Best Saunas in Philadelphia, PA

The anchor of the city's sauna scene. The NYC-based bathhouse's first Philadelphia location, in the Bellevue on Walnut Street, runs three saunas (infrared, dry, and a banya), a steam room, and three temperature-controlled pools including a cold plunge — plus daily Aufguss sauna rituals, the guided steam-and-aroma ceremonies that are the hallmark of serious bathhouse culture. Day passes start at $29, which undercuts every other published price in our Philly data. If you're only doing one sauna visit in Philadelphia, this is the one.

Billed as Philly's first traditional sauna studio: appointment-only sessions in a dedicated sauna space in Northern Liberties, with open hours listed and Tuesdays closed. The only traditional-sauna-first studio in our Philadelphia data — not a locker-room afterthought. Book ahead; the appointment-only format means no walk-ins.

Northern Liberties' SweatHouz runs the classic private-suite format: 60 minutes alone with an infrared sauna, a cold plunge, and a vitamin C shower. Intro session $35, single session $80 — the same national pricing as its other cities. Best for people who want a self-guided hot-cold rotation with zero audience.

An independent infrared sauna and cold plunge studio in Manayunk offering hot-cold contrast sessions — a local alternative to the national chains, on Main Street rather than in a shopping district. Fewer frills in the data, but that's reflected in the indie-studio feel.

A recovery studio at City Fitness in Fishtown built around oxygen-infused infrared saunas and CRYOFUZION recovery pods with programmed contrast therapy and steam hydration — open since around August 2025. À la carte sessions start at $36, and the gym setting makes it a good post-workout recovery stop.

A Northern Liberties infrared studio with two state-of-the-art infrared saunas and chromotherapy, in 40-minute sessions with online booking. Simple and focused: if you know you want infrared and nothing else, the 40-minute format and online booking make it the lowest-friction pick.

The 100,000-square-foot luxury athletic club at the Bellevue has a steam room, sauna, and hot & cold plunge pools in its first-floor locker rooms — one of only a handful of Philly listings with both hot and cold plunge pools. It's a gym, so access means membership, but the locker-room recovery setup is the most complete of any athletic club in our data.