Health News Share Email Print Sleep needs How many hours do you need each night? Reviewed 5/9/2024 Sleep needs Everyone's sleep needs are different. And those needs change throughout life. Keep scrolling to see guidelines for how much sleep you might need. 14–17 hours: Newborns (0 to 3 months) need 14–17 hours of sleep per day. 12–16 hours: Infants (4 to 11 months) need 12–16 hours of sleep per day. 11–14 hours: Toddlers (1 to 2 years) need 11–14 hours of sleep per day. 10–13 hours: Preschoolers (3 to 5 years) need 10–13 hours of sleep per day. 9–12 hours: School-age kids (6 to 12 years) need 9–12 hours of sleep per day. 8–10 hours: Teens (13 to 17 years) need 8–10 hours of sleep per day. 7–9 hours: Younger adults (18 to 64 years) need 7–9 hours of sleep per day. 7–8 hours: Older adults (65-plus years) need 7–8 hours of sleep per day. ARE YOU HAVING TROUBLE SLEEPING? IT COULD BE A SLEEP DISORDER. TAKE A SLEEP ASSESSMENT Sources Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "How Much Sleep Do I Need?" https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.html. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. "How Much Sleep Is Enough?" https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/sleep/how-much-sleep. Related stories Health information main Health tools go Select a health topic ADHD Aging Alcohol use disorder Allergies Alternative medicine Alzheimer's disease Arthritis Asthma Babies Backs Bladder Bones Brain Breast cancer Cancer Cancer prevention Caregiving Cervical cancer Children and parenting Cholesterol Colds Colorectal cancer Coronavirus Dental care Depression Diabetes Disaster preparedness Down syndrome Ears Eating disorders Emergencies End of life/Palliative care Environmental health Epilepsy Eyes Fall prevention Family and relationships Feet Fitness and exercise Flu Food safety Hair Headache Health assessments Health calculators Healthcare Heart attack Heart health Hepatitis Hernia High blood pressure Hips HIV/AIDS Holiday health Hormones Imaging Incontinence Joints Kidneys Knees Leukemia Liver Lung cancer Lungs Medications Men's health Menopause Mental health Multiple sclerosis Nails Nose Nutrition Obesity Oral cancer Ovaries Pain Parkinson's disease Pets Pneumonia Pregnancy Prostate cancer Rehabilitation Reproductive health Safety School health Sexuality Sexually transmitted infections Skin Skin cancer Sleep Smoking Sports injuries Stomach pain Stress and anxiety Stroke Substance use disorder Summer safety Surgery Teen health Throat Thyroid Travel Vaccines Vascular health Violence Vitamins and supplements Weight management Winter health Women's health Workplace health Wound care i Providers Family Medicine Sleep Disorders RSS If you have questions or comments, please contact Randolph Health. Problems reading or opening a page? Legal restrictions and terms of use applicable to this site.