MonicaRichards

We live in San Jose (much warmer than SF) and don't have nor do we want air conditioning. It cools down a LOT at night here, like a lot, like wear long pants and a fleece and you're still cold a lot. So you can cool down spaces at night and they stay cool during the day. For SF, it very rarely even gets hot so air conditioning would be pretty useless.

newtome

If you're staying in an older hotel here, I almost guarantee it will not have AC. If you won't stay in a property without it then your choices will be limited to more standard hotels.
It doesn't get humid here. If you stayed here when temps were e90 and ab over it was a freak occurrence and NOT the standard.

If you like opening windows that's easier to do here in older, smaller hotels, Noise is not usually a factor like other big cities unless you are on a cable car line or MAJOR bus line.

dbdurand

It appears that no one in this thread has actually stayed at this hotel. So I suggest you go to the tripadvisor web site for the hotel and read the comments there about the air conditioning situation. I found them on the second page of the comments, which by the way are very favorable.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Rev...alifornia.html

november_moon

Looks like SF is headed for a warming trend - next Thursday, highs of 72°F are forecast! Time to break out those shorts San Franciscans

NeoPatrick

"If you're staying in an older hotel here, I almost guarantee it will not have AC"

Really? I've stayed in at least a dozen SF hotels, all of which I'd call older. All have had AC. Are you suggesting SF hotels like the St Francis, Campton Place, the Fairmont, The Palace, or even The Prescott don't have AC?

newtome

@neopatrick - I mean LITERALLY older SMALLER hotels - hotels that are essentially converted residences or smaller buildings. And not the 5 star hotels you are mentioning....

StuDudley

Don't rely on any weather forecast for SF that is for more than 4 hours in the future.

Stu Dudley

Perigrinator

At last, I can tell you that I have, "have" stayed at the Hotel Cornell de France. I was moving to San Francisco at the time and stayed here for several days as I looked for a place to live. Nice little B&B type hotel. I stayed on the "ground floor" and had no issues and it was September. With that out of the way, will you need a/c? I would say no, not unless there is some extraordinary circumstance that San Francisco has a major heat wave.

Just as an FYI: I lived in the city for approximately six years and still live outside the city - one almost never needs a/c. When I moved there, it was a concern, when I bought a place, I asked my Realtor "how about a/c and heat? he went to the window and opened it and said "A/C" and closed it and said "heat." He was pretty much correct - I never needed a/c, but did have to buy a space heater in the winter. The comments about taking a jacket are on the mark. When my wife and I go to the city for dinner, we always take a jacket and sometimes a sweatshirt. Seldom, seldom, does it ever get warm enough in the evenings not to have one.

And, everyone else is also correct re: the touring! I took a tour to Angel island (at the same time I was looking for a place) and being a newbie, it was warm in the morning - I wore shorts and a t-shirt - and was frozen when we got out on the boat - but clever boat people had sweatshirts for sale! By the time I bought mine, it was bright yellow and had a big "San Francisco" emblazoned across the front and back... and it only cost about three times what it normally would have - I would have paid five times! Lesson learned.

So, while I could be completely wrong, and there could be a heat wave, I think, think, you will be OK with no a/c.

janisj

>>he went to the window and opened it and said "A/C" and closed it and said "heat."

maile

I lived in the Cornell in 1961 when it was a boarding house. A small room with wash basin and shared bath with the room next door. Breakfast and dinner included. Very strange residents and they seemed to take great deliight in making certain I was safe and actually escorted dates to the front door and me to my room in the evening. There was no AC (very few buildings had AC then, even the major hotels like the St. Francis) but I don't remember needing it much. It was fun to watch the freezing tourists though.

sf7307

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Still is

europeannovice

We have been a few times now and you are right. The locals are wearing wind breaker jackets (and so were we) while we witnessed some unknowing tourists shivering walking around in shorts! Northern California does not have the same temperature/climate as Southern California especially in August.

Wasn't it Mark Twain who said "The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco".

The first time we were caught off guard traveling in August and it was really cold that year. We had to buy sweatshirts. The next times we came prepared for cooler temperatures.

It is often cold in the morning and evening and will tend to warm up during the day but quickly drops back down at night again. It can feel quite chilly.

Centralparkgirl

The high rise hotels that I stay in do not have windows that open. The Hyatt Regency Embarcadero does have sliding glass doors. Between the noise and pigeons flying about (even on the highest floors), I would never sleep with the doors open. Closed, the room gets warm real fast. AC is a must for me.

BTW, I was in SF last month and got a terrible sunburn on my upper arms/shoulders just from walking around one afternoon. Just one afternoon! And that was on a day that I definitely needed a jacket at night.

SAB

"I was in SF last month and got a terrible sunburn on my upper arms/shoulders just from walking around one afternoon"

And this month we have barely seen the sun!!!!

janisj

>> Northern California does not have the same temperature/climate as Southern California especially in August.

bbqboy

Fog. The hotter it is inland the heavier the fog rushing in the Golden Gate. Fun to watch as long as you're bundled up.

sf7307

Janus is right, the climate in San Francisco proper is much different from the suburbs - the weather report here give three concurrent forecasts - bay, coast and inland. When we moved to the burbs years ago (we're back in the city now), we kept driving until the fog stopped. It is regularly 15 degrees warmer in summer there than here, and if you keep going further south, it keeps getting warmer. Same for east, especially when you go "through the tunnel".

janisj

>>Janus

sf7307

LOL!

Underhill

A year ago we stayed at a hotel in Pacific Heights that didn't have a/c, and the room was quite warm even with the windows open. The exposure makes a difference, and our room faced the south.