How we determine whether a place has air conditioning, where our data comes from, and how you can contribute. Transparent and honest — we’d rather say an honest "unknown" than make an empty promise.
Every place gets one of three statuses, so you know how certain the information is:
Verified — the AC is confirmed by the owner, by us, or by a reliable public source (such as OpenStreetMap or the venue’s own website). This is the highest certainty.
Likely — based on the type of place, AC is very plausible but not yet confirmed. We apply this to categories that are almost always cooled: museums, libraries, shopping centres, hotel lobbies, coworking spaces, public buildings, fast-food chains and ice-cream shops.
Unknown — we have no confirmation yet. Many cafés, restaurants, bars and bakeries fall here: whether they have AC varies a lot. We deliberately don’t mark them "likely", because a wrong promise costs you a hot walk for nothing.
Owners can claim their venue and manage its AC status. Signing in with an email on the venue’s domain, or submitting a Chamber of Commerce (KvK) number, earns the "Verified business" badge. Only verified owners can set the status to "Verified".
Beyond owner confirmation, we also mark a place as "Verified" when a reliable public source explicitly states it has AC: an air-conditioning tag in OpenStreetMap, or a clear mention on the venue’s own website. For every verified place we show which source it came from, so you can check it yourself.
Been somewhere? You can vote on whether it had AC, making the information more reliable over time. When enough visitors agree (at least 5 votes and at least 70% "yes"), a place automatically moves from "Unknown" to "Likely". Visitor votes alone never set a place to "Verified" — that requires confirmation by the owner, our team, or a public source.
Base location data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The current temperature comes from OpenWeather and the map tiles from OpenFreeMap. Owners and visitors enrich the AC information further. We credit the sources visibly on the site.
Something wrong, or a place missing? Vote on a location, claim your own venue, or report incorrect information via the contact page. The more people take part, the better the map becomes for everyone looking to cool down.
For visitors, Waar Is Airco is completely free and always will be. Owners can optionally take a paid plan for more visibility, but that never changes the AC status: it is and stays based on confirmation and evidence, not payment.