Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of operating an ambience control system (10) comprising an ambience rendering system (14) configured to adapt the ambience in an area (16) so as to establish a current ambience state, a data storage (12) comprising data relating to occurrence of events and ambience states, each of the events being associated with a specific ambience state, and a processor configured to determine estimated time to next event based on the data relating to occurrence of events, provided that the next event relates to an ambience state different from the current ambience state the ambience rendering system (14) (10) being configured to gradually adapt the ambience in the area (16) to match the next ambient state, the method comprising determining current ambience state, determining estimated time to next event, and operating the area (16) ambience system (10) based on the estimated time to next event.