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In Minnesota, pretty much every new construction is equipped with central air conditioning.
I would expect the older houses in the Minneapolis - St. Paul area and southward to be retrofitted with wall units. Probably more than half of old homes in Duluth are retrofitted.
We stayed with a lawyer who rents his house on AirBNB in Winnipeg in August, and he did not have wall units nor fans.
My household in Duluth does not have air conditioning, and it's intolerable about five to ten days out of the year. We do have plenty of fans, though. Usually it cools down sufficiently during the evening. One of the pleasures of July 2012, in fact (the hottest month in local history), was that a nice easterly breeze off the coast of Lake Superior would cool down all east-facing rooms in the house and make for comfortable nights sleeping under several blankets.
I remember visiting with friends for about a week in Tabasco state, Mexico. They had no A/C, and I was out of Ambien, making it a terrible experience. The other friend I had had wall units, but no central A/C.
I know of other countries (Italy and France namely) where a lower material standard of living, superstitions, and high cost of electricity make A/C unaffordable to many.
I would have thought that A/C would be pretty common in Canadian prairie households at about 49-52 degrees north. It can get quite hot in Saskatchewan and Alberta. I don't think that it's very common in households in the south of England (51-52 degrees north), although they can get a handful of days over 30C in the summer.
The purchase of home or office air conditioning would be a wasted and frivolous expenditure in Scotland. We'd only get a 30C+ temperature somewhere in the country about once every 5 years.
It can get quite hot in areas of Russia well to the north of the 50th parallel, but I doubt that there is enough wealth to make air conditioning very common over there. So I would think Canada.
The southern limit for commonality of air conditioning is probably around Melbourne.
Winnipeg is pretty far north. I imagine there are plenty if people with AC there. Volgograd gets pretty hot during summer, although I'm not sure if AC is used much there.
AC is quite uncommon in private homes all around Europe. Malls and public transport is usually AC:d, but that's about it. Even in Spain, Italy and Greece people mostly just cope with the heat.
In Minnesota, pretty much every new construction is equipped with central air conditioning.
I would expect the older houses in the Minneapolis - St. Paul area and southward to be retrofitted with wall units. Probably more than half of old homes in Duluth are retrofitted.
Massachusetts is 22% of homes with no A/C. About 20% of homes have central A/C, which is probably mostly newer construction. For Minneapolis-St. Paul, 71% of homes have central A/C, 95% have some A/C. And yes, every new construction has central A/C. For Boston, 28% of homes have central A/C, 86% have some A/C. 90% of new construction has central A/C
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In the coastal San Francisco Bay area there is hardly any air-conditioning . You really never need it as the Pacific is the a/c . It's wonderful really.
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In Portugal I bet 85/90% of people don't have A/c, including almost 100% of the rural population living at 37/38N where the July/august average max is about 35ºC.
I don't have it, and I don't ever miss it.
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