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Hot Yoga Studios by the Numbers, 2026
We mapped every hot yoga studio in America — 3,286 studios with 292,807 student reviews between them. Here's where the heat actually is: which states have the most studios per resident, where infrared is spreading, and how CorePower and the national chains split the map with independent studios. (Journalists & bloggers: cite freely with a link.)
Which states have the most hot yoga studios per capita?
Nationally there are about 9.7 hot yoga studios per million residents. The per-capita crown goes to New Hampshire at 25.5 studios per million — 36 studios for a state of 1.4 million people — with District of Columbia at 18.5 and Colorado at 17.3 close behind. Hot yoga tracks wellness culture more than raw population: the states where the boutique-fitness habit runs deep keep heated rooms full that a spreadsheet says shouldn't exist — which is why the gap between the top and bottom of this table matters if you'd rather feel the heat before you commit to a membership. At the other end, Wyoming has just 3.4 per million.
| # | State | Studios | Per million people |
| 1 | New Hampshire | 36 | 25.5 |
| 2 | District of Columbia | 13 | 18.5 |
| 3 | Colorado | 103 | 17.3 |
| 4 | Massachusetts | 110 | 15.4 |
| 5 | South Dakota | 14 | 15.1 |
| 6 | Utah | 52 | 14.8 |
| 7 | New Jersey | 137 | 14.4 |
| 8 | Rhode Island | 16 | 14.4 |
| 9 | Vermont | 9 | 13.9 |
| 10 | Idaho | 27 | 13.5 |
| 11 | Washington | 105 | 13.2 |
| 12 | New Mexico | 26 | 12.2 |
| 13 | Nebraska | 23 | 11.5 |
| 14 | North Dakota | 9 | 11.3 |
| 15 | Florida | 253 | 10.8 |
CorePower & the chains vs. independent studios
Of the 3,286 studios in the directory, 981 (30%) belong to a national chain and 2,305 are independent studios — hot yoga is still very much an independents’ game. The biggest chains in the directory: HOTWORX with 727 locations and CorePower Yoga with 166 locations.
| # | Chain | US locations in directory |
| 1 | HOTWORX | 727 |
| 2 | CorePower Yoga | 166 |
| 3 | YogaSix | 60 |
| 4 | Hot 8 Yoga | 15 |
| 5 | The Hot Yoga Spot | 6 |
| 6 | Modo Yoga | 3 |
America's hot yoga capitals
The cities with the most hot yoga studios in the directory, by raw count — the boutique-fitness towns where the heated rooms cluster thickest. Top of the list: Chicago, IL (32) · Denver, CO (27) · Houston, TX (24).
| # | City | Hot yoga studios |
| 1 | Chicago, IL | 32 |
| 2 | Denver, CO | 27 |
| 3 | Houston, TX | 24 |
| 4 | Atlanta, GA | 22 |
| 5 | New York, NY | 21 |
| 6 | Austin, TX | 20 |
| 7 | Brooklyn, NY | 20 |
| 8 | San Diego, CA | 19 |
| 9 | Nashville, TN | 19 |
| 10 | Dallas, TX | 19 |
America's densest hot yoga cities
Hot yoga studios per 100k residents, cities over 50k population. Raw counts favor the biggest metros, so this table is the other lens — the mid-size cities where heated studios cluster hardest per resident.
| # | City | Studios | Per 100k |
| 1 | Sarasota, FL | 7 | 12.1 |
| 2 | Encinitas, CA | 6 | 9.8 |
| 3 | Marietta, GA | 6 | 9.5 |
| 4 | Wheaton, IL | 5 | 9.3 |
| 5 | San Clemente, CA | 5 | 8 |
| 6 | Coral Gables, FL | 4 | 7.9 |
| 7 | Chapel Hill, NC | 5 | 7.8 |
| 8 | Cedar Park, TX | 6 | 7.7 |
| 9 | Alpharetta, GA | 5 | 7.4 |
| 10 | Pensacola, FL | 4 | 7.4 |
| 11 | Wilmington, NC | 9 | 7.2 |
| 12 | Grand Junction, CO | 5 | 7.1 |
| 13 | Bozeman, MT | 4 | 6.9 |
| 14 | Carmel, IN | 7 | 6.8 |
| 15 | Greenville, SC | 5 | 6.7 |
Inside the studios
Of the 3,286 studios in the directory, 935 are definitive hot yoga studios — heated rooms are their whole thing — with the rest being wellness studios and boutique gyms whose heated class schedule earns them a place here. We deliberately leave out cold-only yoga studios, gyms with no heated room, and lesson-only fitness services. From our review and website mining so far (these counts are floors — they require evidence, and enrichment is ongoing):
| Studios that… | Count | Share |
| Offer a free first class or intro deal | 1,253 | 38% |
| Are beginner-friendly | 2,568 | 78% |
| Run infrared-heated rooms | 1,416 | 43% |
| Offer teacher training | 1,089 | 33% |
| Accept ClassPass | 520 | 16% |
Small-town standouts worth the drive
Hot yoga studios in towns under 30,000 people that still pull hundreds or thousands of reviews — destination studios that outdraw their whole zip code.
- VASA Fitness — Clinton, UT ★ 4.2
- VASA Fitness — Villa Park, IL ★ 4.2
- Hot 8 Yoga — El Segundo, CA ★ 4.9
- Life Time — Beachwood, OH ★ 3.9
- HOTWORX - Cumming, GA — Cumming, GA ★ 5
- YogaSix Kingston — Kingston, MA ★ 5
- Equilibrium Movement — Cocoa Beach, FL ★ 5
- Island Yoga Coronado — Coronado, CA ★ 5
- HOTWORX - Cartersville, GA — Cartersville, GA ★ 5
- Yoga Health Center — San Carlos, CA ★ 4.9
- YogaSix Doylestown — Doylestown, PA ★ 4.9
- 8th State Hot Yoga + Fitness — Oconomowoc, WI ★ 5
- YogaSix Newtown — Newtown, PA ★ 4.9
- HOTWORX Bedford, NH | Hot Yoga, Pilates & Barre Workouts — Bedford, NH ★ 5
- HOTWORX - Lake Mary, FL — Lake Mary, FL ★ 4.9
More data: the full stats suite
Each deep-dive below is its own dataset page with a downloadable CSV — cite freely with a link.
- America's Hot Yoga Capitals — the cities with the most hot yoga studios, raw count and per resident (the big-metro-vs-boutique-town table).
- The 25 Best Cities for Hot Yoga — studio density × studio quality, scored for every US city over 50k.
- The Infrared Hot Yoga Map — 1,416 confirmed infrared-heated studios, mapped by state.
- Chain ratings: CorePower & the national chains — every location's Google rating, aggregated, plus the best-to-worst CorePower spread.
- America's most underserved hot yoga cities — the biggest US cities with zero or one hot yoga studio.