I am surprised that so many of you allow it to vary so much. I don’t get why one temperature is tolerable in the winter, but not in the summer.
I try to keep it at 75, although everyone else wants 72. I’d rather have it at 78, but 75 is enough.
I actually do have differences in temperature, but for me it’s based on waking up vs. going to bed. I can have it 80 when I wake up and be freezing, but now that the A/C is broken, getting it up to 80 makes feels as bad as I did back when I used to play outside all day.
I have the ac set for 75, but when a hot flash hits I change it to hang beef and breath out fog. In the winter I prefer to sleep with the window cracked - I was raised that way in Germany and western NY. We keep the thermostat set on 50 and heat with wood in the winter. We have a heated mattress pad to keep the hubby from turning into a block of ice.
I live in southern MD. We have a programmable thermostat. While we’re at work, the house goes to 80. Before we get home, it cools to 76. Overnight, it’s 78. Ceiling fans running all the time. On very rare occasions, my husband will drop it to 74 - the heat affects him more than it does me.
In the winter, it doesn’t go above 66. But we do have a nice fireplace insert. And lots of sweaters.
AC around 74ish (give or take a point or two) in the summer. I don’t remember what we set the heat to in the winter, but it’s pretty low. Often we don’t even turn it on. Both of us like to sleep in a cool room, and if we need to warm up, we just apply more covers. Or more cats. Or snuggle. Or all of the above. We turn it up when we have guests, but when it’s just us, we wear sweaters.
Also in central FL and agree. But I’m not menopausal; a bit of hypothyroidism maybe. 78 during the day, 79 at night (body temp goes down when sleeping). In the winter I need it to be around 71-72 to be comfy.
I was in Vietnam, with no air conditioning, and only two seasons: too fucking hot and wet and too fucking hot and dry. It took me about a month to get acclimated and not miserable day and night.
Then we had to “camp” outside the hooches during the Tet offensive. We sat in lawn chairs on the perimeter of our section of the base (the base had better defenses; we were just the backup) and drank “coffee” to stay alert and warm at night. It felt cold, and while we were shivering under jackets and blankets, someone said, “Just how cold is it, anyway?”
75 year-round. On automatic–either the a/c or heat will kick on if it changes. At this time of the year, this temp inside is about 30 degrees above the outside temp. During the winter, it’s about the same as the outside temp.
In summer, 76. In winter, 68 during the day and 64 at night (or when I’m out working, which I’m not at the moment and that’s pissing me off but that’s another story). It’s actually kinda cold in here at 68, so I also wear long underwear (top and bottom), plus a sweater over a long-sleeved shirt.
I don’t have room aruqvan, but a place a couple of doors down from me is available.
And it is definitely relative; when I moved here, I froze for a week or so, and we’re talking mid-August. Brrrrr! 50F in the morning! My God, break out the sweatshirts! But then a couple of years ago somewhere else on the boards I mentioned opening my windows for a while because it got up to 40F – in early spring, I guess – and horrified almost everybody else in the thread, but I hadn’t been able to really open up the house for months! And by the time I get to April, 40F seems warmish. I mean, it’s above freezing!
Mine is programmable with four settings for weekdays, morning, day, evening and night and more for weekends. I use the manual override so the eight or so settings for summer and an additional eight or so for winter are not used and have been forgotten long ago.
Mine is set at 19C (66F) during the day and 17C (62F) during the night. It’s currently winter here in Australia and daytime temps average around 15C (59F) and 7C (44F) at night. So I’m off the chart at the lower end of your poll.
Didn’t vote. I’ve never had control of AC anywhere I lived that had it. Winter, when I do have control over my living space, it’s 60f, and I still sleep with my feet uncovered. Sometimes I turn it down because I’m too hot, but anything below 55 and I can’t type, because my fingers get too stiff.
I wish I lived in an underground house, because they stay at the average annual temperature for that location year round if properly built, which is 55 where I live. Then, I would have a thermostat that in summer decides how much hot outside air to let in and dehumidify to get it up to whatever temperature I wound up preferring. In winter, waste heat alone would probably be enough to keep it comfortable.
Indianapolis here. We keep it at 74 in the summer and 68 in the winter. If the temp is in the low 80s with low humidity I’ll open the windows and just leave the fan on. I don’t tolerate heat well at all.
