I find that daylight (5000K-6500K) is a lot more common than neutral-cool white (3500K-4100K) in typical consumer CFLs and LEDs (in the USA). This seems backwards to me as most commercial applications tend to stick to neutral temperatures. My best guess is that "Daylight" is simply a more attractive label than "White", "Neutral", or "Cool White". I understand the appeal of daylight in certain applications, but I feel like neutral temperatures are much more versatile in a home environment and fit in better in places where warm white lights are also used.

We have 4000K LEDs here in Israel.
CFLs are rare in neutral colors here in Israel. They are mostly 2700K, 6000K and 6500K.
I've two Osram Dulux EL Longlife 23W/840 and Dulux EL Economy 21W/840 in my father home.

My guess is the home installations either tend to use lower intensities and mainly at the evening before sleep, so the lower CCT gets more appropriate.
Andthe other use is then really complementing the real daylight, where the daylight color is more suited.

The 4000K is way too much representing "the work", so people tend to not bring that totheir homes...

Checking my CFLs, 60% are daylight 6500k, 38% are warm white 2700k and 2% colored. I have no 4000k cfls.


My guess for this is unlike tubes, most CFLs and LEDs are imported from Asia, especially China, where due to the tropical climate daylight is more common. They make warm white as now it is getting popular as accent lighting. But neutral white is still not as used in Asia as it is in other places.

I think the home users have strong preference towards the edges

Some want "White" light, and the "White" they know means cool daylight, not cool white. I think most of them would choose the daylight if presented with it and the cool white lamp side by side, as the daylight is "Whiter" to their liking

Some want "Warm" so thats straightforward

Few want anything inbetween so it seems

Over here, at my wholesaler there is a small selection of 4000K E27 LEDs, however - It is much more limited than the 2700/6500K, no different styles - only the plain white plastic A-shape, and most interesting : Virtually all of them are the edge case wattages - Either the <5W <400Lm, or >20W >1800Lm ones. Very few if any in the middle wattages which are most commonly used at home. Also, they are all from only one manufacturer (out of a few that the shop carries)

Looking at my CFL collection, I would say 70% are warm white, 15% are daylight (5000K), around 13% are daylight deluxe (6500K), and only two are cool white.

I looked at the LED selection at Home Depot and could not find any cool white ones.

imo neutral is more commercial-ish or industrial, back when fluorescent tubes were being sold in my country no "regular" retailer had neutral tubes available, it was either warm or daylight, I had to look for a wholesaler of commercial and industrial lighting, and got a 3x cases of each size we use, all T12 as they last longer, it's only for the kitchen, laundry room and basement, so the CRI isn't that important.