12 Best Ski Goggles of 2025 | Oakley, Smith & more

Smith’s I/O Mag ChromaPop Pro PhotoChromic snow goggles are some of their most comfortable and most versatile. Their ChromaPop lenses are our favorite for optic quality, offering the best clarity and contrast of the goggles we tested.

And now Smith has improved their PhotoChromic tech to Pro PhotoChromic, offering bigger VLT swings to cover a wider range of light change. This means you don’t have to change your lenses for changes in weather and sun. This is a great advancement because no one likes schlepping their extra lenses on the mountain.

This combination – I/O Mag ChromaPop Pro PhotoChromic comes pretty close to the perfect snow goggles. Read our full review to get all the details of Smith’s new upgrade of an old favorite.

The Julbo Lightyear ski and snowboard goggles offer variable protection and performance in a unique way. Designed with ski touring in mind, the Lightyear ski goggles have the best fog mitigation system, SuperFlow PRO, compared to any other ski goggles.

The Julbo Lightyear ski goggles provide clarity, contrast, and protection. The Lightyear goggles have a photochromic lens that adjusts VLT when exposed to UV light. Transition lenses are not new, but Julbo challenges other ski brands with the quality of lens material, ultramodern design, and wide field of view.

At ISPO Munich 2022, the largest trade fair for the sports business, the Julbo Lightyear goggles were awarded “Intuitive Protection in All Conditions.” Dive in to see if the Lightyear ski goggles can provide protection and performance in all conditions.

Not only do the M5 Goggles provide a modern aesthetic, but they come with modern features that are sure to enhance your experience on snow. PERCEIVE optic technology is combined with a flat toric (full coverage curve on the horizontal axis while staying flat on the vertical axis) lens to not only provide high contrast in low-viz conditions but also offer enhanced peripheral vision so that you’re never caught off guard.

Anon’s Magna-Tech allows you to swap lenses in seconds, ensuring that you’re never caught flat-footed when the weather takes a turn. Magnets along the bottom of the frame make the M5’s compatible with MFI facemasks, creating a seamless barrier between your face and elements and reducing the likelihood of fogging.

To further combat foggy goggles, the M5s utilize Anon’s premier anti-fog treatment to ensure that your field of vision is as clear as day in all conditions, letting you run lap after lap from bell to bell.

The Wildhorn Roca Spherical Snow Goggles are our best budget pick. They are great for beginners or the casual skier or snowboarder. They look good and perform very well.

The frame and strap material are comparable to our favorite high-end brands. The spherical lens provides a wider field of view and better UV protection and ventilation than found in cylindrical goggles.

There is a noticeable difference in lens clarity and contrast from much more expensive ski and snowboard goggles. But for the price difference, a casual snow enthusiast most likely won’t notice.

Slope Magazine to know why the Roca’s are the best-selling Wildhorn Outfitters ski goggles.

The Anon M4 Toric is one of the top-performing ski goggles across multiple categories. We recently had the chance to put it through our intense vetting process from the resort to the backcountry. The bottom line is that the M4 Toric is an exceptionally well-made product.

With unmatched lens change technology and very competitive quality of vision, it’s a can’t miss for skiers looking for the most versatile product on the market with a huge field of view.

The Fall Line XL is the best Oakley ski goggles out there. They have a cylindrical shape that provides just a bit bigger field of view. With the RidgeLock system to swap out lenses that have as good a quality as any other in the market.

For reference, the XL stands for Extra Large while the XM stands for Extra Medium. We tested the XLs for comfort, lens quality and durability. This pair also has some aesthetic qualities that make it stand out just a bit.

Our experience points to this Fall Line model as a versatile option that has proven to do well on the front end and backside of any mountain or resort.

Spy Optics has made the Ace ski goggles to appeal to a very broad market. People with a bit of experience and familiarity with the slopes.

This $130-$150 pair of ski goggles performs nicely for most intermediate skiers. It has a clear lens with a decent field of view as long as your head isn’t larger than most.

Overall, if you can deal with a stubborn lens-swapping process, the Ace is a very capable ski goggle at a bargain.

The VALLON Freebirds ski goggles do a few things well. VALLON goggles are made with protective lenses and frame materials ideal for sending it on snow.

VALLON uses Zeiss lens technology to elevate your skiing performance. While skiing through shadows and bright sun, the contrast of the Freebirds stays consistent and strong. However, more expensive goggles offer better visuals than the Freebirds.

Skiers favor the spherical shape, but snowboarders can rock these, too, thanks to the classic Y2K look. VALLON strives to offer high-end, stylish eye protection for all snow shredders.

Dive into our full review and discover why the VALLON Freebirds are quality ski goggles.

The Ryidar LinkLens Pro is currently one of the better Bluetooth ski goggles. The LinkLens specifically make it easier to answer calls and listen to music without needing to fish a phone up with cold hands.

Bluetooth helmets have been bringing tunes to the mountain for a while now, but smart goggles for skiing have been a hit and miss thing for the most part.

Instead of earphones that can fall out, helmet makers like Sweet Protection and POC have audio compatible or built-in systems. But whereas buttons on helmet audio devices can be difficult to control–causing you to pull out the phone–the LinkLens has buttons on the underside of the frame. These buttons work, keeping the phone from the perils of falling into a snow void under the lift.

Despite the form factor issues the LinkLens has, the concept proves to be quite workable and will make happy quite a few resort skiers.

Wildhorn Outfitters Pipeline ski and snowboard goggles are affordable, stylish, and protective. For under a hundred dollars, the Pipeline goggles offer competitive performance. It’s also cool that Wildhorn Outfitters supplies some of the athletes on the U.S. Olympic ski and snowboard team.

The Pipeline ski and snowboard goggles provide impact resistance and UV protection, making them a good pair of snow goggles. However, a few performance specs are lacking compared to more expensive options.

Dive in to find out why holiday resort riders will love these goggles. But there are also a few reasons why the gnarly weekday sender probably doesn’t want these.

OutdoorMaster has indeed found its niche in snowsport optics- their goggles come with a competitive feature set and technical specifications comparable to our favorite goggles. Their packaging is impressive, as are the many accessories included in a single goggle order.

But of all this begs the question: How well do they really do on the slopes? We hunkered down with a pair of their Ultra XL goggles for some long days of hard skiing and came away with the following conclusion. The Ultra XL goggles perform just about as well as you’d expect them to for their price.

Below, we’ll dig a little deeper into the technical details and performance specifics that shaped our impression of the Ultra XL- we’ll also discuss who will get the most out of a pair and a range of alternatives.

Oakley is a titan of the technical and outdoor eyewear market. And the Flight Deck is a classic in the winter sports world. In many ways, it’s the standard-bearer for spherical ski goggles. The wide field of view allows you to keep an eye on multiple moving targets while riding crowded resort slopes.

You’ll see the Flight Deck on every slope from the small and soggy slopes of my home “mountain” in the Cuyahoga Valley to gate-accessed backcountry zones west of the Continental Divide. They’re an industry mainstay, so we had to buy a pair to test out. We can confirm that the hype is real. Oakley and the Flight Deck deserve every ounce of the renown they’ve garnered over the better part of the last decade.