hotels with saunas in san francisco
San Francisco earns its saunas — there are few better antidotes to a foggy Pacific morning than a hot cedar room. The city keeps most of its heat behind hotel spa doors, clustered up on Nob Hill and down in SoMa: proper Finnish dry rooms, eucalyptus steam, a couple of skylit lap pools to plunge into after. Below are the San Francisco hotels with saunas we'd actually book, ranked with the strong, certain picks up top and the more modest options below. We note the sauna type and who's allowed in (some are open to all guests, some sit behind a spa fee), and every listing has a one-click way to pull live pricing on Google for your dates. Listings are unverified until each hotel confirms — worth a quick check if the sauna is the whole reason for the trip.
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Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco
$$$$Guests have access to the vast Equinox Sports Club downstairs — a salt-water lap pool, steam room and sauna across multiple floors.
Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero
$$$$A high-floor club and spa with dry sauna, steam, and a pool — sweeping bay and city views from near the top of the tower.
The Huntington Hotel & Nob Hill Spa
$$$$Nob Hill Spa: a three-level sanctuary with a wood-lined dry sauna, Moroccan tadelakt steam rooms, an indoor infinity pool and skyline views.
The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco
$$$$The Ritz-Carlton Spa: a Mediterranean-inspired wellness floor with dry sauna and steam off the treatment suites, on the edge of Nob Hill.
The St. Regis San Francisco
$$$$Remède Spa: dry sauna, steam rooms and whirlpools beside a skylit indoor salt-water infinity pool. One of the best hotel wellness floors in the city.
Hotel Nikko San Francisco
$$$Club Nikko: a 10,000-square-foot fitness floor with dry saunas, steam rooms and a glass-roofed indoor pool — open to guests.
Fairmont San Francisco
$$$$The on-site health club is reported to include dry saunas and steam rooms; access may carry a fee. Confirm before booking.
InterContinental San Francisco
$$$I-Spa: dry sauna and steam beside a skylit indoor lap pool — a solid, guest-accessible wellness floor in SoMa.
Handlery Union Square Hotel
$$A heated outdoor pool and a dry sauna — an unusually good wellness offering for the price, right on Union Square.
Hilton San Francisco Union Square
$$Large downtown hotel with a fitness/pool complex reported to include a sauna. Confirm current facilities before booking.
Palace Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel
$$$$Famous skylit indoor pool; the health club is reported to include a sauna. Confirm the sauna before booking.
The Donatello Hotel
$$$A boutique hotel reported to offer a sauna plus a rooftop terrace with a hot tub, a block from Union Square.