Where do you set your thermostat in summer?

[Matsubara]

(Yeah, yeah, people in coastal California, I know you don't need A/C and there's never a mosquito - lucky you.)

But people who live where summer gets hot, where do you put the thermostat, or do you just make do with fans?

I like ours at about 76, but my wife (like all Japanese, it seems) likes it at 80. (HOT!)

I cannot sleep with the thermostat above 76 - I wake up in a sweat. What can I say, I grew up in a desert where there is no humidity and nights are MUCh cooler than the days. I don't do well here in Japan where it's 95 in the daytime and 88 and humid at night in summer. At least the winters are nice though.


(Weird thing here is, even though most Japanese keep their houses fairly warm and only run the AC on the hottest days, and most offices set their thermostats at 80 (hot!), the department stores and other retail joints have the thermostats set for like 65! You get a blast of cold air when you walk by them outside. But movie theaters here are warm and muggy, unlike the iceboxes in the US)

[greendog]

1. off

Northwest Montana - it seldom gets uncomfortably hot here. Air conditioning would be a waste of money. I don't even have a fan.

[NMDemDist2]

2. 79 usually, I'll kick it down to 78 if I'm cleaning or cooking though

but I like it hot and like wearing minimal (or no) clothing

:P

[Heidi]

3. Summer gets plenty hot here, but we don't have air conditioning.

In fact, I don't know of any private home here that has it. We have a couple of fans, tons of windows and "rolladen" that we roll down on the west side of the house in the afternoon to keep things cool. Not sure how I'll handle air conditioning when I one day return to the US; I stayed in an air-conditioned hotel room in Lausanne last week and came home with a cold/sinus infection. :shrug:

[Cannikin]

4. Around 73...It's 69 in here right now! I need to bump it up a little for money's sake!

[Nicole]

5. I have set it at 70° -75°

I like it on the cooler side, I keep my heater set at 60° during the winter.

[datasuspect]

6. i spend a lot of time outside

climate controlled environments are downright shivery for me in summertime.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. usually 78, unless it's really hot outside, then it's set for 80.

I'm not on the California coast but I do benefit from the typical night time cooling in this part of the state. It's not unusual to have the temperature drop 30 to 40 degrees between 5 PM and 11 PM, with much of the cooling happening within an hour of sundown. That's a good thing because 95-100+ degree days are common in the late summer. The AC runs less than 4 hours a day and its function is to keep the house from becoming beastly hot in the afternoons. I'm not fond of sleeping in air-conditioned rooms because it screws up my sinuses. When I lived with the much more humid Boston summers I slept with circulating fans and had no A/C. I can't say that it was pleasant but it was workable.