Five banyas in the whole country are closed on Sundays. We went through 2,068 schedules with a readable timetable and found no category that has no day off at all. 2,063 banyas and saunas are open on Sunday, which is 99.8%. For comparison: 96.5% of nail studios work on Sunday, and 24% of speech therapy centers
| closing hour | businesses | share |
|---|---|---|
| 24:00 | 1,282 | 62.0% |
| 23:00 | 244 | 11.8% |
| 02:00 | 160 | 7.7% |
| 01:00 | 136 | 6.6% |
| 22:00 | 90 | 4.4% |
| 03:00 | 72 | 3.5% |
| 21:00 and earlier | 40 | 1.9% |
Six businesses in ten close exactly at midnight. Another 406 work past midnight, until three and later. Everything that closes before nine in the evening fits into forty businesses for the whole country
They open early, though: 1,063 banyas work before 09:00, a little over half
| city | businesses | open on Sunday |
|---|---|---|
| Astana | 406 | 406 |
| Almaty | 382 | 382 |
| Shymkent | 258 | 256 |
| Karaganda | 218 | 216 |
| Kostanay | 75 | 74 |
| Uralsk | 72 | 72 |
| Aktobe | 71 | 71 |
| Taraz | 66 | 66 |
| Aktau | 64 | 64 |
| Pavlodar | 64 | 64 |
| Kyzylorda | 62 | 62 |
| Semey | 59 | 59 |
| Ust-Kamenogorsk | 54 | 54 |
| Atyrau | 53 | 53 |
In eight cities out of fourteen, all banyas without exception work on Sunday. The spread we saw with dance schools and dental clinics is absent here
The hours are the same everywhere, so the choice is made on something else. A banya is booked by a group, arranged in advance, with questions about the steam room, the pool, and capacity. The conversation is longer than in any beauty category: three or four questions before a booking
The request also arrives at the hour when the banya is busy with a shift. Friday evening is the time of both requests and full occupancy
The hour of the reply matters more than usual here: a group of six people who got no answer by evening will arrange things elsewhere by morning
Three numbers from your chat history over the last three months:
The difference between the first and third numbers is the price of evening silence in this category
The source is the open listings of banyas, saunas, and steam rooms in Kazakhstan with a parsed schedule, with the status "active". The category was determined by the listing's rubric, selected by rubric name without regard to case. The city table keeps cities with 20 or more businesses. Counted on September 3, 2026
Numbers in this article come from our own database of public directories in Kazakhstan, counted on September 3, 2026. We count them ourselves and never take them from other reports