What in what direction should it turn for this?Ī ceiling fan should spin in the clockwise direction during the cold winter months. However, you can use it to distribute the heat inside a room evenly. Nobody wants to feel the chill effect of a ceiling fan during the cold winter months. So you won’t feel any air movement even if you are sitting directly under it. If the fan rotates the other way, it will only pull the air up. A regular ceiling fan can make the room feel cooler by up to 4 degree Celcius. This cooling effect increases with the increase in the fan speed. This body heat dissipation creates a cooling effect on us.

This creates a breeze that carries away the heat from our bodies. When the fan runs in the counter-clockwise direction, these angled blades push the air in their way downwards towards anyone sitting under it. Due to this design, these blades can move air downwards only if the fan runs in the anti-clockwise direction. That is, the cross-section of a ceiling fan blade, when looked at from outwards, will be slightly raised on its left. Universally for ceiling fans, this angle is sloped towards the right.

It is due to this angle that the blades are able to move air. The blades of the ceiling fan are fitted at a small angle with a horizontal plane. This is because the ceiling fan blades are generally pitched (made at an angle) to create downward air movement only when the fan turns in the counter-clockwise direction. But why should it turn only in the counter-clock direction, why can’t push down air when running the other way?

Clockwise or counterclockwise fan