Temperature: What Is Your Personal Comfort Zone?

[Fookhaht]

When I first arrived in Thailand (10 years ago), I was always freezing-out my students by keeping the A/C on 22 or lower, otherwise I would sweat like a pig, mussing up my notes and necktie.

Over the years, I've noticed my personal tolerance steadily going up, and am so happy I am acclimatized. My range is now 28 degrees (with room fan on). Saves electricity, and keeps my Thai guests comfortable as well. Everyone else adjusting well?

Note: first attempt at a poll in quite a while; hope the choices work/make sense. I don't think the poll will correlate years & temp. for each vote, but at least we'll get a composite look at our readers. I wanted to add weight, since larger people tend to like colder temps., but that was getting a bit personal. More importantly, adding weight would muss up the correlation between years of residence and temperature comfort zones.

[Rsquared]

My personal comfort zone...................not too hot, and not too cold.

[barefoot1988]

i can tolerate well at 28 degrees but comfort is a different thing. comfortable at 28 degree? tolerable, but not comfortable enough i guess.

at 35, i would say its alright.

give me a 18 with a blanket, i would say comfortable with a smile

[Beetlejuice]

My personal comfort zone is, hot and wet. But don`t seem to get much of that these days.

[cdnmatt]

Once it starts hitting about 37C+ outside, then it gets a little warm for me, to the point I'll put off going downtown to get anything I need, etc. Anything below that, I'm just fine with only the fan.

Except sleeping though, and I have air cranked down to 18C for that.

[Time Traveller]

You need to add humidity into the calculation. 30 degrees with 80% humidity is very different from 30 degree and 60% humidity

[Fookhaht]

You need to add humidity into the calculation. 30 degrees with 80% humidity is very different from 30 degree and 60% humidity

This thread is about Thailand, Average year-around humidity: 82%

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Haha, Poll N00b. (Tip: The first and the second question aren't linked in any way; to get a correlation you need to merge the two, like:

Under 1 year and <20 degrees

1-3 years and <20 degrees

4-5 years and < 20degrees

>5 years and <20 degrees

Under 1 year and 20-22 degrees

1-3 years and ...

Of course you run out of space quickly. It's a limitation.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

As an actual answer.. I don't think there is a single value for me. When I feel like aircon I set it to 27 during the day, but 25 at night. But quite often I don't feel like aircon and then I just use the ceiling fan and get a breeze in. Whether I feel like aircon or not depends a lot if I've been physically active and on humidity.

[Gary A]

I too couldn't vote. My comfort level is anything above 20C and under 35C with 28C being perfect.

[Naam]

26.5ºC / 65% rel. humidity (daytime)

18.0ºC / 50% rel. humidity (when going to bed)

adjusting slowly to

25.0ºC / 60% rel. humidity (sleeping)

[Naam]

You need to add humidity into the calculation. 30 degrees with 80% humidity is very different from 30 degree and 60% humidity

This thread is about Thailand, Average year-around humidity: 82%

not in an airconditioned home!

[seasia]

I voted 29-30c but if 27-30c had been available I would have chosen that.

Under 20c I feel cold, above 35c I feel hot.

So most of the time I`m comfortable with the temperature here.