Trends · data through September 2026

Tanning Salons in the United States

Iceflower tracks 3,361 stores from 1,579 tanning salon chains in the United States. Celebrity Tanning grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Westside Tan and Midnite Sun.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,579
Tracked stores
3,361
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked tanning salon chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Celebrity Tanning and Westside Tan sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Celebrity Tanning logo Celebrity Tanning ▲3 +18.9%
2 W Westside Tan ▲10 +18.5%
3 M Midnite Sun ▲10 +17.1%
4 M Maximum Tan ▲3 +16.9%
5 T Total Tan ▲6 +16.6%
6 U Under the Sun ▲7 +14.6%
7 G Golden Glow ▲8 +14.3%
8 T The Tanning Studio ▲8 +13.4%
9 E Electric Sun Tanning Salon ▲7 +13.2%
10 A After Glow ▲8 +13.1%
11 T TNT Tanning ▲1 +10.9%
12 S Sundown Tan ▲7 +9.9%
13 B Buy the Beach ▲7 +9.5%
14 T Tan Republic logo Tan Republic ▲2 +7.8%
15 T The Tanning Co. ▲2 +7.7%
  • Palm Beach Tan
  • Sun Tan City
  • Superior Tan
  • L.A. Tan
  • Glo Tanning
  • A Total Tan
  • Desert Sun Tanning Salons
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,361 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Palm Beach Tan (644)
  • Sun Tan City (264)
  • Superior Tan (2)
  • L.A. Tan (69)
  • Glo Tanning (49)
  • A Total Tan (7)
  • Desert Sun Tanning Salons (22)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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