Sleep Cycle has today released a report that determines what we know about the best sleepers in America; how sleep varies by age, gender and geography; and what habits poor sleepers have in common. America’s healthiest, happiest and best-rested people.
An overview of the data
The Sleep Cycle app has more than three million active monthly users, and this report looked at three years’ worth of data, for a total of 148,116,221 nights of sleep.
Americans spend an average of 7 hours and 18 minutes in bed each night. They go to bed at 11:39 p.m., wake up at 7:09 a.m., spend 23.95 minutes snoring, have an average sleep quality of 74.2 percent, and rate their wake-up mood at 57 on a scale of 100.
As a population, Americans got six minutes more sleep in 2018 than they got in 2015 — 7 hours and 21 minutes, up from 7 hours and 15 minutes. Their average sleep quality has improved from 72.9 to 75.3 percent, but their wake-up mood remains unchanged at 57/100.
Sweet dreams are made of these
What do we know about the best sleepers in America? America’s healthiest, happiest and best-rested people. According to the data, the two factors that most significantly contribute to a good night’s sleep are exercise and simply getting enough of it.
- Americans who exercise enjoy better sleep, regardless of gender or age
- Americans average 10 extra minutes of sleep when they work out during the day
- Exercisers snore less (21 minutes) than non-exercisers (25 minutes)
- Americans who get more than 8 hours of sleep enjoy an average sleep quality of 82 percent — the highest sleep quality of all Americans
- These Americans have an average bedtime of 10:45 p.m. — almost an hour earlier than other Americans
