US day-wellness venues: the 2026 map
As of 2026-09-07, 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). For what these venues charge, see our sauna and cold plunge price index.
Venues by city
| Rank | City | Mapped venues |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chicago, IL | 138 |
| 2 | Portland, OR | 136 |
| 3 | New York, NY | 135 |
| 4 | San Diego, CA | 134 |
| 5 | Austin, TX | 134 |
| 6 | Philadelphia, PA | 128 |
| 7 | Las Vegas, NV | 125 |
| 8 | Houston, TX | 122 |
| 9 | Seattle, WA | 121 |
| 10 | Denver, CO | 121 |
| 11 | Los Angeles, CA | 119 |
| 12 | Boulder, CO | 119 |
| 13 | Scottsdale, AZ | 118 |
| 14 | Nashville, TN | 114 |
| 15 | Miami, FL | 114 |
| 16 | San Francisco, CA | 111 |
| 17 | Washington DC | 109 |
| 18 | Dallas, TX | 107 |
| 19 | Atlanta, GA | 103 |
| 20 | Boston, MA | 95 |
| 21 | Phoenix, AZ | 88 |
| 22 | Miami Beach, FL | 21 |
| 23 | Charlotte, NC | 19 |
| 24 | Salt Lake City, UT | 18 |
| 25 | Sacramento, CA | 16 |
| 26 | Minneapolis, MN | 13 |
| 27 | Columbus, OH | 13 |
| 28 | Henderson, NV | 12 |
| 29 | Fort Lauderdale, FL | 10 |
| 30 | San Antonio, TX | 10 |
| 31 | Tampa, FL | 10 |
| 32 | Decatur, GA | 9 |
| 33 | Coral Gables, FL | 9 |
| 34 | Cambridge, MA | 6 |
Venues by category
Categories come from each venue's own website where we could read it, and from the business name otherwise (see how we verify). One venue can count in more than one category (a "sauna and cold plunge studio" counts in both), so these add up to more than the venue total.
| Category | Venues | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Massage & bodywork | 738 27.8% | |
| General wellness & recovery studios | 667 25.1% | |
| Yoga | 464 17.5% | |
| Acupuncture | 404 15.2% | |
| Sauna & bathhouse | 375 14.1% | |
| Pilates | 369 13.9% | |
| IV therapy | 265 10% | |
| Red light | 214 8.1% | |
| Sound healing | 164 6.2% | |
| Cold plunge / contrast | 160 6% | |
| Breathwork | 127 4.8% | |
| Hyperbaric | 123 4.6% | |
| cryotherapy | 112 4.2% | |
| compression | 63 2.4% | |
| Float tanks | 60 2.3% | |
| Salt therapy | 48 1.8% | |
| stretch | 33 1.2% |
Which city over-indexes on what
A concentration index compares a city's share of a category against the national share across all 2,657 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte, NC | Cold plunge / contrast | 8 of 19 | 42.1% | 699 |
| Charlotte, NC | Sauna & bathhouse | 10 of 19 | 52.6% | 373 |
| Las Vegas, NV | compression | 8 of 125 | 6.4% | 270 |
| Miami Beach, FL | Yoga | 9 of 21 | 42.9% | 245 |
| Miami, FL | Hyperbaric | 11 of 114 | 9.6% | 208 |
| Denver, CO | Cold plunge / contrast | 15 of 121 | 12.4% | 206 |
| Nashville, TN | Cold plunge / contrast | 14 of 114 | 12.3% | 204 |
| Salt Lake City, UT | General wellness & recovery studios | 9 of 18 | 50% | 199 |
| Phoenix, AZ | Cold plunge / contrast | 10 of 88 | 11.4% | 189 |
| New York, NY | Breathwork | 12 of 135 | 8.9% | 186 |
Read this table with care. Our counts come from searches that return a capped number of results for each city and category, and the cities we added most recently were searched for fewer categories, so a high index can reflect how we searched as much as what a city has. It is a starting point for a question, not a finding.
Recovery vs movement: the boom is smaller than it sounds
Sauna, cold plunge, float, red-light and hyperbaric on one side; yoga and Pilates on the other. Of the 29 cities with enough of both to compare, 18 carry more recovery tags than movement tags. Everywhere else, the studio that has been there for twenty years still outnumbers the plunge.
These columns count modality tags, not venues: a venue with both a sauna and a cold plunge is counted in each. That is why a city's two columns can add up to more than the venues it has in the table above: Charlotte carries 29 recovery tags across 19 venues. The ratio is still a fair comparison because both columns are counted the same way.
| City | Recovery | Movement | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte, NC | 28 | 1 | 28.00 |
| Tampa, FL | 22 | 1 | 22.00 |
| Salt Lake City, UT | 10 | 1 | 10.00 |
| Henderson, NV | 13 | 4 | 3.25 |
| Coral Gables, FL | 9 | 3 | 3.00 |
| Las Vegas, NV | 67 | 27 | 2.48 |
| San Antonio, TX | 7 | 4 | 1.75 |
| Denver, CO | 59 | 36 | 1.64 |
| Nashville, TN | 55 | 36 | 1.53 |
| Dallas, TX | 42 | 28 | 1.50 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 57 | 39 | 1.46 |
| New York, NY | 58 | 40 | 1.45 |
| Houston, TX | 51 | 38 | 1.34 |
| Sacramento, CA | 8 | 6 | 1.33 |
| Miami, FL | 50 | 39 | 1.28 |
| Portland, OR | 40 | 33 | 1.21 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 36 | 31 | 1.16 |
| San Diego, CA | 41 | 38 | 1.08 |
| Scottsdale, AZ | 33 | 33 | 1.00 |
| Atlanta, GA | 31 | 33 | 0.94 |
| Austin, TX | 44 | 47 | 0.94 |
| Seattle, WA | 39 | 42 | 0.93 |
| Boulder, CO | 33 | 38 | 0.87 |
| Miami Beach, FL | 9 | 11 | 0.82 |
| Chicago, IL | 43 | 56 | 0.77 |
| San Francisco, CA | 24 | 37 | 0.65 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 25 | 46 | 0.54 |
| Washington DC | 16 | 38 | 0.42 |
| Boston, MA | 16 | 38 | 0.42 |
Both sides of this ratio are counted the same way (tags from each venue's own website where we could read it, otherwise from its name), 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.
What gyms and studios publish: October 2026
On 2026-10-05 we read every Life Time club amenities page, every Crunch and Perspire location page in their sitemaps, and the temperatures 19 sauna and cold plunge venues state on their own sites. With our FDA label index, these are the figures, each linked to the page with the detail. They are free to cite with a link to this page.
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Life Time clubs that list a sauna | 183 of 209 (88%) |
| Life Time clubs that list a cold plunge | 82 of 209 (39%) |
| Crunch locations that list a sauna | 346 of 630 (55%) |
| Crunch locations that list HydroMassage / a cold plunge | 599 / 0 of 630 |
| Planet Fitness locations with a sauna | None listed (2,900+ locations) |
| Perspire single infrared session, median (range) | $60 ($39 to $80), 103 studios |
| Perspire unlimited month, median | $199 (96 studios) |
| Coldest cold plunge at the typical studio | 40°F; 14 of 16 studios go below 50°F |
| Traditional sauna temperatures studios state | 150 to 200°F (10 venues) |
| FDA labels that mention heat or temperature regulation | 24 of 83 |
| FDA labels that name saunas or hot tubs | 4, all skin patches |
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. Each search returns a capped number of results, so every count here is a floor, not a census of what a city has.
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 "as of" date at the top of this page is when the dataset was last rebuilt.