Best Saunas in Vancouver, Canada
AetherHaus
A West End bathhouse on Davie Street built around European sauna tradition, blending Slavic and Nordic practice with modern West Coast design. The heat comes from a Himalayan salt sauna, and guides run Aufguss rituals in which scented steam is waved through the room with towels, music and breathwork. Group cold plunge pools are set at two temperature ranges. Sessions run about ninety minutes as free-flow Open Haus, semi-guided Haus Sessions, or private bookings. Phones stay in lockers.
Circle Wellness Granville Island
A private, self-guided thermal spa on Granville Island booked for a maximum of two people at a time. The circuit runs through an open-air shower, a cedar soaking tub, the WellPod — a sauna with Himalayan salt walls held around 50°C with choreographed music, lighting and airflow — a step-down cold plunge, and a heated riverstone bed. Sessions are 90 or 120 minutes at $225 to $295 plus tax, available seven days a week from early morning to late evening. The circuit is clothing-optional.
Float House Gastown
Float House on West Cordova in Gastown began as a sensory-deprivation float centre and now also runs private contrast rooms, each with its own premium infrared sauna and a cold plunge kept between 3 and 10°C, the range the studio calls optimal for muscle recovery. A 60-minute drop-in is $75, with a $45 monthly reset option on a three-month minimum. Open 10am to 10pm most days, from 3pm on Fridays. Float tanks are booked separately.
Kolm Kontrast
A Nordic-style contrast spa at Cambie and 8th, built around one social sauna with seating for fifty at 82–90°C, ice baths held between 0 and 4°C, and a tea lounge. Guides run aromatherapy with infused snowballs and towel-waving, and the schedule splits into guided classes, self-guided sessions and lower-lit After Hours evenings. It is an 18+, phone-free, barefoot space, and clothing is required: guests wear swimwear or wellness attire they can get wet in. Sessions run 75, 90 or 120 minutes.
Ritual Urban Retreat
A wellness studio on Denman Street in the West End that pairs yoga, pilates, breathwork and sound journeys with a hot-and-cold circuit. The cedar sauna comfortably holds up to eight guests and opens onto an outdoor terrace with the cold plunge, and sessions can be booked on their own or added after a class. Memberships cover the studio's full range including the hot and cold therapy. Treatments on offer include Brazilian lymphatic bodywork, reiki and counselling.
Tality Wellness Kitsilano
Tality's West Broadway location in Kitsilano runs a thirty-person traditional sauna at 85–90°C against a custom cold plunge held between 3 and 11°C, with indoor and outdoor lounges, private showers and change rooms, and unlimited kombucha and tea on tap. Drop-in community sessions are self-guided and shared, and private bookings are available. Open 8am to 10pm Sunday through Thursday and until 11pm on Friday and Saturday. Guests are told to bring a bathing suit.
The Finnish Sauna Co. Jericho Beach
The Finnish Sauna Co. parks a wood-fired sauna at Jericho Beach on Vancouver's west side, the company's only spot inside the city; its other saunas sit at Cheekye Ranch in Squamish and on the oceanfront at Parksville. Social sessions at Jericho are CA$36 a person and the sauna is seasonal — the operator's booking page says it returns in October — so anyone planning a summer visit should check first. The company also builds custom saunas and rents mobile trailer and tent saunas for events.
The Good Sauna
An outdoor wood-fired sauna and cold plunge set up on the patio at Container Brewing in Strathcona. Sessions are booked as a community drop-in at $45 for one hour forty-five minutes, or privately for a group of up to twelve at $450, with extra guests at $35 a head up to twenty. The suggested cycle is a five to ten second cold plunge, five to fifteen minutes in the sauna, then rest by the fire. Guests bring a swim suit, slides and warm layers; one towel is provided.
Art of Sauna
A multi-room thermal complex on 6th Street in Burnaby where one $52.50 admission opens all eight rooms: a Finnish dry sauna, a traditional sauna, a dry aroma sauna, Roman, aroma and eucalyptus steam rooms, and a Himalayan salt room, with a cool-down zone between rounds. Staff also perform Russian banya parenie and Turkish hammam rituals, and massage and spa treatments are booked separately. Bathing suits are mandatory in the saunas and the venue is 16 and over. Closed Wednesdays.
Hastings Reflexology & Sauna
A public bath house on East Hastings operating since 1926, now run as eight private sauna suites rather than a shared floor. The rooms cover three high-heat saunas, three steam saunas and two hybrid infrared cabins, two of them couples' rooms and most holding up to four guests, each with its own private shower. Sessions are suggested at fifty minutes and can be paired with reflexology or body massage. Open Thursday to Monday 11am to 11pm, Wednesday from noon, closed Tuesday.
HÄLSA Spa
A Kitsilano spa on West 4th built around deep rest, combining float therapy, massage and two private infrared saunas, one cedar and one hemlock. A sauna session is $62 for 60 minutes, with an extra 10 to 15 minutes for showers before and after in your own private suite, where a cold shower stands in for the plunge. Guests linger afterwards in a sunlit upstairs mezzanine with tea. Acupuncture, reflexology and facials are also on the menu. Open daily, from 10am most days.
Miraj Hammam Spa
Canada's first hammam, open in Vancouver's Fairview since November 2000 and booked privately for one client at a time. The signature Hammam and Gommage is $135, or $185 with a body rhassoul mud mask, and massage or facial packages run from $235. Every treatment includes a sarong, robe, towel and slippers; the gommage is traditionally performed without clothing, though a swimsuit may be worn. Open 9am to 9pm Friday to Sunday, 10am to 7pm midweek.
Fairmont Spa at Fairmont Pacific Rim
The spa inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim on Canada Place runs a Himalayan salt sauna, a steam room, a mineral bath and a jacuzzi alongside a Wellness Club open 24 hours. On the sixth-floor pool deck sits The Nordic Spa, a self-guided outdoor circuit of hot tub, cold plunge baths and cedar plank sauna open to hotel guests at $40; it is currently closed for the season, so check before travelling. Non-guests can buy a 90-minute day pass at $109 Monday to Thursday; hotel guests pay $99.
AetherHaus
A West End bathhouse on Davie Street built around European sauna tradition, blending Slavic and Nordic practice with modern West Coast design. The heat comes from a Himalayan salt sauna, and guides run Aufguss rituals in which scented steam is waved through the room with towels, music and breathwork. Group cold plunge pools are set at two temperature ranges. Sessions run about ninety minutes as free-flow Open Haus, semi-guided Haus Sessions, or private bookings. Phones stay in lockers.
Circle Wellness Granville Island
A private, self-guided thermal spa on Granville Island booked for a maximum of two people at a time. The circuit runs through an open-air shower, a cedar soaking tub, the WellPod — a sauna with Himalayan salt walls held around 50°C with choreographed music, lighting and airflow — a step-down cold plunge, and a heated riverstone bed. Sessions are 90 or 120 minutes at $225 to $295 plus tax, available seven days a week from early morning to late evening. The circuit is clothing-optional.
Float House Gastown
Float House on West Cordova in Gastown began as a sensory-deprivation float centre and now also runs private contrast rooms, each with its own premium infrared sauna and a cold plunge kept between 3 and 10°C, the range the studio calls optimal for muscle recovery. A 60-minute drop-in is $75, with a $45 monthly reset option on a three-month minimum. Open 10am to 10pm most days, from 3pm on Fridays. Float tanks are booked separately.
Kolm Kontrast
A Nordic-style contrast spa at Cambie and 8th, built around one social sauna with seating for fifty at 82–90°C, ice baths held between 0 and 4°C, and a tea lounge. Guides run aromatherapy with infused snowballs and towel-waving, and the schedule splits into guided classes, self-guided sessions and lower-lit After Hours evenings. It is an 18+, phone-free, barefoot space, and clothing is required: guests wear swimwear or wellness attire they can get wet in. Sessions run 75, 90 or 120 minutes.
Ritual Urban Retreat
A wellness studio on Denman Street in the West End that pairs yoga, pilates, breathwork and sound journeys with a hot-and-cold circuit. The cedar sauna comfortably holds up to eight guests and opens onto an outdoor terrace with the cold plunge, and sessions can be booked on their own or added after a class. Memberships cover the studio's full range including the hot and cold therapy. Treatments on offer include Brazilian lymphatic bodywork, reiki and counselling.
Tality Wellness Kitsilano
Tality's West Broadway location in Kitsilano runs a thirty-person traditional sauna at 85–90°C against a custom cold plunge held between 3 and 11°C, with indoor and outdoor lounges, private showers and change rooms, and unlimited kombucha and tea on tap. Drop-in community sessions are self-guided and shared, and private bookings are available. Open 8am to 10pm Sunday through Thursday and until 11pm on Friday and Saturday. Guests are told to bring a bathing suit.
The Finnish Sauna Co. Jericho Beach
The Finnish Sauna Co. parks a wood-fired sauna at Jericho Beach on Vancouver's west side, the company's only spot inside the city; its other saunas sit at Cheekye Ranch in Squamish and on the oceanfront at Parksville. Social sessions at Jericho are CA$36 a person and the sauna is seasonal — the operator's booking page says it returns in October — so anyone planning a summer visit should check first. The company also builds custom saunas and rents mobile trailer and tent saunas for events.
The Good Sauna
An outdoor wood-fired sauna and cold plunge set up on the patio at Container Brewing in Strathcona. Sessions are booked as a community drop-in at $45 for one hour forty-five minutes, or privately for a group of up to twelve at $450, with extra guests at $35 a head up to twenty. The suggested cycle is a five to ten second cold plunge, five to fifteen minutes in the sauna, then rest by the fire. Guests bring a swim suit, slides and warm layers; one towel is provided.
Art of Sauna
A multi-room thermal complex on 6th Street in Burnaby where one $52.50 admission opens all eight rooms: a Finnish dry sauna, a traditional sauna, a dry aroma sauna, Roman, aroma and eucalyptus steam rooms, and a Himalayan salt room, with a cool-down zone between rounds. Staff also perform Russian banya parenie and Turkish hammam rituals, and massage and spa treatments are booked separately. Bathing suits are mandatory in the saunas and the venue is 16 and over. Closed Wednesdays.
Hastings Reflexology & Sauna
A public bath house on East Hastings operating since 1926, now run as eight private sauna suites rather than a shared floor. The rooms cover three high-heat saunas, three steam saunas and two hybrid infrared cabins, two of them couples' rooms and most holding up to four guests, each with its own private shower. Sessions are suggested at fifty minutes and can be paired with reflexology or body massage. Open Thursday to Monday 11am to 11pm, Wednesday from noon, closed Tuesday.
HÄLSA Spa
A Kitsilano spa on West 4th built around deep rest, combining float therapy, massage and two private infrared saunas, one cedar and one hemlock. A sauna session is $62 for 60 minutes, with an extra 10 to 15 minutes for showers before and after in your own private suite, where a cold shower stands in for the plunge. Guests linger afterwards in a sunlit upstairs mezzanine with tea. Acupuncture, reflexology and facials are also on the menu. Open daily, from 10am most days.
Miraj Hammam Spa
Canada's first hammam, open in Vancouver's Fairview since November 2000 and booked privately for one client at a time. The signature Hammam and Gommage is $135, or $185 with a body rhassoul mud mask, and massage or facial packages run from $235. Every treatment includes a sarong, robe, towel and slippers; the gommage is traditionally performed without clothing, though a swimsuit may be worn. Open 9am to 9pm Friday to Sunday, 10am to 7pm midweek.
Fairmont Spa at Fairmont Pacific Rim
The spa inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim on Canada Place runs a Himalayan salt sauna, a steam room, a mineral bath and a jacuzzi alongside a Wellness Club open 24 hours. On the sixth-floor pool deck sits The Nordic Spa, a self-guided outdoor circuit of hot tub, cold plunge baths and cedar plank sauna open to hotel guests at $40; it is currently closed for the season, so check before travelling. Non-guests can buy a 90-minute day pass at $109 Monday to Thursday; hotel guests pay $99.