Best Saunas in Lyon, France
Löyly Spa
Löyly Spa is a Nordic sauna house on Boulevard des Belges in Lyon's 6th arrondissement. Each booking gives a group private use of a Finnish sauna cabin together with a cold bath, a shower area and a small relaxation lounge, and slots can be taken as women-only, men-only or mixed. Nordic-inspired treatments and oil massages are sold alongside the sauna. Solo sessions start at 72 EUR, duos at 120 EUR and groups at 50 EUR per person.
Massage & Sauna Fleur de Lys
Massage & Sauna Fleur de Lys is a small modelage studio on Route de Vienne in Lyon's 7th arrondissement, a short walk from the tram. The centre is equipped with a sauna and offers a wide choice of massages given by a practitioner trained in China, chosen according to what each guest needs on the day. It opens seven days a week from 9:30 AM to 8:30 PM.
Balicina
Balicina is a Balinese-styled bathhouse on Avenue Rockefeller in Lyon's 8th arrondissement, built around hot-water pools with a sauna, a hammam and treatment cabins alongside. It opens Monday to Saturday from 10:30 AM to 8 PM, with later Thursday evenings in winter, and Sunday and public holidays from 10:30 AM to 6 PM. A second Balicina runs in Bordeaux.
Calicéo Lyon
Calicéo is a balneotherapy centre at Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, with more than 500 m2 of indoor and outdoor pools held at 34 degrees all year and fitted with jacuzzis, bubble seats, geysers, jets and waterfalls. One entry covers the pools, the sauna and hammam areas and the aquagym classes. Staff run sauna rituals in which the air is fanned through the cabin and a scrub is given afterwards, and a cold bath waits for the bold. The baths open daily from 10 AM to 9 PM, until 10 PM on Thursdays.
Centre nautique intercommunal Lyon, Saint-Fons, Vénissieux
The intercommunal swimming centre shared by Lyon, Saint-Fons and Vénissieux keeps three spaces: a 50 m pool with a movable wall, a 174 m2 teaching pool and a paddling pool; a fitness space; and a wellness space with massage jets, a sauna and a hammam. The wooden sauna cabin reaches up to 90 degrees. The sauna opens at weekends in one-hour slots, sold separately from the relaxation pool, which is included in a normal entry.
Hammam Cléopatra du Grand Lyon
Hammam Cléopatra fills 800 m2 on Cours Émile Zola in Villeurbanne, a step from the Cusset metro, and is decorated in the manner of an old harem. Its card is built around the hammam and sauna with body treatments: oriental scrubs and rituals, modelages, facials, slimming treatments, hand and foot rituals, waxing and hairdressing. It also runs training courses for therapists.
Le Petit Palais des Gratte-Ciel
Le Petit Palais des Gratte-Ciel is a traditional hammam in the middle of Villeurbanne, by the Gratte-Ciel metro. The steam room is run in the old manner with black soap, used to open the skin before a gommage scrub. Women can come Monday to Wednesday 10 AM to 8 PM, Thursday and Sunday until 6:30 PM and Friday and Saturday until 10 PM; men are admitted on Thursday and Sunday evenings from 7 PM to 10 PM only.
Les Cent Ciels
Les Cent Ciels is Lyon's largest hammam, 800 m2 of stone vaults on Rue Vaubecour in the 2nd arrondissement holding warm and hot steam rooms, saunas, pools and balneotherapy. Visits are sold as rituals, from the three-hour Rituel Initiation at 47 EUR to the Rituel Or at 210 EUR. The house normally opens daily from 10 AM to 10 PM, but is closed for refurbishment from 1 July until October 2026.
Luxury Spa
Luxury Spa is a discreet appointment-only hammam on Avenue Maréchal de Saxe in Lyon's 3rd arrondissement. Its rituals combine the steam room with a black-soap body scrub, and step up to a steam sauna, a fifteen-minute private jacuzzi, a Turkish foam massage with hot stones, or coffee-grounds and rhassoul treatments. Prices run from 36 EUR for the Rituel Luxury to 64 EUR, and the spa can be privatised for hen parties.
Spa des Canuts
Spa des Canuts occupies 800 m2 of relaxation space on Rue Deleuvre, below the Croix-Rousse slopes. Guests move between a hammam, a sauna and a jacuzzi, and the house adds traditional scrubs, relaxing and energising massages. Swimwear is required: a one- or two-piece costume or bathing shorts. Thursdays are reserved for women, and the venue can be privatised for hen and stag parties, birthdays and company events.
Mona Spa Lyon-Chassieu
Mona Spa sits inside the Best Western Plus Hôtel & Spa de Chassieu, east of Lyon, and spreads 600 m2 over an AquaZen water area with pool, hammam, sauna and jacuzzi, a fitness room, a tea room and five treatment cabins, two of them for couples. The water area opens every day from 10 AM to 9 PM by appointment; treatments run Monday to Thursday 11 AM to 8 PM and Friday to Sunday from 10 AM.
Spa Boscolo Lyon
The spa of the five-star Boscolo Lyon, on Quai Jules Courmont in the old Hôtel-Dieu quarter, is laid out as Roman thermae with a 10 by 4 metre pool heated to 30 degrees, a sauna and a hammam. The wellness area opens from 9 AM to 9 PM, the pool from 7 AM to 8 PM and the fitness room around the clock. Visitors who are not staying can buy two hours in the wellness area without a treatment for 50 EUR.
Spa Lyon Plage
Spa Lyon Plage, at the Lyon Métropole hotel on the Saône, calls itself the largest city spa in France with 8,000 m2 of wellness and fitness. It holds a 25 m indoor pool with a hot tub, a seasonal Olympic outdoor pool, a 200 m2 grotto basin, sauna cabins, a hammam, a sanarium and an ice fountain for cooling. Spa days for visitors start at 95 EUR per person and run to 450 EUR for two.
Terra Vita Wellness & Spa
Terra Vita Wellness & Spa is the spa of the DoubleTree by Hilton at Saint-Priest, fifteen minutes from central Lyon, decorated in terracotta tones. Its wellness area holds a hydromassage pool at 34 degrees, a hammam and a sauna, with a quiet resting room beside them, and treatments use the Sothys Organics range. Sessions can be taken as a daily break or a half-day.
Wellness Sport Club Lyon 3 Vendôme
Wellness Sport Club Lyon 3 Vendôme is a large fitness club on Rue Vendôme with cardio and cross-training floors, a weights room, two studios for classes, a cycling studio, a swimming pool, and a wellness zone with a hammam and a sauna. It opens Monday to Friday from 7 AM to 10 PM, Saturday from 8 AM to 8 PM and Sunday from 8 AM to 5 PM. Access is by club membership.
Wellness Sport Club Villeurbanne Gratte-Ciel
Wellness Sport Club Villeurbanne Gratte-Ciel stands on Rue Paul Verlaine by the Verlaine-Tolstoï tram stop and the Gratte-Ciel metro. Like the other clubs in the group it pairs cardio, weights and class studios with an aquatic space and a wellness area holding a hammam and a sauna. It opens Monday to Friday from 7 AM to 10 PM, Saturday from 8 AM to 8 PM and Sunday from 8 AM to 5 PM, on membership.
Löyly Spa
Löyly Spa is a Nordic sauna house on Boulevard des Belges in Lyon's 6th arrondissement. Each booking gives a group private use of a Finnish sauna cabin together with a cold bath, a shower area and a small relaxation lounge, and slots can be taken as women-only, men-only or mixed. Nordic-inspired treatments and oil massages are sold alongside the sauna. Solo sessions start at 72 EUR, duos at 120 EUR and groups at 50 EUR per person.
Massage & Sauna Fleur de Lys
Massage & Sauna Fleur de Lys is a small modelage studio on Route de Vienne in Lyon's 7th arrondissement, a short walk from the tram. The centre is equipped with a sauna and offers a wide choice of massages given by a practitioner trained in China, chosen according to what each guest needs on the day. It opens seven days a week from 9:30 AM to 8:30 PM.
Balicina
Balicina is a Balinese-styled bathhouse on Avenue Rockefeller in Lyon's 8th arrondissement, built around hot-water pools with a sauna, a hammam and treatment cabins alongside. It opens Monday to Saturday from 10:30 AM to 8 PM, with later Thursday evenings in winter, and Sunday and public holidays from 10:30 AM to 6 PM. A second Balicina runs in Bordeaux.
Calicéo Lyon
Calicéo is a balneotherapy centre at Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, with more than 500 m2 of indoor and outdoor pools held at 34 degrees all year and fitted with jacuzzis, bubble seats, geysers, jets and waterfalls. One entry covers the pools, the sauna and hammam areas and the aquagym classes. Staff run sauna rituals in which the air is fanned through the cabin and a scrub is given afterwards, and a cold bath waits for the bold. The baths open daily from 10 AM to 9 PM, until 10 PM on Thursdays.
Centre nautique intercommunal Lyon, Saint-Fons, Vénissieux
The intercommunal swimming centre shared by Lyon, Saint-Fons and Vénissieux keeps three spaces: a 50 m pool with a movable wall, a 174 m2 teaching pool and a paddling pool; a fitness space; and a wellness space with massage jets, a sauna and a hammam. The wooden sauna cabin reaches up to 90 degrees. The sauna opens at weekends in one-hour slots, sold separately from the relaxation pool, which is included in a normal entry.
Hammam Cléopatra du Grand Lyon
Hammam Cléopatra fills 800 m2 on Cours Émile Zola in Villeurbanne, a step from the Cusset metro, and is decorated in the manner of an old harem. Its card is built around the hammam and sauna with body treatments: oriental scrubs and rituals, modelages, facials, slimming treatments, hand and foot rituals, waxing and hairdressing. It also runs training courses for therapists.
Le Petit Palais des Gratte-Ciel
Le Petit Palais des Gratte-Ciel is a traditional hammam in the middle of Villeurbanne, by the Gratte-Ciel metro. The steam room is run in the old manner with black soap, used to open the skin before a gommage scrub. Women can come Monday to Wednesday 10 AM to 8 PM, Thursday and Sunday until 6:30 PM and Friday and Saturday until 10 PM; men are admitted on Thursday and Sunday evenings from 7 PM to 10 PM only.
Les Cent Ciels
Les Cent Ciels is Lyon's largest hammam, 800 m2 of stone vaults on Rue Vaubecour in the 2nd arrondissement holding warm and hot steam rooms, saunas, pools and balneotherapy. Visits are sold as rituals, from the three-hour Rituel Initiation at 47 EUR to the Rituel Or at 210 EUR. The house normally opens daily from 10 AM to 10 PM, but is closed for refurbishment from 1 July until October 2026.
Luxury Spa
Luxury Spa is a discreet appointment-only hammam on Avenue Maréchal de Saxe in Lyon's 3rd arrondissement. Its rituals combine the steam room with a black-soap body scrub, and step up to a steam sauna, a fifteen-minute private jacuzzi, a Turkish foam massage with hot stones, or coffee-grounds and rhassoul treatments. Prices run from 36 EUR for the Rituel Luxury to 64 EUR, and the spa can be privatised for hen parties.
Spa des Canuts
Spa des Canuts occupies 800 m2 of relaxation space on Rue Deleuvre, below the Croix-Rousse slopes. Guests move between a hammam, a sauna and a jacuzzi, and the house adds traditional scrubs, relaxing and energising massages. Swimwear is required: a one- or two-piece costume or bathing shorts. Thursdays are reserved for women, and the venue can be privatised for hen and stag parties, birthdays and company events.
Mona Spa Lyon-Chassieu
Mona Spa sits inside the Best Western Plus Hôtel & Spa de Chassieu, east of Lyon, and spreads 600 m2 over an AquaZen water area with pool, hammam, sauna and jacuzzi, a fitness room, a tea room and five treatment cabins, two of them for couples. The water area opens every day from 10 AM to 9 PM by appointment; treatments run Monday to Thursday 11 AM to 8 PM and Friday to Sunday from 10 AM.
Spa Boscolo Lyon
The spa of the five-star Boscolo Lyon, on Quai Jules Courmont in the old Hôtel-Dieu quarter, is laid out as Roman thermae with a 10 by 4 metre pool heated to 30 degrees, a sauna and a hammam. The wellness area opens from 9 AM to 9 PM, the pool from 7 AM to 8 PM and the fitness room around the clock. Visitors who are not staying can buy two hours in the wellness area without a treatment for 50 EUR.
Spa Lyon Plage
Spa Lyon Plage, at the Lyon Métropole hotel on the Saône, calls itself the largest city spa in France with 8,000 m2 of wellness and fitness. It holds a 25 m indoor pool with a hot tub, a seasonal Olympic outdoor pool, a 200 m2 grotto basin, sauna cabins, a hammam, a sanarium and an ice fountain for cooling. Spa days for visitors start at 95 EUR per person and run to 450 EUR for two.
Terra Vita Wellness & Spa
Terra Vita Wellness & Spa is the spa of the DoubleTree by Hilton at Saint-Priest, fifteen minutes from central Lyon, decorated in terracotta tones. Its wellness area holds a hydromassage pool at 34 degrees, a hammam and a sauna, with a quiet resting room beside them, and treatments use the Sothys Organics range. Sessions can be taken as a daily break or a half-day.
Wellness Sport Club Lyon 3 Vendôme
Wellness Sport Club Lyon 3 Vendôme is a large fitness club on Rue Vendôme with cardio and cross-training floors, a weights room, two studios for classes, a cycling studio, a swimming pool, and a wellness zone with a hammam and a sauna. It opens Monday to Friday from 7 AM to 10 PM, Saturday from 8 AM to 8 PM and Sunday from 8 AM to 5 PM. Access is by club membership.
Wellness Sport Club Villeurbanne Gratte-Ciel
Wellness Sport Club Villeurbanne Gratte-Ciel stands on Rue Paul Verlaine by the Verlaine-Tolstoï tram stop and the Gratte-Ciel metro. Like the other clubs in the group it pairs cardio, weights and class studios with an aquatic space and a wellness area holding a hammam and a sauna. It opens Monday to Friday from 7 AM to 10 PM, Saturday from 8 AM to 8 PM and Sunday from 8 AM to 5 PM, on membership.