With the temperatures heating up for summer, it's a good time to consider investing in a cooling mattress to help you avoid overheating at night. Even if you have your room equipped with a great cooling fan, the summer months can make it harder to stay cool and get a good night's rest. For folks who tend to run hot at night, certain mattresses can make it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep all night. Luckily, specialized cooling mattresses have minimal room for heat retention. They're a game-changer for hot sleepers.
Here's the thing about cooling bedding products: Not all of them actually cool you down. I've tested over 150 mattresses and spent hours researching the top mattress materials that are supposed to keep you cool. Below are my top choices for the best mattresses for hot sleepers, from beds made with cooling material (like gel-infused foam) that are cold to the touch to mattresses that allow maximum airflow to minimize heat retention.
If you’re looking for a cost-effective way to cool down your current mattress, check out our list of the best cooling mattress toppers. If temperature isn't exactly the problem, you can always check out the best mattresses for side sleepers or the best king-size mattresses.
What is the best cooling mattress?
There are several excellent cooling mattress options out there. The one that outshines the rest is the Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe. Thanks to its well-thought-out construction, it's the best overall cooling mattress in our roundup and literally one of the coolest mattresses I've tested. When you run your hands across the bed, the cover physically feels cold thanks to the TitanCool material.
The Brooklyn Bedding Aurora mattress is a premium bed with a soft, squishy foam that bounces quickly back as you move around on it. You have three firmness options, giving you the ability to tailor the mattress to your body type and sleeping position. It's the kind of mattress that anyone will like. That's why it's the best cooling mattress you can get.
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Our take - The Brooklyn Bedding Aurora Luxe mattress tops my list of the best cooling mattresses thanks to the ample pressure relief and impressive cooling technology. It's over 13 inches thick and is stacked with six different layers. On top of the high-density base foam foundation is a layer of hefty 8-inch zoned coils to enhance edge support and motion isolation. The top comfort layers are made with Brooklyn Bedding's special Copperflex foam and GlacioTex Cooling Cover, designed to absorb and draw heat away from your body and create a cool-to-the-touch feel.
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Firmness
Soft: (3) Medium: (5) Medium firm: (7)
Warranty
10-year limited warranty
Our take - Thanks to its unique six-layer construction and cover that’s cool to the touch, the Leesa Legend Chill Hybrid mattress is ideal for couples who sleep too hot at night. With two layers of micro-coils and zoned springs, it provides the comforting feel of foam with the benefits of increased airflow and extra lumbar support. Its cushiony quilt top is infused with cooling fibers that help you maintain an ideal temperature by pulling heat away from the body.
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Warranty
10-year limited warranty
Our take - Some hot sleepers don't want to drop more than $1,500 on a new mattress. Cocoon Chill is a budget bed that fits perfectly on my list of the best cooling mattresses for hot sleepers. It comes in a 12-inch hybrid or a 10-inch all-foam model, but I recommend the hybrid because it offers more airflow and ventilation than the foam Cocoon Chill.
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Type
cooling memory foam mattress
Firmness
medium to medium-firm or 6
Warranty
10-year warranty
Our take - Tempur-Pedic is a household name and one of the most popular bedding brands in the world. The Tempur-Adapt line includes three luxury mattresses that are equipped with cooling covers. My favorite is the ProAdapt, which comes in three firmness levels, so anyone can find one that works for them. They also offer a hybrid model with medium firmness, depending on how supportive you want your Tempur-Pedic mattress to be.
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Type
memory foam hybrid mattress
Firmness
6 or medium to medium-firm
Warranty
10-year limited warranty
Our take - Hybrid mattresses with a medium-firm profile are ideal for back pain because they provide ample support to keep your spine in alignment with your neck and keep your lower back from sagging into the mattress. The Avocado Green mattress checks many boxes for back pain sufferers who want a breathable mattress, and it has a ton of eco-friendly benefits.
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Firmness
7 or medium-firm with the pillow top (9 or firm without)
Warranty
25-year limited warranty
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Type
cooling mattress cover
Warranty
five-year warranty
Our CNET Sleep editors have hundreds of mattress testing hours on their resumes; they know the beds that shine and the beds that are underwhelming. With so many to test and so few spots on our list, we aren't able to showcase every quality cooling mattress. We do want to give a few more beds the honorable mention they deserve.
Purple mattress: The original Purple mattress uses a Hyper-Elastic Gel Polymer grid that has a ton of air pockets. It's one of the best materials for not retaining heat. We rate it around a medium or five out of 10 on the firmness scale.
Loom & Leaf mattress: With two firmness levels that sit toward the firm end of the spectrum (medium-firm and firm) and a special cooling gel layer, Loom & Leaf is a great mattress to help with temperature regulation. You sit more on top of the mattress rather than inside, and the cooling gel is actually effective.
WinkBeds EcoCloud mattress: WinkBeds doesn't actively cool you, but it's made with a breathable, non-heat-retaining latex foam material and pocketed coils. This allows for increased airflow, breathability and comfort. Not to mention, latex beds are hypoallergenic and antimicrobial.
Nectar Premier/Premier Copper mattress: These are Nectar's premium mattresses, made with cooling gel foam inside and a cooling cover that helps wick away moisture. The Copper model takes it a step further with added copper fibers that help absorb heat from your body and disperse it throughout the bed. They're rated around a six to seven on the firmness scale, so you don't sink into the foam as much.
Saatva mattress: Saatva is a pillow-top mattress that contains breathable materials and offers firm profiles that help you rest more comfortably at night if you're a hot sleeper. It's a luxury mattress available in two different heights and three different firmness levels. That means it can accommodate all body types and most sleeping positions unless you're a strict side sleeper who wants a plush and fluffy mattress.
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