Rating TOP 7 best hygrometers for home

The lev­el of humid­i­ty in the room affects the well-being and con­di­tion of the per­son as a whole, and in addi­tion — the prop­er­ties of envi­ron­men­tal objects. To find out the exact para­me­ters of air humid­i­ty will allow a spe­cial device — a hygrom­e­ter. Such a device is use­ful both in every­day life, to main­tain an opti­mal micro­cli­mate, and in some indus­tri­al areas, for exam­ple, in ware­house com­plex­es, or dur­ing con­struc­tion work.

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It should be not­ed that for the human body, the range from 45 to 60% is con­sid­ered ide­al for air humid­i­ty.

In order not to make a mis­take with the choice, it is nec­es­sary to study the main aspects that you should pay atten­tion to when choos­ing a mea­sur­ing device.

Hygrom­e­ters are:

• Mechan­i­cal, which show data with an arrow. These devices are bud­get-priced, but they are slow to respond to changes and may show data with minor devi­a­tions.
• Elec­tron­ic — all indi­ca­tors are dis­played on the score­board. They are more expen­sive, but they quick­ly respond to changes in humid­i­ty indi­ca­tors and give a clear­er result.

Accord­ing to the prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion, cur­rent­ly pop­u­lar hygrom­e­ters are divid­ed into:

• Hair, which at the heart of mea­sur­ing tech­nol­o­gy use the prop­er­ties of a human hair under the influ­ence of humid­i­ty to change their state. This rel­a­tive­ly inex­pen­sive tech­nol­o­gy is often used in mechan­i­cal mod­els.
• Film — use all the same prop­er­ties of some syn­thet­ic fab­rics to change their state depend­ing on humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture.
• Weight — it is based on hygro­scop­ic sub­stances that can active­ly absorb water from the air.
• Con­den­sa­tion hygrom­e­ter — it cools the sur­face for mois­ture to set­tle. The rel­a­tive humid­i­ty dis­played on the dis­play is high­ly accu­rate.
• Psy­chro­met­ric is based on com­par­ing the read­ings of sev­er­al ther­mome­ters, one of which is in a humid envi­ron­ment. The eval­u­a­tion of the result in such devices is car­ried out using a spe­cial table, which requires con­sid­er­able men­tal effort on the part of the user.

The body mate­r­i­al can be plas­tic, wood and iron. The lat­ter is char­ac­ter­ized by increased dura­bil­i­ty, while nat­ur­al mate­ri­als empha­size the high sta­tus of the own­er.

We present the rat­ing of home hygrom­e­ters 2021. The top 11 mod­els, which were select­ed by our experts based on user reviews and rat­ings.

Rat­ing (2020)	Prices, ₽	Coun­try
The best mechan­i­cal hygrom­e­ters for the home
1.TFA 45.2033	from 2500₽	Chi­na
2. Harvia SAC92200	from 1900₽	Fin­land
3. Boneco A7057	from 600₽	Ger­many
4. Sawo 115-HA	from 450₽	Philip­pines
5. Glass appli­ance VIT‑1	from 330₽	Rus­sia
The best elec­tron­ic hygrom­e­ters for the home
1. Hama EWS-3200	from 2800₽	Chi­na
2. Ore­gon Sci­en­tif­ic BAR206S	from 2900₽	Chi­na
3. Xiao­mi Mijia Tem­per­a­ture And Humid­i­ty Elec­tron­ic Watch	from 1600₽	Chi­na
4. Beur­er HM 16	from 1600₽	Chi­na
5. Rex­ant 70–0520	from 650₽	Chi­na
6. Xiao­mi Mijia Hygrom­e­ter Blue­tooth	from 830₽	Chi­na

Principle of operation

Hygrom­e­ters are divid­ed into sev­er­al mod­els that are dif­fer­ent in struc­ture and prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion:

• weight;
• hair;
• film;
• elec­trolyt­ic;
• elec­tron­ic;
• ceram­ic;
• psy­chro­met­ric.

weight A hygrom­e­ter is a col­lec­tion of tubes filled with a spe­cial sub­stance that changes den­si­ty depend­ing on the sat­u­ra­tion of the air pass­ing through them with water.

Hair deter­mines the mois­ture coef­fi­cient based on the prop­er­ty of the hair to change its length from mois­ture, the device rep­re­sents a stretched fat-free hair (often horse) and a spe­cial scale.

Film mod­el — a spe­cial film that stretch­es from mois­ture and shrinks in its absence, accord­ing to the loca­tion of the cen­ter of the film, the amount of mois­ture in the room is deter­mined by means of an arrow con­nect­ed to it.

Elec­trolyt­ic the device works on the degree of dilu­tion of the elec­trolyte applied to the glass, tak­ing read­ings with an inter­nal device, the main draw­back of the mod­el is the depen­dence of read­ings on air tem­per­a­ture.

Elec­tron­ic hygrom­e­ters mea­sure opti­cal and elec­tri­cal mea­sure­ments, this mod­el is quite com­mon in stores.

ceram­ic the device oper­ates on the basis of the con­duc­tiv­i­ty change prop­er­ties of the ceram­ic mass removed by the device.

psy­cho­me­t­ric the mod­el looks like a ther­mome­ter with an addi­tion­al scale; a spe­cif­ic sub­stance is placed in the tube cav­i­ty, which changes its tem­per­a­ture depend­ing on the water con­tent in the air.

The best electronic hygrometers for an apartment

Elec­tron­ic hygrom­e­ters for liv­ing rooms have max­i­mum func­tion­al­i­ty and vis­i­bil­i­ty. Man­u­fac­tur­ers addi­tion­al­ly equip them with inter­nal and exter­nal ther­mome­ters, clocks, built-in mem­o­ry. Experts have iden­ti­fied sev­er­al high-qual­i­ty mod­els.

Testo 608-H1

The elec­tron­ic hygrom­e­ter Testo 608-H1 will help you mon­i­tor the micro­cli­mate in a room of an apart­ment or house. The Ger­man device allows you to con­trol not only the humid­i­ty lev­el in the range of 10–95%, but also the tem­per­a­ture (0 … + 50 ° C). The device dif­fers in inde­pen­dent work, as a cur­rent source the kro­ne bat­tery is used. Thanks to this, you can mon­i­tor the humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture in dif­fer­ent rooms. Humid­i­ty infor­ma­tion is dis­played in large num­bers at the top of the liq­uid crys­tal dis­play, tem­per­a­ture is indi­cat­ed in small­er print, but the read­ings are clear enough to be seen from afar. Experts gave the mod­el the first place in our rat­ing.

Users also note the high mea­sure­ment accu­ra­cy and large screen. The only draw­back of the hygrom­e­ter, they con­sid­er the high price.

Advantages

• big screen;
• high accu­ra­cy;
• qual­i­ty assem­bly;
• tem­per­a­ture deter­mi­na­tion.

Flaws

Rating TOP 7 best hygrometers for home

Choose a hygrom­e­ter should be based on its pur­pose in a par­tic­u­lar field of activ­i­ty. The most favor­able ratio of price and qual­i­ty, the best reviews and per­for­mance have the fol­low­ing 7 mod­els:

• Stadler Form Seli­na;
• BM52 white weath­er sta­tion;
• Xiao­mi Mijia Hygrom­e­ter Blue­tooth;
• Suomen Läm­pömit­tari Kli­ma 8230;
• Kro­mat­e­ch NG-FY12;
• HAMA TH50;
• Pro Hydro Pre­mi­um.

Below we will con­sid­er each of the mod­els in more detail, with the pro­vi­sion of reviews and advanced fea­tures.

Stadler Form Selina

Stadler Form Seli­na is a com­pact weath­er sta­tion that dis­plays air humid­i­ty, room tem­per­a­ture and time on a sin­gle pan­el. The device runs on autonomous bat­ter­ies, the charge lev­el is easy to deter­mine by look­ing at the dis­play of the mod­el. The thin ver­ti­cal screen is easy to use, fits eas­i­ly into the design, does not take up much space. There are 5 dif­fer­ent col­ors to choose from. A spe­cial built-in stand min­i­mizes the size of the device, main­tains it in an opti­mal­ly com­fort­able view­ing posi­tion.

Type of hygrom­e­ter	elec­tron­ic
Dimen­sions	93x90x38 mm
Weight	115 g
Tem­per­a­ture Range	-10-+ 50°C
humid­i­ty indi­ca­tors	from 25 to 98%

Price: from 3500 to 3700 rubles.

hygrom­e­ter Stadler Form Seli­na

• despite its com­pact­ness (90 by 93 mm), most of the device is occu­pied by a wide screen;
• a wide range of col­ors (black, white, red, light gray and dark gray);
• the kit includes CR2016 bat­ter­ies, which are self-pow­ered devices;
• has addi­tion­al func­tions (tem­per­a­ture mea­sure­ment, time dis­play).

• a small range of humid­i­ty (from 25 to 98%).

Just an indis­pens­able thing in the house! In win­ter, I often expe­ri­ence skin prob­lems, it cracks, flakes, is very dry, and in gen­er­al, due to heat­ing, the air is stale, the solu­tion to the prob­lem is an air humid­i­fi­er. The device helps to deter­mine the start time of using the humid­i­fi­er and the inten­si­ty of its work, thanks to the hygrom­e­ter, the par­quet does not swell and the wall­pa­per does not become damp. The design is ergonom­ic, sim­ple, easy to fit into any room, pleas­es the absence of wires and bind­ing to the out­let, mov­ing it from room to room is not dif­fi­cult!

BM52 white weather station

Mod­el-weath­er sta­tion with an unusu­al design: elon­gat­ed shape, wood­en case, glazed mechan­i­cal mea­sure­ment scales. The device resem­bles a spat­u­la, on the han­dle there is an ordi­nary scale mer­cury ther­mome­ter that dis­plays the air tem­per­a­ture, below, two round­ed scales of a hygrom­e­ter and a barom­e­ter are placed on an expand­ed area. It will ide­al­ly fit into a wood­en bath (the nec­es­sary appli­ances are avail­able), the design is a bit vin­tage, with­out unnec­es­sary addi­tion­al details, clip­pings, inserts, sim­ply and con­cise­ly.

Coun­try of Ori­gin	Rus­sia
Dimen­sions	470x112x28 mm
Hygrom­e­ter type	weight
Hygrom­e­ter range	0–100%
Hygrom­e­ter scale size	70 mm in diam­e­ter

• the mod­el is sold in two shades: brown and white wood;
• one mod­el com­bines sev­er­al func­tion­al­ly dif­fer­ent devices (hygrom­e­ter, barom­e­ter, ther­mome­ter);
• the upper part of the device is equipped with a part for fas­ten­ing to the sur­face;
• ful­ly mechan­i­cal, does not require charg­ing, durable.

• lack of a stand, it is nec­es­sary to fix it on a hor­i­zon­tal sur­face (wall).

Price: from 4800 to 4950 rubles.

hygrom­e­ter BM52 white Weath­er sta­tion

I have a coun­try house with a large perime­ter, I decid­ed to build a bath­house. For the first few weeks it was dif­fi­cult to under­stand the rea­son for the con­stant incon­ve­nience: the boards were crack­ing in some places, the air was too dry, it was impos­si­ble to breathe. After read­ing arti­cles on the Inter­net, I real­ized that I missed an impor­tant detail, I for­got to pur­chase a hygrom­e­ter. The choice fell on the BM52, I liked the design, it’s nice to sup­port the domes­tic man­u­fac­tur­er with the pur­chase of a high-qual­i­ty and use­ful thing. It is con­ve­nient that tem­per­a­ture, pres­sure and humid­i­ty are imme­di­ate­ly vis­i­ble on one pan­el. I chose a mechan­i­cal one, in high humid­i­ty the elec­tron­ic one will not sur­vive, an excel­lent mod­el!

Xiaomi Mijia Hygrometer Bluetooth

A small device will help you remote­ly mon­i­tor the indi­ca­tor of humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture by link­ing the device with your blue­tooth gad­get! Incred­i­bly con­ve­nient to use for ter­rar­i­ums, incu­ba­tors, green­hous­es — places that require con­stant con­trol of tem­per­a­ture and air sat­u­ra­tion with water. The sen­sor is easy to use: it runs on AA bat­ter­ies includ­ed in the kit, it is eas­i­ly attached to ver­ti­cal and hor­i­zon­tal sur­faces, there is no need to look into the ter­rar­i­um every minute, you can sim­ply track the nec­es­sary para­me­ters on the smart­phone screen!

Hygrom­e­ter range	0–99.9%
Hygrom­e­ter Mod­el	elec­tron­ic
Pro­duc­ing coun­try	Chi­na
Tem­per­a­ture range	-10 to +60°C
The size	90x90x18 mm

• syn­chro­niza­tion with phone, tablet or com­put­ers;
• wall mount (on the back of the screen);
• dis­play­ing the charge lev­el on the screen;
• com­plete set (includes fas­ten­ers and a bat­tery of inde­pen­dent pow­er sup­ply).

• not detect­ed.

Price: from 1100 to 1348 rubles.

Xiao­mi Mijia Hygrom­e­ter Blue­tooth

I am fond of rep­tiles, three ter­rar­i­ums are installed at home, it is nec­es­sary to main­tain dif­fer­ent cli­mat­ic con­di­tions every­where. I was look­ing for the most con­ve­nient and prac­ti­cal device, I found Xiao­mi Mijia Hygrom­e­ter Blue­tooth, I was not dis­ap­point­ed. Bought the first device to try. The mod­el is minia­ture, fits in the palm of your hand, the kit includes a con­ve­nient mag­net­ic mount, con­cise­ly built into the ter­rar­i­um with­out dis­turb­ing the over­all com­po­si­tion. There is no need to peer through the glass and take read­ings with the eyes of the device, it is enough to check the data on the phone with­out look­ing up from work or rest. I am pleased with the wide range of read­ings and the accu­ra­cy in mea­sure­ments, I ordered two addi­tion­al mod­els, the cost was ful­ly jus­ti­fied!

Suomen Lampömittari Klima 8230

A weath­er sta­tion that allows you to track humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture in four rooms at the same time! The set con­sists of three small sen­sors for col­lect­ing indi­ca­tors and the main screen that dis­plays read­ings from your own and from sen­sors. Three wire­less sen­sors are equipped with a stand to hold them upright and sep­a­rate small screens show­ing humid­i­ty. The main pan­el cap­tures sen­sor read­ings at a dis­tance of 100 meters.

Tem­per­a­ture Range	-40 to +60°C
The size	128x32x128; 44x24x160mm
Humid­i­ty range	0–99%
Coun­try of Ori­gin	Ger­many
Prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion	elec­tron­ic

• the screen is divid­ed into four parts, indi­vid­ual indi­ca­tors are dis­played simul­ta­ne­ous­ly;
• the device remem­bers the max­i­mum and min­i­mum tem­per­a­ture;
• the kit includes paper strip stick­ers, it is easy to sign the loca­tion of the sen­sors on them and stick them to the cor­re­spond­ing parts of the screen;
• con­trol of indi­ca­tors of humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture in sev­er­al rooms.
• by pair­ing the device with the Weath­er­Hub sys­tem, the indi­ca­tors will be dis­played on the phone screen.

• not detect­ed.

Price: from 7000 to 7300 r.

hygrom­e­ter Suomen Läm­pömit­tari Kli­ma 8230

A moth­er with many chil­dren, we live in a mul­ti-storey coun­try house as a fam­i­ly and the chil­dren sleep in three rooms, inten­sive heat­ing is required in win­ter, the air is dry, a hygrom­e­ter helps to mon­i­tor humid­i­ty and take mea­sures, the mod­el is com­fort­able, the sen­sors are calm in the nurs­eries, I can see the indi­ca­tors of all rooms in the bed­room at once very con­ve­nient and com­fort­able.

Kromatech NG-FY12

The device con­sists of a com­pact dis­play and a remote sen­sor con­nect­ed by a wire. The over­all design weighs no more than 50 grams, by installing the sen­sor in the required place, the screen with the mea­sure­ment results can be eas­i­ly placed in a con­ve­nient place for view­ing.

The size	48x28x14 mm
Mate­r­i­al	plas­tic
Cord length	150 mm
Food	2 AA bat­ter­ies

• small weight (36g);
• mul­ti­func­tion­al­i­ty (the device com­bines a clock and a hygrom­e­ter);
• the remote sen­sor sim­pli­fies work, mak­ing it more com­fort­able.

• not detect­ed.

Price: from 460 to 620 r.

hygrom­e­ter Suomen Läm­pömit­tari Kli­ma 8230

I often work in the field, knowl­edge of air humid­i­ty is nec­es­sary. The device was attract­ed by its size (it fits eas­i­ly into a back­pack), light, com­pact. The tem­per­a­ture deter­mines up to 110 degrees, fire and water went through — safe and sound, an excel­lent wire­less mod­el.

HAMA TH50

The device is sim­i­lar to a watch, but with a fill­ing con­sist­ing of many devices. The screen dis­plays tem­per­a­ture and humid­i­ty, cal­en­dar, weath­er fore­cast for the day. The dis­play is installed on a func­tion­al, con­ve­nient stand, the kit includes instruc­tions for installing and adjust­ing the indi­ca­tors.

Prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion	elec­tron­ic
Tem­per­a­ture accu­ra­cy	+-1°C
col­ors	black White
Food	autonomous

• com­pact­ness (48x28x14 mm), con­cise design, eas­i­ly fits into the gen­er­al envi­ron­ment of the room;
• the kit includes an instruc­tion con­tain­ing expla­na­tions of the norms of indi­ca­tions, per­mis­si­ble norms of humid­i­ty;
• has addi­tion­al func­tions: weath­er fore­cast (com­piled accord­ing to the col­lect­ed indi­ca­tors), clock, cal­en­dar;
• sav­ing indi­ca­tors.

• slow (about 1 time per minute) data update.

Price: from 860 to 985 rubles.

hygrom­e­ter HAMA TH50

Com­pact, light­weight, set up at the begin­ning of use, the device did not go astray in two months. Humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture shows exact­ly for home use, I have three iden­ti­cal ones in dif­fer­ent rooms, the read­ings are sim­i­lar, the plants grow per­fect­ly, the device ful­ly jus­ti­fies the cost.

Pro Hygro Premium

The device is small and prac­ti­cal, the screen occu­pies almost the entire sur­face, divid­ed into parts: dis­play of atmos­pher­ic humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture (accu­rate to tenths). Along the bot­tom edge are but­tons that dis­play the max­i­mum and min­i­mum tem­per­a­tures, noth­ing more, every­thing you need!

Food	AA bat­ter­ies, 1.5 V
Hygrom­e­ter type	elec­tron­ic
Pro­duc­ing coun­try	Chi­na
Col­or	white

• com­bi­na­tion of sev­er­al func­tions (hygrom­e­ter, ther­mome­ter);
• dai­ly syn­chro­niza­tion of indi­ca­tions;
• pow­ered by AA bat­ter­ies, easy to pur­chase in the store;
• small dimen­sions (90x65x18).

• small range of humid­i­ty (25–90).

Price: from 1260 to 1380 r.

Hygrom­e­ter Pro Hygro Pre­mi­um

I bought the mod­el for the sake of inter­est, I want­ed to con­duct a cou­ple of exper­i­ments, all the nec­es­sary indi­ca­tors are present, it shows exact­ly, it is easy to put it in your pock­et or bag, it is light. I use it all the time, thanks to the read­ings of the device I reg­u­late the oper­a­tion of the air humid­i­fi­er, it is con­ve­nient, prac­ti­cal, it has been work­ing prop­er­ly for more than half a year.

The best mechanical hygrometers for the home

Most mechan­i­cal hygrom­e­ters for the home use the so-called hair method, which is based on the prop­er­ties of human hair to change its state depend­ing on the lev­el of mois­ture and ambi­ent tem­per­a­ture. In addi­tion, there are also “film” mod­els, which have a dense fab­ric as a basis, which clear­ly responds to changes in the water lev­el in the air. Such devices are more expen­sive than hair ana­logues, but are more sen­si­tive to fluc­tu­a­tions in indi­ca­tors.

Mechan­i­cal devices are often “sharp­ened” only for mea­sur­ing the lev­el of air humid­i­ty, but some­times there are also mod­els with a ther­mome­ter.

When choos­ing such devices, be sure to con­sid­er the man­u­fac­tur­er’s rec­om­men­da­tions for place­ment. This is impor­tant for accu­rate inter­pre­ta­tion of the result.

5 Glass appliance VIT‑1

The rat­ing is opened by the most bud­getary hygrom­e­ter in our selec­tion — the VIT‑1 mod­el from the domes­tic com­pa­ny Stek­lo­pri­bor. This is a psy­cho­me­t­ric type device that shows the tem­per­a­ture and humid­i­ty in the room.
The device is made of plas­tic in turquoise col­ors. The dimen­sions are quite com­pact — 32 cm wide and 12 cm high, the device will take up a min­i­mum of space. It is pro­vid­ed for wall mount­ing. The mea­sur­ing tem­per­a­ture range is from 0 to 25 °C. The ther­mome­ter has an alco­hol struc­ture, while the humid­i­ty mea­sur­ing instru­ment is based on the psy­cho­me­t­ric method. Toluene is used here as a ther­mo­met­ric liq­uid.

In addi­tion to the psy­cho­me­t­ric hygrom­e­ter itself, the basic equip­ment includes a wick, a feed­er and detailed instruc­tions for use.

Cus­tomers not­ed the rather high accu­ra­cy of tem­per­a­ture and humid­i­ty mea­sure­ments. Many were pleas­ant­ly sur­prised by the detailed instruc­tions and the avail­abil­i­ty of all the nec­es­sary doc­u­men­ta­tion con­firm­ing the qual­i­ty of the prod­uct. But, some com­plained about the com­plex cal­cu­la­tions of indi­ca­tors from the table.

Pros:

• Shows humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture.
• Min­i­mum devi­a­tions.
• Detailed instruc­tions.
• All doc­u­men­ta­tion includ­ed.
• Cheap­er than ana­logues.

Pros:

• It is nec­es­sary to study the prin­ci­ple of cal­cu­la­tions.
• Peri­od­ic cal­i­bra­tion required.

Hygrom­e­ter Stek­lo­pri­bor VIT‑1

4 Sawo 115-HA

The orig­i­nal hygrom­e­ter from Sawo in the form of a house with a round dial inside, is locat­ed on the fourth line of the rat­ing. It is note­wor­thy that the body of the prod­uct is made of nat­ur­al pine wood, which exudes a nat­ur­al aro­ma and gives pos­i­tive ener­gy to the room.
The width of the mod­el 115-HA is 165 cm, and the height is 185. The man­u­fac­tur­er posi­tions its device as an excel­lent prod­uct for mea­sur­ing the mois­ture lev­el in a steam room, a bath. At the same time, the mea­sur­ing scale in the form of a round dial with black arrows will show fluc­tu­a­tions in val­ues ​​from 0 to 100%. The device is man­u­fac­tured in the Philip­pines, the man­u­fac­tur­er gives a 3‑year war­ran­ty for the prod­uct for mea­sur­ing humid­i­ty. Addi­tion­al­ly, it is pos­si­ble to buy a ther­mome­ter in the same style, thus assem­bling the orig­i­nal set.

Cus­tomers are gen­er­al­ly sat­is­fied with the qual­i­ty of the orig­i­nal Sawo hygrom­e­ter. Many not­ed the high accu­ra­cy and the case made of nat­ur­al wood. Most of the respon­dents rat­ed the device as mul­ti­func­tion­al — for home and sauna. But, some were con­fused by the lack of glass to pro­tect the dial.

Pros:

• Unusu­al design.
• High accu­ra­cy.
• Ease of use.
• Suit­able for home and bath.
• Body made of nat­ur­al wood.

Pros:

• There is no pro­tec­tive glass for the dial.
• There is no ther­mome­ter.

Sawo 115-HA

3 Boneco A7057

The top three hygrom­e­ters for the home are opened by the A7057 mod­el from Boneco. The com­pact device in a white plas­tic hous­ing can be wall-mount­ed. The diam­e­ter of the round base is 5 cm, so the device does not take up much space in the apart­ment.
It should be not­ed that the man­u­fac­tur­er is Ger­many, the humid­i­ty meter is of good build qual­i­ty and min­i­mal error. The mechan­i­cal device shows the humid­i­ty range from 20 to 100%. It is impor­tant to con­sid­er that the prod­uct focus­es on min­i­mum, not max­i­mum val­ues. At the same time, the A7057 mod­el is capa­ble of oper­at­ing at ambi­ent tem­per­a­tures up to 120 degrees Cel­sius. The para­me­ters opti­mal for the human body are high­light­ed in a spe­cial col­or, which great­ly sim­pli­fies the inter­pre­ta­tion of the indi­ca­tors.

Among those who have tried the Boneco home humid­i­ty meter, most were sat­is­fied with the qual­i­ty. Many liked the con­ve­nient inter­pre­ta­tion of the result, most buy­ers high­light­ed the com­pact size as an advan­tage. How­ev­er, there were those who com­plained about the frag­ile case.

Pros:

• Com­pact.
• High­lights the opti­mal scale.
• Easy inter­pre­ta­tion of the result.
• Ger­man qual­i­ty.
• No need to set up.

Pros:

• There are mea­sure­ment errors.
• Afraid of blows.

Hygrom­e­ter Boneco A7057

2 Harvia SAC92200

The sec­ond in the rank­ing of home humid­i­ty meters is the device from Harvia. The SAC92200 fea­tures high pre­ci­sion and a styl­ish, eco-friend­ly design.
A lacon­ic, light­weight case in the form of a round­ed square with a clear dial inside attracts atten­tion. The width of the wall of the device is 13 cm, so it takes up a min­i­mum of space on the table. The val­ue scale dis­plays a step of 10 units. The body is made of nat­ur­al birch, a char­ac­ter­is­tic red­dish-brown hue. The prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion here is based on the hair method. The device from Harvia is able to mea­sure the ambi­ent humid­i­ty in the range from 0 to 100%. For max­i­mum reli­a­bil­i­ty of infor­ma­tion, the man­u­fac­tur­er rec­om­mends installing a hygrom­e­ter at a con­sid­er­able dis­tance from the front door and at least 1.5 meters from the floor.

Most own­ers of the SAC92200 have rat­ed it as the ide­al indoor humid­i­ty mea­sure­ment device. Users find the prod­uct to be quite accu­rate. And only a few not­ed incon­ve­nient the fact that the device must be cor­rect­ly installed, in accor­dance with the require­ments of the man­u­fac­tur­er.

Pros:

• Round­ed square shape.
• Birch body.
• Indi­ca­tors from 0 to 100%.
• High accu­ra­cy.
• avail­able result.

Pros:

• Requires prop­er place­ment in the room.
• Responds slow­ly to changes in humid­i­ty.

Hygrom­e­ter Harvia SAC92200

1 TFA 45.2033

The best mechan­i­cal hygrom­e­ter for the home is mod­el 45.2033 from the TFA brand. In addi­tion to assess­ing the lev­el of humid­i­ty, this device is able to dis­play addi­tion­al tem­per­a­ture read­ings on the score­board.
The mea­sur­ing device is made in the form of a cir­cle, ringed with brass mate­r­i­al, which gives resis­tance to mechan­i­cal dam­age and a long ser­vice life. Eval­u­at­ing the indi­ca­tors is as easy as shelling pears, an infor­ma­tive dial that has mark­ings for com­fort zones will help. Thus, the cor­rect inter­pre­ta­tion of the result becomes a tru­ly easy task that even a child can han­dle. The device from TFA informs about the lev­el of humid­i­ty from 0 to 100%, and the tem­per­a­ture in the room — from ‑15 to +55 °C. The prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion is based on the prop­er­ties of syn­thet­ic hair to change its length under the influ­ence of mois­ture vapor. The prod­uct, with a diam­e­ter of 102 cm, is rec­om­mend­ed to be mount­ed on the wall.

Cus­tomers liked the ther­mo­hy­grom­e­ter 45.2033. It is praised for its infor­ma­tive indi­ca­tors, durable case and accu­rate results. Most appre­ci­at­ed the fact that no addi­tion­al bat­ter­ies are required here. Few, though, said that when sun­light hits, the data is dis­tort­ed.

Pros:

• Met­al body.
• Attach­es to the wall.
• Shows humid­i­ty and tem­per­a­ture.
• Round dial.
• The accu­ra­cy is pret­ty high.

Pros:

• Must be installed away from sun­light.

Hygrom­e­ter TFA 45.2033

Comparison table of characteristics

A table con­tain­ing the main char­ac­ter­is­tics of all pre­vi­ous­ly pre­sent­ed mod­els will help you choose the ide­al mod­el for you:

Mod­el name	price, rub.	Prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion	Humid­i­ty mea­sure­ment range, %	Dimen­sions, mm
Stadler Form Seli­na	from 3500 to 3700	elec­tron­ic	25–98	93x90x38
BM52 white weath­er sta­tion	from 4800 to 4950	weight	0–100	470x112x28
Xiao­mi Mijia Hygrom­e­ter Blue­tooth	from 1100 to 1348	elec­tron­ic	0–100	90x90x18
Suomen Lam­pömit­tari Kli­ma 8230	from 7000 to 7300	elec­tron­ic	1–99	dis­play 128x 32×128; trans­mit­ter 44x24x160
Kro­mat­e­ch NG-FY12	from 460 to 620	elec­tron­ic	1–99	48x28x14
HAMA TH50	from 860 to 985	elec­tron­ic	20–95	80x80x12
Pro Hygro Pre­mi­um	from 1260 to 1380	elec­tron­ic	25–90	90x65x18

How to DIY

The eas­i­est way to make a hair hygrom­e­ter at home. You need to assem­ble a sim­ple design from a scale print­ed from the Inter­net, an arrow and a fat-free hair con­nect­ing the arrow and the sur­face of the scale. The hair, depend­ing on the humid­i­ty, changes its length and deflects the arrow to the required val­ue. The sec­ond option is to fix the hair at the base of the ver­ti­cal scale, pull it and throw it over the nail locat­ed above the scale, attach a light weight to the free end, stretch­ing, the hair low­ers the weight indi­cat­ing the val­ue on the scale.

What to look for when choosing

Hygrom­e­ters are pur­chased for var­i­ous appli­ca­tions: from ama­teur to pro­fes­sion­al, the main para­me­ters when choos­ing:

1. Accu­ra­cy and mea­sure­ment range. It is pos­si­ble to main­tain a suit­able humid­i­ty in the room with rel­a­tive­ly inac­cu­rate indi­ca­tors (+ ‑2%). Pro­fes­sion­als should choose a mod­el with­out error.
2. Dimen­sions and pow­er sys­tem. Wire­less com­pact devices are easy to install any­where in the apart­ment or on the street.
3. Exter­nal design (col­or, style, mate­r­i­al). Here, choose indi­vid­u­al­ly, based on your pref­er­ences.
4. Avail­abil­i­ty addi­tion­al fea­tures (tem­per­a­ture mea­sure­ment, clock, cal­en­dar) will be a great addi­tion to the device.

How to choose a quality hygrometer

1. Hygrom­e­ter designs
   . Russ­ian chil­dren have been famil­iar with psy­chro­met­ric devices since their school days. They are high­ly accu­rate, but dif­fi­cult to deter­mine humid­i­ty. Mechan­i­cal devices look as sim­ple as pos­si­ble. They are autonomous in oper­a­tion, and it is con­ve­nient to take read­ings from a visu­al dial. Elec­tron­ic hygrom­e­ters are mul­ti­func­tion­al. Many of them allow you to mea­sure the tem­per­a­ture, some are equipped with a clock. But the oper­a­tion of such devices depends on a bat­tery or accu­mu­la­tor.
2. Mea­sur­ing range
   . In liv­ing rooms, the lev­el of humid­i­ty drops sharply in the win­ter sea­son, when the heat­ing is turned on. You can mon­i­tor the micro­cli­mate in a chil­dren’s room or bed­room using a device that oper­ates in the range of 20–70%. Such a device is also suit­able for grow­ing indoor plants. But in wet rooms (baths, saunas, base­ments) a hygrom­e­ter with a scale of up to 100% is required.
3. Accu­ra­cy
   . Rel­a­tive humid­i­ty meters are dis­tin­guished by their mea­sure­ment accu­ra­cy. For a sim­ple lay­man, we can rec­om­mend a hygrom­e­ter with a divi­sion of up to 2–3%. It may be a con­ven­tion­al mechan­i­cal device. When mea­sure­ment accu­ra­cy is impor­tant, it is bet­ter to choose a mod­el with a divi­sion val­ue of 1%. This lev­el can be pro­vid­ed by an elec­tron­ic device or a psy­chrom­e­ter.
4. Design
   . Many poten­tial buy­ers want to choose not only a func­tion­al device, but also a styl­ish acces­so­ry that will fit into the inte­ri­or of the room. For a bath, most often choose mod­els with wood or stone fin­ish­es. In the liv­ing room, plas­tic prod­ucts will look har­mo­nious, and for a nurs­ery, the design in the form of a toy will be an ide­al option.

We have select­ed in our review the 10 best hygrom­e­ters. All of them are sold in the trade net­work of our coun­try. The rat­ing was com­piled tak­ing into account the opin­ion of the expert com­mu­ni­ty and feed­back from Russ­ian con­sumers.