US day-wellness venues: the 2026 map
As of 2026-08-17, Tendground's research has mapped day-wellness venues, sauna, cold plunge, breathwork, sound healing, and recovery studios, across major US cities. The figures are from our own dataset and are free to cite with a link to this page. The full dataset is available as open CSV (CC BY 4.0).
Venues by city
For density per capita (verified venues per 100k residents), see the US Recovery Index.
| Rank | City | Mapped venues |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chicago, IL | 145 |
| 2 | Portland, OR | 145 |
| 3 | New York, NY | 144 |
| 4 | Austin, TX | 140 |
| 5 | San Diego, CA | 138 |
| 6 | Philadelphia, PA | 136 |
| 7 | Seattle, WA | 130 |
| 8 | Las Vegas, NV | 129 |
| 9 | Los Angeles, CA | 129 |
| 10 | Denver, CO | 128 |
| 11 | Houston, TX | 127 |
| 12 | Boulder, CO | 125 |
| 13 | San Francisco, CA | 121 |
| 14 | Scottsdale, AZ | 121 |
| 15 | Nashville, TN | 119 |
| 16 | Miami, FL | 117 |
| 17 | Dallas, TX | 116 |
| 18 | Washington DC | 115 |
| 19 | Atlanta, GA | 111 |
| 20 | Boston, MA | 101 |
| 21 | Phoenix, AZ | 90 |
| 22 | Miami Beach, FL | 21 |
| 23 | Decatur, GA | 12 |
| 24 | Henderson, NV | 11 |
| 25 | Cambridge, MA | 10 |
| 26 | Coral Gables, FL | 10 |
Venues by category
Categories are derived from venue names, so one venue can count in more than one category (a "sauna and cold plunge studio" counts in both).
| Category | Venues | Share |
|---|---|---|
| General wellness & recovery studios | 1623 60.3% | |
| Massage & bodywork | 265 9.8% | |
| Yoga | 243 9% | |
| Pilates | 241 9% | |
| Acupuncture | 196 7.3% | |
| IV therapy | 114 4.2% | |
| Sauna & bathhouse | 83 3.1% | |
| Cold plunge / contrast | 66 2.5% | |
| Hyperbaric | 54 2% | |
| Float tanks | 32 1.2% | |
| Red light | 25 0.9% | |
| Sound healing | 22 0.8% | |
| Breathwork | 17 0.6% | |
| Salt therapy | 4 0.1% |
Which city over-indexes on what
A concentration index compares a city's share of a category against the national share across all 2,691 venues. 100 means exactly the national mix; 200 means twice the national concentration. Cells under 8 venues are excluded so a city does not lead the table on two listings.
| City | Category | Venues | City share | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Diego, CA | Cold plunge / contrast | 9 of 138 | 6.5% | 266 |
| Seattle, WA | Sauna & bathhouse | 10 of 130 | 7.7% | 249 |
| Scottsdale, AZ | IV therapy | 10 of 121 | 8.3% | 195 |
| Cambridge, MA | General wellness & recovery studios | 10 of 10 | 100% | 166 |
| San Diego, CA | IV therapy | 9 of 138 | 6.5% | 154 |
| Phoenix, AZ | Acupuncture | 10 of 90 | 11.1% | 153 |
| Austin, TX | Pilates | 19 of 140 | 13.6% | 152 |
| Los Angeles, CA | IV therapy | 8 of 129 | 6.2% | 146 |
| Atlanta, GA | Yoga | 14 of 111 | 12.6% | 140 |
| Chicago, IL | Yoga | 18 of 145 | 12.4% | 137 |
The pattern is regional rather than random: the Pacific Northwest leads on sauna, Southern California on cold plunge and IV therapy, and the Sun Belt metros on IV therapy and acupuncture.
Recovery vs movement: the boom is smaller than it sounds
Sauna, cold plunge, float, red-light and hyperbaric venues on one side; yoga and Pilates studios on the other. Of the 22 cities with enough of both to compare, 1 have more recovery venues than movement studios. Everywhere else, the studio that has been there for twenty years still outnumbers the plunge.
| City | Recovery | Movement | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henderson, NV | 7 | 3 | 2.33 |
| Las Vegas, NV | 18 | 20 | 0.90 |
| San Diego, CA | 21 | 24 | 0.88 |
| Seattle, WA | 17 | 22 | 0.77 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 19 | 26 | 0.73 |
| Houston, TX | 16 | 22 | 0.73 |
| Denver, CO | 15 | 21 | 0.71 |
| Scottsdale, AZ | 13 | 19 | 0.68 |
| Portland, OR | 14 | 24 | 0.58 |
| New York, NY | 14 | 24 | 0.58 |
| Dallas, TX | 9 | 18 | 0.50 |
| Chicago, IL | 15 | 32 | 0.47 |
| San Francisco, CA | 8 | 18 | 0.44 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 8 | 18 | 0.44 |
| Austin, TX | 13 | 30 | 0.43 |
| Nashville, TN | 10 | 24 | 0.42 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 10 | 27 | 0.37 |
| Boulder, CO | 7 | 20 | 0.35 |
| Miami, FL | 7 | 22 | 0.32 |
| Washington DC | 7 | 22 | 0.32 |
| Atlanta, GA | 6 | 23 | 0.26 |
| Boston, MA | 5 | 20 | 0.25 |
Both sides of this ratio are counted the same way, from venue names, so both are undercounts by the same mechanism (see the methodology below). Treat it as a comparison between cities, not as a census of either group.
Methodology, honestly
The dataset comes from Tendground's ongoing supplier research: public business listings (Google Places and other public sources) queried for day-wellness categories across major US metros, then filtered to venues with a working website and street address, and de-duplicated by domain per city. Cities appear once they pass 10 qualifying venues.
This is a map of what exists, not a quality ranking. We have not visited every venue, and the counts move as our research continues. For the venue lists themselves, see the city pages linked above.
Citing these figures?
You are welcome to use any number on this page. Please link to tendground.com/wellness/statistics so readers can see the date and methodology; the dataset refreshes weekly.