Our lanai faces directly east. This time of year when it is 70 degrees in the morning, it is comfortable all day long. In the afternoons when it is 90 degrees, it is in the shade, and we run the fans and it is not too hot. In the winter, it is too cold to be out in the morning regardless of direction of the lanai. In the afternoons during the winter when things warm up, we have fixed up a sitting area in the front of the house which gets the afternoon sun, and it too is very comfortable. We had friends who sold their house with west facing lanai. They said it was brutal in the afternoon sun and made the lanai un-useable.
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