I have heard that you should stay in rooms with air conditioning in France in summer. Unfortunately the place we want to stay has a/c in the suite (which is about 45 euro a night more). Do you think we should try to find another place which has lower ratings/further away from where we want to be? Is it really that muggy at night or does it cool off a bit?
Thanks!
Posted by
OP
Comox
4 posts
It will be mid July
and I have found out that there will be a table fan, which I think should be fine............
Posted by
Portlandia
3313 posts
If you have windows that open and France does not suffer from a freakish heat wave, you should be fine.
Posted by
US Pacific Northwest
10344 posts
Esther: No one here can know what the weather will be this July when you're there. What the weather was one year or two years ago, even if a visit was in mid-July, is also not very reliable.
Probably the best we can do for you is give you this link to a succinct summary of actual weather at Blois for the last six years during the period July 10 to July 20 click here
For sleeping at night, a measure of discomfort often used to quantify the discomfort caused by a combination of heat and humidity is the dew point. Metereologists say that the average person starts to notice some discomfort from heat/humidity starting at dew points above 60 (dew point not air temp). And some weather sites define humid weather as a dew point above 65; and sweltering weather as a dew point above 70.
Note in the summary above the charts where it says that it says that the dew point was above 65 (most people would consider the weather humid at that point) on 35 out of the 66 days in the historical record or just over 50% of the days.
What the site doesn't give is the time of day the high dew points were reached, whether it was during the day or at night. But hopefully this will give you some basis for thinking about whether you want to get a room with AC or stay with what you have.