Comment by LeCompteSftware
17 hours ago
No, it seems saunas have very low relative humidity except for briefly after you splash the hot rocks. "Relative" is the key term there: the absolute humidity is high, but the hot air can accept much more H20 and it will suck moisture off your body. So it is a dry environment according to humans.
According to this company plus some sketchy math I just did, the relative humidity can swing between 15% and 40%: all over the place, but generally pretty dry. https://www.vaisala.com/en/blog/2024-12/can-you-handle-heat-...
Yeah, I’ve taken hundreds of (Finnish) saunas (both electric and woodfired) and they all have one thing in common: they’re dry. It’s a bit more humid when you throw water on the rocks, but it generally stays between 10-40% RH. This is a good thing, as 90% RH at 90C would be uncomfortable to say the least.