Ideal room temperature for sleeping

temperature is weird for me. i was told that you shouldn't keep your study room or office too warm because then you get drowsy... so by rights your bedroom should be a bit on the warm side... now all these twits are saying: no, keep it cooler.

i hate being artificially hot. i can't stay in long sleeves if the room has the heat on [that i can't do anything about]. i can be cold, though. cold i can handle [except for frozen feet].

17-19C

Catman likes having his tootsies warm.

Nora



I can see why.

because while what's optimal might vary a bit from person-to-person I would expect the majority of people to be somewhere around 68-72f for their comfortable/optimal room temp as I feel between those temps you cover a decent portion of people who prefer things a bit cooler and those a bit warmer without it going too far either way.

or look at it this way... If I had to pick one comfortable temperature for people in general I would bet on 70f as while you could not please everyone I think it would be the best balance between warm/cold. like it's a comfortable temp in general.

although I would say if one was outside relaxing with a decent breeze I would rather not go less than about 75f otherwise I might start to get a bit cold as this is what I noticed when riding motorcycles a while ago. so I guess for me, in terms of a general outside temp, I would prefer somewhere around 75-80f with no humidity as sort of the optimal summer temp.


but anyways... given the topic and choices in the poll I went with 69-70f. but with that said... I am used to sleeping with a fan on year round as it's easier for me to sleep with that going as it helps drown out background noise etc. sleeping without a fan would be more difficult for me in general unless I am really tired. I got one of those industrial heavy duty fans (20" blade) which I had since 2002 (which is Mfg date of the fan to) as they produce more general steady hum noise to block out things.

I prefer to keep room temp no lower than 67f otherwise it starts to become uncomfortable. but more in the 68-70f range is more optimal for me. but where I sleep tends to fluctuate quite a bit in winter vs summer as in the winter when things really start to get cold outside (i.e. roughly teens and lower in terms of temps) things tend to float in the 62-66f range but in the summer when it's generally pretty warm outside it's usually around 75-85f as while we got central air in the house, the room I sleep in basically does not get anything as it only gets from what leaks from other rooms into the room I sleep which means it does not help too much but some as it helps keep things dryer than that high humidity as I can't stand when you start getting into that 80's, especially mid-80's, and higher outside with high humidity as without AC in those situations I would be pretty cranky as while I can tolerate heat to some degree after a certain point it will end up getting me upset.

but as a general guideline for me on hot vs cold... I would rather have temps outside be too hot than too cold in general as cold weather limits what you can do (especially when it comes to going outside) and I just generally feel better in warmer whether (i.e. 70's on up) than colder weather (i.e. say something like 50's, especially 40's, and lower). but I will say when it gets to about the 80's and higher, especially mid-80's, with high humidity then AC is a must otherwise I would not be a person someone wants to be around

p.s. I am surprised to see 60-65f being the most selected currently. my guess is these are mainly people who are young that are always hot because their hormones are out of whack etc.

outrider127



I can imagine people in Florida preferring rather higher temps for their comfortable temp because they are more used to super hot temps than a good portion of the USA year round.

like 70f or so would probably seem pretty cold to many who live in Florida I suspect.

I like to sleep with a blanket/quilt so the cooler the better within reason. Voted for 60-65 (approx. 14-17 C)

For me between 15°C and 20°C

re the monsters getting you.

Yeah, it's weird.  I don't know exactly why I started doing it.  I would have thought it would feel weird/seem uncomfortable before I started doing it.  I think I may have just kicked everything off a couple times and then that started feeling more comfortable to me (barring it being pretty cold).  It might have been because the temperature in the apartment I'm in now is so wonky.  It's particularly difficult to cool things off enough in my apartment in the summer, though not so difficult to heat things in the winter.  My wife always says that I "generate heat," and I've always sweated very easily.  She'll want me under the covers with her sometimes if she's cold, but then about 10 minutes later, she wants me out of the covers because I'm making it uncomfortably warm, lol.