What Is the Best LED Color Temperature for Outdoor Lighting

Outdoor lighting is the perfect addition to enhance safety, visual appeal, and the overall ambience of your home and outdoor spaces. Regardless of whether you need lighting for your driveway, walkway, pool, or outdoor entertainment or living area, it is important to know the ideal color temperature to choose with your LED lighting. At Westgate Manufacturing, we offer an extensive array of LED residential and commercial LED outdoor lighting options.

What is LED Color Temperature?

Color temperature as it relates to LED lighting indicates the amount of bluish or yellowish tint to white light. Low color temperatures are yellowish, while high color temperatures are bluish. The human eye actually compensates for the various tints in these color temperature ranges and sees them as white light. They only look different to the eye when two different color sources are adjacent to each other. However, with commercial LED outdoor lighting there are also other discernable differences between the different color temperatures.

Color temperature comes into play particular in how color is rendered and the ambience it can produce in an environment or setting. Cooler lights have higher color temperatures while warmer lights have lower color temperatures. Higher Kelvin temperature numbers indicate the light is whiter or bluer, while lower Kelvin temperature numbers indicate the light is more yellow in appearance.

2000K to 3000K Color Temperature Range

Within this LED color temperature range, cozy warm light is emitted which produces an intimate and calming ambience which is ideal for decorative outdoor lighting, outdoor kitchens, outdoor living spaces, and outdoor entertainment areas. It is ideal for lighting up flower gardens, stonework, fountains, and other outdoor features.

3100K-4500K Color Temperature Range

Within this temperature range, a cool, beautiful white light illuminates spaces with vibrant, bright light, clearing away shadows, and producing a clear view of surroundings. It is the ideal lighting for illuminating outdoor workshops, sheds, and areas around stairs. It encourages individuals to remain attentive and aware of surroundings. It is also a great color range to illuminate plants and other features of a garden.

4600 to 6500K Color Temperature Range

In this temperature range, the light has a natural daylight or moonlight appearance. It is clear and crisp, illuminating details and drawing the individual’s eyes to a single point of focus. As a result, this temperature range is ideal for security outdoor lighting applications, lighting ponds or fountains, and lighting areas near a garage.

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