Hot nights can make getting a good night’s sleep feel impossible, especially during peak heatwave season. Overheating in bed can cause restlessness, discomfort, and broken sleep patterns, but the good news is that a few small changes can help you keep cool at night.
Quick Tips to Stay Cool at Night include:
- Swap high-tog for low-tog duvets
- Use cooling pillows and mats to regulate body temperature
- Keep blinds and curtains closed through the day to block heat
- Open windows for better air flow
- Add fans air conditioning units
These simple adjustments can make a huge difference in keeping you and your bedroom cool at night. In this guide, our experts at JML will walk you through practical and effective tips to help you cool your room, enhance your sleep environment, and discover the best cooling products to keep you cool and comfortable while sleeping.
Top Tips to Stay Cool In Bed
Everyone values sleep, and no one likes hot nights; that’s why staying cool in bed is essential for the perfect night’s sleep. Easy and quick ways to keep your bedroom cool throughout the day include blocking the sun. This can be achieved by simply keeping curtains and blinds closed, allowing your room to serve as a safe zone from the tropical rays.
However, if your bedroom is still feeling hot, there are additional measures you can take to keep it cool when heading to bed.
Add a Cool Touch to Your Bedroom Set-Up
Keeping curtains shut and opening windows may keep the bedroom environment cool, but it doesn’t necessarily extend to your bed setup. If you struggle with being too hot to sleep, then making some simple adjustments to your summer bed setup can be the catalyst you need to alleviate the issue.
Replace your thick pillows with a specialised cooling pillow, or take it one step further by adding larger cooling mats under your bed sheets to ensure you stay cool at night. Additionally, when it comes to duvets, consider replacing high tog ones with lower tog ones so that you can still enjoy the comfort of a duvet, even as temperatures rise.
To ensure you stay cool, you can also enhance your nighttime setup by adding additional accessories, such as cooling eye masks and neck pillows.
Add a Fan or Air Conditioning For Extra Temperature Control
If you are still struggling to cool down on hot nights, it may be worth investing in some extra assistance. Air conditioning and fans can be your best friends when it's too hot to sleep. Fans come in a variety of shapes and sizes, including tower, foldable, and bedside models. Each fan does the same thing: to circulate air around the room and keep you cool.
You can take the cooling process to the next level with the Chillmax collection from JML. These fans are operated by special antimicrobial filters, which turn cold water into a fine mist of cool and refreshing air, thereby addressing the issue of fans only circulating the air already in your room.
What Can I Buy to Keep Cool at Night?
At JML, we offer a wide selection of cooling products designed to keep your home at the perfect temperature. Our range includes various portable and modern antimicrobial filter technology fans, as well as cooling bedtime accessories, allowing you to combat the heat and achieve ideal sleep 365 days a year.
With temperatures constantly fluctuating, we also offer advice on gadgets that can help you stay warm in your home during the winter months.
FAQs About Staying Cool in Hot Weather
Does a Fan Cool a Room?
Technically, yes - standard household fans don’t necessarily cool down a room, but they do help push air around the room, allowing it to spread out, which creates the cold breeze that can make you feel cooler.
Can Dehumidifiers Cool a Room?
No- While dehumidifiers do remove humidity, they don’t cool down a room in the same way a fan or air conditioner does. The primary purpose of dehumidifiers is to reduce the moisture in the air, making the room feel less humid while preventing the growth of common problems like mould.
What is the Ideal Temperature for Sleep in Summer?
Research shows that the ideal temperature for ideal sleep ranges between 16 and 18 degrees, and sleep disruption can occur if temperatures are below 12 degrees or above 24 degrees.
What Tog Should Your Duvet Have in the Summer?
It is recommended that people opt for a 4.5 tog duvet during the summer months; however, everyone has their preference and can adjust based on how warm or cold they feel.