Thread: What's your ideal temperature?

76+, except when it's really hot outside, then I usually want the AC on, but my mom hates it so it's a rarity. So in the winter 76+ in the summer 68 or lower. I'd rather be too hot than too cold.

If I'm just bumming around the house, I like it at 78. If I'm doing a lot of work, 68 or 70 is good.
Having it perfect, for leisure time, is the heat at 78 and my window AC going at low on 80. Then it's hot, but breezy lol But it's silly to run both (too expensive) so I don't.

I thought I was the only one who likes it hotter than room temperature. It seems most people like it colder. I too prefer it to be too hot than too cold.

I like it around 75, I think. Maybe hotter, but I haven't experimented. I can still function properly at 70-71 (although I need thick clothing), but I think it's exactly 69 that I become too cold to think or concentrate properly.

(You don't have to read this, just a rant about my dad turning the temperature down)
The problem I have is that my dad's ideal temperature seems about 68 degrees, so he's always turning the heat down to about 69. My room usually gets a degree F or 2 colder than the rest of the house, so this winter has been terrible for me. When I try to turn it up, even to 70 degrees because I can't concentrate on studying for school because I'm too cold, my dad gets annoyed and complains it's too hot, and turns it down. He actually gets annoyed at me, for daring to turn it up 2 degrees, and says 'can you not turn the heat up?' irritatedly as though I'm doing something wrong. He insists room temperature is about 70, while I've looked it up and varified it's closer to 72. Reasonably, I think, compensating with a temperature between our ideals of 68 and 75, maybe at 72, would make sense. But he insists on it being about 69.
Fortunately, this has mostly stopped, as winter is dissappearing and it no longer gets much colder in my room than the rest of the house. It's usually around 70. It's still too cold for me, and I'm wearing a sweater or scarf all the time, but it is no longer unbearable.

My kids have a bad habit of extremes. One kid will crank the heat up to 90 (the highest it will go) and I go into hibernation mode because it's sweltering. Then another kid will come along and turn the heat completely off- which also sends me to sleep because it's too freagin cold.
The Master Bedroom has the master bath off it on one end and another room, equal in size to the bathroom, right next to it. I like small spaces, so I use the little room as my bedroom (it's original purpose was walk-in closet and vanity- has a wide mirror above a table which I use for my computer, and a long mirror on the other side of the door that leads to the bathroom). Because of it's size, I feel the change in temperature the most. So I put in the window AC which solves most of the problems.

My mom always has the heat at 68. Everyone in my family complains except my dad, but my dad won't complain about almost anything my mom does. Then she has the AC set at around 76+ in the summer if it's on at all. If I change either of them they ask me when I'm gonna start paying the heat bills, even though they have two houses and aren't really hurting for money. My mom doesn't like AC, but I think she just does the heat low because she's cheap, her family was poor when she was a kid and she is just in the habit of living like that.

I like it very warm, 78-80 F (25-27 C) in the winter and really cool in the summer, 65-68 F (18-20 C). I know, kinda extreme on both ends. My electric bill sucks in the winter.

Right now, I've been putting the heat at 70, same for the summer 70 seems to work

probably 60-65 F.
with a cloudy gray sky, and light breeze.

but I also love thunderstorms and blizzards >

oh, that is for outside, but inside, I like it at 63-68

I can't stand high temperature or humidity. I try to keep my room floating around 5 C (41 F). I live in a pretty cold and dry climate, and I'm so happy that I do. Temperatures around -30 C (-22 F) to -40 C (-40 F) without windchill are common from about September to March. There are exceptions though. We've had as low as -50/-60 C (-58/-76 F) and as high as 5 C (41 F) or 10 C (50 F) during the winter months. For almost 300 days out of the year we get anywhere from 25mph to about 60mph winds with gusts upwards of 70mph being common.

I've travelled a bit and it just reaffirmed my hate of high temperature. Florida was 31c (88 F) when I was there, very high humidity... I couldn't stand it. I had to stay inside with AC cranked sitting right beside it.

So yeah, I'd say my preferred temperature is generally -5 C (23 F) to around 5 C (41 F).

It's strange that it's so different for different people. I hate cold temperatures. Even when it's too hot, I still feel like I have energy and can work on things and am in a generally good mood. But if it's even a bit too cold it seems my body just shuts down, I lose energy and get depressed and want to sleep. I don't understand how anyone could like the cold. I'd love to live in Florida.

But the best weather, most to my liking, that I've ever experienced has been during summers where I stayed with a spiritual group in Costa Rica (near Arenal Volcano). It was a bit elevated. It was usually pretty hot and was very humid, but not too hot. The weather was chaotic, and I loved that. It would be pouring heavy drops of (warm) rain, then 5 minutes later it would be sunny, then it might start raining again, then was really windy. Where I live, it's pretty much the opposite of that. If in the morning it's raining, the chances are it will be raining for hours more and the entire day will be dreary.

30 degrees F

Originally Posted by Keresztanya

30 degrees F

Outsiede I take it?

Depends on the season. If it's hot outside I like the temperature inside to be around 70 degrees. When it's cold I like it to be around 80. Basically whatever is the extreme of the other works well for me though in the spring and fall I generally don't need to mess with the thermostat and just open the windows. I love light jacket, or t-shirt and long pants weather.

I jsut have to say that I love your sig, BBF

Anyway, my indoor temp changes, but outside I like 75... well, anything that allows me to wear shorts coz I hate pants. I've worn shorts down to 60, lol. But 70-75 and raining is my fav weather. I love rain

I like it from 17C(62.6F) to 19C(66.2F) as inside temperature throughout the year. Outside I like 22C(71.6F) in the summer and in the winter I like it really cold at about -22C(-7.6F)

Originally Posted by Armistice

I jsut have to say that I love your sig, BBF

Anyway, my indoor temp changes, but outside I like 75... well, anything that allows me to wear shorts coz I hate pants. I've worn shorts down to 60, lol. But 70-75 and raining is my fav weather. I love rain

Oh why thank you! I must say I like yours as well. We'll have to play Calvinball together sometime!

And rain is wonderful. Everything feels so clean during a good rain. <3

If we're talking about overall weather too... I'd have to say a good spring rain is awesome. Getting that smell of wet soil, the musky smell of wet clays... the smell of old grass if you just mowed the lawn. Rain brings out all sorts of smells! And I love them all.

And then tied with that (or slightly above that) is a good heavy windless snow. Nice fat snowflakes falling straight down, nice and slow. Then the after it stops snowing, nice calm grey skies with a blanket of snow over everything. Awesome.

I also LOVE the occasional lightening storm. When I hear thunder I run right outside and go for a walk.

37 degrees

I like it around 25.

Yeah, as much as I hate BEING cold, my favorite season is now Winter. I'm in a good mood all winter, it seems. Snow seems cleansing and pure to me- a promise of new beginnings and good things to come. All things that Spring normally represents to most people, I seem to connect with Winter instead
I LOVE fat snowflakes, so a temp of 28-32 is perfect. Anything warmer= rain and slush; anything colder= tiny snow and ice pebbles lol

Now that Spring is right around the corner, I find myself oddly depressed lol Not only is my sleep cycle out of whack and my sleep temperature, but it seems my seasons are strange as well.

I tend to sweet heaps in my sleep, so I keep my room at about 65 when it's time for bed. When I'm awake, I tend to freeze.

What's everyone's approximate weight?
I've heard that thinner people get cold more easily, so they tend to like warmer temps.
There seems to be some truth in that. I used to maintain a weight of 98 pounds (at 5'5") Now I'm up to around 130. I get warmer now than I used to.

5'5.5 and about 120 pounds, and I get cold really easily. When I was 15 I weighed about 105 and I think I've always gotten cold easily, I don't think I've gotten cold less easily since gaining weight.

My dad who likes it rather cold is sort of overweight.

I tend to be very depressed in the winter, I suppose that's what it's like for most people. I also love when it snows. But where I live, it usually doesn't snow that much, maybe for a week max. But aside from that, winter just means really cold, a bit below freezing temperatures and gray skies. To me it feels like the essense of misery. And I hated a couple weeks ago when it would be fully dark by about 4:45pm.

Mine jumped up to 130 after I got out of school. I find I tend to freeze all the same as I did when I only weighed 115. Though my parents tell me that I'm like a furnace and being to close to me they get really really hot. I guess I just don't keep any for myself...

This is really interesting. I've never really thought of what someones preferred temperature or weather is... but now that I'm seeing all these differences I'm really suprised!

I find a lot of people get depressed during winter, but I absolutely love it. Gray skies, the occasional white-out, deep breath of chilling air first thing in the morning. I don't know what I'd do without winter.

Also, about weight and height.

I'm somewhere around 6'3" to 6'4"... maybe even 6'5"... I haven't really measured my height since I was younger, but I haven't grown much since then. I'm about 160/180lb. Again, I haven't weighed myself recently... but I haven't really gained weight since the last time I was weighed.

So I wouldn't say I'm a particularly heavy person (maybe it's just wishful thinking) but I still prefer the cold. When I was staying at my brother's last december I had to sleep in the living room, and I'd crank the AC real cold and keep his patio door open... and it was around -15/-20 C (5/-4 F) outside. I just love getting under a blanket in the cold.

21° C / 70° F inside the house.

-20° C / -4° F outside in winter.

20° C or so outside in spring and summer. I like cool, windy, sunny summer days.