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.

Edited July 22, 201213 yr by Fookhaht

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

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

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

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.

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

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%

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.

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.

Edited July 24, 201213 yr by WinnieTheKhwai

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

26.5ºC / 65% rel. humidity (daytime)

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

adjusting slowly to

25.0ºC / 60% rel. humidity (sleeping)

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!

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.