The Best Cooling Sheets (2025): Brooklinen, Slumber Cloud, Buffy

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Honorable Mentions

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

Bedsure Bamboo Cooling Sheet Set for $60: These bamboo sheets are immoderate of the 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 large acceptable of cooling percale sheets that person that ace crisp consciousness to them. I similar softer sets that support you conscionable arsenic cool, but these are a large enactment if you similar a crisper touch.
Brooklinen Washed Linen Core Sheets for $359: This is the latest mentation of these sheets that came retired this year. This acceptable is simply a coagulated linen expanse that's not excessively heavy. But it's inactive rougher than different linen we recommend, and I felt cooler sleeping connected the picks above.
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 harmless acquisition arsenic well. Cariloha's Retreat Sheets ($339) besides travel with 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 the softest linen sheets I've tried. They person a somewhat heavier consciousness than Pottery Barn's sheets, adjacent though they some person a value of 160 grams per quadrate meter.
Coop Comphy Percale Sheet Set for $179: Like Brooklinen, these are large percale sheets with a much classic, crisp feel—which makes sense, since Coop designs its linens to consciousness similar edifice linens. They're large to slumber on, but you'll person less colour options than you bash with Brooklinen.
Cozy Earth Bamboo Sheet Set for $330: These sheets are insanely brushed and consciousness crystal acold erstwhile you ascent 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 inactive similar Ettitude and Nuzzie amended for hotter nights.
Luxome Bamboo Luxury Sheet Set for $185: These bamboo sheets are brushed and cooling, but are a small heavier than we'd similar compared to the remainder of our picks. They're inactive a large bamboo acceptable for the price, though.
My Sheets Rock the Regulator Sheets for $199: These bamboo sheets are chill and silky to the touch. I didn't aftermath up sweaty, but I didn't aftermath up arsenic chill arsenic I expected.
Naturepedic Organic Linen Sheet Set for $549: These sheets person a heavier value portion inactive staying chill and breathable, but they're a large concern and aren't rather arsenic brushed 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 the sheets haven't lasted.
Pom Pom astatine Home Bamboo Sateen Sheet Set for $368: These bamboo sheets are bully and not excessively heavy, but outgo much than the 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 comfy to slumber on. They're much of a splurge, but not the astir costly percale retired there.
Quince Bamboo Sheet Set for $130: These sheets consciousness overmuch nicer than the terms suggests, and they are silky and cool, with a bully value to them. Not rather arsenic breathable arsenic our apical picks, but inactive excellent.
Rest Evercool Cooling Sheet Set for $299: These sheets were ace silky and chilly to the touch, but the apical expanse ended up leaving maine feeling blistery successful the mediate of the night, adjacent portion investigating successful spring. You tin skip the apical expanse and prevention $90, though, if the cooling and antimicrobial exertion successful these sheets dependable 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 with the cheaper options we recommend, oregon the Pure Parima sheets above.
Saatva Percale Sheet Set for $205: This acceptable is simply a small much costly but has lone a 200 thread count, making these an extra-light percale set. Even with specified a airy sheet, it's inactive brushed and comfy to slumber on.
Sleep Number True Temp Sheets for $210: These were a coagulated cooling sheet. This acceptable felt a small stiff astatine first, but softened up instantly aft the archetypal night. It was a small heavier than my apical picks, but neither myself oregon my hubby woke up sweaty, and we were some impressed by however overmuch softer the full acceptable got aft that archetypal night.

Sheets to Skip

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

Casper Hyperlite Sheet Set for $139: These sheets are made with Tencel lyocell, making them chill to the touch. They're ace bladed too, allowing for bully airflow. They are chill to slumber on, but they mislaid the 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 brushed to the touch, but my hubby and I some woke up blistery erstwhile sleeping connected these.
Thuma Linen Sheet Set for $315: These linen sheets are incredibly lightweight, but 1 of the pillowcases divided astatine the seams aft conscionable a fewer washes, truthful I wouldn't splurge connected these.
Anything with a precocious thread count: A batch of folks deliberation higher thread number means amended sheets, afloat stop. But that isn't the afloat story. A higher thread number makes for heavier, little breathable sheets, truthful you'll privation to skip the thread counting if you're moving warm. I thin to similar sheets with a 300 thread number erstwhile I privation to enactment chill astatine night, and 400 is the highest I'll usually go. Not each sheets see a thread count, but a missing thread number often means it isn't precocious capable to brag astir (but successful this case, that's a bully thing!)

FAQs

What Are Cooling Sheets? How Do They Keep You Cool?

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

What makes sheets breathable? Cotton, flax linen, and bamboo person large 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 the bedding comes into play. Higher thread counts are little breathable, and tighter weaves volition beryllium little breathable too. The yarn wrong the cloth is besides important, arsenic good arsenic however twisted it is—a higher twist makes for a smoother, cooler consciousness to the fabric, portion a escaped twist isn't arsenic creaseless and tin trap heat.

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

These treatments tin rise the terms of cooling sheets, but they're not ace fashionable yet, and it's hard to find however good incorporated it is into the fabric. “PCMs spell done thermal cyclic investigating and person shown to past a agelong time," Leonas says. “If this is simply a aboveground treatment, determination is the possibility that immoderate of the microcapsules volition beryllium mislaid owed to abrasion.” Parima Ijaz, CEO of Pure Parima, agrees and says these treatments sometimes lone past up to 10 washes. There are lone a fistful of sheets connected the marketplace that tout their usage of PCMs, and our usher focuses connected breathable materials and weaves alternatively than these treatments. It's worthy noting that PCMs volition past overmuch longer connected a foam mattress, according to Leonas. If you're inactive sweating astatine nighttime aft switching to cooling sheets, effort a cooling mattress.

What Are The Coolest Sheets to Sleep On?

The safest enactment for cooling sheets are a lightweight linen oregon percale. After my testing, I deliberation the coolest sheets to slumber connected are Slumber Cloud's Performance Tencel Sheet Set ($249) which uses Tencel lyocell fabric, positive a patented cloth blend with signifier alteration worldly to support you chill connected night. This acceptable is my favourite to usage passim the twelvemonth arsenic a blistery sleeper.

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

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

Check your different layers: How blistery is your comforter oregon immoderate different blankets you person connected your bed? I similar to slumber with a cooling comforter similar Buffy's Cloud Comforter ($195) to enactment chill astatine night, oregon volition sometimes skip a comforter oregon broad entirely.
Check your mattress: If your mattress is retaining a batch of heat, there's lone truthful overmuch a acceptable of sheets tin hole that for you. Foam mattresses successful peculiar tin clasp a batch of heat, particularly representation foam ones. I truly similar my organic, breathable mattress from Plank, but we've besides got an full usher to cooling mattresses. You tin besides research devices similar the Eight Sleep Pod 3 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) to assistance modulate the somesthesia astir your mattress, oregon adhd a mattress topper with cooling properties.
Check the airflow and somesthesia successful your bedroom: Airflow is an important and almighty happening for staying cool. You mightiness find you request to add a fan to your bedroom, oregon adhd a somesthesia sensor to your chamber to alert a astute thermostat similar the Nest Learning Thermostat (9/10, WIRED Recommends) to crook connected and chill your chamber off. (Bonus: the Nest really comes with some a thermostat and a somesthesia sensor to brace it with.)

How Does WIRED Test Cooling Sheets?

I'm definite you tin conjecture it: I trial sheets by sleeping connected them. But I bash much than conscionable sleep, of course. I did side-by-side comparisons of antithetic sets to comparison value and breathability. I besides spent clip sitting successful furniture awake. It's not the aforesaid arsenic erstwhile you sleep, since your assemblage somesthesia drops astatine night, and I wanted to spot however overmuch the sheets would lukewarm up if you weren't afloat asleep. I did each my investigating with either Buffy's Cloud Comforter ($200) oregon Cozy Earth's Bamboo Comforter ($425) implicit the apical sheet, and each of the recommended sets supra stayed chill 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 usher to cheque for immoderate prime issues.

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