Italy’s Michael Niedermair won his second world title, Czech sauna masters took medals on three circuits, and Americans are two seasons in. How the sport of heat, towels and storytelling is judged, and where to watch next.
TO OCT 25
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Reservations are open for two-hour private sessions in Roppongi, with a womb-themed hot room, cold bath and a rocking sofa watched over by projected mothers.
A 12-person window crew, a 1,640-foot power cable and seven ritual masters: founder Daniel Karlsson explains the sauna inside a former iron-ore mine.
The eleven-day festival runs October 15 to 25 across London’s public saunas, with Aufguss, sauna boats, a Mikkel Aaland book launch and an optional £39 pass.
A Minneapolis builder is flying in to build the club’s two Finnish saunas, with a founding-member presale in November and final inspections hoped for before Thanksgiving.
Heaters, cabins, wood and controls from the makers of Estonia and Finland.
The 12 to 21 kW CORE Pro keeps its heating elements in a service drawer, and two can run side by side at 42 kW for big bathhouse rooms. KLINT Solo puts the controls inside the heater.
Market size and company results. Every figure carries its source and date.
$905M
The global sauna equipment market in 2024.
Source: Grand View Research
$380M
Approximate global cold plunge market in 2025.
Source: SkyQuest
$876B
The global wellness real estate market in 2025.
Source: Global Wellness Institute
€198.9M
Harvia revenue for 2025, reported in euros.
Source: Harvia Plc financial statements bulletin
The bathhouse desk · U.S. & Europe
Follow 36 bathhouse, sauna-club and thermal projects. Construction milestones, opening targets and the sources behind them.
Bathhouses, hotels, spas, and clubs: who opened, who's building, and how the rooms are specified.
Heilthermen Resort adds a forest-view Quell-Sauna and extends its age policy to the public thermal baths.
Festivals, Aufguss, trade shows and investor dates, soonest first.
Photo: Dan Bridge Photography / Skuna Boats.
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An eleven-day, citywide festival of London’s public saunas, with 28 founding venues, Aufguss, talks, sauna boats, a book launch and a charity sauna party. Harvia is the Innovation partner.
TO OCT 25
Balotești, near Bucharest, Romania
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Figures, quotes, specs, research findings, and health claims carry their source, linked at the claim when a public link exists.
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