The Best Smart LED Christmas Lights
Last Updated: Apr 13, 2025Christmas is just around the corner, and who can resist decking the halls, walls, and every exterior feature of their home with bright, twinkling lights?
Christmas lights aren’t just a decoration. They’re a family activity, a celebration, a statement of your creativity, and in some neighborhoods, even a competition.
While outdated incandescent lights and lighting features can run up your power bill considerably, there are many energy-efficient LED options that can make your holiday season even merrier and just as bright. And, with the growth of smart home technology, there are also dozens of new ways to decorate with smart Christmas lights!
As you light up your home, keep in mind how light pollution may impact your neighborhood and the surrounding animals. You can learn more about limiting light pollution here.
LED Christmas Lights
As you unpack your boxes and boxes of stored Christmas lights, pay attention to what kind they are. Chances are you’ve accumulated a variety of styles over the years, and some may be more energy-efficient than others.
For example, older three-inch incandescent C9 Christmas lights require about seven watts per bulb, amounting to roughly $176.40 in extra electricity costs if lit six hours per day for 35 days. The same three-inch LED C9 light requires just 0.09 watts at the expense of $2.27 for 35 days of festive lighting.
Like the LED light bulbs adorning your year around light fixtures, LED Christmas lights consume about 80%-90% less energy than incandescent light bulbs. Chances are, your Christmas lighting display involves a lot more than just a few light bulbs you use to light your home daily, so it makes sense to do a little pre-planning to reduce your energy consumption and winter electricity bill.
You can calculate your estimated Christmas light power consumption here.
Table of Contents
- Indoor LED Christmas Light Options
- Outdoor LED Christmas Light Options
- Outdoor Solar Christmas Light Options
- Innovative Features in Smart Christmas Lighting
- Have Yourself a Merry Little, Sustainably Lit Christmas
Christmas Designers Wide Angle Conical LED Lights
Christmas Designers Wide Angle Conical LED Lights have a unique conical design and the light bulbs shine light in all directions for a brighter Christmas display.
- Color Options: Warm white, 2-color and multi-color
- Connecting Multiple Strands: Up to 43
- Bulb Life: 75,000 hours
- Wattage: 3.45
- Lighting Modes: Steady on and twinkle
- Cost: $19.80/70 light strand, discount available with the multi-strand purchase
Christmas Lights Etc. Wide Angle LED Lights
Christmas Lights Etc. Wide Angle LED Lights are Similar in design to the lights by Christmas Designers. These light strands are also designed to resemble the familiar light of incandescent Christmas lights at a fraction of the energy consumption.
- Color Options: Warm or cool white, single-color, 2-color and multi-color
- Connecting Multiple Strands: Up to 44
- Bulb Life: 100,000 hours
- Wattage: 4.8
- Lighting Modes: Steady on and twinkle
- Cost: $17.99/70 light strand, discount available with multi-strand purchase
TaoTronics Dimmable LED String Lights
TaoTronics Dimmable LED String Lights have multiple lighting and dimming options that can be controlled by an IR remote.
- Color Options: Warm white and RGB
- Wattage: 5
- Lighting Modes: Adjustable flash, smooth and strobe in 10 levels of brightness
- Cost: $13.99/100 light strand
MAXINDA Outdoor LED Christmas Lights
MAXINDA Outdoor LED Christmas Lights boast low energy consumption and heat stability for an energy-efficient outdoor lighting display.
- Color Options: Multi-color
- Connecting Multiple Strands: Up to 80
- Bulb Life: 10,000 hours
- Wattage: 2.4
- Lighting Modes: Steady on and twinkle
- Cost: $20.99/25 light strand
Learn more here about how different colored lights can be used to make your Christmas even merrier.
Outdoor Solar Christmas Light Options
Did you know Christmas lights are now made in solar options? These lights harness the power of the sun during the day, store that energy in a battery and use it to light your home up at night. Talk about energy-efficient!
Qedertek Christmas Solar String Lights
Qedertek Christmas Solar String Lights look ng just like traditional Christmas lights, these won’t cost you a penny to power.
- Color Options: White and multi-color
- Wattage: 0.6
- Lighting Modes: Steady on, flash and dimming
- Cost: $19.00/200 light strand
Lumsworld Solar Christmas Star Lights
Lumsworld Solar Christmas Star Lights make your home stand out from the block with these festive star-shaped solar Christmas lights.
- Color Options: Warm white
- Lighting Modes: Steady on and twinkle
- Cost: $14.99/50 light strand
Innovative Features in Smart Christmas Lighting
If you’re looking for something snazzy and new to kick your Christmas lighting up a couple of notches and still keep your energy consumption to a minimum, look no further. These smart Christmas lights can be controlled by an app on your smartphone, Bluetooth, and even by voice through your smart speakers.
Twinkly LED String Lights
Twinkly LED String Lights are smart Christmas lights that come pre-loaded with effects as well as the ability to draw your own design. Included smartphone camera mapping makes it easy to wrap the lights and program the lighting effect afterward.
- Intended Use: Indoor and outdoor
- Control: Smartphone App and Google Assistant
- Cost: $132.87/175 light strand
Lumenplay App-Enabled Lights Starter Set
Lumenplay App-Enabled Lights Starter Set are Christmas lights that allow you to choose your own colors, effects and even coordinate your lighting with music, all from the app. Bulbs can also be replaced individually.
- Intended Use: Indoor and outdoor
- Control: Smartphone App
- Watts: .03
- Cost: $52.89/12 light strand
Brizled LED Christmas String Lights
Brizled LED Christmas String Lights are popular smart lights that can be commanded to pulse and dance to music, dim, change speed, and group multiple strands for a cohesive Christmas lighting display.
Intended Use: Indoor and outdoor
- Control: Bluetooth and Apple Watch
- Watts: 3
- Cost: $32.99/200 light strand
Laura Bourland
Laura grew up in the California suburbs, far removed from environmentalism, but nature always has a way. She uprooted her life in 2015, moving to the countryside of Washington to live a more sustainable and simple life on 12 acres. She and her fiancee are learning on the job as they attempt everything from gardening and natural pest control to eco-friendly building and home improvement.
