I think I just expressed myself a bit unclearly. We have a house on a slope, ground floor and basement. The hallway on the ground floor has only one window, frosted glass, facing north, where the front door is. The hallway downstairs has the terrace door, which faces south.
Still not fully understood without a floor plan. Are the two hallways connected by the stairs? Or is it closed off (with doors)?
The sun always seems to shine strongly against it in the afternoon, that’s true. But can that be responsible for the heat in the hallway in October? Even at night?
Of course. As I already wrote. The sun blasts in, warms the air and also the floor, and if it’s long enough, also the screed (+ walls, furniture, etc.). That stores the heat and radiates it out even at night.
Yes, we do have a ventilation system. But the hallway is not connected to it.
That’s not a problem; hallways are often planned that way. Then you have supply air in the bedrooms and exhaust air in the bathroom. The air should then, if properly planned, flow from the bedroom through the hallway into the bathroom. The prerequisite is that the air can circulate. So you shouldn’t have sealed doors.
And yes, I would also perform a check as suggested. Still, I would want to know where which temperatures are. Because even if a 1 - 1.5 degree difference is noticeable, your descriptions sound more like significantly more.