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Paris Maps the Best Places to Avoid the Summer Heat
A cool-seeking app and a butt-cooling bench are the latest tools to help people cool down.
How can you enjoy a city when it’s blazingly hot? In the middle of a heatwave that’s sweeping much of Northern Europe, Paris is taking this question seriously right now.
With daily highs well into the 80s for the past three weeks—unusually warm for this early in the summer—the city’s weather has been more or less manageable, if perhaps unpleasant for the sensitive. But the vast numbers of people spending time outdoors are sure to need some relief, and two fresh ideas could provide just that.