Why Germans Don't Buy Air Conditioning

Germans don't buy air cons but why? Do we just love to sweat and stink? Watch the video and find out!

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[Clrendon]

Mc Donalds Toronto - Outside 30°C inside 23°C - Mc Donalds Berlin- Outside 30°C inside 33°C.

[sarahmiller]

Omg I'm currently living in Germany and this is crazy!!! I need AC I maybe just a spoiled American but in my opinion it is way too hot to not have an AC!!!

[WBDE]

When I worked at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, our German friends found out very quickly why air conditioning is not only prevalent in the U.S. but it considered almost a necessity

[tammymoody]

My German employees claim the AC makes them sick. Apparently the AC Air makes them sick. They are trying to kill me with this heat and I am from

[jimmygangster]

I need A/C so bad. I live in the part of America where in the winters it can get down to -20F but when it get's hot.. IT GET'S HOT like over 100F. I generally use house A/C but I live in the upstairs where the house A/C isn't so good so I have a window A/C and I use it most of the way into Fall. I like sleeping and waking up in an ice box. To me personally though, I honestly would rather be shivering cold than sweaty and sticky and hot and smelly.

[sebi]

I think the reason is that we mostly build our houses with really good temperature isolation. Even if its really hot or really cold, the houses are still pretty good tempered for a good amount of days. Also we do a lot of temperature regulation by opening up the windows and letting a cool breeze in.

[Clrendon]

With an average of 50 days of tropical heat in Germany, Germans refuse even think about using AC - for several reasons:
The average of 50 is often understood as a 50 without a zero (5) - Depends on which part of the country you live.
Now i have lived in Frankfurt/Main ( Humid in summer) and now Berlin where you have a rather "continental summer" and temps can get to peaks of 35°C
Germans are outraged about the concept of a temperature difference between inside and outside and believe that will make them ill.
People would rather sweat on a hot sticky day in public places than cooling down .As my working colleagues will turn up in beach wear to the office which i personally at terms find somewhat disturbing, they logically freeze when the air con gives a slight draft and it gets turned down to off, because they refuse to adjust. So if you`re lucky enough to have such device, it`s frowned upon from the very beginning.
Iv`e been to food stores on a hot day where they believe it`s absolutely acceptable that the chocolate bars get soft and almost molten on a hot day. Shops that have air cons have them either 1, off 2. not working properly or 3 working with doors & windows crammed wide open.
So to sum it up, Germany has an underdeveloped mentality to air cons in comparison to the US, Canada or Asia.

[Thxsober]

Just like gasoline, Europeans have to pay 2 to 3+ times what Americans have to pay for electricity. Electric rates can vary widely across the USA and where I live in Kentucky the rate are fairly cheap. I live in a 2, 600 sq ft, 100 year old house with a fairly new central A/C unit and running the A/C and keeping the inside of the house at 72 (22 C) adds about $30 to $35 to my monthly electric bill. As a kid growing up in the 1960's, only my parents had window A/C in their bedroom. I can remember many nights, naked in my bed with not even a sheet with a box fan in the window on high blowing directly on me and still sweating my balls off unable to sleep because of the heat.

[Jinkun]

I overheat VERY easily. If you put me outside and it's 80F you can count on me melting into the cracks on the sidewalk. On the flip side, I can walk around in a skirt, t-shirt and sandals in the middle of a snow storm so I never use the heat in the winter. But during the summer, AC is a must! Lol at your jam session at the end of the video. It was as amusing as the video of you working out. <3

[ornleifs]

No air conditioning in Iceland for obvious reasons, but we have plenty of hot water in the ground to heat our houses.

[Timmytobytaby]

Fun fact: In many schools in Germany there are special rules for hot days (depending on the state mostly).
In my state the principal would check the temperature at 10 AM and if it was higher then 25 degrees Celsius in the shade outside (77F) he would send us home early.
It's called Hitzefrei (literally heatfree) and was always very welcome :)

[annekaldunski]

Germans use radiators for heating, therefore there are no air ducts of central air conditioning units. That is probably the biggest reason.

[charluvsyou]

I lived in Germany last year and what I noticed is the most German homes in my area (near Hamburg) needed air conditioning. Not because of cooling, but keep the air clean. It was always moist and kinda moldy and it made me vary vary sick all the time. Now that I am back in the USA with the filtered air I am getting better and don't feel so sick all the time. Opening the windows in a rainy area doesn't help stop carbon dioxide build up or indoor mold like most Germans I met believed.

[donovansweet]

I'm in Germany yall need ac even with the window open I sweat at night

[AgentAndroid]

I'm from Poland and we also don't use air conditioning that much in homes. However most of the public places and new trains, buses, and metros have them. If it gets unbearably hot at home, I usually take a trip to a beach town and stay in a hotel for the few days during a heat wave. Pretty much all chain hotels and 2 star+ hotels have AC here.

[gmc]

You kind of need air conditioning here in Las Vegas when the daily low temperature during the summer is in the 80's!

[gnawershreth]

It seems like it's a common thing in northern Europe at least. There's simply no need for it. Of course it might be nice like a week a year or something, but there's a reason why the average American uses 2-3 times as much electricity as us. It's not because their dishwasher uses more power than ours or whatever. It's A/C.

Also, northern European houses tend to be very well insulated which keeps the heat in during the winter but also keeps in heat out during the summer. So opening a window or using a fan is usually enough since it doesn't turn into a sauna just because the sun is out. That would be the case if the houses weren't so well insulated so then A/C might be needed.

[fazilps]

I just moved to Nuremberg from Singapore. Third week in here. I'm typing this in the middle of the night at 1:00AM cuz I am not able to sleep in the hotel due to the heat.
The day time temperature hit 36°C (this is the 4th time I guess since we arrived here) and right now the temp is 26°C.

My house hunt started with the disappointment that houses here have no AC at all. My colleagues here says it's just a few weeks so it not worth the expense. I totally disagree. AC is a must especially considering the fact that it is only getting hotter every year. And 3 months of intense summer warrants an AC.
As a side note, I spend more time at office than required just cuz it's cooled in there. 😁

[SuperDrLisa]

45 years ago when I visited Germany in June it was unbearably hot. An even less air conditioning than you have now. I need it for my asthma.

[billnye]

i live in florida and we use the Air Conditioning every day, i cant remember a day when it was cold. currently at about 6:15 pm its 34.5 degrees Celsius (94 degrees fahrenheit)