Best Budget Ski Goggles 2024
Best Budget Ski Goggles 2024
Are you looking to gear up for a ski trip without breaking the bank? Ski gear can get pretty pricey, but that doesn’t mean you have to burn your life savings to be adequately prepared for a day on the mountain. Trust us. There are great products in all price ranges, and you just have to know where to look.
When it comes to ski goggles, the higher-end stuff can run you a few hundred dollars for a single pair, which is prohibitively expensive for some. While ski goggles in that price range are often great products that offer many features, there are actually some budget goggles out there that can give them a run for their money.
To help you find the best hard-to-believe ski goggle bargains out there, we’ve price-checked a ton of different high-quality products from trusted brands and compiled a list of four great pairs of goggles that refuse to sacrifice quality in favor of affordability. Read on for that list. We also include some useful info on what to look for in a ski goggle.
What Makes a Good Budget Ski Goggle?
When seeking out a bargain on ski goggles but anything you buy, it’s always important that you ensure the product meets specific standards. If you’re looking to save some money, and you get something of poor quality that doesn’t perform or quickly requires replacement, you’re going to wind up spending more money than if you’d spent that little extra for something of a higher standard.
To avoid that problem with your ski goggles, always keep an eye out for the following features:
● Ventilation/anti-fog
● Padding/comfort
● Proper visible light transmission (VLT)
● Durability/anti-scratch
● UV protection
If you can find an affordable pair of ski goggles with all of these features, then they’re most likely worth your consideration.
Our Picks for the Best Budget Ski Goggles of 2024
There are plenty of reasons this year why you may be looking to score a bargain on your ski gear. Whatever those reasons may be, we’re glad to help you find the best deals on the market. Below are selections for the best budget ski goggles available this year. We’re confident you won’t be disappointed by any of them, but if none of these selections are quite your style, we hope this list can still help you better understand what to look for in a pair of budget ski goggles.
The Glade Adapt 2 needs no introduction. Widely considered the best goggle on the market today, this goggle has won just about every award in the industry including Ski Magazine's Best Overall Goggle, Freeskier's Editor's Choice award, Outside Magazine's Best Goggle, and Blister Gear Review's 'Best Of' award for the last 2 years in a row, to name a few. At only $150 this goggle is truly a steal. One thing to note: Glade seems to sell out of this goggle every season so your choices may be limited depending on when you are looking to purchase.
Features
The Glade Adapt 2 comes standard with anti-fog treatments, an anti-scratch lens with 100% UV protection and a wide range of vision. Still, instead of providing multiple different lens options with varying VLT percentages, the photochromic lens can give you anywhere from 16-61% VLT as it adapts to whatever light conditions are present.
Style
With that signature clean and simple Glade look, to Adapt 2 is another pair of beautifully designed ski goggles. The range of options has expanded to six photochromic lens colors and seven strap colors available, so you can effectively customize your look, while always getting the single lens solution.
Affordability
Again, it’s doubtful you’re going to find too many photochromic ski goggles at this price point with such a great look and these features. Anything within the near vicinity of $150 is a good deal, and with lenses that adapt to various light conditions, you’re saving even more money by ridding yourself of the need to buy extra pairs of goggles.
The Iris X from POC hovers right around that $100 sweet spot, just like the Glade Challenger. You’ll find a range of features with these goggles comparable to other goggles that are nearly double the price or more. POC really knocked it out of the park with these for a company primarily known for its helmets.
Features
The POC Iris X lenses are equipped with Ripe, hydrophobic(water-resistant), and oleo phobic (oil resistant) treatment. They’re also anti-scratch and anti-fog, so you’ll never have anything obstructing your view on the way down the mountain. The frames are outfitted with a triple-layer face foam for extra comfort ability, as well.
Style
The drawback on these goggles is that they don’t offer all that many style options. The overall design is quite nice, but with only a few different color options currently available, you may have to settle on a look that doesn’t exactly knock you out.
Affordability
They may not be the cheapest goggles on this list, but they may very well be the best bargain for what they offer. These goggles are packed with features that you won’t often find for the price point they’re available at.
It used to be that interchangeable lenses were a feature limited to the higher-end ski goggles. Still, as the technology has developed and gotten cheaper, the option to swap out lenses has started to become available at a more reasonable price point. That’s probably the most attractive feature of the Outdoor Master Pro, but it’s not the only one worth mentioning. Read onto learn more.
Features
On top of a magnetic frame design that allows you to swap out your lenses to adjust to changing light conditions, the Outdoor Master Pro also offers anti-fog coating, anti-scratch coating, and impact resistance. The polarized HD frameless spherical lenses allows for a tremendous field of view with zero distortion, and they are 100% UV400 protected.
Style
There are twenty-two different colors to choose from, and the option to swap out lenses makes the Outdoor Master Pro the most versatile budget goggles on this list. The one catch may be that you might not be too into the spherical lens look, but once you throw them on and see what they can do, you may very well have a change of heart.
Affordability
When you consider that these goggle frames can accommodate a variety of different lenses, it’s hard to argue that the Outdoor Master Pro isn’t the best deal on this list. Instead of purchasing multiple pairs of goggles, you just need to have multiple lenses, which are more affordable. If you’re looking to tackle all kinds of light conditions, go with these goggles.
We love Giro products. You’ll find their stuff on many of our lists, and for a good reason: they do a great job of striking the perfect balance between performance and price point. The Cruz goggles are honestly so budget-friendly it’s hard to believe. They easily win the Affordability Award on this list that’s centered entirely around affordability. We must admit that you will not get every last feature on the checklist, but what you get for that cost is incredible.
Features
The Giro Cruz lens comes with an anti-fog coating to keep your vision clear on the slopes, and the frames are made with Expansion View Technology to help you see the complete picture. Double-layer face foam makes for a comfortable fit, and the goggles are over-the-glasses friendly, too. The Giro Cruz goggles are designed for seamless compatibility with Giro helmets.
Style
Six colors and four lens tints give you plenty of options for finding a pair of goggles that complement the rest of your ski gear. That’s quite an impressive selection at that price point.
Affordability
These are hands down the most affordable goggles on this is. No, they don’t have all the performance features that some other budget pairs might offer, but if you’re looking for something super low-priced that will still do the trick, these are the goggles for you.
