The Best Smart Thermostat Deals For November 2024

Is there anything more frustrating than battling the relatives over the temperature of your home? If you want to skip the constant dial-twiddling, we recommend you pick up a smart thermostat and tell Uncle Ron that the machine is doing a better job than he ever could. You can adjust your home’s target temperature from your phone or with your voice, as well as enable features like AI learning, automated scheduling and activity monitoring. If it’s time to upgrade your smart home, we’ve got deep discounts on units from the leading thermostat brands in November.

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Honeywell is one of the longest-tenured appliance companies in the United States, and they’re doing a capable job keeping up with technological changes. Their Home Smart Color Thermostat is a simple but effective HVAC controller with some cute features. The color LED screen can be customized to fit your decor and mood, and it’s connectable to numerous smart home assistants including Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and more. It’s a breeze to install and with Energy Star certification will absolutely cut down your heating bills. See how it stacks up on our list of best smart thermostats.

Sensi Smart Thermostat

A no-frills HVAC solution that doesn’t need a lot of attention

$76.60
at Amazon

$129.99
Save $53.39

While the Sensi Smart Thermostat doesn’t look quite as high-tech as some of the other models on this list, it’s still a very competent performer that’s a breeze to install. In our review, product expert John Delaney noted that it offers “usage reports, local weather reports, and smart alerts,” and integrates well with Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, and others, as well as offering support for the HomeKit and SmartThings home automation platforms. The basic LCD screen gives you a ton of information, and at this price it’s a real bargain.

Google’s Nest smart home devices get better with every generation, and we gave the latest Nest Learning Thermostat an “Excellent” rating in our review, praising the way it “uses AI to create customized heating and cooling schedules, helping you save on energy usage while ensuring even temperatures throughout your home.” With a large, clear display, it’s easy to monitor and interact with, and comes with a remote room sensor for more accurate temperature detection. Installation is simple and it’s interoperable with the Matter smart home standard so can tie in with your other devices.

This affordable unit gets even more so with a 37% discount, so if you’re setting up a smart home on a budget it’ll hit the spot. In our review of the GE Cync Smart Thermostat, we noted that it was a breeze to install and played nice with both Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Assistant voice controls, as well as featuring a data-packed screen that provides all sorts of metrics on the health and efficiency of your heating and cooling. Remote sensors are sold separately, so keep that in mind if you have a large home or one with insulation issues.

Contributing editor John Delaney raved extensively about the Sensi Touch 2 from Emerson in our review. It’s an effective and affordable unit that boasts some industry-leading features, including support for up to 15 room sensors for incredibly granular tuning of your heating and cooling. Integration with Alexa and Google assistants lets you control it with voice commands, and Emerson’s intuitive phone app lets you monitor and adjust the temperature from any location. Extensive historic usage reports give you all the data you’d ever need, and the dual-band Wi-Fi is fast and stable.

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