What air temperature would say is needed for an unheated pool to be comfortable?

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So if it’s 25degC in day and 15degC at night that’s probably too cold right?
any experience of where the balance tips to it being ok for swimming in ( I am talking for teens, not small children)

Kids will be fine

They’re teens fgs if it’s too cold they’ll get out

Its not the current temperature, but the preceding temperatures and the size of the pool.

Presuming you are meaning an outdoor pool in a holiday destination for an Easter trip.... it will likely be quite chilly still, but they will warm up quickly once out. If the pool gets direct sun, it will be warmer than a shader pool. Also how deep it is will affect it.

Way too cold.

I always swim in unheated pool at Villa when we go away in September/October so similar temperatures. Normally go in late afternoon after the sun has been on the pool during the day. For some reason I imagine it to be warmer in September than at Easter even if air temperature is the same.

30 during the day or it’s going to be an icebox.

@ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSeait is warmer, everything including the ground will have absorbed all the summer heat and be letting it out slowly. Heat sink effect.

I’d say those temperatures will be a bit chilly to swim in.

It depends if the pool is in the sun or not. If even any of it is in the shade it doesn’t seem to ever get warm

It’s not for a holiday we are currently on. I am thinking for an October break in southern Spain. 12-19th October. Just wondering if a villa with a pool is likely to get any use at all

Well, if they are really into the idea of a pool, and it’s a novelty then maybe they might get in , but where I live on the continent it has to be quite a bit higher than this, both day and night to be comfortable .

In October it could still be OK after a summer warming up.

No, too chilly. Ok for the quickest of dips only

We were in Seville in October - the pool was freezing!

We’ve just returned from Barbados where it was at least 30 degrees every day and warm at night. The unheated pools were freezing.

it won’t be warm but we were in Spain just outside Barcelona last year in May, it was 22-25 degrees and we were able to get in the unheated pool. You couldn’t stay in it for hours, but it was perfectly bearable/ refreshing

We visited my aunt in Spain last October and the boys were in and out of her non-heated pool all day.

My aunt was still doing morning laps but it was too cold for the rest of the adults, but tween/teen were fine once they got in and used to the chill.

Day time temps were 23/24 range but we were eating indoors in the evening.

Pick a villa with pool heating, just check first when it gets turned on (have been in heated pools in October before in Portugal)

I’ve been many times to Andalucia in October and a heated pool is worth the extra investment.

I’ve definitely been in an outdoor pool in Nerja the second week in October. It’s certainly cold when you first get into it but it’s fine when you get used to it. But at that time of the year there is always a possibility that your weather won’t be as good as you hoped. I would still book the villa with the pool.

Teens will be fine, I have a place in Southern Spain and always go in October, I find it a bit chilly but fine once you are in, teen dc in everyday, it is swimming temperature rather than lazing in the pool temp, the sea will feel warmer.

Thanks. I am struggling to find a villa with a heated pool. Maybe they are all snapped up already

I'd swim in the pool every decent day up to early Oct in Southern Spain. After that I'd only swim if the pool was heated. At the other end of the year it's May before I'd go in an unheated pool.
In Lanzarote we rent a villa with a heated pool which is coved at night and I swim in that anytime.

I live in Spain and we have a pool. Our kids won’t use it after mid September.
I know some holiday makers do use the public outdoor pools by us in October half term, but not for long! Once the sun isn’t as hot the pools cool quickly.

DD and I used an unheated outdoor pool in Rome one October half term, don’t remember it being particularly cold. Although we would have spent most Saturdays in the summer dousing ourselves in a Pennine reservoir sailing so maybe our tolerance was a bit above average