Best Travel Coffee Mugs of 2023

A travel coffee mug needs to do at least 2 things really well: keep your coffee hot and keep it from spilling all over your bag/car/desk. Other factors to consider include size, aesthetics, ease of cleaning, and one-handed operation. Our list is compiled based on CNET’s past picks, those that have been vetted by other review sites and repeatedly appear on best-of lists, and best-selling and consistently highly rated models at major retailers like Amazon, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Target.

Most travel coffee mugs claim to keep liquids “hot” for about 5-6 hours. To test this, I filled each of the models here with 170 degrees of liquid and measured the temperature after both 3 hours and 5 hours. Travel mug lids generally fall into 1 of 2 camps, either some sort of screw-on, screw-on mechanism or else a plastic and rubber twist/press lid that creates a vacuum seal. To test for leak-tightness, I inverted each mug repeatedly while full, looking for even the hint of a drip.