Method for controlling a heating and/or air conditioning apparatus

This application claims the priority of German Application Nos. 198 60 235.9, filed Dec. 24, 1998 and 199 04 143.1, filed Feb. 3, 1999, the disclosures of which are expressly incorporated by reference herein. A method for controlling a heating and/or air-conditioning apparatus is provided, wherein, through an intervention unit, a user can perform interventions which lead to different settings of the heating and/or air-conditioning apparatus. Various parameters are read into a control unit and are processed. According to the method, climatic situations are defined by the parameters; upon a user intervention a particular climate situation is detected; the climatic situation is associated with the particular user intervention; and in a prevailing climatic situation the settings of the climate control system pertaining to the associated user intervention are carried out.