Best Saunas in Vienna, Austria
Apostelbad
A small municipal sauna bath in Landstraße with a Finnish sauna, a steam bath, a cold pool and a solarium, plus cheap shower baths in the old Viennese Brausebad tradition. The entire sauna area is a nude zone, entered without swimwear, and the minimum age is 14. Mixed sessions run Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 9 pm and Saturday from 8 am, with Thursday for women only. Five hours costs 17,70 euro.
Gartensauna Breitenlee
A family-run garden sauna out in Breitenlee, kept by the Hebenstreit family as a public sauna with its own inn since 1980. The mixed, rustic setup has a dry sauna chamber and a steam chamber, a cold-water pool, a large FKK sunbathing lawn and a guest garden with home cooking. A day ticket is 22 euro, and the house also takes private groups of 10 to 20 people for a sauna evening or a party.
Hermannbad
One of the four dedicated Saunabäder run by the City of Vienna, tucked into Neubau behind a plain street front. Bathers move between a Finnish sauna, a steam room, an infrared cabin and a cold pool, and the whole sauna floor is a nude area where swimwear is not allowed. Sessions are mixed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons and all day Saturday, with Thursday reserved for women. Five hours costs 17,70 euro, an evening card 14,40 euro.
WeBorn - The Social Recovery Club
A guided sauna and ice bath club near Wien Mitte, built around 60-minute classes rather than open bathing. Sessions run between 65 and 105 degrees in the sauna and 3 to 7 degrees in the ice bath, in formats called Recharge, Relax, Energize and Grow, with breathwork and stretching between rounds. A single 60-minute sauna and ice bath class costs 35 euro, a 20-minute ice bath 15 euro, and the ice bath takes up to four people at a time. Swimwear is required.
AISAWAN Boutique Spa
A small hammam and Thai treatment house in a lane behind Stephansplatz, where the steam bath is the start of every ritual rather than a room you drop into. Five hammam rituals run from the 60-minute Pure Oriental at 109 euro to the 210-minute Royal AISAWAN at 299 euro, each combining the hammam with scrubs, oil massage and rest. Open daily from 11 am to 9 pm, holidays included.
Floridsdorfer Bad
A City of Vienna indoor pool in Floridsdorf whose sauna floor is unusually varied for a district bath: Finnish sauna, a bio sauna in the women's section, steam bath, infrared cabin and a herb and eucalyptus chamber, with a warm pool for cooling down. Sauna hours run Tuesday to Sunday, alternating between gender-separated, women-and-mixed and fully mixed sessions; adult admission is 8,10 euro.
Hütteldorfer Bad
A municipal indoor pool in Penzing whose sauna area is one of the broadest in the city bath network: Finnish sauna, bio sauna, a log-built Blocksauna, steam bath, infrared cabin and a cold pool. It sits at the western end of Linzer Straße close to the Wienerwald. Adult admission is 8,10 euro, reduced 6,10 euro, and children pay 2,80 euro.
Therme Wien
Vienna's thermal bath at Oberlaa, whose Saunalandschaft alone covers 3.000 m2 over two levels with a mixed area and separate women's and men's floors. The cabins range from a 90 degree Finnish sauna and a 65 degree bio sauna to a steam bath, tepidarium and laconium, with a fireplace room, a sauna garden and regular Aufguss ceremonies, and 18 degree plunge pools for cooling. The therme opens daily 9 am to 10 pm; sauna is a 15 euro surcharge on the day ticket. Swimwear is not allowed in the sauna.
Vienna Thai Spa
A Thai massage house in Landstraße that also keeps a Finnish sauna, which guests can use by arrangement with the staff around a treatment booking rather than as a walk-in sauna. Open Monday to Friday from 11 am to 9 pm and Saturday from noon to 8 pm, closed on Sunday, with holidays following the Saturday hours. Reservations are recommended.
Amalienbad
The 1920s art deco municipal bath on Reumannplatz, a Favoriten landmark of tiled facades and mosaics, keeps a full sauna floor behind its indoor pool: Finnish sauna, bio sauna, steam bath, whirlpool, warm and cold pools, an infrared cabin in the women's section and guided Aufguss ceremonies. Sauna hours run Tuesday to Sunday, part of the week women-only or gender-separated, the rest mixed; adult admission is 8,10 euro.
Badehaus Sargfabrik
The Badehaus at the heart of the Sargfabrik housing project spreads 350 m2 of international bathing culture across Penzing: a Finnish sauna, a bubbling warm-water pool, the heated tiles of a Roman tepidarium, a cold plunge basin, a whirlpool and a counter-current swim channel. Members use it round the clock through the Badeclub, while the public gets in on seasonal bathing nights such as Public Bath House, Queeres Saunieren and the women-only Public Bath - Female Edition.
Großfeldsiedlungsbad
A combined bath serving the Großfeldsiedlung estate in Floridsdorf, with a Finnish sauna, a bio sauna, a steam bath, an infrared cabin and a cold pool. Unusually for a Vienna municipal bath the sauna also opens on Monday afternoons, and it runs through to Sunday with gender-separated mornings and mixed afternoons; Thursday is closed. The sauna keeps a winter season from mid-September. Adult admission is 8,10 euro.
Ottakringer Bad
A combined indoor and outdoor municipal bath on the edge of the Wienerwald in Ottakring, with a sauna floor of Finnish sauna, steam bath and cold pool. The sauna runs a winter season from mid-September to the end of April, Tuesday to Sunday, split between gender-separated mornings and mixed afternoons. Adult admission is 8,10 euro, reduced 6,10 euro, with a 3,60 euro surcharge for a changing cabin.
Penzinger Bad
The largest of Vienna's four municipal sauna baths, on Hütteldorfer Straße, with a Finnish sauna, steam bath, infrared cabin, cold pool and an outdoor multipurpose pool for the warm months. It keeps the longest week of the four: Thursday to Sunday mixed from 8 or 9 am, Tuesday reserved for women and Wednesday for men. The sauna floor is a nude area entered without swimwear; five hours costs 17,70 euro.
Sauna am Badeschiff
A sauna on a moored ship in the Donaukanal, right in the centre of Vienna. In summer the Pooldecksauna above the 27-metre pool is a classic Finnish cabin and bathers cool off by dropping straight into the water below; in winter a second panorama sauna with windows over the canal takes over. Sauna entry is included in the pool ticket at 10,50 euro, 8 euro after 5 pm, and the deck sauna runs daily from 6 to 9.30 pm.
Sans Souci Wien Day Spa
The spa of the Hotel Sans Souci in Neubau sells day tickets to visitors who are not staying, giving access to saunas at 60 and 90 degrees, the steam bath, ice showers and an ice fountain, three quiet rooms, the 20-metre pool and the gym. Four hours costs 75 euro on Friday to Sunday and holidays and 59 euro Monday to Thursday; two hours costs 59 and 45 euro. External guests are admitted 10 am to 10 pm and places are limited, so a slot should be reserved.
Apostelbad
A small municipal sauna bath in Landstraße with a Finnish sauna, a steam bath, a cold pool and a solarium, plus cheap shower baths in the old Viennese Brausebad tradition. The entire sauna area is a nude zone, entered without swimwear, and the minimum age is 14. Mixed sessions run Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 to 9 pm and Saturday from 8 am, with Thursday for women only. Five hours costs 17,70 euro.
Gartensauna Breitenlee
A family-run garden sauna out in Breitenlee, kept by the Hebenstreit family as a public sauna with its own inn since 1980. The mixed, rustic setup has a dry sauna chamber and a steam chamber, a cold-water pool, a large FKK sunbathing lawn and a guest garden with home cooking. A day ticket is 22 euro, and the house also takes private groups of 10 to 20 people for a sauna evening or a party.
Hermannbad
One of the four dedicated Saunabäder run by the City of Vienna, tucked into Neubau behind a plain street front. Bathers move between a Finnish sauna, a steam room, an infrared cabin and a cold pool, and the whole sauna floor is a nude area where swimwear is not allowed. Sessions are mixed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons and all day Saturday, with Thursday reserved for women. Five hours costs 17,70 euro, an evening card 14,40 euro.
WeBorn - The Social Recovery Club
A guided sauna and ice bath club near Wien Mitte, built around 60-minute classes rather than open bathing. Sessions run between 65 and 105 degrees in the sauna and 3 to 7 degrees in the ice bath, in formats called Recharge, Relax, Energize and Grow, with breathwork and stretching between rounds. A single 60-minute sauna and ice bath class costs 35 euro, a 20-minute ice bath 15 euro, and the ice bath takes up to four people at a time. Swimwear is required.
AISAWAN Boutique Spa
A small hammam and Thai treatment house in a lane behind Stephansplatz, where the steam bath is the start of every ritual rather than a room you drop into. Five hammam rituals run from the 60-minute Pure Oriental at 109 euro to the 210-minute Royal AISAWAN at 299 euro, each combining the hammam with scrubs, oil massage and rest. Open daily from 11 am to 9 pm, holidays included.
Floridsdorfer Bad
A City of Vienna indoor pool in Floridsdorf whose sauna floor is unusually varied for a district bath: Finnish sauna, a bio sauna in the women's section, steam bath, infrared cabin and a herb and eucalyptus chamber, with a warm pool for cooling down. Sauna hours run Tuesday to Sunday, alternating between gender-separated, women-and-mixed and fully mixed sessions; adult admission is 8,10 euro.
Hütteldorfer Bad
A municipal indoor pool in Penzing whose sauna area is one of the broadest in the city bath network: Finnish sauna, bio sauna, a log-built Blocksauna, steam bath, infrared cabin and a cold pool. It sits at the western end of Linzer Straße close to the Wienerwald. Adult admission is 8,10 euro, reduced 6,10 euro, and children pay 2,80 euro.
Therme Wien
Vienna's thermal bath at Oberlaa, whose Saunalandschaft alone covers 3.000 m2 over two levels with a mixed area and separate women's and men's floors. The cabins range from a 90 degree Finnish sauna and a 65 degree bio sauna to a steam bath, tepidarium and laconium, with a fireplace room, a sauna garden and regular Aufguss ceremonies, and 18 degree plunge pools for cooling. The therme opens daily 9 am to 10 pm; sauna is a 15 euro surcharge on the day ticket. Swimwear is not allowed in the sauna.
Vienna Thai Spa
A Thai massage house in Landstraße that also keeps a Finnish sauna, which guests can use by arrangement with the staff around a treatment booking rather than as a walk-in sauna. Open Monday to Friday from 11 am to 9 pm and Saturday from noon to 8 pm, closed on Sunday, with holidays following the Saturday hours. Reservations are recommended.
Amalienbad
The 1920s art deco municipal bath on Reumannplatz, a Favoriten landmark of tiled facades and mosaics, keeps a full sauna floor behind its indoor pool: Finnish sauna, bio sauna, steam bath, whirlpool, warm and cold pools, an infrared cabin in the women's section and guided Aufguss ceremonies. Sauna hours run Tuesday to Sunday, part of the week women-only or gender-separated, the rest mixed; adult admission is 8,10 euro.
Badehaus Sargfabrik
The Badehaus at the heart of the Sargfabrik housing project spreads 350 m2 of international bathing culture across Penzing: a Finnish sauna, a bubbling warm-water pool, the heated tiles of a Roman tepidarium, a cold plunge basin, a whirlpool and a counter-current swim channel. Members use it round the clock through the Badeclub, while the public gets in on seasonal bathing nights such as Public Bath House, Queeres Saunieren and the women-only Public Bath - Female Edition.
Großfeldsiedlungsbad
A combined bath serving the Großfeldsiedlung estate in Floridsdorf, with a Finnish sauna, a bio sauna, a steam bath, an infrared cabin and a cold pool. Unusually for a Vienna municipal bath the sauna also opens on Monday afternoons, and it runs through to Sunday with gender-separated mornings and mixed afternoons; Thursday is closed. The sauna keeps a winter season from mid-September. Adult admission is 8,10 euro.
Ottakringer Bad
A combined indoor and outdoor municipal bath on the edge of the Wienerwald in Ottakring, with a sauna floor of Finnish sauna, steam bath and cold pool. The sauna runs a winter season from mid-September to the end of April, Tuesday to Sunday, split between gender-separated mornings and mixed afternoons. Adult admission is 8,10 euro, reduced 6,10 euro, with a 3,60 euro surcharge for a changing cabin.
Penzinger Bad
The largest of Vienna's four municipal sauna baths, on Hütteldorfer Straße, with a Finnish sauna, steam bath, infrared cabin, cold pool and an outdoor multipurpose pool for the warm months. It keeps the longest week of the four: Thursday to Sunday mixed from 8 or 9 am, Tuesday reserved for women and Wednesday for men. The sauna floor is a nude area entered without swimwear; five hours costs 17,70 euro.
Sauna am Badeschiff
A sauna on a moored ship in the Donaukanal, right in the centre of Vienna. In summer the Pooldecksauna above the 27-metre pool is a classic Finnish cabin and bathers cool off by dropping straight into the water below; in winter a second panorama sauna with windows over the canal takes over. Sauna entry is included in the pool ticket at 10,50 euro, 8 euro after 5 pm, and the deck sauna runs daily from 6 to 9.30 pm.
Sans Souci Wien Day Spa
The spa of the Hotel Sans Souci in Neubau sells day tickets to visitors who are not staying, giving access to saunas at 60 and 90 degrees, the steam bath, ice showers and an ice fountain, three quiet rooms, the 20-metre pool and the gym. Four hours costs 75 euro on Friday to Sunday and holidays and 59 euro Monday to Thursday; two hours costs 59 and 45 euro. External guests are admitted 10 am to 10 pm and places are limited, so a slot should be reserved.