Why street lights during night time are warm orange colored and not white lights? Won’t having white lights seem more like daylight?

Question

Why street lights during night time are warm orange colored and not white lights? Won’t having white lights seem more like daylight?

In: Physics

Answer 1

A lot of where I live in the UK has actually switched to white LED street lamps. It was weird at first but they do make walking around at night significantly less scary, cus… you know…. Monsters