16-18C is probably best. Love curling up in the duvet in the cold, but cold normally means damp too ☹️
Sleeping above 25C is miserable.
I just open the windows , so outside temp , wich ranges from -10 to +25 °C
The easiest way I find is to memorize the 0/10/20/30C to F conversions, then plus/minus at 2 to 1 from there.
32 = 0 50 = 10 68 = 20 86 = 30
70F is ~21C, 54F is ~12C, 81F is ~27.5C.
This comparison makes Celsius look even harder to use hahaha.
Only 10 degrees between 68 and 86? That’s either a very nice but chilly day or a hot day
Where I grew up it was between 20 and 30 much of the year. Honestly a 10 point warmness scale is quite easy to adjust to.
I have heard farenheit defenders point out that we’re not water - that farenheit cares about the temperatures that humans care about
I’m born and raised in the US, so I grew up on Fahrenheit, but switched my phone to Celsius about 10 years ago because I wanted to better understand the scale and have stuck with it ever since. I really don’t need to know the exact temperature when I check the weather, just an estimate of whether I should dress for “hot”, “cold”, or “mild”. One of the “tricks” I heard early on was similar: 0°C is freezing. 10°C is cold. 20°C is comfortable. 30°C is warm/hot. 40°C is fucking hot.
If you don’t need to be super accurate:
- C to F: double then add 30
- F to C: subtract 30 then halve it
I like the room cold for sleeping. 60F (15C) is ideal, but we can’t get that cool in the summer.
Thanks!
The two formulas are:
F=(C x 1.8)+32
C=(F-32)/1.8
If you think about the formula for converting, it’s close to multiplying or dividing by 2. This step is off by about 10% (1.8/2=0.9). So converting from F to C, subtract 32, divide by 2, then add 10%.
For C to F, multiply by 2, subtract 10%, then add 32.
At typical temps, I’ve found this is usually within a degree, and easy to do in my head (and I have zero working memory).
I usually set the thermostat to 28c or so, but I doubt it gets there, I get a sore throat at night if it’s cold and I end up being miserable and spending way too long in bed the next day.
What are you a lizard? 28c?
Yeah? I’m not moving when I sleep so I need to get heat somehow.
Right now I have it at 24c and that’s comfortable. During peak summer I have it set to 26c and I wish I could go a little lower…
Uff. 28c sounds tough. How do you sleep? I wake up sweating without any blankets at 26c. Do you have windows open? Fans?
No, I wouldn’t heat with the windows open. All windows are shut. I don’t sweat in my sleep and usually sleep under a thick blanket. I’m just terrible in the cold.
I’m technically originally from Russia but summers where I was are like 30c+ and in the winter it’s usually very toasty indoors. It’ll never not shock me that Europeans tolerate such cold indoors, especially the UK which due to the wind and humidity feels colder in spring than eastern Europe in deep snow winter.
Celsius *2, subtract 10%, add 32.
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I don’t care, I’m asleep.
68F in the winter, 72F in the summer
I’d personally go lower in the winter, but the rest of my family disagrees
Exactly the same for me.
Around 17°C in the winter, as cool as I can reasonably get it in the summer, usually about 27°C
About 65F to start with, then just before I get into bed, I turn off the heater, because supposedly you sleep better when reasonably cool.
The other comment is right, hot nights are the worst.
In a country where thermostats and air conditioners and whatever in your house isn’t really a norm. So like other answers here, just whatever temperature. And I adjust the amount of layers on my bed or that I’m wearing to accommodate. Hot summer nights are the worst.
Heating and cooling are expensive at our house so we generally let the temp do what it wants so long as it stays between 64F and 80F. The dehumidifier, though, tends to keep it in the upper end of that range during the summer.
Whatever temperature the apartment ends up at 🥲 My cat won’t sleep with the windows closed (insane behavior), and I’m not running heat or air with them open.
My ideal is 68°F or around 20°C, but kitty gets whatever she wants.
