Best cooling tower fan: Shark TurboBlade Tower Fan
A cooling tower fan gives you great cooling performance with a small footprint, so it’s easy to place in a living room, bedroom or anywhere you’d prefer to tuck an appliance out of the way. This Shark fan tops not only the list of tower fans I’ve tested but the list of cooling fans I’ve tested for three main reasons: its design, its customizable arm and vents, and its powerful performance.
The TurboBlade from Shark stands about 4 feet tall and has a small footprint. What’s unique about this fan is that its two vents are located on an arm that I can pivot and tilt to better direct its airflow. If I wanted, I could always keep the arm in its horizontal position, but if I were sharing the fan with someone else, they could customize it and turn the arm vertical. Or we could pivot it to a diagonal orientation so that it blows its air toward the top and bottom of a room simultaneously. Whichever positioning you choose, this fan is powerful and can blow air up to 80 feet in any direction.
What’s also helpful about this tower fan is that it has two tilting vents on either end of the aforementioned arm. I can tilt both vents down so they cool my feet as I work from home (thereby avoiding any papers blowing around on my desk), or I can tilt both up so that all the air flows toward the ceiling, out of my way, but still cooling off the room.
Another option is to use the fan in my bedroom, where I can then tilt each vent in opposite directions. Just picture placing the fan at the foot of the bed, centered, then tilting one vent toward the bed and the other away. This then creates the ideal bedtime scenario, so I can sleep with the fan blowing on me while my partner feels nothing. This customization is refreshing, both literally and figuratively, and is one of the reasons I love this fan so much.
Its remote control attaches magnetically to the back of the fan for storage, which is helpful and convenient, and it offers 10 different speed settings. The slower settings are ideal for sleeping, working or even watching TV since the fan is quiet. Turn it up a bit, and even at its highest settings, including Boost, the fan is still not too loud; one can carry on a conversation nearby with no trouble.
The TurboBlade fan also comes with a built-in timer, like most fans do these days, and this one can be set for one, two, four, eight or 12 hours. Its three specialty modes are Sleep, BreezeBoost and Natural Breeze. The first one mutes any chimes and dims its control panel lights for ideal sleeping conditions. Its BreezeBoost gives that extra burst of airflow for when you really need it. Natural Breeze simulates wind, meaning it gently randomizes airflow, alternating between harder and softer intervals.
Best budget cooling tower fan: Honeywell QuietSet Whole Room Tower Fan
The Honeywell QuietSet Whole Room tower fan, my former pick for best cooling fan overall and now my pick for the best budget cooling tower fan, is well built and affordable. It has a solid, stable body and a beautiful, colorfully laid-out control panel that is simpler to figure out and use than most of the competition, which is why it earned the spot here.
The Honeywell QuietSet is easy to assemble, with tool-free construction and a straightforward connection to the base. Once I put it together, despite the Honeywell’s light weight, it is more stable than its competitors; some other lightweight towers, like one of the Lasko models from my first round of testing, wobbled with a slight push.
The fan’s eight speed settings let me fine-tune airflow intensity, though the three lower speeds were very similar. The clearly labeled controls and comfortable remote make it easy to navigate the settings; some other models are more finicky and harder to adjust.
Since it’s likely to be placed in a bedroom, I especially appreciate that this Honeywell lets me not just dim its control panel lights but turn them off entirely. Few other fans I tested offer this kind of control. I can choose to sleep in total darkness or just dim the controls so they aren’t distracting.
And finally, the QuietSet is perfectly named because it’s still one of the quietest fans I’ve tested. I can watch TV or hold a conversation right next to it, and I hardly remember that it’s powered on. Even on its highest Power Cool setting, it works like a champ, quietly and effectively, while blending into the background, so to speak.
Best cooling pedestal fan: Dreo TurboPoly Fan 508S
While a cooling pedestal fan isn’t as easy to slip into your decor as a tower fan, it offers better coverage in larger rooms because the blades clear your furniture. My updated pick for the best pedestal fan, the Dreo TurboPoly Fan 508S, is powerful yet compact. This replaces the Rowenta fan as the best cooling pedestal fan for a few reasons, including the Dreo’s design, oscillation options and performance.
The TurboPoly 508S is unobtrusive, fitting into spaces between furniture better than the Rowenta and other pedestal fans I’ve tested, thanks to its smaller base. It’s an attractive, lightweight pedestal fan that stands a little over 3 feet tall. It’s easy to assemble and comes with a handy plastic clip that attaches to its pole to store the remote. There is some leeway in where you can place the clip, but on the front, about halfway down the pole, seemed to work best for me.
This Dreo fan won me over with its oscillation options. Not only does its round fan-blade head move from side to side when it oscillates, but its head can oscillate in an upward and downward motion as well, something I’ve never seen before in a pedestal fan. I can set this unique horizontal and vertical oscillation so that the head moves both ways, creating a circular motion as it completes the cycle. I find it sort of mesmerizing and calming to watch. Like watching fish swim back and forth in a tank or watching flames dance in a fireplace. After watching it oscillate in this circular motion, I’m not only cooled off and sweat-free but sort of in a Zen-like state of calm as well.
The Dreo TurboPoly not only relaxes me with its oscillation but is also very powerful, delivering steady, refreshing air. I can choose between nine fan speeds, including Turbo, which is surprisingly vigorous.
Another great and unexpected feature of this fan is its ambient light color button. It lets me select from seven different colors, including red, yellow, green, dark blue, light blue, purple and white. When I turn the button on, the back of the fan’s head glows in a circle. The circle’s color changes depending on what color you select. I have a son in college who is a gamer, and he likes that the fan can be set to “match” the color of his gaming keyboard or room setup. I prefer having the ambient light on in my bedroom as I sleep and favor the red and blue options.
Best cooling floor fan: Vornado 753 OSC Whole Room Air Circulator
A cooling floor fan, despite its name, can usually also be placed comfortably on a desk or table. This kind of fan is easy to place almost anywhere, making it great to have on hand to cool a space like a kitchen, office or bathroom when needed. This floor fan is very lightweight, and I can easily pick it up by its built-in handle area on its back and carry it to where I need it. Once placed on the floor or a desk or table, I can also direct its air by tilting its head to varying degrees, all the way up to a fully vertical position for the air to blow directly at the ceiling.
The Vornado 753 features a built-in timer that I can set anywhere from one to eight hours, which is perfect for a full workday at home, a study session in a dorm room or overnight as one sleeps. This fan doesn’t have the large number of speed settings some other fans in this guide do, but its three speeds get the job done. Its low and medium speeds are respectable and dependable, and once I turned it up to its third and highest speed setting, I was blown away (pun intended, I suppose) by its power.
This is a small but mighty floor fan from Vornado, which reminds me of its predecessor, the Vornado 660AE, which won in this category in my previous round of testing — what can I say, this brand knows how to make a powerful floor fan. But the Vornado 753 won out because it adds a twist that sets it apart from the pack: Not only does it have a small footprint and a completely adjustable head but it has an aromatherapy option.
Out of the box, this fan comes with five unscented circular aromatherapy pads. Just take your favorite essential oil, add a few drops onto a pad, insert the pad into the designated spot and replace the pad cap. Turn the fan on and voilà! Lovely scented air begins to flow throughout the room. I’ve seen this option before on an air purifier but never on a floor fan, so this delighted me during testing.
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