Day or night: When do you prefer to go barefoot?

I tend to go barefoot mostly during the evening due to various constraints during the day. However, Friday I had the afternoon free so I decided to go for a barefoot stroll in the city. The temperature was in the eighties farenheit when I arrived in the city. After walking several blocks my soles were absolutely killing me as a result of the sun shining down on the various walking surfaces. Fortunately in the evening I don't encounter these problems so for me night it is.

 

The UK never gets too hot for barefooting, so i can do it anytime.

 

I like daytime more. I really do not like to not be able to see what I am walking on and also I have neuropathy, so I do not like the feel of wet as it further confuses my senses. During the day I can deal with wet as I can see it.

 

Day- i like the heat on my feet

 

It depends on the place where I walk... if it's a new setting, like a nature walk in unknown terrain, I very much prefer daytime barefooting, since I can see where I walk... when it comes to the usual and well-known places my bare soles touch, I'm kind of 50-50 about day or night walks... the time just after sunset when dark begins setting in, first stars wink alight in the evening sky, a summer day's heat turns into mild warmth, dew falls on the grass underfoot, cooling my bare soles... that's a special time to be barefoot, alright - and in some places, barefoot all over, too.

Wiggling happy bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

it hardly makes any difference to me.

 

I'm the opposite of this, I LOVE not being able to see what I'm walking on at night. It's kind of empowering to be like "you know what, fuck staring at the ground. I've got shit to do" But during the day I'm constantly looking down and what I get in foot freedom -may- be messing up my posture a bit but I haven't noticed any pain.

 

Makes no difference to me.

 

Night because, the concrete or asphalt is cooler so its more relaxing.
But when its nice during the day and not over 85 or so other wise my feet get scalded and are sore the next day.

 

The only time I see people barefoot in public is at night. Just this summer I've seen three people walk barefoot at the store in which I work. One guy came in to buy something for a snack, and more recently a young couple came in to return bottles and cans.

As for me, I'm trying to walk barefoot during the day more often to get over this ridiculous foot shyness

 

For me it has to be night, I just love the feeling of cold concrete.

 

I prefer the night time!

 

Either time, any time. All the same for me.

 

It depends where I'm going.
If I'm going on excessively rocky or uneven ground, or through denser foliage, daytime is best so that you can see where you're putting your feet (I wouldn't want to do the barefoot hike I did today, in the dark).
Other than that, I just go when I feel like it (whatever time of day it is).

 

this time of year (summer) evening or night with the temps in the upper 90's or low 100's with an intense sun the asphault and even the cement can get very hot almost to the point of being unbareable

 

That's pretty much the same it is for me.

 

Barefooting throughout the year is a wide range of sensation---don't hurt yourself, but you can slowly build tolerance for heat and cold, and after a while it's enjoyable in ways you hadn't thought possible. But SLOWLY......step by step, inch by inch......

 

I love to go barefoot anytime of the day i just like how everything feels under my feet when i journey places.

 

it is hard to build a tolerance for heat when it has been as hot as this august has been. the air temp was 107 (monday) and 105 today. this has been the hottest August on record so far, average temperature 89.2F. this isn't an average of the daily high temperature, this an average of the overnight low and daily high.

there might be something to this global warming after all

 

Agreed. One CAN build up a tolerance for hotTER, not hotTEST. We're still flesh and blood.....