The 15 Best Sheets for Every Type of Sleeper

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Fabric is everything. There are a lot of things that tell you you're doing alright—nice car, big apartment, and your bank statement just to name a few. But for us, the fancy men's magazine, the good life just involves touching the best fabrics we can, as often as possible. That means stiff and sturdy denim, soft cashmere, and supple leather when we're awake.

What about when we're asleep, dreaming away on our fancy mattresses? Well, considering that's half our life, we're just as picky. Whether we're hot sleepers or cold sleepers, firm mattress types or soft mattress enjoyers, we will only be touching the best sheets we can afford. And we're not going to keep those sheets secret. We're going to tell you what they are.

The Esquire staff's of stable of sleepers range in what we want. None of us use the same sheets, pillows, comforters, inserts, or covers, but we've all rigorously tested the bedding that we do use. Personally, I've tried it all. That's my job as shopping editor. Even though I prefer linen sheets, I've done the cotton sateens and percales, the new-age bamboo sheets, and even cashmere blended sheets. Through it all, I've developed quite a lot of sheet opinions and a pretty lengthy ranking of the best sheets on the market. This is that ranking. These are the best sheets for every type of sleeper, organized by cooling, standard, and warm sheets.

Cool Bedsheets

TempTune Cotton Sheet Set

If you're looking for for hardcore cooling, Sijo's sheets are the best version of it. With a blend of Supima cotton and CLIMA fabric (a natural cellulose fiber) you get one of those fabrics that can do it all. It's crisp and cool, moisture wicking, and surprisingly durable.

Stonewashed Linen Bed Bundle

If you want a single fabric for your cooling sheets, it's got to be linen. It's a classic home fabric, and because of the weave, it's characteristically open and airy. It's perfect for hot sleepers and anyone that likes to keep things 100 percent natural.

As far as linen goes, The Citizenry does it the best. The sheets are woven in Portugal. They offer that slightly slouchy look that linen is known for, and they get softer after ever wash. You'll love them when you first get them, but after a few months, you won't want to sleep on anything else.

Luna Linen Fitted Sheet

But, if we're talking linen sheets, I have to recommend Soho Home. The sales style is a bit more European—you've got fitted sheet, duvet cover, and pillowcases. No top sheet.

As a hot sleeper, that might freak you out, but hear me out! You can get some thin little duvets for the winter, and you can just use a light quilt in the summer. That's what I do, and it works perfectly.

The real reason I'm recommending Soho Home is actually the colors. No other home brand gets color theory perfect, in my opinion. The linen colors are a little subdued, and they look perfect on a perfectly ruffled bed. If you care about the way it looks as much as how it feels, this is where you should go.

Percale Sheet Set

Beyond Linen, and science-y blends that are focused on hot sleepers, the next best fabric is cotton percale. This is your hotel sheet fabric. It's a bit on the edge in terms of appealing to hot sleepers and standard sleepers, but it's cool and crisp to the touch. And, it looks lovely in stark white.

Riley's cotton percale weave is a bit more airy than other brands, so if you want classic sheets that lean cool, this is where I'd send you.

Standard Sheets

Giza 45 Natura Collection

Yeah, yeah. Look at the price tag. They better be the "Best Luxury Sheets," for that much. I get it. But, let me tell you, SFERRA's bedspreads are life changing.

Chief among their pricey bedding offerings is Giza 45 Natura. It's a luxe cotton sateen made with cotton grown along the Nile River. Then, in Italy, the fibers are woven into a jacquard fabric that is 100 percent worthy of that eye-watering price tag.

Organic Sateen Sheeting

If you want luxury sheets on a slightly more reasonable budget, Ralph Lauren Home makes our favorite designer sheets. The 624 thread count organic cotton sheets are soft, smooth, and just weighty enough. The French seams are also a nice little luxury touch.

That high thread count, weighty sheet does make it more of a warm sleeping experience, something to consider. But, like I said, this is about as luxe as a sleeping experience gets. Well worth the price.

Classic Organic Percale Sheet Set

Back to cotton. Quince makes the best cotton sheets you can buy on a budget. They're made of long staple cotton. And, at 270 thread count, they're crisp and smooth, and they'll work for any type of sleeper.

Luxe Core Sheet Set

If you prefer cotton sateen to percale, Brooklinen makes the best overall version of it. A set is reasonably priced at $189 for a Queen, but the quality out kicks that by a lot. The 480 thread count is in that sweet spot for cotton sateen—high enough to feel smooth and luxe, low enough to not be too hot.

In short, this is the perfect Goldilocks sheet. Everyone can use a set of these and be happy.

Organic Relaxed Linen Sheet Set

If you love a linen sheet, or if you're looking to get converted, you've got to go Coyuchi. The brand uses a heavier-than-usual linen fabric, and that makes these sheets more competitive with classic cotton, not other linen options.

Linen, will feel cool and crisp to the touch, like cotton, but there's a lovely natural feel to it. After washes, it'll feel tighter and gradually get softer. Like a great pair of jeans, over the years it'll feel more and more broken in.

Sheet Set

There's a big cottage industry for hotel sheets. Actually it's built up around hotel sleeping arrangements, generally. So, if you're obsessed with the hotel sleeping experience, why not buy direct from hotels? The Four Seasons does the best version of that model.

The sheets are the real standout from the classic hotel brand—though the mattress isn't bad either. And, how do the sheets feel? Exactly how you expect. Crisp, cool, and perfectly white. You're bringing the hotel feel to your home.

Bamboo Sheet Set

We've never tried to hide the fact that we love Cozy Earth's sheets. If cotton or linen have never really done it for you, maybe it's time you take bamboo for a spin.

That's right, bamboo! More specifically, bamboo viscose—which just means bamboo rayon, essentially. The result is a texture that's somewhere between between cotton percale, cotton sateen, and silk. They're a bit shiny like sateen and silk. They're drapey like silk or even jersey. But, they keep you cool like cotton percale. And unlike anything else we've slept on, they're so fucking soft.

If you're not sure about all of that, they've got a nice little 100 night trial period. You can give them a shot with no pressure.

Silk Bedding Set

Silk bedding is a choice. That's for damn sure. It's not necessarily that it's super warm or incredibly cool. Silk wicks moisture, but it's a tight weave, so things get cancelled out. The thing that makes silk a weird choice is how insanely smooth it is. It's almost slippery. If you get silk sheets, you'll find that you have to make your bed every day, because one wrong movement can throw everything to the floor.

That said, some people love silk, because it's the best fabric out there for your hair and skin. If that's what you're into, Lily Silk makes the best silk bedding on the internet.

Warm Sheets

Organic Flannel Sheet Set

When I was a kid, we used to get about one month of the year that warranted flannel sheets, and that was my favorite month out of the year. To this day, I have not felt as cozy as I did when I slipped into my bed on a frigid 28°F night.

As far as flannel sheets go, I'm going to have to shout out L.L.Bean as a classic, but once again it's Coyuchi that makes the best version of this sheet set. The sheets are soft, thick, and perfectly warm—like a weekend away at the cabin every time you get into bed.

Flannel Sheet Set

Like the beach tote bag, duck boot, and (coincidentally) flannel shirt, L.L.Bean just makes the best version of a flannel sheet set as you'll find anywhere. Sure, it might not have the luxe feel of those Coyuchi sheets, but that's the point.

They'll feel a bit rustic at first, but the more you wash these sheets, the softer they become. By the second or third winter you pull them out, they'll feel like a second skin... but a softer and warmer second skin.

Cotton-Cashmere-Silk Sheet Set

I always thought the low-cashmere blend sheets were a bit of gimmick. Like, five-percent cashmere doesn't change the fabric that much. It wasn't until I felt BR Home's take that I was really, really impressed.

BR Home—that's the new Banana Republic home venture—went for a more ambitions nine-percent cashmere blend, but then it added five-percent silk. That means the sheets are at 14 percent non-cotton, and that's where the magic happens, reader.

These sheets are warmer than regular cotton. They're softer, more sweater-like than regular cotton. They're a bit better at sweat wicking. And, they feel head and shoulders more luxurious than whatever other cotton-cashmere blends there are out there. You'll be sad when the warmer weather comes and you have to move these to the linen closet.

What to Look for in Sheets

Start with what type of sleeper you are—hot, standard, or cold—since that is the biggest determiner of fabrics. From there, look for a brand that makes the best version of what you want. Our rankings are pretty objective, but you might want to play the field. If so, here are the ideal fabrics for each type of sleeper:

Hot - Linen, cotton percale, or other tech-y cooling blends.

Standard - Cotton sateen, high thread count cotton percale, and everything else that's not wool or flannel.

Cold - Wool blends and flannels.

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