Need AC in San Jose? (Milpitas, Santa Cruz: apartment, to rent, houses)

[meeus]

Hello,

I am looking for a place to rent in San Jose (near Saratoga av. and 280), and there are couple of nice houses without AC. How uncomfortable can it get in summer without air conditioning, both during the day and at night?

Thanks.

[AA702]

It can get hot! but usually only a week or two at a time. When I lived in the area, I bought a window mounted a/c from fry's. It was the best $100 bucks I spent on those hot summer nights so I can get a good night sleep.

[sonarrat]

The microclimates around here are so powerful that your place in west San Jose is probably fine, and the same house in south San Jose around 101 & Yerba Buena would be almost unbearable.

[Luke9686]

My place in Cupertino didn't have A/C. I bought a window unit and only used it for a total of about 3 weeks during my 2 years there. It gets down in the 50's at night.

It is bearable, but I would have rather had central A/C.

[whoIam]

Yes, it can get hot. The smaller the space and the closer it is to an exposed roof both contribute to higher indoor temps. I almost rented a nice apartment in that area with a full side of windows but no a/c. It was beautiful, but the effect would have been like living in a greenhouse (very warm air trapped inside during the daytime). A large house could have been cooler in the summer, but probably cold (possibly enough to need a heater) in winter.

[sissy910]

Originally Posted by sonarrat

The microclimates around here are so powerful that your place in west San Jose is probably fine, and the same house in south San Jose around 101 & Yerba Buena would be almost unbearable.

I lived in West San Jose and it was unbearable. I bought a window unit also and that was ok.

[BabyWearer]

We had a window unit in our apartment and it was nice to have on those rare really hot days. No A/C is pretty common, which I thought was odd when I first moved there. Really you don't use it that often though when you do need to, it's really nice to have it. We often just used a ceiling fan.

[Agenias]

We lived in Los Gatos (Blossom Hill/Los Gatos Blvd) and we had a small window unit and we were fine. The nice thing is that there is NO HUMIDITY in San Jose compared to Ohio where we currently live (moving back asap!). So as long as you have a window unit you're cool!

Take care!

[seattle sunhine]

I lived in Gilroy now that's hot. But remember that the heat does bring the marine layer at night and wake up to a overcast morning. The further you inland the hotter it will get and south . I was raised in San Jose and Milpitas the nights were great. Living here in WA there are no crickets to let you know it's summer. Miss that alot. yeah miss the dry heat yuk humidity here in the pacific northwest.

[Wisteria]

I'm not in San Jose, but in the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of Los Gatos, and it gets hot here, too, but with the low humidity. My windows open out, not up, and I couldn't fit a window AC in them. So I got a small, portable swamp cooler (evaporative cooler, using water) -- you can move it from room to room as you need it. It's true, though, it's usually only a few weeks out of the summer that it's really hot, so it's not like Phoenix or someplace like that where it's hot all summer. And it does cool down at night, too, so that's a plus.