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Traditional dry heat at 70 to 100°C, from spa suites to social saunas. Edinburgh mixes old-fashioned bathing with a newer, outdoor wellness culture.
One centre currently offers sauna in Edinburgh, verified by our team. Listed prices run from £18 to £25, with an hour typically around £18. Visits are priced for 60 minutes or 90 minutes. It welcomes guests on its own premises. It is in Leith.
A traditional Finnish sauna is a wood-lined room heated to between 70 and 100°C with low humidity, where water ladled onto hot stones produces bursts of steam known as löyly. The usual rhythm is a session of 10 to 15 minutes, a cool-down in a shower or plunge pool, a rest, and two or three rounds in total. Regular sauna bathing is associated in Finnish studies with better cardiovascular health and many people find it helps them sleep and unwind.
In the UK, saunas come in two very different settings. Spas and gyms include one in the thermal suite, often alongside a steam room. The fast-growing social sauna movement — on beaches, riverbanks and harbours from Brighton to Edinburgh — runs larger saunas with timed sessions, cold plunges or sea dips and a communal atmosphere, sometimes with Aufguss ceremonies where a sauna master circulates aromatic heat with a towel.
A social sauna session of 60 to 90 minutes typically costs £12 to £25, with memberships and off-peak rates lower. Avoid sauna after alcohol, during a fever or in pregnancy unless your doctor agrees, and speak to your GP first if you have heart problems or uncontrolled blood pressure. Drink water before and after.
Read the full guide to sauna — what it involves, who it suits and what it costs. Also known as Finnish sauna, social sauna and sauna session.
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.
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Listed prices run from £18 to £25, depending on the length of the visit and what is included. An hour typically costs around £18.
Not at the moment. The one centre offering sauna in Edinburgh welcomes guests on their own premises only.
The one centre here is in Leith.
