It allows you to turn your thermostat up a few degrees.
Ceiling fan cold air down.
This is the best ceiling fan direction for air conditioning since it makes the air feel cooler than it is.
On the correct winter setting the fan should push air up and draw that hot air down the side walls of the room.
If your ceiling fan has a reversing functionality.
When a ceiling fan rotates counterclockwise while looking up at it the slant of the blades pushes air down causing a noticeable breeze.
Ceiling fan direction for that cool breeze.
Run the normal direction a ceiling fan also creates a direct cooling effect by creating a breeze.
This cooling effect doesn t change the temperature of the air it only makes you feel cooler.
Clockwise for winter which pulls air up and will distribute the warmer air stuck at the ceiling back down to where it is much better served.
However your fan may have a switch.
Most of us know that we can use our ceiling fan to cool a room in the summer.
It does this by spinning typically counter clockwise to push cool air downward.
The faster the fan spins the cooler you feel.
A ceiling fan should rotate counterclockwise in the summer so the blades push cooler air down in a column.
You would feel practically no air movement underneath and only a little air circulation closer to the walls.