Best Saunas in Nuremberg, Germany
Bibert Bad Zirndorf
Bibert Bad is the indoor and outdoor pool of Zirndorf, a town on Nuremberg's western edge, with a sauna area holding a 95 °C Finnish sauna, a 90 °C panorama sauna for Aufguss with changing scents, an 80 °C kelo sauna, a 60 °C saunarium, a steam bath, infrared seats and a dry-salt micro-salt room. Thursdays are women only. The sauna opens 10 am to 10:30 pm Monday to Saturday and to 9 pm on Sundays; two hours with the pool cost €18, a day ticket €27.
Fürthermare
Fürthermare is a leisure pool, thermal bath and Mallorca-themed sauna landscape in neighbouring Fürth, about 7 km from central Nuremberg. It has eleven saunas and steam baths, from meditative to event Aufguss with light and sound, a Mediterranean sauna garden with a panorama sauna and salt sauna, a cold pool and plunge pool, and a rest house with water beds. The sauna area is textile-free. It opens daily 10 am to 11 pm; a weekend four-hour sauna ticket costs €31, a day ticket €38.
Kristall Palm Beach
Kristall Palm Beach is a leisure pool, thermal bath and sauna world in Stein on Nuremberg's south-western edge. Its textile-free sauna area has more than a dozen themed saunas from 45 to 100 °C, including a crystal show-Aufguss sauna, a banya, a gondola sauna 12 m up, herb and Himalayan salt saunas, a women's sauna, an Ottoman hammam, a 12 % brine floating pool, a glacier plunge and a thermal-water lake. Two hours with sauna cost €29.50; it opens 9 am to 10 pm, Fridays and Saturdays to midnight.
Langwasserbad
Langwasserbad is a municipal NürnbergBad indoor pool in the south-east of Nuremberg with an indoor and outdoor sauna area: a 32-seat Aufguss sauna, a 28-seat mild sauna and a steam bath inside, and a 25-seat garden sauna and salt room outside, plus Kneipp, cold plunge and a sauna garden. The sauna is textile-free and Thursdays are women only. It opens daily from 10 am to 10 pm; two hours cost €16.80 and a day ticket €22.10.
Südstadtbad
Südstadtbad is a municipal NürnbergBad indoor pool whose sauna area, about 1,000 m², the city calls Nuremberg's largest. Around a 31 °C warm pool sit a 90 °C Finnish sauna, a fire sauna with Aufguss sessions, a garden panorama sauna, a 75–80 °C sanarium, an infrared cabin and a steam bath, with an ice fountain and cold plunge. The sauna is textile-free and Mondays are women only. Two hours cost €16.80, a day ticket €22.10.
Katzwangbad
Katzwangbad is a small municipal NürnbergBad indoor pool in Nuremberg's southern Katzwang district whose sauna the city describes as a Nordic-style insider tip: two Swedish-style wooden cabins, one with a panoramic view, rest rooms with a wood stove and a salt wall, and 230 m² of wooden decks. Cooling is outdoors with Kneipp and plunge pools. Aufguss sessions run hourly from mid-September to mid-April. The sauna is closed on Mondays; a sauna ticket costs €16.80.
cityaktiv Erlangen
cityaktiv Erlangen is a fitness and wellness club in the west of Erlangen, the university city north of Nuremberg, with a sauna area for members: two Finnish saunas above 90 °C, one indoors and one of Swiss stone pine in the garden, an indoor bio sauna, an infrared cabin, a steam grotto, an ice fountain and a landscaped sauna garden. Aufguss sessions run morning and evening. The sauna opens 10 am to 10:45 pm on weekdays and 9 am to 8:45 pm at weekends and on holidays.
cityaktiv Schwabach
cityaktiv Schwabach is a fitness and wellness club in Schwabach, the town just south of Nuremberg, with a sauna area for members: a 90 °C Finnish sauna in alpine-hut style, a 60 °C bio sauna, a steam grotto and a sauna garden for cooling off in the fresh air. Sauna masters run a weekly Aufguss plan posted on site. The sauna opens 9:30 am to 10:45 pm on weekdays and 9:30 am to 8:45 pm at weekends.
Fair Fitness Nürnberg
Fair Fitness Nürnberg is a gym on Kilianstraße in Nuremberg's north, part of a small regional chain, with cardio and strength training, TRX functional training, a separate women's area, boxing, rehab sport, a solarium and a sauna for members, plus free parking. It opens 6 am to 11 pm on weekdays and 7 am to 11 pm at weekends. Access is by membership, with a free trial session.
Fitness First Fürth
Fitness First Fürth is a branch of the Fitness First gym chain on the Fürther Freiheit square in central Fürth, the city bordering Nuremberg to the west, with training areas and a wellness area with sauna for members. It opens daily from 6 am to midnight. Access is by membership; the club offers trial sessions for prospective members.
Bibert Bad Zirndorf
Bibert Bad is the indoor and outdoor pool of Zirndorf, a town on Nuremberg's western edge, with a sauna area holding a 95 °C Finnish sauna, a 90 °C panorama sauna for Aufguss with changing scents, an 80 °C kelo sauna, a 60 °C saunarium, a steam bath, infrared seats and a dry-salt micro-salt room. Thursdays are women only. The sauna opens 10 am to 10:30 pm Monday to Saturday and to 9 pm on Sundays; two hours with the pool cost €18, a day ticket €27.
Fürthermare
Fürthermare is a leisure pool, thermal bath and Mallorca-themed sauna landscape in neighbouring Fürth, about 7 km from central Nuremberg. It has eleven saunas and steam baths, from meditative to event Aufguss with light and sound, a Mediterranean sauna garden with a panorama sauna and salt sauna, a cold pool and plunge pool, and a rest house with water beds. The sauna area is textile-free. It opens daily 10 am to 11 pm; a weekend four-hour sauna ticket costs €31, a day ticket €38.
Kristall Palm Beach
Kristall Palm Beach is a leisure pool, thermal bath and sauna world in Stein on Nuremberg's south-western edge. Its textile-free sauna area has more than a dozen themed saunas from 45 to 100 °C, including a crystal show-Aufguss sauna, a banya, a gondola sauna 12 m up, herb and Himalayan salt saunas, a women's sauna, an Ottoman hammam, a 12 % brine floating pool, a glacier plunge and a thermal-water lake. Two hours with sauna cost €29.50; it opens 9 am to 10 pm, Fridays and Saturdays to midnight.
Langwasserbad
Langwasserbad is a municipal NürnbergBad indoor pool in the south-east of Nuremberg with an indoor and outdoor sauna area: a 32-seat Aufguss sauna, a 28-seat mild sauna and a steam bath inside, and a 25-seat garden sauna and salt room outside, plus Kneipp, cold plunge and a sauna garden. The sauna is textile-free and Thursdays are women only. It opens daily from 10 am to 10 pm; two hours cost €16.80 and a day ticket €22.10.
Südstadtbad
Südstadtbad is a municipal NürnbergBad indoor pool whose sauna area, about 1,000 m², the city calls Nuremberg's largest. Around a 31 °C warm pool sit a 90 °C Finnish sauna, a fire sauna with Aufguss sessions, a garden panorama sauna, a 75–80 °C sanarium, an infrared cabin and a steam bath, with an ice fountain and cold plunge. The sauna is textile-free and Mondays are women only. Two hours cost €16.80, a day ticket €22.10.
Katzwangbad
Katzwangbad is a small municipal NürnbergBad indoor pool in Nuremberg's southern Katzwang district whose sauna the city describes as a Nordic-style insider tip: two Swedish-style wooden cabins, one with a panoramic view, rest rooms with a wood stove and a salt wall, and 230 m² of wooden decks. Cooling is outdoors with Kneipp and plunge pools. Aufguss sessions run hourly from mid-September to mid-April. The sauna is closed on Mondays; a sauna ticket costs €16.80.
cityaktiv Erlangen
cityaktiv Erlangen is a fitness and wellness club in the west of Erlangen, the university city north of Nuremberg, with a sauna area for members: two Finnish saunas above 90 °C, one indoors and one of Swiss stone pine in the garden, an indoor bio sauna, an infrared cabin, a steam grotto, an ice fountain and a landscaped sauna garden. Aufguss sessions run morning and evening. The sauna opens 10 am to 10:45 pm on weekdays and 9 am to 8:45 pm at weekends and on holidays.
cityaktiv Schwabach
cityaktiv Schwabach is a fitness and wellness club in Schwabach, the town just south of Nuremberg, with a sauna area for members: a 90 °C Finnish sauna in alpine-hut style, a 60 °C bio sauna, a steam grotto and a sauna garden for cooling off in the fresh air. Sauna masters run a weekly Aufguss plan posted on site. The sauna opens 9:30 am to 10:45 pm on weekdays and 9:30 am to 8:45 pm at weekends.
Fair Fitness Nürnberg
Fair Fitness Nürnberg is a gym on Kilianstraße in Nuremberg's north, part of a small regional chain, with cardio and strength training, TRX functional training, a separate women's area, boxing, rehab sport, a solarium and a sauna for members, plus free parking. It opens 6 am to 11 pm on weekdays and 7 am to 11 pm at weekends. Access is by membership, with a free trial session.
Fitness First Fürth
Fitness First Fürth is a branch of the Fitness First gym chain on the Fürther Freiheit square in central Fürth, the city bordering Nuremberg to the west, with training areas and a wellness area with sauna for members. It opens daily from 6 am to midnight. Access is by membership; the club offers trial sessions for prospective members.