The Best Cooling Sheets, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

Honorable Mentions

We've tested dozens of cooling sheets. Here are a fewer others we for illustration but not arsenic overmuch arsenic nan options above.

Bedsure Bamboo Cooling Sheet Set for $60: These bamboo sheets are immoderate of nan champion affordable sheets we've found, though not arsenic cooling arsenic our apical picks.

Brooklinen Classic Percale Core Sheet Set for $189: These are a awesome group of cooling percale sheets that person that ace crisp consciousness to them. I for illustration softer sets that support you conscionable arsenic cool, but these are a awesome action if you for illustration a crisper touch.

Brooklinen Washed Linen Core Sheet Set for $359: These sheets are good linen, but they commencement retired rougher than different linen we recommend, and I felt cooler sleeping connected nan picks above. There's an updated type of this expanse available, which I'm presently testing, and will update this communicative soon pinch my notes.

Cariloha Classic Bamboo Sheet Set for $239: This is simply a bully bamboo expanse set, and good for cooling properties arsenic good arsenic everything other we emotion astir bamboo. The sets supra are lighter, but these are a safe acquisition arsenic well. Cariloha's Retreat Sheets ($339) besides travel pinch a securing strap if you person a gangly mattress.

The Citizenry Stonewashed Linen Sheet Set for $299: These linen sheets from The Citizenry are my absolute favourite linen. They're breathable and among nan softest linen sheets I've tried. They person a somewhat heavier consciousness than Pottery Barn's sheets, moreover though they some person a weight of 160 grams per quadrate meter.

Coop Comphy Percale Sheet Set for $179: Like Brooklinen, these are awesome percale sheets pinch a much classic, crisp feel—which makes sense, since Coop designs its linens to consciousness for illustration edifice linens. They're awesome to slumber on, but you'll person less colour options than you do pinch Brooklinen.

Cozy Earth Bamboo Sheet Set for $330: These sheets are insanely soft and consciousness crystal acold erstwhile you climb into bed, which I love. But these are thicker than Ettitude, above, and they warmed up much aft lying successful them for much than 10 minutes. These are sheets I'd usage year-round, but I still for illustration Ettitude and Nuzzie amended for hotter nights.

Luxome Bamboo Luxury Sheet Set for $185: These bamboo sheets are soft and cooling, but are a small heavier than we'd for illustration compared to nan remainder of our picks. They're still a awesome bamboo group for nan price, though.

My Sheets Rock nan Regulator Sheets for $199: These bamboo sheets are cool and silky to nan touch. I didn't aftermath up sweaty, but I didn't aftermath up arsenic cool arsenic I expected.

Naturepedic Organic Linen Sheet Set for $549: These sheets person a heavier weight while still staying cool and breathable, but they're a large finance and aren't rather arsenic soft arsenic our different recommendations.

Parachute Percale Sheet Set for $269: This is different bully percale set, but a small pricey compared to others we've tried and loved. WIRED reviewer Julian Chokkattu says they've held up good against his dog, which is simply a bully bonus, but different WIRED staffers person said newer sets of nan sheets haven't lasted.

Pom Pom astatine Home Bamboo Sateen Sheet Set for $368: These bamboo sheets are bully and not excessively heavy, but costs much than nan astir cooling sets I tried.

Pure Parima Ultra Percale Sheet Set for $230: These Egyptian fabric percale sheets are softer than astir different percale, and they are breathable and ace comfortable to slumber on. They're much of a splurge, but not nan astir costly percale retired there.

Quince Bamboo Sheet Set for $130: These sheets consciousness overmuch nicer than nan value suggests, and they are silky and cool, pinch a bully weight to them. Not rather arsenic breathable arsenic our apical picks, but still excellent.

Rest Evercool Cooling Sheet Set for $299: These sheets were ace silky and chilly to nan touch, but nan apical expanse ended up leaving maine emotion basking successful nan mediate of nan night, moreover while testing successful spring. You tin skip nan apical expanse and prevention $90, though, if nan cooling and antimicrobial exertion successful these sheets sound up your alley.

Riley Percale Sheet Set for $260: These percale sheets are bully and crisp, but expensive. They're bully sheets, but we were happier pinch nan cheaper options we recommend, aliases nan Pure Parima sheets above.

Saatva Percale Sheet Set for $205: This group is simply a small much costly but has only a 200 thread count, making these an extra-light percale set. Even pinch specified a ray sheet, it's still soft and comfortable to slumber on.

Sheets to Skip

When you trial truthful galore sheets, location are bound to beryllium duds. Avoid these cooling sheets.

Casper Hyperlite Sheet Set for $139: These sheets are made pinch Tencel lyocell, making them cool to nan touch. They're ace bladed too, allowing for bully airflow. They are cool to slumber on, but they mislaid nan softness aft a mates washes, and they consciousness excessively bladed to past overmuch longer.

Coop CoolSpa Sheet Set for $179: These nylon sheets are ace soft to nan touch, but my hubby and I some woke up basking erstwhile sleeping connected these.

Thuma Linen Sheet Set for $315: These linen sheets are incredibly lightweight, but 1 of nan pillowcases divided astatine nan seams aft conscionable a fewer washes, truthful I wouldn't splurge connected these.

Anything pinch a precocious thread count: A batch of folks deliberation higher thread count intends amended sheets, afloat stop. But that isn't nan afloat story. A higher thread count makes for heavier, little breathable sheets, truthful you'll want to skip nan thread counting if you're moving warm. I thin to for illustration sheets pinch a 300 thread count erstwhile I want to enactment cool astatine night, and 400 is nan highest I'll usually go. Not each sheets see a thread count, but a missing thread count often intends it isn't precocious capable to brag astir (but successful this case, that's a bully thing!)

FAQs

What Makes Sheets Cooling?

There's a batch of terminology thrown astir successful nan world of cooling sheets and cooling mattresses. Temperature regulating! Airflow! Moisture wicking! Phase-change material! Most of nan time, these features travel backmost to really breathable nan sheets are. Breathability intends moisture tin amended evaporate, and “temperature-regulating” usually intends nan sheets are breathable capable to merchandise nan power and moisture from your body.

What makes sheets breathable? Cotton, flax linen, and bamboo person awesome breathability, but not each sheets are made equally, truthful worldly unsocial isn't a guarantee. Weave, arsenic successful percale's one-over-one threads versus sateen's three-over-one, and weight (including thread count) of nan bedding comes into play. Higher thread counts are little breathable, and tighter weaves will beryllium little breathable too. The yarn wrong nan cloth is besides important, arsenic good arsenic really twisted it is—a higher twist makes for a smoother, cooler consciousness to nan fabric, while a loose twist isn't arsenic soft and tin trap heat.

Some companies dainty sheets pinch thing called phase-change materials, aliases PCMs, which are substances that sorb and merchandise power to either power aliases cool an area. “PCMs create a microclimate,” says Karen Leonas, a professor of textile sciences astatine nan Wilson College of Textiles astatine North Carolina State University. Excess assemblage power is absorbed by these materials and past released to nan assemblage erstwhile it's cool.

These treatments tin raise nan value of cooling sheets, but they're not ace celebrated yet, and it's difficult to find really good incorporated it is into nan fabric. “PCMs spell done thermal cyclic testing and person shown to past a agelong time," Leonas says. “If this is simply a aboveground treatment, location is nan possibility that immoderate of nan microcapsules will beryllium mislaid owed to abrasion.” Parima Ijaz, CEO of Pure Parima, agrees and says these treatments sometimes only past up to 10 washes. There are only a fistful of sheets connected nan marketplace that tout their usage of PCMs, and our guideline focuses connected breathable materials and weaves alternatively than these treatments. It's worthy noting that PCMs will past overmuch longer connected a foam mattress, according to Leonas. If you're still sweating astatine nighttime aft switching to cooling sheets, effort a cooling mattress.

I Got Cooling Sheets. Why Am I Still Hot astatine Night?

If you've purchased cooling sheets and are still waking up sweating, present are a fewer things to consider:

• Check your different layers: How basking is your comforter aliases immoderate different blankets you person connected your bed? I for illustration to slumber pinch a cooling comforter for illustration Buffy's Cloud Comforter ($195) to enactment cool astatine night, aliases will sometimes skip a comforter aliases broad entirely.
• Check your mattress: If your mattress is retaining a batch of heat, there's only truthful overmuch a group of sheets tin hole that for you. Foam mattresses successful peculiar tin clasp a batch of heat, particularly representation foam ones. I really for illustration my organic, breathable mattress from Plank, but we've besides sewage an full guideline to cooling mattresses. You tin besides research devices for illustration nan Eight Sleep Pod 3 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) to thief modulate nan somesthesia astir your mattress, aliases adhd a mattress topper pinch cooling properties.
• Check nan airflow and somesthesia successful your bedroom: Airflow is an important and powerful point for staying cool. You mightiness find you request to add a fan to your bedroom, aliases adhd a somesthesia sensor to your chamber to alert a smart thermostat for illustration nan Nest Learning Thermostat (9/10, WIRED Recommends) to move connected and cool your chamber off. (Bonus: nan Nest really comes pinch some a thermostat and a somesthesia sensor to brace it with.)

How I Test Cooling Sheets

I'm judge you tin conjecture it: I trial sheets by sleeping connected them. But I do much than conscionable sleep, of course. I did side-by-side comparisons of different sets to comparison weight and breathability. I besides spent clip sitting successful furniture awake. It's not nan aforesaid arsenic erstwhile you sleep, since your assemblage somesthesia drops astatine night, and I wanted to spot really overmuch nan sheets would lukewarm up if you weren't afloat asleep. I did each my testing pinch either Buffy's Cloud Comforter ($200) aliases Cozy Earth's Bamboo Comforter ($425) complete nan apical sheet, and each of nan recommended sets supra stayed cool and breathable. All sheets are tested for a minimum of 3 nights of sleep, usually person to a week, and are washed a minimum of 2 times earlier included successful my guideline to cheque for immoderate value issues.

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