The alarm goes off and you hit snooze. How many extra minutes a morning does the average snoozer spend in bed?

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Eleven minutes, measured across 3 million nights of sleep-tracker data. Snoozing turns out to be a national habit as much as a personal one. The US, Sweden and Germany snooze most; Japan and Australia least. The people who snoozed least of all were those sleeping five hours or fewer.

The snooze button gets hit on 56% of mornings. The average snoozer wins back 11 extra minutes in bed.

Source: Scientific Reports (Mass General Brigham / Sleep Cycle) · checked May 2025