Best Cooling Mattresses: 13 Picks For Hot Sleepers

The best hybrid mattresses, as a rule, tend to run cooler, as their supportive coil-filled bases promote continuous airflow, allowing body heat to sink into the mattress and away from you for all-around cooler sleep. The Aurora Luxe builds upon that core design with a frosty cooling cover, heat-absorbing gel foam, and multiple breathable layers of comfort. In addition to its many temperature-regulating features, Brooklyn Bedding’s Aurora Luxe gets high marks for its comfortable, body-cradling feel, a trio of firmness levels, and especially durable construction.

For a mattress that’s both cooling and extremely comfortable, it’s well worth trying out Helix’s Midnight Luxe. You get a choice of either a breathable Tencel cover or a more advanced GlacioTex cover, which actively pulls heat away from the body (although the latter will set you back an extra $249). Beneath this lies three layers of memory foam, the middle of which is copper gel memory foam, designed to provide extra cooling along with its antimicrobial properties. This sits on top of around 1,000 individually wrapped coils, which also help to promote air flow and keep the bed cool. All in all, it’s a comfy, supportive, but cooling option for those who run hot and need a good night’s rest.

The dense body-cradling memory foams, pressure-relieving firmness level, and lasting durability of the Helix Plus were designed to cater to the needs of heavier sleepers, and when combined with the GlacioTex cover, it’s easily the best cooling mattress for anyone with a higher body mass index. (The Helix Plus line also made our list of the best mattress in a box brands.) The GlacioTex cover is optional, but its heat and moisture-wicking properties are surprisingly effective at keeping sleepers dry and cool, making it a must-have upgrade for those who are in need of an especially supportive and firm cooling mattress.

Side sleeping is the most common sleeping position by far, but that doesn’t mean just any old mattress will do. Since side sleeping puts pressure on your shoulders and hips, you need a mattress that will cradle those areas while still having enough supportiveness to keep your spine properly aligned. Nolah’s Evolution features multiple layers of foam for keeping those pressure points comfortable, while its layer of individually wrapped coils offers stability and support for your back. In short, it’s tailor-made for side sleepers.

Read the full review: Nolah Evolution Hybrid Mattress 15 Plush Review: The Ultimate Mattress for Side Sleepers

If you’re sharing a bed with someone else, motion isolation is an important aspect to consider, especially if one of you is a light sleeper and the other tends to move around a lot during the night. Motion isolation means that movement is not transferred from one spot on the bed to another, and Leesa’s Sapria Chill does a great job of this, despite how responsive and “bouncy” it feels to lie on. It’s also designed to be cooling, with multiple breathable or gel-infused layers of foam to help keep the temperature down for both of you.

If you love the pressure-relieving support and body-hugging feel of a memory foam mattress, but are having second thoughts because they’re notorious for retaining heat, this will grab your attention. This genuinely cozy mattress includes a series of heat-dispersing copper fibers woven into its cover, and has an airy feel thanks to its gel-infused foam. It also has three layers of premium ergonomic spine-aligning memory foam, making it the ultimate cooling memory foam mattress available today.

Purple’s proprietary GelFlex Grid mattress design is equally adept at soothing back pain and promoting a cool sleeping space, but their RestorePremier edition stands out as their go-to mattress for minimizing ongoing aches and pains. Its system of foam-topped coils provides an airy base that delivers full-body support and pressure relief, while Purple’s iconic grid of over 1,400 squares efficiently dissipates your body heat. One of the best mattresses for back pain, it also has excellent motion isolation for couples, and is comfortable and supportive for sleepers of all weights, while its rugged design will easily last for years to come.

Back and stomach sleepers are at their most comfortable when nodding off on an extra-firm mattress like Saava’s Loom & Leaf. This model features the excellent lumbar support and pressure relief of a high-end memory foam mattress, alongside a consistently breezy feel and high level of motion isolation that couples will absolutely appreciate. Those searching for an extra-firm and cool mattress will also enjoy this model’s airy topmost layer and gel-infused memory foam, joint cushioning support, and notably rugged construction.

Although the GravityLux is available in a trio of firmness levels, we appreciated how the softest edition cradles a sleeper’s whole body while providing a high level of spinal and pressure-related support. Its five durable layers of different memory foams are perfectly designed to suit the multiple pressure areas of side sleepers, while its body heat-absorbing and airy upper layers work together to keep them sweat-free and cool.

Although many of our favorite cooling mattresses cost well over $1,000, Zinus proves that you can upgrade your bedroom with a rock-solid hybrid model for far less. This inexpensive mattress features cooling, gel-infused memory foam for full-body pressure relief, without the heat-trapping properties of traditional memory foam. It also has a soft, breathable, moisture-wicking cover that’s effective at keeping sleepers with night sweats dry and comfortable. Zinus is a top option if you’re looking for a particularly convenient new bed, as their mattresses ship quickly and are a snap to set up, too.

Our favorite Casper mattress utilizes multiple advanced cooling technologies for a notably cooler feel, featuring premium spine and hip support to be dependably comfortable in all sleeping positions. The Wave Hybrid Snow is cool to the touch at its surface level, while its cool gel layer, set of five heat-dissipating graphite bands, and resilient collection of springs ensure that cooler air continuously circulates throughout the mattress. In addition to its cool feel, this model’s strategically placed gel support pods for extra waist and lower back support, back-aligning ergonomic design, and minimal motion transfer deliver a truly luxurious sleeping experience for warm-blooded sleepers. Shopping tip: The Casper Wave Hybrid Snow also made our list of the best queen mattresses.

A mattress that you can adjust to fit your temperature preferences at the press of a button already sounds great, especially for couples with vastly different sleep needs. But this premium smart bed delivers far more adjustability than the average cooling mattress: Not only can sleepers immediately cool down either side of the mattress via the iOS/Android app, this advanced mattress includes an equally effective heating feature, the ability to raise or lower the bed’s head and base, and the ability to adjust its namesake Sleep Number firmness level as needed, making this the most versatile cooling bed out there.

If you love the feel of your current mattress, but wish that your bed wasn’t so toasty, this high-tech mattress cover is the perfect solution. Simply place the Pod 3 over your existing mattress like you would with fitted sheets or mattress protectors, set up its Wi-Fi-connected companion app, and with just a few taps, the innovatively designed device will send chilled water throughout the cover to regulate your body temperature. In addition to being a snap to set up and use, the Pod 3 also sports a convenient wintertime heating function, a gentle and quiet vibration-based alarm option, and actively tracks and charts your sleep habits so you can learn how to snooze more soundly in the future.