London's plunge culture grew up fast. There are community saunas with stock-tank dips, railway-arch bathhouses with chilled pools, and lido-adjacent sessions where the cold is open-air.
Book ahead. The city's best contrast venues sell out their weekend slots days in advance.
In London, 42 of the curated saunas fit this cut. See the full London guide for every venue, or keep scrolling for just the saunas with a cold plunge.
Every sauna with a cold plunge in London
&Soul Shoreditch
££London, United Kingdom
A 40-person aufguss sauna in a Shoreditch basement, with a sober bar and plant-based dining upstairs. The scale is unusual for London: the room is properly large and the aufguss programme runs regularly. It sells day passes as well as memberships, so a single visit is easy enough.
1Rebel Reset — Chelsea
£London, United Kingdom
1Rebel's Reset is a self-guided contrast-therapy studio inside the Chelsea club on the King's Road. A session is 45 minutes moving between a Nordic sauna and a temperature-controlled cold plunge. It books standalone, with no class or membership, and aims at recovery rather than a bathhouse soak.
1Rebel Reset — Clapham
£London, United Kingdom
1Rebel's Reset is a self-guided contrast-therapy studio inside the Clapham High Street club. A session is 45 minutes moving between a Nordic sauna and a temperature-controlled cold plunge. It books standalone, with no class or membership, and aims at recovery rather than a bathhouse soak.
1Rebel Reset — Euston
£London, United Kingdom
1Rebel's Reset is a self-guided contrast-therapy studio inside the Euston club. A session is 45 minutes moving between a Nordic sauna and a temperature-controlled cold plunge. It books standalone, with no class or membership, and aims at recovery rather than a bathhouse soak.
1Rebel Reset — High Street Kensington
£London, United Kingdom
1Rebel's Reset is a self-guided contrast-therapy studio inside the High Street Kensington club. A session is 45 minutes moving between a Nordic sauna and a temperature-controlled cold plunge. It books standalone, with no class or membership, and aims at recovery rather than a bathhouse soak.
1Rebel Reset — Holborn
£London, United Kingdom
1Rebel's Reset is a self-guided contrast-therapy studio inside the Holborn club. A session is 45 minutes moving between a Nordic sauna and a temperature-controlled cold plunge. It books standalone, with no class or membership, and aims at recovery rather than a bathhouse soak.
1Rebel Reset — Leadenhall
£London, United Kingdom
1Rebel's Reset is a self-guided contrast-therapy studio inside the Leadenhall club, in the City. A session is 45 minutes moving between a Nordic sauna and a temperature-controlled cold plunge. It books standalone, with no class or membership, and aims at recovery rather than a bathhouse soak.
Arc
££London, United Kingdom
Arc is a contrast therapy studio below Crossrail Place in Canary Wharf, built around a communal sauna that holds 60. Guided classes, self-paced Free Flow sessions and DJ-led evening socials move between the sauna, ice baths and a lounge. Swimwear is required and towels are provided.
Arvo Sauna
£London, United Kingdom
An Australian-inspired neighbourhood bathhouse in Walthamstow, with two large Finnish saunas: one for conversation, one silent. Three ice baths are stepped at 10, 7 and 5°C. Sessions run 55 minutes with tea and showers included, and a breathwork and yoga studio is due in 2026.
Banya No.1 — Chiswick
££London, United Kingdom
Banya No.1 runs this Russian banya on Chiswick High Road, a few minutes from Chiswick Park station. A humid steam room, used for parenie with venik bundles, pairs with an icy plunge pool and bucket showers. Each booking gets a booth in the lounge, which has a licensed bar and an Eastern European menu.
Banya No.1 — Hoxton
£££London, United Kingdom
An industrial-scale Russian banya in a Hoxton warehouse, with a parílka hot enough to make you reconsider your choices. The venik birch-branch beating is the real draw, a ritual that sounds worse than it is. Cold plunge, steam room, and a restaurant that takes the food as seriously as the heat.
Biome by Corinthia London
£££London, United Kingdom
Biome is the spa at Corinthia London, and non-residents can book its thermal floor without a room or treatment. The amphitheatre sauna has tiered benches under a curved timber ceiling. A steam room, a cold plunge and a vitality pool sit alongside, with swimwear worn throughout.
Community Sauna Baths — Camberwell
£London, United Kingdom
Community Sauna Baths' Camberwell site sits in Ruskin Park, with three wood-fired saunas and four cold plunges. One sauna is step-free, and the plunges run from 5 to 10°C. Run as a community-interest company, it pairs proper Nordic-cycle bathing with low concession pricing.
Community Sauna Baths — Hackney Wick
£London, United Kingdom
The flagship of London's community sauna movement: 7 wood-fired saunas in a converted bathhouse at Hackney Wick. It is non-profit, and the heat is uncompromising. The canalside setting near the Olympic Park adds an industrial atmosphere that suits it.
Community Sauna Baths — Stratford
£London, United Kingdom
Community Sauna Baths' Stratford site sits in a community garden beside The Lighthouse. There are several wood-fired saunas, including an octagonal aufguss room and a small private cabin. Cold plunges and hot and cold showers complete the cycle, and concession pricing keeps it open to all.
Community Sauna Baths — Walthamstow
£London, United Kingdom
Community Sauna Baths' Walthamstow outpost sits on a former industrial plot off Blackhorse Road. Communal saunas, cold plunge pools and hot and cold showers ring a shared relaxation yard. Same community-interest model and accessible pricing as the rest of the group.
Contrast Anerley
££London, United Kingdom
A boutique Finnish sauna and cold plunge in Anerley, south London, run as a calm, clean space with a lounge for slowing down between rounds. Sessions are booked in advance, with memberships, bundles and drop-in slots.
Hot & Cold
£London, United Kingdom
Hot & Cold rents private pods on the High Road in Leytonstone, each with a sauna, a refrigerated ice bath and a rain shower. You choose hot-stone or infrared heat, then move between it and the plunge at your own pace. The larger pods take two, so you can bring a friend.
HOTDROP
£London, United Kingdom
HOTDROP sits in a vaulted arch on Queen's Circus, across the road from Battersea Park. It has two Finnish saunas, one large and one small at different heats, and four cold plunges. Each session is capped to leave room on the benches and at the plunges.
Innervisions Alchemy
£London, United Kingdom
Innervisions Alchemy runs a wood-fired sauna and a cold plunge pool outdoors among the industrial units of Ilderton Wharf, in South Bermondsey. Shared sessions last an hour or ninety minutes, with a terrace to cool off between rounds. The same building holds a yoga studio, treatment rooms and a lounge.
Lowlu — Kentish Town
£London, United Kingdom
5 Finnish saunas designed by architect Sami Rintala, in a Kentish Town warehouse, ranging from 75 to 95°C. Cold plunge between rounds. Off-peak pricing makes it one of the best-value dedicated sauna rooms in London.
Lowlu — Wandsworth
£London, United Kingdom
Lowlu's Wandsworth site sits at The Padel Yard. A social sauna and a silent sauna run at different temperatures, with cold plunges between them. Sessions are short and app-booked, built for a quick contrast reset rather than a lingering spa day.
Old Kent Road Sauna
£London, United Kingdom
Old Kent Road Sauna is a 20-person Finnish-style sauna inside AMP Studios. Outside, hot and cold showers sit beside three cold plunges named Arctic, Baltic and North Sea. House rules keep it quiet and phone-free, and you ask the room before pouring löyly.
Porchester Spa
££London, United Kingdom
Porchester Spa is a 1929 Turkish bath on Queensway in Bayswater, in a Grade II* listed building that keeps its original features. You move through tepidarium, caldarium and laconium hot rooms, a sauna, two steam rooms and a cold plunge pool. Each day is set aside for men or for women, except one mixed day a week.
Rebase Recovery
£££London, United Kingdom
Rebase Recovery is a recovery studio on St Vincent Street in Marylebone. Its shared Communal Contrast area has a traditional Finnish sauna, ice baths and bucket showers for self-guided sessions. Private suites pair a Finnish or infrared sauna with an ice bath.
Reset
££London, United Kingdom
Reset is a contrast therapy space on Upper Street in Islington, built around a communal sauna, cold plunges and a breathwork lounge. Free Roam sessions let you move between them at your own pace, and guided sessions add a facilitator leading breathwork. Evening socials pair the sauna with alcohol-free drinks and music.
Revitalise Urban Spa
£London, United Kingdom
Revitalise Urban Spa is a sauna and ice-bath space at Parkhaus on Maple Path, near Hackney Downs. A traditional sauna with stones for löyly sits beside Clearlight infrared cabins and copper ice baths set at different temperatures. Sessions are self-led, and guided rituals and workshops run alongside.
Rooftop Saunas — Brixton
£London, United Kingdom
Rooftop Saunas runs this site on the roof of International House in Brixton, 11 storeys above the street. Each booking gets a private timber Finnish sauna cabin with views of the London skyline. Outdoor cold plunge pools and waterfall buckets are shared, and longer sessions add a private cool-down room.
Rooftop Saunas — Hackney
£London, United Kingdom
Four private Finnish sauna cabins sit on the roof of Netil Corner, between Broadway Market and Victoria Park. Each booking takes a whole cabin for one to four people, with cold plunge pools and waterfall buckets in a shared garden. Longer sessions add a private cool-down room.
Sauna & Plunge
££London, United Kingdom
Sauna & Plunge is a contrast-therapy space on Tabernacle Street in Shoreditch. A Finnish sauna and an infrared sauna sit beside 3D-printed cold plunges kept at three temperatures. There is a café lounge and a studio for yoga, Pilates and breathwork, and some sessions are for women only.
Sauna Social Club
£London, United Kingdom
A sauna listening bar in a Peckham railway arch, with ice baths and aufguss sessions through the week. DJ sets run at the weekend. It takes the social half of sauna culture seriously without losing the heat.
SAUNA4
£London, United Kingdom
SAUNA4 is a seven-person sauna cabin beside the 400-metre running track at Norman Park Community Sports Centre in Bromley. Its large stove takes water for proper löyly, and a mirrored window looks out over the track. Sessions pair the sauna with ice baths and an outdoor cold shower.
Saunos
£London, United Kingdom
Saunos is a sauna boat moored on the Regent's Canal at Packington Bridge, with a Scandinavian-style sauna and an ice bath on board. Social sessions are booked by the slot, and the boat also takes private bookings.
Skuna
£London, United Kingdom
Skuna moors its wood-fired sauna boats at West India Quay, on the dock water below the Canary Wharf towers. Between rounds you climb to cold plunge pools on the roof or tip a bucket shower over your head. Sessions run to curated music, and the sauna team leads a weekly Aufguss.
Spa Experience — Ironmonger Row
££London, United Kingdom
Ironmonger Row Baths near Old Street is Grade II listed, and its Spa Experience sits in one of London's oldest Turkish baths. The circuit moves through tepidarium, caldarium and laconium hot rooms, a sauna, aroma steam rooms and a plunge pool. It is sold as a timed session on its own, with regular women-only sessions.
Sweheat Sauna
£London, United Kingdom
Sweheat is an independent outdoor pop-up on Western Beach at Royal Victoria Dock, with wood-fired saunas and a cold plunge pool. Public sessions are shared and mixed, and a private sauna takes groups of up to six. Guest sauna masters run Aufguss and Baltic whisking evenings, some of them textile-free.
TEMZ Floating Saunas — Teddington
££London, United Kingdom
One of TEMZ Floating Saunas two moorings on the River Thames, at The Lensbury in Teddington. A floating sauna with panoramic river views and ice baths on the deck, run in timed sessions.
The Bath House
£££London, United Kingdom
The Bath House is a Russian-style banya on Grosvenor Gardens in Belgravia. Its oak-lined parilka and icy plunge pool sit beside a lounge where every booking gets its own table and home-cooked Eastern European food. Banshiki lead the parenie leaf ritual, and a private banya with its own plunge bath takes small groups.
The Cabin
£London, United Kingdom
The Cabin is a seasonal outdoor sauna on Clapham Common, set up near the children's paddling pool for the winter. A 55-minute session moves between a wood-fired sauna, cold plunge tubs and fresh air on the Common. Guided sessions show first-timers what to do, and a yurt hosts yoga.
Urban Heat Sauna
£London, United Kingdom
Urban Heat is a female-founded sauna in a railway arch on Camberwell Station Road. Its 15-seat Finnish-style sauna runs at 90 to 95°C and opens onto three outdoor ice baths and a lounge. Most sessions are mixed, and the timetable adds quiet, guided, single-gender and parent-and-baby sessions.
Waking Dreams
£London, United Kingdom
Waking Dreams keeps two round Nordic saunas in a large outdoor area at Big Dream, its Bethnal Green studio. They are built from thermo-treated aspen with skylights, and three cold plunges sit alongside. Sauna sessions are sold on their own, so no class is needed.
WellNest
£London, United Kingdom
WellNest fills a listed Victorian railway arch on Crucifix Lane, a short walk from London Bridge station. Its spa has a Finnish sauna, a Himalayan salt sauna, six ice baths and a hot tub, booked on their own or alongside Pilates and yoga. A trained sauna master leads a weekly Aufguss ritual.