The best duvets for sleeping soundly every season

The John Lewis Hungarian Goose Down Duvet drapes cosily around your body, preventing drafts and cold spots. It's all down to the design. It's sewn to create evenly divided square boxes, meaning the filling is evenly distributed.

It's a luxurious duvet — surprisingly lightweight considering the warmth it generates. It is pretty expensive, and the price goes up with the larger size options, so you should expect this level of quality.

This duvet is suitable for people with dust mite allergies, and all of the natural bedding suppliers provide a guarantee that the feather and down is sourced only as a by-product of the food industry. And there's a five-year guarantee.

The Simba Hybrid Duvet uses space-inspired fabric technology that's designed to take the heat away from your body, so you can rest easy.

The Aerelle Cool Night fibre is embedded with semi-conducting minerals, helping you stay comfortable all night long. The super-soft filling is stitched evenly into square pockets, so you shouldn't get any lumps and bumps. 

Materials used in this duvet are 100% recycled, hypoallergenic, and don't use any animal products, and the breathable cotton all comes from BCI sources. This sort of thing isn't essential for your comfort, but it's good to know.

There are few greater pleasures than a warm, cosying winter duvet. That’s exactly what you get with the Night Comfort Easy Care Double Duvet. And it’s great value — the quality of the duvet goes beyond the relatively low price.

With a 16.5 tog rating, you can rest assured that it will keep you toasty during those long, chilly winter nights. There’s more to it than warmth. It’s filled with a recycled polyester that works as a hypoallergenic alternative to goose down.

Some reviewers have noted that the filling moves around slightly, causing the duvet to sometimes shift in the covers, which means you may need to re-fluff it now and again. A small price for comfort and warmth.

The summer duvet is a thing in itself — a particular pleasure that’s both comforting and cool. The Air Comfort Feels Like Down Duvet gets our vote for the best summer option. And it comes at a great price, too.

Not only does it has a pleasingly low tog rating — because no one needs a plump, sweat-inducing duvet when the hot nights roll in — it’s made with a cooling technology. High thread microfibre and a fine yarn hollowfibre filling ensure that its breathable, with large pores for effective air permeability. This means the duvet is great for regulating your temperature through the night.

It also wicks away moisture for a dry night’s sleep. Throw in anti-allergy and anti-mite properties and you’re sure to sleep easy.

If you want an alternative, this Bamboo Organic duvet comes well recommended from Amazon reviewers. It’s made from 100% organic bamboo, which means it’s naturally hypoallergenic as well as naturally luxurious.

If you are an allergy sufferer, this could well be your best option, as it keeps away dust mites — the bamboo also has antibacterial properties.

It’s filled with temperature controlling bamboo feather, while the bamboo cover is highly breathable. It has a higher tog rating than some of the alternative options on this list, but it’s designed for all seasons — cooling is the summer, warming in the winter.

If you want high-quality home comforts, John Lewis is the place to go. It’s the absolute standard bearer in this department. But the Piglet in Bed duvet does offer something slightly out-of-the-box in duvet terms.

This duvet is filled with insulating Merino wool, which doesn’t have a tog rating. Instead, it maintains body temperature. That comfort is capped off by a 100% cotton cover, which is breathable and moisture wicking.

Corner loops fasten to Piglet in Bed linen, so the duvet stays firm within the cover, making for a plush, ultra-comfortable night’s sleep. The only downside, of course, is that it’s not the cheapest — but true comfort can be expensive.

The Silentnight Soft As Silk Duvet provides a level of comfort and softness you wouldn’t normally expect to find in a product of this price. That's exactly why Silentnight continues to be such a popular bedding brand.

It has a soft-to-the-touch cover and sumptuous microfibre filling. It's designed to keep you cozy all year round, but is likely best in the spring and autumn. It might be found lacking during the coldest winter nights. 

This affordable duvet is fully machine washable and hypoallergenic, and comes in a variety of sizes. Buyers also benefit from a generous five-year guarantee.