays; a 50-minute Essential session costs £14.99 and exclusive hire is available.
Sauna&Plunge
Sauna&Plunge is an underground social wellness space on Tabernacle Street in Shoreditch, three minutes from Old Street station. It pairs a Finnish sauna at 85 °C and an infrared sauna at 60 °C with six 3D-printed cold plunges set at 12, 6 and 3 °C, alongside a café lounge and a studio for yoga, Pilates, breathwork and soundbath classes. Contrast sessions are bought as credits from £22 to £26 each or through memberships.
Skuna Sauna & Cold Plunge
Skuna runs London's floating saunas at West India Quay in Canary Wharf: two wood-fired sauna boats, the larger seating up to 16 people and the smaller 7, with rooftop cold plunge pools at 3 to 6 °C and a traditional cold bucket shower. Shared 75-minute drop-in sessions cost from £15 per person and the larger boat can be hired privately for £250 on weekdays or £300 at weekends. The sauna operates daily from 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM.
Sweheat Sauna
Sweheat Sauna is a family-run, independent outdoor sauna on Western Beach at Royal Victoria Dock in Newham, east London. Its Simply Sauna sessions move between a wood-fired sauna and a cold plunge on the water's edge, and the programme adds Aufguss rituals, full moon rituals, storytelling and women's bath nights. A private sauna experience for up to six guests is offered with Pixxla. Open Monday to Friday 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM and weekends 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM; booking is essential.
Urban Heat Sauna
Urban Heat is a female-founded neighbourhood sauna and cold plunge under railway arch 347 on Camberwell Station Road in south London. It combines a spacious 15-seater Finnish-style sauna kept at 90 to 95 °C with three outdoor ice baths at 5 and 10 °C and a lounge, and runs communal, quiet, same-gender, parent-and-baby and 90-minute guided sessions with breathwork and aromatics. Private hire is available; memberships start at £23 a month and a five-session Heat Pass is £75.
AIRE Ancient Baths London
AIRE Ancient Baths London is a thermal bath house on Robert Street in Westminster, minutes from Covent Garden, in the former home of Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie. Its 90-minute circuit moves between the Caldarium hot bath, Frigidarium cold bath, Tepidarium warm bath, Balneum jets bath, a Vaporium steam bath with aromatherapy and a Flotarium salt bath; massages and rituals can be added. Open Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM, Friday 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM and weekends 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM.
Banya No.1 Chiswick
Banya No.1 Chiswick brings the Russian banya to Chiswick High Road in west London. Its authentic steam room is kept at around 70 °C with 40 to 60 percent humidity and is paired with an icy cold plunge pool, the signature parenie treatment with leafy birch bundles, massages and body scrubs, and lounges serving Eastern European food and herbal teas. Sessions start from £35 for 90 minutes or £55 for a three-hour build-your-own visit; open every day 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM.
Banya No.1 Hoxton
Banya No.1 in Hoxton is London's first Russian banya, on Micawber Street near Old Street. Its high-humidity parnaya steam sauna is paired with an icy cold plunge pool and cold bucket showers, and the signature parenie treatment uses bundles of birch, oak and eucalyptus twigs. Public sauna and plunge sessions of 90 minutes start from £35, packages with parenie from £85, and the private Taiga spa suite takes groups of up to ten. Open daily 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM.
Community Sauna Baths Hackney Wick
Community Sauna Baths' flagship not-for-profit site sits in the car park of Eastway Baths in Hackney Wick. Opened in 2021, it now welcomes around 11,000 visitors a month to six wood-fired saunas and one electric sauna, with cold plunges ranging from 3 to 15 °C, classes, treatments and private hire. Weekday sessions cost £11 for an hour at peak times or £11.60 for 90 minutes off-peak, and the site is open daily until 9:30 PM.
Porchester Spa
Porchester Spa in the Grade II* listed Porchester Centre on Queensway in Bayswater opened in 1929 and is London's oldest spa; an £800,000 restoration recreated its 1920s character. It has two steam rooms, three Turkish bath hot rooms (Tepidarium, Caldarium and Laconium), a sauna, a cold plunge pool and a relaxation lounge, for over-18s only. Days alternate between men-only, women-only and a mixed Sunday; adult entry is £31.95, open 10:00 AM to 9:30 PM weekdays and to 8:00 PM at weekends.
Spa Experience Old Street at Ironmonger Row Baths
Spa Experience Old Street occupies one of London's oldest Turkish baths, the 1930s Ironmonger Row Baths on Norman Street in Islington, run by the social enterprise GLL. The restored thermal spa has saunas, aroma steam rooms, Turkish bath hot rooms (Tepidarium, Caldarium and Laconium), ice fountains, monsoon and bucket showers, a plunge pool, a hammam and a relaxation lounge, plus hammam rituals. Open Monday 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 AM and weekends 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
The Bath House Banya London
The Bath House is a Slavic banya and plunge spa in a former bank at 1 Grosvenor Gardens in Belgravia, behind Buckingham Palace. Its oak-lined banya is paired with an icy plunge pool, and the parenie leaf ritual with birch and oak bundles is the centrepiece of the Classic and Premium packages. A two-hour Just Banya session costs £75 including a table in the lounge, and the private banya can be hired for groups of up to eight. Open Monday to Saturday 10:00 AM to 11:00 PM and Sunday to 10:00 PM.
Arc Canary Wharf
Arc is a communal contrast therapy club on Minus Level 2 of 1 Crossrail Place in Canary Wharf, next to Barry's and Everyman Cinema. Its large sauna holds 60 people, and sessions move between the heat, ice baths and a lounge built around a central altar with herbal teas. Guided sessions add meditation, breathwork, stretching, aromatherapy and sound therapy, with free-flow sessions and evening socials too. Single passes, class packs and memberships are sold; a three-class intro pack is £49.
AUTM HAUS
AUTM HAUS is a riverside social wellness club on Autumn Street in Fish Island, Hackney Wick, where guests move between a handcrafted Western Red Cedar sauna, cold plunges and outdoor rest spaces beside the River Lea, with a small fireplace in the evenings. Sessions are pre-booked and limited in number to keep the space calm, and include contrast therapy rituals, shorter morning resets and private hire. Open from 7:00 AM most days, until 11:30 PM Thursday to Saturday, closed Wednesday.
Community Sauna Baths Camberwell
Community Sauna Baths' Camberwell site stands in Ruskin Park on Denmark Hill in south London. It has three saunas, one of them accessible, and four cold plunges ranging from 5 to 10 °C, with massage and treatments in an adjacent yurt and sessions for women, families and NHS workers. Weekday sessions cost £11 for an hour at peak times or £11.60 for 90 minutes off-peak; the site opens daily until 9:30 PM with the last session starting at 8:00 PM.
Community Sauna Baths Peckham
Community Sauna Baths' Peckham site is an off-grid sauna in Glengall Wharf Community Garden, with proceeds supporting the garden that hosts it. It runs two wood-fired saunas with a refreshing shower for cooling but no cold plunges, and opens Friday to Sunday during daylight hours from 9:00 AM to 7:15 PM. A 75-minute session costs £8, making it the cheapest of the not-for-profit network's London sites.
Community Sauna Baths Stratford
Community Sauna Baths' Stratford site occupies a community garden setting on Penny Brookes Street in the East Village, next to the Olympic Park. It has three saunas, including a wheelchair-accessible cabin, and three cold plunges ranging from 3 to 15 °C, with women's and NHS sessions and private hire on the programme. Weekday sessions cost £11 for an hour at peak times or £11.60 for 90 minutes off-peak, and it is open every day until 9:30 PM.
Community Sauna Baths Walthamstow
Community Sauna Baths' Walthamstow site is an outdoor sauna garden on a converted industrial plot on Sutherland Road. It runs three electric saunas plus an octagonal aufguss sauna, and a plunge island with four cold plunges, with women-only, FLINTA and addiction-recovery sessions alongside general ones. Weekday sessions cost £11 for an hour at peak or £11.60 for 90 minutes off-peak, weekends from £9.50 for 30 minutes, and it opens at 7:00 AM most days.
Finnish Church in London Sauna
The Finnish Church in London on Albion Street in Rotherhithe runs a traditional Finnish sauna that is open to everyone, not only the Finnish community. The sauna operates from Wednesday to Sunday and is booked through an online system; the public sauna costs from £12 per person per hour, while private bookings start from £25 for two people per hour on weekdays and £28 at weekends. Guests shower first, sit on a seat cover and throw water on the stones for löyly.
Rooftop Saunas Brixton
Rooftop Saunas Brixton sits on the roof of the 11-storey International House on Canterbury Crescent in south London, with timber Finnish sauna cabins, cold plunge pools and waterfall buckets. Cabins are booked privately for groups of up to four people; a 30-minute Express session costs from £11 per person, 60 minutes from £16.50 and 90 minutes from £22, with the longer sessions including a private cool-down room. Open Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM to 10:20 PM and Sunday 9:00 AM to 7:40 PM.
Rooftop Saunas Hackney
Rooftop Saunas Hackney offers contemporary Finnish sauna cabins at Netil Corner on Bocking Street, between Broadway Market and Victoria Park. Cabins are booked privately for groups of up to four, with sessions of 30 to 90 minutes, outdoor cold plunge pools at 5 to 7 °C, waterfall buckets, private showers and a cool-down room with tea and coffee. A 30-minute Express session costs from £11 per person off-peak; open Monday to Saturday 7:30 AM to 10:20 PM and Sunday 10:00 AM to 7:50 PM.
Sauna Social Club
Sauna Social Club is a sauna and listening lounge in a railway arch on Brayards Road in Peckham, opened in 2024 as a healthy alternative to London's drinking-led social culture. It has two Finnish-style saunas with water buckets and four ice baths at different temperatures, plus a lounge with art installations where DJs and musicians play during Ambient Sauna sessions. Aufguss runs on alternating Tuesdays and Sundays; a 50-minute Essential session costs £14.99 and exclusive hire is available.
Sauna&Plunge
Sauna&Plunge is an underground social wellness space on Tabernacle Street in Shoreditch, three minutes from Old Street station. It pairs a Finnish sauna at 85 °C and an infrared sauna at 60 °C with six 3D-printed cold plunges set at 12, 6 and 3 °C, alongside a café lounge and a studio for yoga, Pilates, breathwork and soundbath classes. Contrast sessions are bought as credits from £22 to £26 each or through memberships.
Skuna Sauna & Cold Plunge
Skuna runs London's floating saunas at West India Quay in Canary Wharf: two wood-fired sauna boats, the larger seating up to 16 people and the smaller 7, with rooftop cold plunge pools at 3 to 6 °C and a traditional cold bucket shower. Shared 75-minute drop-in sessions cost from £15 per person and the larger boat can be hired privately for £250 on weekdays or £300 at weekends. The sauna operates daily from 7:30 AM to 9:00 PM.
Sweheat Sauna
Sweheat Sauna is a family-run, independent outdoor sauna on Western Beach at Royal Victoria Dock in Newham, east London. Its Simply Sauna sessions move between a wood-fired sauna and a cold plunge on the water's edge, and the programme adds Aufguss rituals, full moon rituals, storytelling and women's bath nights. A private sauna experience for up to six guests is offered with Pixxla. Open Monday to Friday 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM and weekends 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM; booking is essential.
Urban Heat Sauna
Urban Heat is a female-founded neighbourhood sauna and cold plunge under railway arch 347 on Camberwell Station Road in south London. It combines a spacious 15-seater Finnish-style sauna kept at 90 to 95 °C with three outdoor ice baths at 5 and 10 °C and a lounge, and runs communal, quiet, same-gender, parent-and-baby and 90-minute guided sessions with breathwork and aromatics. Private hire is available; memberships start at £23 a month and a five-session Heat Pass is £75.
AIRE Ancient Baths London
AIRE Ancient Baths London is a thermal bath house on Robert Street in Westminster, minutes from Covent Garden, in the former home of Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie. Its 90-minute circuit moves between the Caldarium hot bath, Frigidarium cold bath, Tepidarium warm bath, Balneum jets bath, a Vaporium steam bath with aromatherapy and a Flotarium salt bath; massages and rituals can be added. Open Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM, Friday 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM and weekends 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM.
Banya No.1 Chiswick
Banya No.1 Chiswick brings the Russian banya to Chiswick High Road in west London. Its authentic steam room is kept at around 70 °C with 40 to 60 percent humidity and is paired with an icy cold plunge pool, the signature parenie treatment with leafy birch bundles, massages and body scrubs, and lounges serving Eastern European food and herbal teas. Sessions start from £35 for 90 minutes or £55 for a three-hour build-your-own visit; open every day 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM.
Banya No.1 Hoxton
Banya No.1 in Hoxton is London's first Russian banya, on Micawber Street near Old Street. Its high-humidity parnaya steam sauna is paired with an icy cold plunge pool and cold bucket showers, and the signature parenie treatment uses bundles of birch, oak and eucalyptus twigs. Public sauna and plunge sessions of 90 minutes start from £35, packages with parenie from £85, and the private Taiga spa suite takes groups of up to ten. Open daily 9:30 AM to 10:30 PM.
Community Sauna Baths Hackney Wick
Community Sauna Baths' flagship not-for-profit site sits in the car park of Eastway Baths in Hackney Wick. Opened in 2021, it now welcomes around 11,000 visitors a month to six wood-fired saunas and one electric sauna, with cold plunges ranging from 3 to 15 °C, classes, treatments and private hire. Weekday sessions cost £11 for an hour at peak times or £11.60 for 90 minutes off-peak, and the site is open daily until 9:30 PM.
Porchester Spa
Porchester Spa in the Grade II* listed Porchester Centre on Queensway in Bayswater opened in 1929 and is London's oldest spa; an £800,000 restoration recreated its 1920s character. It has two steam rooms, three Turkish bath hot rooms (Tepidarium, Caldarium and Laconium), a sauna, a cold plunge pool and a relaxation lounge, for over-18s only. Days alternate between men-only, women-only and a mixed Sunday; adult entry is £31.95, open 10:00 AM to 9:30 PM weekdays and to 8:00 PM at weekends.
Spa Experience Old Street at Ironmonger Row Baths
Spa Experience Old Street occupies one of London's oldest Turkish baths, the 1930s Ironmonger Row Baths on Norman Street in Islington, run by the social enterprise GLL. The restored thermal spa has saunas, aroma steam rooms, Turkish bath hot rooms (Tepidarium, Caldarium and Laconium), ice fountains, monsoon and bucket showers, a plunge pool, a hammam and a relaxation lounge, plus hammam rituals. Open Monday 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM, Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 AM and weekends 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
The Bath House Banya London
The Bath House is a Slavic banya and plunge spa in a former bank at 1 Grosvenor Gardens in Belgravia, behind Buckingham Palace. Its oak-lined banya is paired with an icy plunge pool, and the parenie leaf ritual with birch and oak bundles is the centrepiece of the Classic and Premium packages. A two-hour Just Banya session costs £75 including a table in the lounge, and the private banya can be hired for groups of up to eight. Open Monday to Saturday 10:00 AM to 11:00 PM and Sunday to 10:00 PM.