Best Cooling Mattresses for Hot Sleepers of 2023

Few things can ruin a good night’s sleep like waking up in the predawn hours feeling hot, flushed and sweaty. Whether you’re dealing with night sweats or you’re just a hot sleeper in general, you need a mattress with great airflow and breathability to help you enjoy uninterrupted sleep. Many of today’s top-rated mattresses are up to the task, using everything from gel-infused foam to airflow-friendly hybrid designs to limit the amount of heat that gets trapped in the mattress.

We’ve tested more than 150 products and chosen our list of best mattresses for hot sleepers so that you can find the right temperature-regulating mattress. Compare our selections for top cooling mattresses, and then check out our buyer’s guide to pick up some tips for sleeping cooler and learn how mattress companies use science to help you chill out.

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Best Mattress for Hot Sleepers: Our Top Picks

• Best Cooling Mattress for Couples – Cocoon Chill
• Best Cooling Mattress for Back Pain – Helix Midnight Luxe
• Best Cooling Mattress for Side Sleepers – Nectar
• Best Cooling Mattress for Pressure Relief – Saatva Latex Hybrid
• Best Cooling Hybrid Mattress – Brooklyn Aurora Luxe
• Best Cooling Mattress for Athletes – Bear Original
• Best Cooling Memory Foam Mattress – WinkBeds GravityLux
• Best Cooling Mattress for Seniors – DreamCloud Premier
• Best Cooling Mattress for Combination Sleepers – Nolah Signature 12″
• Best Cooling Mattress for Stomach Sleepers – Leesa Original Hybrid

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When we evaluate mattresses for hot sleepers, we expand our review process to put additional focus on each product’s:

• Mattress Advisor cooling score. How it performed in testing, from 1-10
• Materials. Whether it uses latex, gel-infused memory foam, etc.
• Design. Whether it’s an all-foam mattress or a layered hybrid

See our recap to find out how our featured mattresses stack up against these criteria.

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Cocoon Chill

The Cocoon Chill incorporates some of Sealy’s signature cooling technology, including phase-change material that makes the surface cool to the touch. What makes it a great couples mattress is its 9/10 motion transfer score, which should help you and your sleep partner shift and move without disturbing each other’s sleep.

The Cocoon Chill earns a 7.5/10 cooling score in our testing process, which isn’t bad for a memory foam bed. Its 8.5/10 pressure relief score is a promising sign for couples with aches and pains.

Sealy offers the option of upgrading from the all-foam model to the Chill Hybrid, which includes the addition of a coil layer. You can also add Extra-Chill Foam to either model. Choosing one or both of these options will almost certainly improve cooling, although they involve additional cost.

Read our full Cocoon Chill mattress review or explore our top picks for the best mattresses for couples. 

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Helix Midnight Luxe

A mattress that supports proper spinal alignment can do a lot to help alleviate back pain. The Helix Midnight Luxe scored a 9/10 on the spine alignment test, meaning it does a great job of keeping your spine positioned in such a way that supports its natural curve.

The Midnight Luxe combines the right amount of pressure-relieving foam with supportive coils to cradle the body without letting you feel stuck in the foam layer. This hybrid also earns a near-perfect 9.5/10 Mattress Advisor cooling score, putting it in the elite class of cooling mattresses.

In addition to being great for back pain, the Helix Midnight Luxe has features designed to keep sleepers cool throughout the night. The ultra-cool pillow top absorbs and releases excess body heat, making for a more comfortable, restful night’s sleep.

Read our full Helix Midnight Luxe mattress review or check out our roundup of best mattresses for back pain.

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Nectar

Side sleepers who want to sleep cooler without overheating their wallets should consider the Nectar Memory Foam mattress. Memory foam is a great material for side sleepers, and the Nectar mattress uses foam infused with semi-liquid gel to help prevent body heat from building up inside the mattress and getting trapped.

The Nectar scores a 7.75/10 for cooling in Mattress Advisor testing, which is respectable for an all-foam mattress. To get more cooling effects, you can add a NectarTech Extra Cooling Cover for an additional charge.

The Nectar’s 6/10 firmness and performance in pressure relief (8.5/10 score) should accommodate many side sleepers and even some back sleepers. Also worth noting are Nectar’s lifetime warranty and 365-night sleep trial, both of which beat industry standards.

Read our full Nectar mattress review or compare our top picks for the best mattresses for side sleepers.

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Saatva Latex Hybrid

The combination of a hybrid construction and naturally cooling latex creates a cooling bed that relieves pressure in the hips, lower back, and shoulders. The medium-firm Saatva Latex Hybrid scores a 9/10 for pressure relief in Mattress Advisor testing, which makes it an excellent choice for gently supporting your pressure-sensitive areas.

Not only are the Saatva Latex Hybrid’s materials great for cooling (we give it an 8.5/10 cooling score), latex is bouncy and responsive so combination sleepers can easily change positions. Talalay latex is also known for its breathability.

For hot sleepers with allergies, the Saatva Latex Hybrid repels dust, mold, and other allergens. With free white-glove delivery, the Saatva Latex Hybrid can seamlessly be added to your bedroom.

Read our full Saatva Latex Hybrid review. To compare more latex beds, check out our roundup of the best latex mattresses.

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Brooklyn Aurora Luxe

The Aurora Luxe hybrid from Brooklyn Bedding incorporates a combination of gel-infused memory foam and breathable coils for a cooler sleep experience. Three of its six layers are designed with cooling in mind, which helps explain its 9.5/10 Mattress Advisor cooling score.

Restless sleepers will appreciate the Aurora Luxe’s responsiveness, as it earns a 9.25/10 Mattress Advisor score in that testing category. The layer of TitanFlex foam is designed to respond to the body’s movements and adjust to each sleeper, while the coils help prevent the sensation of sinking too deep into the mattress.

Because it’s available in three different firmnesses (soft, medium, and firm), the Aurora Luxe should accommodate any sleeping position comfortably.

Read our full Brooklyn Aurora Luxe review or check out the best hybrid mattresses reviewed by our experts.

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Bear Original

If night sweats make it a challenge for you to rest, recover and recharge, the Bear Original could be a great addition to your lineup. This memory foam model from Bear—a brand endorsed by numerous professional and amateur athletes—has an impressive 9/10 cooling score. A cool sleep environment is critical for people with active lifestyles, since their core body temperature tends to run a bit hotter than average.

The graphite gel foam is the MVP in the Bear Original’s cooling performance and breathability. Another feature tailored to athletes is a cover woven with Celliant fibers designed to promote muscle recovery and restorative sleep. At 6.5/10 on the firmness scale, this mattress should be a great fit for back sleepers.

Bear offers a lifetime warranty and a 120-night sleep trial to try out your new mattress.

Read our full Bear Original mattress review or check out our roundup of the best mattresses for athletes.

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WinkBeds GravityLux

All-foam mattresses can feel too doughy for some sleepers because they don’t have a coil layer. The WinkBeds GravityLux gets ahead of this issue with its AirCell Memory Foam, which contains billions of tiny air capsules that provide the type of shock absorption and responsiveness typical of a spring mattress.

Another area where the GravityLux performs better than most memory foam mattresses is cooling (8/10 Mattress Advisor score). Most of the credit goes to the AirCell foam, as well as a eucalyptus-derived mattress cover designed to wick away moisture.

The GravityLux is available in soft, medium, or firm. We tested the medium option and found that it performed well for every sleeping position. Its 9/10 scores for both spine alignment and pressure relief are good news for people with back pain and joint soreness.

Read our full WinkBeds GravityLux mattress review or check out our roundup of the best memory foam mattresses.

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DreamCloud Premier

Seniors shopping for a mattress that can keep them cool will want to take a look at the DreamCloud Premier, a luxury hybrid mattress with six layers and an 8.5/10 Mattress Advisor cooling score.

The DreamCloud Premier performed well in our edge support test (8.5/10) and pressure relief test (9/10). Good edge support helps ensure that you will be able to support yourself using the perimeter of the mattress, which makes getting in and out of bed much easier. Pressure relief takes some of the strain off of sensitive areas of your body like the hips and shoulders.

The DreamCloud’s cooling abilities owe a lot to its hybrid design, which includes a layer of airflow-friendly coils and gel memory foam designed to disperse body heat.

Read our full DreamCloud Premier mattress review or check out our roundup of the best mattresses for seniors.

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Nolah Signature 12″

Combination sleepers need a mattress that allows them to move around and switch positions easily, so a high responsiveness score is essential. The Nolah Signature 12″ scored an impressive 9.5/10 on our responsiveness lab test, making it our top choice for combination sleepers in need of a cooling mattress.

The responsive feel of the Nolah Signature comes from its construction, which combines four different types of foam to create a sleep experience that doesn’t sacrifice comfort or support. The top layers of AirFoam and high-resilience foam deliver pressure relief, while the bottom to layers provide the sturdy foundation that contributes to the bed’s bounciness.

As far as cooling goes, the Nolah Signature 12″ scored an 8/10 thanks to its temperature-neutral AirFoam and the organic, moisture-wicking cover.

Read our full Nolah Signature 12″ mattress review or see our roundup of best mattresses for combination sleepers.

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Leesa Original Hybrid

Getting a restful night’s sleep in the stomach sleeping position can be a challenge, made even more challenging if you sleep hot. We think the Leesa Original Hybrid could be the answer, as it has one of the highest cooling scores of any mattress we’ve tested.

This new Leesa mattress earns a downright chilly 9.5/10 cooling score in the Mattress Advisor sleep lab. With a 6.5/10 firmness rating and a foam\pocket coil design, it should be supportive enough for most average-weight stomach sleepers.

The Leesa Original Hybrid has a 9/10 score for pressure relief and an 8.5/10 score for spine alignment. Those scores bode well for stomach sleepers, who need a mattress that keeps their hips and lower back in a healthy alignment as it cushions those pressure-sensitive areas.

Read our full Leesa Original Hybrid mattress review or check out our roundup of best mattresses for stomach sleepers.

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How to Find the Best Cooling Mattress for You

A mattress that regulates your temperature well does more than provide comfort. It can also help you avoid sleep interruptions—getting so overheated that you wake up in the middle of the night. For people who tend to sleep hot or suffer from night sweats, the right cooling mattress can be one of the keys to getting a healthy, restorative night’s sleep on a consistent basis.

In this guide, we’ll shed some light (but hopefully no heat) on the role of materials and design in producing the best cooling mattresses. We’ll also share some tips to help you chill out at night.

• Who Should Get a Cooling Mattress?
• Best Types of Mattresses for Hot Sleepers
• How Do Cooling Mattresses Work?
• Tips on How to Sleep Cooler

Who Should Get a Cooling Mattress?

While just about anybody can benefit from staying cool and comfortable at night, some types of sleepers might benefit even more.

• People with certain medical conditions. An overactive thyroid, rheumatoid arthritis, and other disorders can lead to increased body temperature.
• People above average weight. Heavier people tend to have higher body temperatures than people of average weight.
• Menopausal women. The best mattresses for menopause can help women experiencing one of the most common symptoms, hot flashes.
• People who live in hot, humid climates. In some regions, high temperatures and stifling humidity don’t always take the night off.
• Athletes and people with active lifestyles. Getting regular exercise can lead to a slight increase in core body temperature.

Best Types of Mattresses for Hot Sleepers

Not all mattress types do as well at dispersing your built-up body heat. Let’s examine the materials found in many mattresses and find out what makes them ideal (or less than ideal) for hot sleepers.

Mattress Type	Good for Hot Sleepers?
Innerspring	✅
Hybrid	✅
Latex	✅
Gel-infused foam	✅
Conventional memory foam	❌
Polyfoam	❌

Innersprings and Hybrids

With innerspring mattresses, air is able to circulate in the spaces between the coils to provide breathability. Steel coils in particular are resistant to absorbing or retaining body heat.

Likewise, a hybrid mattress that includes an innerspring layer offers more breathability than an all-foam or all-latex design since it’s not made from a solid block of material. Many modern mattresses, even those with innersprings, also contain a memory foam top layer. If two or more inches of memory foam are in an innerspring mattress, it’s considered a memory foam hybrid.

Latex

A latex mattress will generally keep you cool thanks to aeration—the tiny air holes punched into the material. Natural latex (made from rubber-tree sap) has greater cooling properties than most synthetic products, which might not have the same breathability and aeration properties. But even synthetic latex isn’t known to absorb heat, unless it’s combined with memory foam or polyfoam.

Traditional Memory Foam

Memory foam mattresses have a general reputation as being heat-trapping and bad for hot sleepers. However, a lot depends on the design. Gel-infused foam generally sleeps cooler than traditional memory foam, for example, and breathable mattress toppers and fabric covers can help you sleep cooler.

Related: How to Make a Memory Foam Mattress Cooler

How Do Cooling Mattresses Work?

When you’re lying on a mattress, usually covered by one or more layers of bedding and whatever clothing you have on, your body heat naturally tends to build up. If your core temperature gets significantly higher than the ambient temperature around you, the body compensates with a process called thermoregulation—meaning that you start to sweat.

However, certain materials and designs can reduce the amount of heat that builds up in the mattress. Examples include:

• Gel-infused foam: Adding semi-liquid gel beds helps counteract memory foam’s structural tendency to absorb and retain heat.
• Perforated memory foam and latex: Some mattresses use memory foam or latex foam manufactured with tiny holes to allow air to better circulate through the material.
• Innerspring layers: Hybrid mattresses with coil layers have a built-in cooling advantage since the empty spaces in and around the coils add breathability.

So how well do cooling mattresses work? Some mattress companies cite specific numbers to illustrate their effectiveness at cooling. Tempur-Pedic, for example, claims that its Tempur-breeze model can make you feel three to eight degrees cooler. Casper says its Wave Hybrid Snow mattress sleeps “six degrees cooler for at least 12 hours.”

Since your core temperature normally falls 1-2 degrees in the second stage of light sleep, an increase can disrupt the process. A mattress that can keep you cooler by even a few degrees could make a huge difference in the quality of your sleep.

Tips on How to Sleep Cooler

For very hot sleepers, cooling mattress technology might not be enough on its own. Here’s a list of steps you can take give your bedroom a cooling boost:

Lower the Room’s Temperature

One sleep psychologist recommends 67-70 degrees as the ideal temperature range for sleep—which could seriously crank up your summertime power bills. If sub-70 is too cool for your energy budget, you could always aim for 72-74 degrees.

Related: How to Sleep Better in the Summer: 13 Tips to Stay Cool

Use Cooling Mattress Accessories

• A cooling mattress topper or mattress pad made with latex foam or copper, graphite, or gel-infused memory foam
• Cooling sheets made of moisture wicking fabrics such as cotton or bamboo-derived rayon (some companies even make cooling comforters and cooling weighted blankets)
• Cooling pillows made from bamboo fiber, gel, latex foam, or charcoal-infused foam, with breathable fabric covers

Keep Your Bedding Clean

Not to gross you out, but dirt could be one reason why you feel overheated at night. Sheets, pillowcases, and mattress covers that are clogged with dead skin cells and dried sweat don’t have the best airflow. Consider washing your bed linens as often as once a week to get rid of the grime.

Use Lower Thread Count Sheets

An unfortunate side effect of bedding with high thread counts is that the more threads leave less room for air to circulate through the fabric. Looser weaves might not convey the same sense of luxuriousness, but they do provide better airflow.

Try Some Cool Sleepwear

What you wear to bed also affects temperature. Try some loose-fitting cotton or rayon fiber sleepwear instead of those beloved sweatpants. Alternatively, you could even consider forgoing clothes altogether (yes, we mean sleeping naked).

Circulate and Dehumidify the Air

Use your bedroom ceiling fan, or a plug-in fan aimed at your bed, to keep the air circulating. You could also use a dehumidifier to keep indoor humidity between 30% and 50%, making your sleep environment less muggy.

Try a Cooling Sleep Mask

It won’t affect your mattress, but a high-quality sleep mask could offer an easy way to make you feel cooler. Some masks have removable gel inserts that you can put in the freezer before bedtime and then re-insert into the mask when it’s time to turn in.

Related: 10 Tips to Stay Cool While Sleeping

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A Closer Look at Our Selections

In evaluating our best cooling mattresses for hot sleepers, we focus on each product’s Mattress Advisor cooling score, the cooling properties of its materials, how well the design promotes airflow and breathability. Here’s how our featured mattresses stack up:

Mattress	AVERAGE (OUT OF 10) FOR COOLING SCORE, MATERIALS, AND DESIGN
Cocoon Chill	8.2
Helix Midnight Luxe	9.2
Nectar	8.1
Saatva Latex Hybrid	8.9
Brooklyn Aurora Luxe	8.8
Bear Original	8.7
WinkBeds GravityLux	9.1
DreamCloud Premier	8.9
Nolah Signature 12″	8.6
Leesa Original Hybrid	9.1