Which way is a celling fan supposed to run in the summer?

Question

i have a ceiling fan in my living room my a/c is also in the window in the living room which way should the fan be running

Answer 1

mine run counter clockwise in the summer and clockwise in the winter.  It has something to do with the way the air is circulated.  Cool air is drawn up by one direction and warm air is pushed down by the other direction.  This is why your fan blades are tilted.

Answer 2

If you want the air to blow on you, counter-clockwise.

Some recommend clockwise, as it brings the cooler air up, from the floor.

Answer 3

you've been outside mowing...you're hot....you come in and stand under the ceiling fan... the air that is blowing downward at you feels so good!!!.....

in winter, the fan blows UP to the ceiling so that the hot air up there gets pushed back down the walls and feels good on the back of your neck while you're on the couch watching TV..........

Answer 4

This can be a trick question ..for fans are built differently by the blade curvature...Mine at the present is running counter clockwise, but I have had some that are the opposite..Stand under the fan and turn it on....you want it on the setting(direction0 that the air is blowing down on you the hardest....I will post this then go look for the info backing this up...

Notice on this link under "uses"this paragraph came from..it says summer time counter clockwise, but in parenthesis it says (typically) ..meaning this is the most common, but some are the opposite..

Most ceiling fans can be used in two different ways; that is, most fans have a mechanism, commonly an electrical switch, for reversing the direction in which the blades rotate.

In summer, when the fan's direction of rotation is set so that air is blown downward (typically counter-clockwise, when standing under the fan and looking upwards), the breeze created by a ceiling fan speeds the evaporation of sweat on human skin, which is experienced as a cooling effect.