No efficient garage is complete without adequate lighting. A well-lit garage not only provides adequate safety and security, but also ensures productivity in the garage. LED fixtures provide a more consistent and superior brightness compared to traditional garage fixtures of the past, which makes them an ideal lighting choice for more and more garage scenarios.

In this article, let us take you through a detailed guide to garage lighting and provide you with more references for your choice in LED garage light fixtures.

Factors to consider when choosing LED garage lights

Before choosing LED lighting fixtures for your garage, you need to understand some basic lighting knowledge, and then use your actual needs combined with these LED lighting factors to choose the most appropriate LED garage lights:

Lumens required for the garage

Lumens, an important indicator used to measure light output, the higher the lumen value, the higher the brightness of the corresponding lamps and lanterns.

When choosing the right lighting, you need to judge the corresponding lumen value by the size of the garage. Selecting a lumen value that matches the size of the garage space will allow the garage to have a bright and even light.

Durability

In the garage such a wide range of uses and complex environments in the scene, the durability of the lamps and lanterns is particularly important. LED garage lamps and lanterns are usually used more rugged shell design, can better cope with the dust, humid environment. Even in environmental conditions with large temperature fluctuations, good performance can be guaranteed for a long time of stable work.

Color Temperature

The color temperature affects the comfort in the garage as well as the efficiency of the work. Starting from the use of the garage can choose a more appropriate color temperature, if you need to carry out maintenance or organizing and other work areas that require focus, choose a higher color temperature (5000K-6500K) to provide sufficiently bright and close to the natural light of the cool white light will be better, can improve the accuracy and efficiency of the work. While some just for leisure or storage areas, choose a lower color temperature (3000K-4000K) can bring a softer warm light, greatly improving the comfort of the space.

Types of Garage Lights

After understanding the basic factors of choosing garage lights, you can be more targeted to pick the right type of fixtures according to the actual needs, the following are some popular garage lighting solutions:

LED High Bay Lights

LED High Bay Lights are the preferred lighting solution for garage spaces with ceiling heights greater than 15 ft. LED High Bay Lights provide a very adequate and focused illumination light in high ceiling spaces as well, ensuring visibility and safety throughout the garage area.

LED Canopy Lights

The LED Canopy Lights are highly visible and waterproof, ensuring stable operation in environments with high humidity and temperature fluctuations. The fixture is equipped with a diffuser that spreads light evenly downward, providing softer, glare-free lighting in low-ceilinged garages.

LED Linear High Bay Lights

Suitable for garage environments with ceiling heights below 15ft, the LED Linear High Bay Lights have a sleek, minimalist linear design that is ideal for regular garage spaces. The linear design allows for a softer, more even light distribution and wider coverage.

LED Tripod Work Lights

For precision work in the garage that may require portable lighting, the LED Tripod Work Lights give you the freedom to illuminate any location, with the flexibility to instantly adjust the position of the fixture as you change maintenance locations for a better repair experience.

Benefits of LED Garage Lights

• High Energy Efficiency: LED garage lights have higher light conversion efficiency compared to traditional lamps, providing higher brightness while saving you a lot of energy and lowering the cost of electricity.
• Long life: LED garage lights often have up to 50,000 hours of life, in addition to the rugged housing design, but also has good heat dissipation, and waterproof and dustproof, these advantages can make the LED garage lights to provide more stable and reliable lighting, reduce the maintenance of the lamps and lanterns, as well as the maintenance of the resulting labor costs.
• More environmentally friendly: These LED garage lights do not contain harmful substances such as mercury, which is common in traditional lighting, which makes them more environmentally friendly and safer, and some of them can even be recycled, which is more friendly to the environment.

How to Calculate the Number of Garage Lights Required

Once you've chosen the LED garage lights that best meet your needs, all that's left to do is to determine how many of these lights you'll need to illuminate your entire garage space. Here are some ways to calculate the number of fixtures:

1. Assess the size of your garage

   Firstly, you need to assess and record the size of your garage as well as the ceiling height to calculate what the required lighting value is. Generally speaking, garage lighting is recommended to be 20 lumens - 50 lumens per square foot, of course, you can also choose a higher lumen standard, the higher the lumen standard, the higher the illumination of the entire garage space, and you can get more adequate lighting.

2. Confirm the use of your garage

   Different uses of the garage also correspond to different lighting levels, if your garage is used for more precise maintenance work, you may need to choose a higher lumen value to ensure that the entire space is bright enough. If your garage is used for more precise maintenance work, you may need to choose a higher lumen level to ensure that the space is adequately lit. If your garage is used for storage, you may need to choose a lower lumen level.

3. Calculate the number of fixtures required

   An easy way to calculate this is to multiply the square footage of your garage by the number of lumens per square foot to get the total number of lumens needed for the space. Then divide the total lumens by the lumens per fixture to get the number of fixtures needed.

Of course, if you find the above calculations a little complicated, then you can also choose to use our fixture count calculator designed to calculate the number of fixtures that are more suitable for you and to select the LED garage lights that are a better match.