Best Saunas in Melbourne, Australia
Comma
Comma's Cremorne bath house is communal and unisex but deliberately tiny: only four people are welcomed into the space per session. The Like the Finns Do package moves between a magnesium hot tub, a traditional Finnish sauna and a cold pail shower, while The Way of Light adds exclusive access to an infrared sauna. Swimwear stays on throughout. Sessions run about $75 to $90, and treatments are offered alongside.
EQ Wellbeing
EQ occupies level five of The Eighth in South Melbourne and is built around a bathhouse holding a hot mineral spa, a traditional Finnish sauna, an aromatherapy steam room and a five-degree cold plunge, with a light-and-sound dome and breathwork studio alongside. The whole space is phone-free. Self-guided bathhouse visits run 60 or 90 minutes from $59, and the fully guided three-hour Signature Journey starts at $150.
Gravity Float & Wellness
Gravity on High Street in Northcote calls itself Victoria's first and largest float centre, with over ten years behind it and more than 75,000 sessions logged. Alongside the float tanks it runs a private far-infrared sauna room held between 38°C and 58°C, and contrast therapy that alternates a traditional sauna with an ice bath in guided intervals. Massage, red light and PEMF therapy sit alongside, and it is a registered NDIS provider.
Inner Studio Collingwood
Inner Studio's original site is a leafy warehouse in the Collingwood backstreets, built around hot and cold exposure with guided breathwork and yoga alongside. The sauna is held between 80°C and 85°C, the magnesium plunge pool sits at 38°C and the cold plunge pools at 5°C. A one-hour non-guided sauna and cold plunge drop-in is $47, and classes without the water are $30.
My Recovery Lounge
A private wellness studio on Bay Street in Port Melbourne running 60-minute sauna and ice bath sessions. The traditional sauna pours water over heated stones and runs between 70°C and 90°C, and two ice baths are kept at 2 to 3°C for the experienced and 8 to 12°C for beginners. An infrared sauna, an outdoor bamboo-framed shower, myotherapy and remedial massage sit alongside, and the saunas take groups of up to ten.
Nimbus Co Fitzroy North
Nimbus Co's Fitzroy North studio on Nicholson Street offers infrared and traditional sauna sessions with ice baths in private rooms, booked by the slot rather than as open bathhouse entry. It runs Monday to Friday from 9am to 9pm and 9am to 8pm at weekends, and sessions across the Melbourne studios cost roughly $55 to $79.
Project Mood
Project Mood is a Southbank bath house on Coventry Street holding a dry sauna, a steam room, a magnesium hot pool and a cold plunge. Bathing is swimwear only, and the house asks guests not to arrive in gym clothes worn earlier in the day. An introductory offer of two sessions for $50 is the usual way in, with memberships available after that.
Sauna Boat Melbourne
A timber-lined sauna afloat in Victoria Harbour at the Melbourne City Marina in Docklands, heated to around 80°C with two ice baths on deck: one at 10°C straight from Tasmanian waters and one at 14°C kept at Victorian water temperatures. Sessions last 60 minutes, with up to five guests in a private booking and four in a shared one, and run all day Saturday and Sunday from 7am to 7pm. Swimwear is required.
Soak Bathhouse South Yarra
Soak sits behind Chapel Street in the Alfasi development in South Yarra, designed by Carr Architects. Bathers move between two mineral pools at 34°C and 38°C, dry cedar saunas, a steam room scented with essential oils and a cold plunge held at 12.5°C, all set among leafy planting. It opens from 6:30am daily. Bathing packages start at $39.95, and a private infrared sauna for up to two people is $49.95.
Sona Rooms
A small recovery studio on the ground floor of a Clifton Street building in Prahran, Sona Rooms runs an infrared sauna alongside a contrast therapy room that combines a traditional sauna with a cold plunge. Red light therapy and an oxygen AirPod round out the menu. Casual infrared sessions start at $30 and contrast therapy from $36 on a weekday concession.
SÓL Saunas
Tucked into a Prahran side street, SÓL is a social sauna and plunge house that opened late in 2025. It holds two traditional saunas side by side, kept between 75°C and 85°C, five individual stainless steel cold plunge pools at 7°C to 10°C, a rest area and five private change rooms. Entry is 18 and over. A three-session introductory pack is $75 and founders memberships start at $39 a week.
Sóma Bathhouse
Sóma in Essendon builds its visit around what it calls the holy trio of sauna, plunge and soak. The communal space holds a four-person infrared sauna, two cold plunges and a hot mineral spa set to 39°C, while the private rooms each have their own shower, a two-person sauna and a cold plunge. It is a bathers-on bathhouse, and the introductory offer at $95 covers one communal and one private session.
Arima Spa
A Japanese-inspired day spa and bathhouse tucked into Heffernan Lane in the Melbourne CBD, Arima holds hot mineral baths, a cold plunge, a Himalayan salt room and a relaxation lounge, with massage and body treatments alongside. It keeps unusually late hours, staying open until 2am every night. The steam room is temporarily closed for equipment maintenance and technical upgrades.
Sense of Self
A double storey converted brick warehouse on the Collingwood-Fitzroy border, Sense of Self runs two-hour communal bathing sessions around a large magnesium mineral pool at 38-40°C, a Finnish sauna, a cold plunge and a steamy Hammam with a self-led Scrub Station. All-gendered and phone-free, with no-talking quiet mornings from 6:30am to noon and capacity capped at 24. Bathing is $65 off peak, $75 on weekends and public holidays.
Chuan Spa at The Langham Melbourne
The Langham's Chuan Spa on Southgate Avenue in Southbank is built on traditional Chinese medicine principles and opens onto an indoor swimming pool overlooking the Melbourne skyline, with a jacuzzi, sauna and steam room alongside the treatment rooms. Facilities run 7am to 9pm on weekdays and 8am to 9pm at weekends, and day spa guests who book a treatment get complimentary access to all of them.
Brighton Baths Health Club
One of just two remaining sea baths in Victoria, Brighton Baths has stood on the bayside foreshore for more than 138 years. The waterfront health club wraps a steam room and ice bath around open-water swimming with the Icebergers, group classes, personal training and indoor and outdoor training areas. Entry is by membership, and the site also runs events and venue hire on the pier.
St Kilda Sea Baths
The historic bathing pavilion on St Kilda beach houses South Pacific Health Club, whose centrepiece is a 25 metre heated indoor seawater pool drawn straight from Port Phillip Bay, with a hydrotherapy spa, a unisex aromatherapy steam room and a full gym around it. It opens at 5am on weekdays and 7am at weekends, and sits directly on the Jacka Boulevard foreshore beside the pavilion's restaurants and watersports schools.
The Commons Health Club Cremorne
A Melbourne health club whose bathhouse sits beside the gym floor, holding a traditional sauna at 80°C, a steam room at 46°C, cold plunge pools between 5°C and 8°C, hot magnesium pools at 39°C, heated stone benches and a hydration station. It also runs signature group sauna and ice bath classes, a 20-minute sauna followed by a three to five minute group plunge. Access is by membership, from $129 a week with the bathhouse included.
Comma
Comma's Cremorne bath house is communal and unisex but deliberately tiny: only four people are welcomed into the space per session. The Like the Finns Do package moves between a magnesium hot tub, a traditional Finnish sauna and a cold pail shower, while The Way of Light adds exclusive access to an infrared sauna. Swimwear stays on throughout. Sessions run about $75 to $90, and treatments are offered alongside.
EQ Wellbeing
EQ occupies level five of The Eighth in South Melbourne and is built around a bathhouse holding a hot mineral spa, a traditional Finnish sauna, an aromatherapy steam room and a five-degree cold plunge, with a light-and-sound dome and breathwork studio alongside. The whole space is phone-free. Self-guided bathhouse visits run 60 or 90 minutes from $59, and the fully guided three-hour Signature Journey starts at $150.
Gravity Float & Wellness
Gravity on High Street in Northcote calls itself Victoria's first and largest float centre, with over ten years behind it and more than 75,000 sessions logged. Alongside the float tanks it runs a private far-infrared sauna room held between 38°C and 58°C, and contrast therapy that alternates a traditional sauna with an ice bath in guided intervals. Massage, red light and PEMF therapy sit alongside, and it is a registered NDIS provider.
Inner Studio Collingwood
Inner Studio's original site is a leafy warehouse in the Collingwood backstreets, built around hot and cold exposure with guided breathwork and yoga alongside. The sauna is held between 80°C and 85°C, the magnesium plunge pool sits at 38°C and the cold plunge pools at 5°C. A one-hour non-guided sauna and cold plunge drop-in is $47, and classes without the water are $30.
My Recovery Lounge
A private wellness studio on Bay Street in Port Melbourne running 60-minute sauna and ice bath sessions. The traditional sauna pours water over heated stones and runs between 70°C and 90°C, and two ice baths are kept at 2 to 3°C for the experienced and 8 to 12°C for beginners. An infrared sauna, an outdoor bamboo-framed shower, myotherapy and remedial massage sit alongside, and the saunas take groups of up to ten.
Nimbus Co Fitzroy North
Nimbus Co's Fitzroy North studio on Nicholson Street offers infrared and traditional sauna sessions with ice baths in private rooms, booked by the slot rather than as open bathhouse entry. It runs Monday to Friday from 9am to 9pm and 9am to 8pm at weekends, and sessions across the Melbourne studios cost roughly $55 to $79.
Project Mood
Project Mood is a Southbank bath house on Coventry Street holding a dry sauna, a steam room, a magnesium hot pool and a cold plunge. Bathing is swimwear only, and the house asks guests not to arrive in gym clothes worn earlier in the day. An introductory offer of two sessions for $50 is the usual way in, with memberships available after that.
Sauna Boat Melbourne
A timber-lined sauna afloat in Victoria Harbour at the Melbourne City Marina in Docklands, heated to around 80°C with two ice baths on deck: one at 10°C straight from Tasmanian waters and one at 14°C kept at Victorian water temperatures. Sessions last 60 minutes, with up to five guests in a private booking and four in a shared one, and run all day Saturday and Sunday from 7am to 7pm. Swimwear is required.
Soak Bathhouse South Yarra
Soak sits behind Chapel Street in the Alfasi development in South Yarra, designed by Carr Architects. Bathers move between two mineral pools at 34°C and 38°C, dry cedar saunas, a steam room scented with essential oils and a cold plunge held at 12.5°C, all set among leafy planting. It opens from 6:30am daily. Bathing packages start at $39.95, and a private infrared sauna for up to two people is $49.95.
Sona Rooms
A small recovery studio on the ground floor of a Clifton Street building in Prahran, Sona Rooms runs an infrared sauna alongside a contrast therapy room that combines a traditional sauna with a cold plunge. Red light therapy and an oxygen AirPod round out the menu. Casual infrared sessions start at $30 and contrast therapy from $36 on a weekday concession.
SÓL Saunas
Tucked into a Prahran side street, SÓL is a social sauna and plunge house that opened late in 2025. It holds two traditional saunas side by side, kept between 75°C and 85°C, five individual stainless steel cold plunge pools at 7°C to 10°C, a rest area and five private change rooms. Entry is 18 and over. A three-session introductory pack is $75 and founders memberships start at $39 a week.
Sóma Bathhouse
Sóma in Essendon builds its visit around what it calls the holy trio of sauna, plunge and soak. The communal space holds a four-person infrared sauna, two cold plunges and a hot mineral spa set to 39°C, while the private rooms each have their own shower, a two-person sauna and a cold plunge. It is a bathers-on bathhouse, and the introductory offer at $95 covers one communal and one private session.
Arima Spa
A Japanese-inspired day spa and bathhouse tucked into Heffernan Lane in the Melbourne CBD, Arima holds hot mineral baths, a cold plunge, a Himalayan salt room and a relaxation lounge, with massage and body treatments alongside. It keeps unusually late hours, staying open until 2am every night. The steam room is temporarily closed for equipment maintenance and technical upgrades.
Sense of Self
A double storey converted brick warehouse on the Collingwood-Fitzroy border, Sense of Self runs two-hour communal bathing sessions around a large magnesium mineral pool at 38-40°C, a Finnish sauna, a cold plunge and a steamy Hammam with a self-led Scrub Station. All-gendered and phone-free, with no-talking quiet mornings from 6:30am to noon and capacity capped at 24. Bathing is $65 off peak, $75 on weekends and public holidays.
Chuan Spa at The Langham Melbourne
The Langham's Chuan Spa on Southgate Avenue in Southbank is built on traditional Chinese medicine principles and opens onto an indoor swimming pool overlooking the Melbourne skyline, with a jacuzzi, sauna and steam room alongside the treatment rooms. Facilities run 7am to 9pm on weekdays and 8am to 9pm at weekends, and day spa guests who book a treatment get complimentary access to all of them.
Brighton Baths Health Club
One of just two remaining sea baths in Victoria, Brighton Baths has stood on the bayside foreshore for more than 138 years. The waterfront health club wraps a steam room and ice bath around open-water swimming with the Icebergers, group classes, personal training and indoor and outdoor training areas. Entry is by membership, and the site also runs events and venue hire on the pier.
St Kilda Sea Baths
The historic bathing pavilion on St Kilda beach houses South Pacific Health Club, whose centrepiece is a 25 metre heated indoor seawater pool drawn straight from Port Phillip Bay, with a hydrotherapy spa, a unisex aromatherapy steam room and a full gym around it. It opens at 5am on weekdays and 7am at weekends, and sits directly on the Jacka Boulevard foreshore beside the pavilion's restaurants and watersports schools.
The Commons Health Club Cremorne
A Melbourne health club whose bathhouse sits beside the gym floor, holding a traditional sauna at 80°C, a steam room at 46°C, cold plunge pools between 5°C and 8°C, hot magnesium pools at 39°C, heated stone benches and a hydration station. It also runs signature group sauna and ice bath classes, a 20-minute sauna followed by a three to five minute group plunge. Access is by membership, from $129 a week with the bathhouse included.