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Two to three minutes in a chamber cooled to around −110°C. Edinburgh mixes old-fashioned bathing with a newer, outdoor wellness culture.
One centre currently offers cryotherapy in Edinburgh, verified by our team. Listed prices run from £45 to £80, with an hour typically around £60. Visits are priced for 30 minutes, 60 minutes or 90 minutes. It welcomes guests on its own premises. It is in New Town. Besides English, the team also speaks Dutch.
Whole-body cryotherapy exposes the body to extremely cold, dry air for a very short time, usually two to three minutes. In an electric cryo chamber the air is cooled to around −85 to −110°C; some venues use nitrogen-cooled cryo saunas where the head stays outside. Clients wear shorts or swimwear plus gloves, socks, ear protection and a face mask, and a trained operator watches throughout.
It became popular through professional sport, where it is used to reduce muscle soreness after hard training, and many clients say they feel energised afterwards. Evidence for recovery benefits is limited and mixed, and claims about weight loss, skin or chronic disease are not supported; treat it as an intense cold experience rather than a medical treatment. Localised cryotherapy, applied to one joint, is a separate service.
A single session costs about £30 to £60, with packs for regular users. Reputable centres carry out a health screening first: cryotherapy is not suitable for people with uncontrolled high blood pressure, heart or circulatory problems, Raynaud's, cold allergy or pregnancy, and it must never be used with damp skin or clothing.
Read the full guide to cryotherapy — what it involves, who it suits and what it costs. Also known as whole body cryotherapy, cryo chamber and cryo sauna.
New Town holds the established day spas and the Georgian-terrace clinics, where facials, acupuncture and reflexology are booked by people who have been going to the same practitioner for years. The Old Town's hotels have the city's largest thermal suites, used mainly by visitors. Leith and the waterfront have the newer arrivals: social saunas facing the Firth of Forth, cold-water dipping groups and yoga studios in converted warehouses.
More on spas and wellness in Edinburgh as a whole — areas, pricing and how booking works locally.
For cryotherapy specifically, the centres listed here are in New Town . You can also browse everything in Edinburgh .
Listed prices run from £45 to £80, depending on the length of the visit and what is included. An hour typically costs around £60.
Not at the moment. The one centre offering cryotherapy in Edinburgh welcomes guests on their own premises only.
The one centre here is in New Town.
