Since LED and CFL lamps both have similar efficiencies you would need roughly the same wattage for both. There were 13 watt LED lamps rated to work with a dimmer that I saw at Menards but I haven't bought any because I've got everything covered with CFLs already, they are the same efficiency(at least close enough to not replace a good working CFL with an LED), and I have yet to had any of the CFLs I've bought in the last 4 years burn out beside one specific brand's CFL bathroom globe lamps that were a bad experience, I use LED in my bathroom since the on duration is so short for a bathroom that they make much more sense to be there because of the emissive degradation of short cycling a CFL.
As far as color temperature, bluer color temperatures look bad if the total light luminance is too dim for the eye. Since I used one step up when I swapped from incan. lamps to CFL and LEDs using a 3000k seems more ideal than a 2700k which looks too red, drab, and stressful to the eye for me.
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