xcountry

Relative humidity drops as temperatures increase as warmer air can hold more moisture. You’d be better to compare dew points. The dew points in Paris and Northern California today are very similar.

Back to the World Cup.

kerouac

I am having trouble choosing between Croatia and Denmark. I wonder what the humidity is.

janisj

kerouac: You just don't know California very well. >>but I would suppose that 40° is not the normal temperature for northern California either.<<

40F is TOTALLY normal (as is the 19 or 20 % humidity). In an average summer we will have many many days over 100F and the average is about 93F. That is for the majority of of northern CA. Not for San Francisco or Santa Cruz or Monterey . . . but that is just a small slice along the Pacific coast. It can be 63F and 59% humidity in SF and less than 40 miles away as the crow flies it will be 110F/43C and 20% humidity. That is very typical -- all summer long.

suze

To me air conditioning in a busy city is more about noise control, then it is about keeping cool. How noisy is your "favorite hotel" in location? Can you sleep with the windows open there?

flygirl

I also use dew point. For me 60 is about the dividing line - the more below that the better, but above that starts to not feel great to me - especially as the temps rise.

Thanks everyone

Suze, the car traffic isn't much but it can get very bustle-y with people. Although it does seem to quiet down around 11 PM or so - just the occasional yelps here and there. lol

Scootoir

I have lived in Iowa and visit my in-laws on Kauai (home of the rainiest spot on earth) so I'm a pretty good judge of humidity. It was humid in Paris when I visited last summer.

xcountry

Flygirl that’s exactly what these people say under Humidity and the chart Humidity Comfort Levels:

https://weatherspark.com/y/47913/Ave...nce-Year-Round

Here is the chart for August. Pretty good odds on each day of it being dry or comfortable but if you hit the wrong days ... (hope this works):

https://weatherspark.com/m/47913/8/A...n-Paris-France

nukesafe

Thank you, Xcountry, for those links. There are some really interesting graphs on there. I will bookmark that Weatherspark site.

Christina

kerouac, I agree with you. At least whenever someone asks if Paris is "humid" and people say yes, I always think, huh??? I've been there many times in the summer when it was pretty hot and never once did I think of it as being particularly humid that it even crossed my mind. I grew up in the Midwest of USA which is pretty hot/humid in summer, and now live in Wash DC area which is pretty humid, so Paris just doesn't strike me as unusual at all in terms of humidity. I get that it may be for people who live in really dry US areas but I don't think most people do (live in those areas). So whenver someone asks that, I guess you need to ask, compared to what?

today DC is 51% humidity. Indianapolis IN is 58%, Atlanta is 65%, Los Angeles where I lived a long time is 59%. Same source (weather.com) says Paris is 52%, though. But that's still nothing unusual to a lot of US cities.

I've been in humid places on vacation, also, like parts of coastal Mexico and Florida, and Paris is nothing like that.

flygirl

DC had a dew point of 77 earlier today. Won't even bother to go outside, at that.

janisj

Christina . . . LA is on the coast, of COURSE it will be more humid then most of California. Today it was 27% where I live, and that is very humid here in he summer.

Belinda

I don’t know for comparisons but all I can tell you is that 88 here feels like way hotter than it does in the SF Bay Area, and on the bus it feels like a freaking sauna!

Parisians are big on saying it’s not hot enough often enough to require air conditioning and so many cafes and restaurants are all open to the outside anyway. I would choose a hotel with aircon. You already know my recommendation.

kerouac

Today is the first muggy day of this hot period, even though temperatures are lower than the previous days.

Fodorite018

fly girl--Take a look at the Britannique in the 1st. We loved that we could control the ac in our room vs the hotel having it set at a particular temperature. It is a beautiful hotel and centrally located.

Nikki

I would have to have a very, very good reason to go to the Deep South in the summer. Same for Washington, DC. Way too hot and humid. Even here in Massachusetts I need air conditioning in the summer, not every day but enough. People who live in the South might be more heat and humidity tolerant, but it is my understanding that people there spend most of their time in the summer in air conditioning.

I haven’t been to Paris in the summer since I was in college, so I can’t speak from personal experience. But going by the comments here, I think I would be much happier with air conditioning.

denisea

Nikki - I look for reasons to go any where outside of Atlanta during the summer. We pay for not having winter snow/ice with the humidity in the summer (and I had to go to a conference in New Orleans last week...not ideal). I have lived in the South my entire life...I don't enjoy the humidity and god help you if your A/C dies during summer. I would say I am not more tolerant of our heat and humidity (I have accepted it). I just pray for Labor Day when we finally start to lose the humidity.

Envierges

After spending summers in Chicago and Paris where heat saturated buildings and pavements radiate heat, there is no AC on public transport and the days are long and sun soaked, I prefer to spend my summers, of all places, in Florida where there is AC everywhere, a pool in my building, breezes off the ocean and the delightful cool that comes after rainstorms which are numerous in this rainy season.

kerouac

This will not make me any friends since there are a lot of people who feel that Parisians should grovel to the tourists, but I am quite happy every time somebody decides not to visit because they are uncomfortable. There are so many other people who don't worry about that, so it's nice to see people who are not complaining all the time.

83% of the tourists who come to Paris are French or from Europe, so frankly they are not at all shocked by the weather or the temperature conditions of their accommodations. Soon, the Chinese will be the largest foreign group, and they are not big complainers either.

Macross

My freind arrived in Paris today, no ac but being a Floridian she said the humidity is not bad so will be ok. We know humid in Florida.

Having said all of that I can't sleep if it is hot so want my ac and love a fan blowing on me winter or summer. Last Feb the guy in apartment below us came up and knocked on our door and said the whirring noise was bothering him. God help the people staying there this week with no ac.

KTtravel

I think the humidity noted in charts in San Francisco is due to the fog. It is a cold humidity much of the summer, not warm.