Maximum Relaxation: These Outdoor Saunas Are Perfect for Cold Weather – And They’re on Sale for a Limited Time

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You don’t have to leave home to enjoy a perfectly relaxing spa day, just get a portable sauna.

Home saunas come in handy when you need to relax after a long day or an intense workout session. If the idea of buying a home sauna feels intimidating, it’s not as scary as you might think. In fact, you don’t need a ton of space to fit one comfortably in your home and there are several options on sale for Presidents’ Day.

See below for more information on the benefits of home saunas and brands that we recommend.

Feel the Heat: Here’s What Makes Home Saunas Worth It

Investing in a sauna means that you’re putting health and wellness first, and that’s always a good thing. Aside from stress relief and pain relief, saunas offer a range of health benefits. According to the National Institute of Health, using a sauna has anti-aging benefits and can help with weight loss, skin rejuvenation, improve sleep habits and increase blood circulation.

And you can use them indoor or outdoors, including in the backyard, basement, home gym or a large bathroom. Not all saunas are created equal though, so while you might find saunas for under $500 such as this portable steam sauna from Amazon, they won’t be as sturdy and don’t look as good as wooden saunas from retailers such as Sun Home Saunas, Home Depot and other options on our list.

See below for a collection of the top 4 outdoor saunas to buy right now.

The outdoor sauna features six heaters, including four FIR heaters (far infrared heaters) and two, full-spectrum 500W infrared heaters. Additional features include chromeotherapy LED lighting and EMF/ELF blocking technology, which blocks harmful radiation.

Equinox II also earned a perfect, 5-star rating on the Sun Home Saunas website.

“Our new Sun Home sauna is exactly what we hoped it would be, and it feels equivalent to those we have used at nice spa’s in every way,“ reads one customer review.

The gorgeous sauna opens into a mini oasis for relaxation. It stands 77.7-inches tall and 50.9 inches wide (45.9 inches in depth) and weighs 520 pounds.

Save up to $700 off on saunas and plungers during the Sun Home Saunas Presidents’ Day sale. Offer ends Feb. 21.

The sphere-shaped sauna features Harvia’s electric heater with a wooden heater guard, along with sauna rocks, a water bucket, ladle and plenty of seating. Redwood Outdoors saunas heats up to 195-degrees in less than an hour. The barrel sauna feature digital Wifi heating controls and manual controls, which you can preheat up to eight hours in advance — making it great for cold temperature as one customer review notes. “I love everything about this sauna,” reads the review. “It’s soooooo awesome. All in all 5/5, I highly recommend getting one. First time in my life I can’t wait for the cold weather to come, so I can get lots of use out of this sauna.”

The exterior of the sauna measures around 6 feet 3 inches tall and 6 feet wide, and it weighs 900 pounds.

The smart sauna brings the outdoors inside, by way of a double pain, glass exterior. It features a whopping 15 heaters – 10 full spectrum heaters and 5 FIR heaters – that are placed all over the sauna to heat from every direction. It also has Bluetooth technology, Wifi, LED lights, built-in speakers with premium surround sound and a control panel that you can adjust using the mobile app.

The Luminar 5 “heats up fast and works great,” according to one of several customer reviews. The customer added that it “provides an excellent sweat session” and raved about the Bluetooth feature. “I like to listen to podcasts to get the most out of my time in there. It even looks beautiful in the garden, the lights and the wood make it really luxury. I’m happy we got the [five] person sauna, its spacious and its fun with friends.”

Made from Canadian premium hemlock wood, this compact sauna features LED lighting with Bluetooth compatibility. The single-seat sauna reaches a maximum temperature of 149-degrees.

The sauna measures 6 feet 9 inches high and around 5 feet wide. It weighs close to 270 pounds and you’ll need at least two adults to put it together, per the customer reviews.  

 “Super great sauna,” reads one customer review on Wayfair.com. “Works perfect. Looks great. Came together fast with [two] adults. Really helping my aches and pains melt away. Best purchase of the year.”

Somubi Infrared Saunas has a 4.8-star out of 5-star rating at Wayfair and it’s on sale for a limited time.