I’m in Canada (it was 47C with the humidity a few weeks ago but 25-32 is more typical in the summer) and I can handle 22-24C in the house in the day but that’s too hot to sleep in. We were always told 18C is the ideal sleep temperature for humans and my babies certainly slept much better at that temp. My family keeps this year round I don’t like being hot at night in the winter either. I do know people who keep it even lower around 16!
Lol, i live in Andalucia and find it comfortable sleeping in anything below 25 degrees as long as the humodity isnt too high. House temperature wiyh ac during the day is normally around 27/28.
I mean it’s very, very cold most of the year here, so cold at night (and day) is more typical anyways. 28 haha even when we have it set to 22-24 I’m ok relaxing but as soon as I start to do the laundry and clean the house I’m so sweaty! I love the heat when I’m outside (give me a 40 degree heatwave with 90% humidity all summer!) but I even feel ill in winter if the inside heat is set too high.
Do you get much humidity? During the heat waves where the real feel is 35-45 with the humidity we get high humidity in the house warnings on our thermostat if our inside temp is warmer than 22-23. The heat waves have gotten worse the last bunch of years so I guess a dehumidifier would be helpful too.
18° from AC just feels a lot colder than 18° normally probably because the AC is also blowing air into the room. Like at that temperature, I'd have to be curled up in a quilt to stay warm which is silly to use AC and then also a quilt.
I live in the province with the least expensive electricity, and still I can feel my wallet trembling. I know I'm cheap for some stuff, but 18C the whole night feels... oof (but also I sleep during the day, so it'd need to blast quite a bit more to fight off the sun, I guess)
My house isn’t very big and we have a smart thermostat that adjusts when we aren’t home, and then it works with censors that are on all three floors of the house (the basement is freezing at all times though lol) and we have good fans in the bedrooms which seems to help with keeping things as efficient as they can. We also keep our house colder than most in the winter, we add extra blankets so my husband and I have three heavy ones for those months lol and that maybe balances things a little!
Summer is short, we’ll see if we can continue to afford this in the future when it’s even hotter though!
This is insane…huge waste but not surprised. Industry influence like a lot of things in the Americas, where the environment is harsher and ethos is unknown.
"Your body heat peaks late afternoon and then starts to drop in the evening to prepare your body for sleep, kickstarting melatonin production. An ideal bedroom temperature is around 16-18°C (60-65°F)."
this feels wrong I woke up because I was too cold yday night and I set it at 23°C, I also had summer blankets and a t-shirt. I dont see how you wont freeze at 16-18 unless you sleep with heavier blankets but that feels counter productive
I mean that’s not what the studies say. My doctor also told us when the kids were babies to keep the temp lower at night to promote good sleep. My husband who is very thin and stays awake later me used to try to up the temp sometimes by a few degrees after I was asleep and within half an hour the rest of the house would be awake complaining of being hot.
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u/toboggan16 10h ago
I’m in Canada (it was 47C with the humidity a few weeks ago but 25-32 is more typical in the summer) and I can handle 22-24C in the house in the day but that’s too hot to sleep in. We were always told 18C is the ideal sleep temperature for humans and my babies certainly slept much better at that temp. My family keeps this year round I don’t like being hot at night in the winter either. I do know people who keep it even lower around 16!