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This dataset includes the hourly mesured internal temperatures (in degrees celsious) from houses in the settlements of Jose Carlos Mariategui (JCM), Barrios Altos, El Agustino in Lima, Peru, during the years 2021, 2022 and 2023. For JCM and Barrios Altos the types of houses are also given in terms of thermal mass as well as the basic construction details of each house. For JCM the external weather conditions were also measured (External temperature, Solar radiation, wind speed, wind direction) and are made part of the dataset for the same timeframe. For Barrios Altos and El Agustino, the exernal weather data are retrieved from SENAMHI.Grounded Energy Modelling for equitable urban planning in the global South (GEMDev) is a partnership between UCL (London), FCPV and PUCP (Lima) and CDRF-CEPT (Ahmedabad), which aims to create new knowledge to ground energy planning tools in the realities of everyday life and energy practices of off-grid communities. Insecure and informal access to energy impacts on all aspects of life for poor communities living in sub-standard housing in the global South. Access to affordable, reliable and safe forms of energy services has particularly profound effects on health and economic opportunities. However, the ways in which these communities access and use energy in their day-to-day lives are poorly understood. The ways in which those practices change when informal settlements are upgraded or relocated are equally poorly understood. As data-driven approaches to energy planning, such as Urban Building Energy Models (UBEMs), gain increasing importance as planning tools, this lack of understanding risks further marginalising the most vulnerable communities as their needs are either entirely overlooked or planned solutions fail to address their needs. UBEMs have been developed in, and widely applied to, cities in the global North to model urban energy consumption on a building by building basis, allowing the assessment of impacts of...