Study: Nevada teens get among the least sleep in U.S.

By Jackie Valley

Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 | 2:14 p.m.

Nevada teachers shouldn’t be offended if there’s an abundance of yawns during class. It’s not necessarily indicative of their teaching.

Teenagers living in Nevada, on average, spend 6 hours, 48 minutes sleeping each night — the second-least amount in the United States, according to a study conducted by Sleep Cycle, an app that monitors sleep patterns to wake people at the most opportune moment.

West Virginia teens get one minute less amount of sleep each night.

The Nevada average is 20 minutes less than the national average and nearly an hour less than the 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 hours recommended by the National Sleep Foundation.

To help understand why, Sleep Cycle looked at bedtimes and wake-up times across the country. It found that Nevada teens, on average, go to bed at 11:33 p.m. and rise at 6:45 a.m., which is the fourth earliest wake-up time in the nation.

If Nevada teens yearn to live in a place where young people get the most sleep, they’ll have to deal with frigid temperatures. Montana teens spend the most time in bed at 7 hours, 25 minutes.

The Sleep Cycle study is based on sleep data voluntarily shared by male and female app users who were 14 to 19 years old. The sleep data collected was from Sept. 1 through Nov. 13.