A ranked list of the world's hand-picked Curator's Picks. Refreshed quarterly. The order weights authenticity, atmosphere, water quality, and access. Movement chips (▲ ▼ NEW) appear from the second edition onwards. This is the first.
The remaining 97 venues, in order. Click any row for the full venue page.
"The list isn't a popularity contest. It's a working bibliography of the world's bathing-culture venues, ranked by people who care."
The Saunasto 100 is computed quarterly. The score formula combines a hand-picked editorial seed (60%) with a Wilson-score lower bound on user ratings from the iOS app (40%). The seed comes from a curator panel that reviews 150 candidate venues each quarter and nominates the top 100. Ties broken by saunasto-confidence score (a per-venue quality metric we maintain in the canonical database).
Movement chips appear from edition Q3 2026. Up arrows mean a venue climbed; down arrows mean it fell; NEW means it joined the list this quarter; em dash means no change. The first edition has no comparison reference, so every venue shows the dash.
Methodology details, the curator panel composition, and the full Wilson-score formula are open-source on GitHub. Open data, open process.
Your ratings shape the next Saunasto 100. The Q3 2026 edition publishes July 1.