If you ask us, investing in a proper cooling mattress is the most reliable way to combat overheating while you sleep. These days, you can buy specialist beds for hot sleepers that are better at temperature regulation than most standard mattresses.
Our guide to this year’s best cooling mattresses contains all of our top picks, but here we’re boiling it down to two main choices that we feel will suit most sleepers and budgets. They’re so good, in fact, that they’re among the top recommendations in our overall guide to the best mattresses of 2025 for all sleepers.
Although these beds are excellent at creating a cooler sleep environment, they can be expensive – especially in the larger sizes. So it’s worth looking out for price cuts, which you can catch in our daily round-up of the best Labor Day mattress sales happening right now.
Read on to discover our two favorite cooling mattresses right now and why we think they’re the two most people should consider buying…
1. Bear Elite Hybrid Mattress
We love this top-rated hybrid mattress and right now you can get a queen for $1,636.20 at Bear when you use our exclusive TOMS40 code at checkout.
During the three-week testing period for our Bear Elite Hybrid mattress review, it kept our lead tester comfortably cool through a warm Texas July.
Our tester slept on the Bear Elite in the warmest room of her house with the air conditioner set at 77°F.
Considering experts recommend the optimal temperature for sleeping is between 65 to 70°F, and she slept well through the heat, we can safely say the Bear Elite Hybrid is excellent at dispersing heat.
What’s more, our testers report that it’s an exceptionally comfortable bed with a good balance of support and cushioning. And because it’s available in three different firmness levels, you can customize it to suit your sleep style.
Our 5’5″ reviewer who weighs 175lbs found the medium feel supported her best on her back and side. While side sleeping was also comfortable, the mattress didn’t sink as much as she’d have liked in that position.
Celliant fibers draw heat away from the body and convert it into infrared energy to improve muscle recovery
The Bear Elite’s excellent temperature regulation comes down to two types of fibers sewn into the mattress surface: Celliant and Phase Change Materials (PCM).
Celliant fibers draw heat away from the body and convert it into infrared energy to improve muscle recovery, while PCM absorb heat, hold it and release it back to the body once cooled down.
Yes, that means the Bear Elite goes a step further by providing active cooling (it responds to your temperature changes).
But if you want a supremely temperature-regulating bed, consider investing in this year’s best smart bed — the Eight Sleep Pod 4 smart mattress cover, built with a water cooling system that allows you to heat up or cool down the surface of your bed between 55 and 110°F.
2. Brooklyn Bedding CopperFlex Pro Hybrid
Released last November, the Brooklyn Bedding CopperFlex Pro Hybrid is the newest addition to our cooling mattress top-picks list. Despite its affordable price tag, its build is high quality and it packs plenty of specialist cooling materials to keep your sleep space fresh.
When we unboxed the CopperFlex Pro Hybrid in our sleep studio, our testing panel were amazed by how cool-to-touch the surface of the mattress was, almost immediately after leaving its wrapping. So, we had high hopes for this copper-infused hybrid.
Our lead tester put the mattress through its paces in an attic bedroom that’s prone to trapping heat. Without air con during a British heatwave, she relied on CopperFlex Pro Hybrid’s GlacioTex cover and heat-conducting copper foams to help her sleep cool — and they did exactly that.
“I haven’t found myself running hot at night like I used to when sleeping on my older spring mattress,” she reports.
The beauty of the Brooklyn Bedding CopperFlex Pro Hybrid is its affordable price, especially considering how well it performs
As our top-rated pillow-top mattress the Brooklyn Bedding CopperFlex Pro Hybrid is finished with a layer of quilted foam that you slightly sink into upon lying on it without getting too sucked in.
Our tester found it perfect as a 5’3″ average-weight combination sleeper who likes a lot of pressure relief when on their side, but who needs responsive sleep surface to help them change positions through the night.
The real beauty of the Brooklyn Bedding CopperFlex Pro Hybrid is its affordable price, especially considering how well it performs and how premium it looks and feels.
The Pro Hybrid is almost always on sale, but this Labor Day you can get it for its lowest price yet. Using our exclusive TOMS32 code, you can buy a queen size for just $905.76 (was $1,332) at Brooklyn Bedding today.
That’s an outstanding price on one of the best mattresses in a box you can buy. If you have a smaller budget, check out our Cocoon by Sealy Chill mattress review.
There you can learn how this all-foam bed manages to keep you cool for just $599 in a queen at Cocoon by Sealy. There’s a free bedding bundle worth $179 thrown in too.
