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If there’s one nugget of wisdom I can impart from my past five-plus years covering sales, it’s that you never need to buy a mattress at full price. That’s especially true for the next few weeks because nearly all our favorite brands are offering competitive savings for Fourth of July weekend. The discounts all hover around 15 or 20 percent off — and a few include a complimentary sheet set or pair of pillows to sweeten the deal.
While our sleep writer Amelia Jerden has put together an in-depth guide on the best Fourth of July mattress deals, below you’ll find my cheat sheet for all the best on-sale mattresses to buy right now. Rest assured that I’ve included only brands we have already recommended on our site (here’s our complete mattress-buying guide if you want even more details). And if you’re not quite ready to hit the “buy” button, feel free to bookmark this page for future reference. I’ll be popping in to update and add new sales once or twice a month.
Amerisleep
Amerisleep makes our favorite adjustable bed base, but its all-foam mattresses — which are made from Bio-Pur foam, a memory-foam alternative that’s meant to be more breathable and responsive — also look quite comfortable.
Take $500 off any mattress with the code JULY500.
Aviya
Aviya makes a hybrid mattress that left one of our testers “amazed at just how propped up and aligned my body felt while supine, yet how comfortably I slept thanks to the padding of the quilted foam top.”
Avocado
If having an ecofriendly mattress is important to you, Avocado’s Strategist-approved sleep products are constructed using sustainable, nontoxic materials and processes. Strategist senior writer Liza Corsillo tested the brand’s classic Green mattress with the add-on pillow-top — which costs $200 extra — which she says felt like “flopping down on a giant slab of rising dough.”
Avocado’s mattresses are up $500 off, which is a typical discount for the brand.
The Eco Organic mattress is a slightly more budget-friendly pick for sleepers who don’t have any specific mattress requirements or sleep concerns. The queen size is $100 off.
Bear
Bear markets its mattresses specifically to athletes, thanks to a special fabric that promotes muscle recovery. Former Strategist senior writer Karen Iorio Adelson, a longtime runner, said that after a few nights of sleeping on the Bear Original mattress, her legs actually felt “fresher and less fatigued than they normally would.”
Bear is offering 35 percent off sitewide with the code FIRST35 and throwing in $400 worth of free sleep accessories with any mattress purchase.
Birch
Former Strategist editor Maxine Builder — a stomach sleeper who prefers a plush mattress — has been sleeping on her Birch Natural mattress since she tested it in 2021. She describes it as a “plush yet supportive mattress that’s suitable for most types of sleepers” and notes that the wool cushioning hugs every curve of her body (and suits her husband, who prefers a superfirm mattress).
Take 25 percent off sitewide and get two free Eco-Rest pillows with any mattress purchase.
Brooklyn Bedding
Hot sleepers on a budget should look to Brooklyn Bedding, as we named the Aurora Luxe mattress our best (less expensive) hybrid cooling mattress. New York deputy editor Alexis Swerdloff tested this mattress in her home and advises that while the mattress feels luxurious and very substantial, the medium firmness level “errs on the softer side” and is “squishier” than expected — so she suggests “going in a firmer direction than you might normally.”
Take 25 percent off sitewide with the code JULY25.
Cocoon by Sealy
For an affordable pick for sleepers with back pain, our senior editor Simone Kitchens found that her “usual roll-out-of-bed lower-back creakiness was gone” after only one night on the Cocoon Chill mattress.
All mattresses are 35 percent off and come with a free set of pillows and sheets.
DreamCloud
DreamCloud’s signature hybrid model is made with four layers of gel memory foam and has innerspring coils.
Emma
When former Strategist senior editor (and light sleeper) Chelsea Peng tested the Hybrid Comfort, she says she didn’t wake up at all when an “unspecified companion” got up in the middle of the night. When her dad — who used to work for Sealy — visited for Thanksgiving and tried the mattress himself, he had no complaints and was pleased to report that “it supports body weight in a well-distributed curve.”
Helix
Helix’s Dawn mattress is our favorite (affordable) hybrid mattress, with former Strategist associate editor Louis Cheslaw writing that he “drifted off as quickly as I ever have, regularly slept through the night, and never woke up feeling hot, sweaty, or achy in the morning.”
Take 20 percent off sitewide and receive two free Dream pillows with the purchase of any mattress.
Layla
Layla’s Hybrid mattress is the best flippable hybrid mattress, according to Strategist writer Tembe Denton-Hurst. She and her partner have “slept on both sides, firm and soft, and each proved supportive,” she says. While there are cheaper hybrid mattresses, the ability to simply flip this one should you want a softer or firmer feel makes it worth the investment, she says, “especially if you’re sharing a mattress with someone who prefers a different feel.”
Mattresses are up to $200 off and include two free pillows with purchase. The brand is also running a buy-one-get-one-50-percent-off deal on its adjustable kapok pillows.
Leesa
The Leesa Original is our best all-foam mattress. Builder also tested this mattress and reported that her husband “raved about the pressure relief and comfort he felt from the foam filling in the small of his back while he slept.”
All mattresses are 30 percent off. The brand is also including two free down-alternative pillows and a sheet set with any mattress purchase.
Nectar
Nectar makes our favorite overall memory-foam mattress, which our former senior editor Casey Lewis (and current writer of the newsletter After School) says is firm enough to share with her fidgety pitbull-boxer. Despite this mattress’s overall dense structure and feel, the softer top layers of foam supply it with “just the right amount of give.” (We’ve also found that it’s great for hot sleepers.)
The queen-size memory-foam mattress is $250 off. You’ll get free shipping and returns, a 365-night trial period, and lifetime warranty. You can find the mattress on sale at Amazon right now, too.
Purple
We found Purple’s mattress to be well suited to those who sleep hot and hate foam thanks to its breathable gel grid. Former Strategist deputy editor Jason Chen, a side-sleeper, says it felt like “being cradled” and that the “pressure points in my shoulders and hips never ached.”
Purple’s mattresses and bases are up to $800 off (and Amazon is price matching).
Saatva
The best all-around firm mattress is Saatva’s Classic hybrid mattress. Simone, a back-to-side sleeper who prefers a mattress that supports her “generally sore” back, found that “the supported feeling of this bed (which still manages to be pretty plush) kept my lower back from collapsing in, making my spine feel more aligned overall.”
Take up to $600 off any mattress purchase over $1,000 when you use our special link here.
Tuft & Needle
Tuft & Needle’s Mint mattress is our pick for the best cooling mattress. Our writer Arielle Avila said that while she was testing it, “there were a couple of nights I forgot to turn my fan on and didn’t wake up drenched.”
WinkBeds
For a mattress that helps alleviate back pain, New York features editor Katy Schneider likes the WinkBed. Although it’s touted as a firmer mattress, she found it “still felt soft without enveloping my body.” She also noted that the “springs seem to absorb our movement. My boyfriend often comes to bed much later than I do, and I found that I noticed him flopping down a whole lot less on the WinkBed than I did on my old bed.”
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