"Normal" indoor temp, by location

After coming to the end (hopefully) of one of the rainiest winters ever, I would set my thermoset to NO RAIN!

In reality I put the heater on twice this winter. New Zealand houses have shit insulation but less than a weeks worth of 10c days made take to my bed early.

We have no AC either (generaly) when the temp gets over 26c I wish we did.

I am glad I live where I do because I don’t have a very good tolerance for either hot or cold.

We have a friend who is living in New Zealand who was born and raised in Calgary - we think he could make a fortune exporting Canadian house insulating technologies there. :slight_smile:

That concurs with what my NZ and Australian friends have said.

It’s pretty hot in Bangkok most of the year. Actually kind of pleasant in December and January, hellish in March and April. We tend to blast the air-con in the morning when the sun comes beating in, putting it on 18 degrees Celsius until noon time, when we can raise it up some. Night-time we can get by at 24 degrees Celsius. I’m very warm-natured, got that from my father, and the wife is always saying it’s too cold in here.

At night we sleep with the windows open and a fan going if it’s not raining. It’s in the 70s Fahrenheit at night most of the year, 80s in the hot season.

Here in VA I keep my AC on 80 degrees in summer and heat at about 72 in winter.

80 is a little hot if you’re doing something active inside the house, but otherwise feels good to me.

Living in AZ, we take it a bit warmer than most folks. In the summer when it’s 115 F (46 C) outside, I keep my AC at 79F (26C).

In the winter, when I use the heat at all (the temps get down to freezing overnight fairly regularly), I keep it set at around 68 (20C). My house is fairly well insulated, so it rarely drops low enough inside to actually turn the furnace on.

I live in Phoenix also, and keep the thermostat at around 79. Never use the heat during the winter, I don’t think it ever gets legitimately cold enough.

22 C (71F) is my personal comfortable temperature inside.

More than 25 (78) and it’s too hot. Less than 18 (65) and it’s too cold.

We live in Hokkaido with average winter temperatures being maybe -5C (23F) with the lowest last winter being -27C (-17F). Summer temperatures tend to me in the mid twenties (mid seventies) with highs up to 35C or so (95F) though last year’s high was 42C (107F).

We have no central heating, and only one kerosene fueled stove in the living room which heats the whole house. As a result the living room tends to be more like 25C (78F) with the rest of the downstairs being about 18C (65F), and upstairs is bloody freezing at about 12C (53F) when we go to bed. If we go out for the day and have to switch it off for more than about four hours then the living room is usually about 10C (50F) when we come in and upstairs can be below freezing (32F). I don’t like this sitution and don’t boast about how tough we all are. In the worst weather we have a kerosene space heater on the landing upstairs but can only have it on for three hours before we all die of CO poisoning, so it’s truly only to take the edge off. My husband and I sleep under a very thick American import down cover, but my kids sleep nude!!! They put pyjamas on after their bath - very hot to stoke them up before bed - but take them off under their bedclothes. They have done this since they were old enough to undress themselves and are not dead yet, so I have given up worrying about them.

The Spanish National Safety Law indicates that a working environment should be between 20-25C, ideally. It recomends being on the high side for offices, classrooms and other places where people don’t move much, on the low side for factory workshops, stores, etc. In winter it should be on the low side (that’s what V-neck jumpers are for) and in summer on the high side (sleeveless time!).

I’m a cold fish, so anything below 23C will get me into a jumper. The Spaniards in my team are very happy that, now it’s September, the Scots have switched off the darn AC and our office is now hovering about 25C “as God intended! :p” Any time we had a meeting during the summer, we’d go into the big meeting rooms, the thermostat would be set at 20C (meaning a cold blast coming out of the vents) and we’d switch it off and then a Scotsman would switch it on and lower the temperature and we’d complain and… I’m sure you’ve all seen the routine.

I forgot to add mine.

One of the reasons I was curious is that I’ve moved in the past year from a very hot, dry in the summer place (115+ F/46+ C) to a very cool/humid place (highest all time temp is 87F/30.5C, but I don’t think we’ve had a single day in the 70’s (21+C) yet this summer, and the humidity is almost always 80%+).

The funny thing is that these two places are considered in the same area (even though they are 150 miles apart) as there aren’t any other “large”* communities around to be neighborly too, and a lot of people move back and forth between the two communities or have relatives in both. [We have a LOT of space up here in the far Northern California, but not that many people.]

And one of the main topics between the two places is the weather as they couldn’t be more extreme in the summer. And this leads to who can handle what, and what are people comfortable with. Needless to say the two communities have very different ideas on the subject.

Personally, I’m still having trouble getting used to the cool dampness, but I love it infinitely more than the oppressive heat. As the two place’s winter weather isn’t too different, that won’t be as much an issue, so I’m hoping by next summer I’ll not even think about turning on my heat everyday, like I’ve done this summer.
*I use this word very liberally.

68-75F is comfortable
below 65F (18C) is too cold
above 85F (29C) is too hot

I am cold 6 months of the year :frowning:

75-80F is comfortable for me. When it’s really hot I’ll turn on the AC for a few minutes when coming in from the heat or going to bed.

In winter I blast the heat and hide under blankets and I’m still always cold.