The 13 Best Fans for the Coolest Summer (2025)

Honorable Mentions

Shark FlexBreeze HydroGo for $120: I emotion the archetypal Shark FlexBreeze (above), truthful I was precise excited to spot Shark had released a rechargeable portable instrumentality successful 7 colors, including ones not usually seen successful fans similar Lilac and Honeydew. Shark says it tin tally 30 minutes with the mister consistently connected oregon 60 minutes with it successful (interval mode?), and aft investigating it astatine my son’s shot practices, I was impressed that these estimates were much oregon little accurate. However, the mist that comes retired of the mediate is truthful good and successful specified a tiny watercourse that it blew distant rapidly earlier it had a accidental to chill anyone, unless they were sitting conscionable inches from it.

Vornado Transom Window Fan for $110: I was impressed with the features of this fan—it's got a distant control, aerial tin spell successful oregon out, and it's comparatively quiet. It's decidedly a measurement up from little costly versions. However, the foam blocks didn’t supply arsenic choky a acceptable arsenic I'd prefer, the instrumentality tin lone beryllium installed horizontally, and the thermostat is located connected the wrong of the fan—a occupation that plagues abstraction heaters arsenic well—so it struggled to chill a south-facing chamber during our tests.

Vornado Strata for $150: Though astir Vornado fans are roundly—and justifiably—beloved, the Strata seems to person engendered mixed feelings among online commenters. After utilizing it successful my husband's bureau for an full summer, I person to hold it's a puzzling design. Shaped similar a boxy, high-tech hair-dryer, the 18-inch-tall Strata pulls aerial and pushes it upward done an astir 1-by-14-inch slot successful the front, a maneuver that’s designed to mimic a taller operation fan. This alternatively constrictive and precise nonstop watercourse of aerial feels somewhat jarring erstwhile you're successful its path, but the Strata is inactive an aerial circulator, meant to beryllium connected the level and not needfully stroke aerial straight onto a user. If you privation to consciousness the breeze, you’d beryllium amended disconnected with a operation fan.

Windmill Smart Air Circulator for $69: At a coagulated 2.5 pounds, this desk-dized instrumentality punches supra its value erstwhile it comes to airflow. Add the Windmill app that you tin usage to automate and docket the fan, an easy-to-use remote, and Google Home and Amazon Alexa compatibility, and it becomes much than conscionable a small fan. The astute instrumentality cuts a minimalist modern silhouette that stands little than a ft gangly and comes successful colors similar pink, white, yellow, and black. While it hums on astatine the hardly audible Whisper setting, it gets louder with each instrumentality speed, coming successful astatine a noisy 54 decibels connected its highest Boost setting, determination astir the dependable of a conversation. It tin beryllium adjusted vertically, but it does not oscillate. While the Windmill had fantabulous airflow, and astatine its highest settings Windmill touts the instrumentality arsenic being an “air circulator,” those higher settings travel with higher sound volume. I would person loved to tally the instrumentality astatine an oscillating Whisper setting. Still, the Windmill Fan, on with its terms tag and 5-year warranty, is simply a invited summation to my home. —Lisa Wood Shapiro

Dreo CF312 Desk Fan for $45: Dreo's been aft Vornado's crown for years now, and this small exemplary is simply a nonstop rival to classical Vornado circulators similar the 630. In fact, it's highly similar, prevention for the information the Dreo comes with an enactment for partition mounting, and the surface pops disconnected to entree the interior parts for cleaning. In fact, you'd beryllium good with either the Dreo oregon Vornado versions, but the Vornado wins retired its longer warranty—five years to Dreo's one.

Honeywell QuietSet Whole Room Oscillating Tower Fan for $68: This eight-speed instrumentality is precise coagulated for the price—it's got a distant power that neatly slots into the backmost of the unit, and the basal is precise sturdy adjacent connected carpet. It wasn't overmuch quieter than immoderate of the different fans connected low, though, which is its selling point, and the lightweight assemblage feels cheaper than akin fans, though for the terms this whitethorn not beryllium a woody breaker.

Pelonis 40-Inch Oscillating Tower Fan for $70: This instrumentality is rather wobbly connected carpet and has a cheap-feeling distant power that indispensable beryllium pointed exactly astatine the fan’s sensor to operate. However, it puts retired 1 of the stronger breezes I've seen for a operation instrumentality and has been operating softly and reliably successful the inheritance of my location bureau for months now. The distant besides helpfully comes loaded with batteries, dissimilar different fans successful this terms range.

Dyson Cool AM07 Tower Fan for $370: Our erstwhile prime for Best Tower Fan earlier being bested by Dreo's MC706, Dyson’s iconic ellipse is inactive worthy a look. It's a beautiful, high-tech-looking connection portion that fits into immoderate decor, with a tiny footprint of astir 8 inches. Its deficiency of blades makes it casual to support spotlessly cleanable and is harmless for kids and pets, and the assembly instructions are refreshingly intuitive. That said, it is 1 of the loudest fans tested erstwhile acceptable connected precocious and I don't similar that it tin lone beryllium controlled with a remote, which is tiny and tin easy beryllium lost. It's a coagulated operation fan, but determination are higher-performing options for less.

Vornado Refresh 8 Table Fan for $70: This aromatherapy instrumentality is astir the size of our top-pick 660, but with a taller pedestal and without a carrying handle. It comes successful a benignant of clinical-looking off-white, and astatine 40 decibels connected low, it’s louder than I would person expected. The aromatherapy designation comes from the information that you tin use indispensable oils to included pads that gaffe nether the beforehand headdress of the fan. This worked for a small portion arsenic agelong arsenic I wholly saturated the pad, not conscionable added a fewer drops per the instructions. However, determination was a flimsy rattling successful my trial unit—just noticeable capable to beryllium irritating—and removing the beforehand grill required a screwdriver longer than a modular size, which I did not have.

Lasko High-Rise Adjustable Pedestal Fan for $65: This lasting instrumentality looks much similar a talker than a fan, but it's a unsocial signifier that tin scope up to 52 inches and down to 41 inches. The lone contented I encountered during investigating was an occasional inclination not to oscillate erstwhile that enactment was selected from the remote, but it would commencement up with a flimsy push. Regardless, astatine this terms point, it's hard to vie with Vornado's akin 683 and its five-year warranty.

Jisulife Ultra 2 Handheld Fan for $90: Does 1 need a $90 manus instrumentality with a integer show screen, 2 concentrator attachments, and a max upwind velocity of 1,614 ft/m clocked connected my anemometer (the aforesaid arsenic a almighty full-sized fan)? Probably not, but it is darn cool. However, dissimilar our prime above, it's excessively dense and bulky to acceptable successful a pocket, and astatine its highest setting, it's piercingly, ear-splittingly loud. Even connected its lowest setting, I clocked 60 dB, which is large capable to beryllium disruptive.

Jisulife Portable Neck Fan for $33: I emotion however lightweight this cervix instrumentality is and the information that it comes successful amusive colors similar forest green and light blue, but I similar cervix fans with ends you tin space wherever you request them, similar our prime above.

Not Recommended

Dreo Smart Air Circulator PolyFan 704S for $150: There are truthful galore glowing reviews of this charismatic astute pedestal fan, but the archetypal 1 I ordered died portion I was updating the firmware to link it to the Dreo app. To get the replacement, I had to instrumentality video of myself attempting to run the instrumentality and past battalion and nonstop the breached instrumentality backmost to Dreo via FedEx. In the process, I besides received aggregate incorrect tracking numbers for the caller portion and was implored to permission an Amazon reappraisal containing circumstantial keywords. This instrumentality has fantastic features for the money, but with its abbreviated one-year warranty (though it tin beryllium extended to 2 and a fractional years if you make a Dreo relationship and registry your device) and less-than-helpful lawsuit service, it's conscionable not worthy the risk. The replacement portion has proven reliable, but unwieldy.

O2Cool Neck Fan for $10: I liked that this instrumentality could either beryllium freestanding with a small kickstand successful the backmost oregon worn astir the cervix with a lanyard, but it was excessively anemic to supply immoderate noticeable chill air.

Allen + Roth Valdosta Outdoor Ceiling Fan for $100: Purchased successful hopes of cooling the aerial wrong my backyard's metal-roofed gazebo, this 20-inch instrumentality hangs from a hook and has a stylish, retro vibe that perfectly matches my gazebo's oil-rubbed bronze frame. I had hoped the instrumentality would marque it much pleasant to devour extracurricular connected blistery days, but it does not noticeably summation airflow—especially successful examination to the Shark FlexBreeze—and the cord is truthful abbreviated it necessitates utilizing a imperishable hold cord, which detracts from the wide look.

Lasko Duo Comfort High-Velocity Fan and Ceramic Space Heater for $98: This sleek treble operation has a heater connected the near broadside and a instrumentality with 4 velocity settings and its ain power buttons connected the close side. Unfortunately, the instrumentality show is abysmal, with upwind velocity struggling to apical 450 ft/m. It’s besides louder than galore operation fans astatine astir 70 dB connected high. Upon opening the box, it had immoderate alternatively utmost off-gassing—our trial portion gave disconnected a unspeakable integrative odor for astir a month, adjacent during the times it was turned off. Worse yet, though, is the information determination is nary tip-over extortion relation for the heater—I knocked it implicit to test, and it ran face-down into the carpet for a afloat 30 seconds earlier I yet picked it up.

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