Your safety and, more importantly, your skiing enjoyment depends on having warm, dry hands. Some unexpected features and pricing variations of ski gloves may complicate your search for the ideal pair.

Therefore, we’ve compiled this buyer’s guide to the top mittens and ski gloves available.

Here are the tested and reviewed top ski gloves in every category, from the best for resorts to time-tested backcountry lifesavers. See our buyer’s guide below for more information on how to select the best ski gloves for you and to further assist in narrowing the available options.

10 Best Ski Gloves 

Black Diamond Guide Gloves

Black Diamond’s professional benchmark model is the Guide Glove. After a brief settling-in time, they enter the realm of guides, teachers, and patrollers, where they must strike a delicate balance between intense warmth and practical dexterity.

For professionals, performing fine motor tasks without needless exposure is necessary, yet it is quite the luxury for recreational skiers striving for the best.

The payback in protection and durability makes these beasts more than worth the price in the long run, even though some significant breaking is needed to work out the stiffness. However, there are some restrictions to dexterity that you must consider and be willing to accept.

HESTRA Army Leather Heli Ski 3-finger

The 3-finger Hestra Army Leather Heli ski glove is intended for seasoned skiers who log 20 or more days of skiing annually. Another obvious application is heli-skiing. It is advantageous on days with a lot of snow when it’s cold.

It’s a choice that offers excellence and a high level of functionality. We discovered that it worked quite well with snowboard bindings as well.

The fleece inner adds warmth and makes it possible to wash away the infamous ski glove odor, at least at the beginning of the year. The Army Leather is expensive when combined with high-quality goat skin, but it will endure as long as any glove.

Burton Gore-Tex Gloves

Gore-Tex gloves from Burton will be popular for spring skiing. Snowboarders will be drawn to the brand by the waterproofing and agility.

They perform similarly to the North Face Apex in terms of price and performance, particularly in terms of durability. These stand out since they are less expensive and have fewer features.

Hestra Army Leather Extreme

A reliable brand of ski gloves is Hestra. The Army Leather Extreme is a warm mitt that can withstand cold fallout while giving the skier reasonable maneuverability.

It is a high-end ski mitt that is frequently used in frigid weather. Be ready to pay for this and to be satisfied as well.

MCTi Waterproof

Not everyone requires a glove that can withstand regular use in the worst weather. Sometimes, you need something to hold you over for an unplanned weekend on the slopes. The fleet of cost-effective ski equipment offered by MCTi does the job well. Even though they lack the superior build quality and opulent amenities of our premium picks, they’re adequate for a laid-back weekend on the slopes.

MCTi provides the essentials in a pair of ski gloves: they are reasonably waterproof, have a poly synthetic fill, and have breathable inserts. They make up for some structural shortcomings with a few carefully chosen characteristics. No matter how skillfully they are done, having touch screen fingertips, hand warmer pockets, and adjustable wrist closures is excellent.

Doubtfully, MCTi’s text suggests that these gloves are effective down to –20°F. Even though temperatures so low are uncommon, I would choose an item with a stronger construction if they did occur. We wouldn’t be surprised if your fingertips felt chilly on a chilly day. It wouldn’t be strange if they only provided reliable skiing for one season.

They are still adequate for the majority of inbounds skiing in the majority of weather circumstances. A great option if you’re just starting to dip your toes and fingers into snowsports.

Outdoor Research Prevail Heated

The Prevail Heated Gloves from Outdoor Research stand out as the best-heated gear on the market. This is reflected in the premium gloves’ pricing.

Perfecting heated ski equipment is difficult. However, technology for heated gloves, boots, and other items advances significantly every several years.

OR offers 2.5 hours of heat on high and 8 hours on low with three heat intensity settings.

Tough Outdoors Winter Gloves

Cheap ski gloves are excellent for a brief trip to the mountain, but they often break just when you need them. The basic, sturdy Tough Outdoors Winter gloves include a nylon shell as an option.

Given their obvious name, there should be no doubts about what these gloves are intended to perform. The “Tough Outdoor” gloves from Tough Outfitter are a low-cost choice that prioritizes durability above maintaining aesthetics with high-end features.

These gloves perform better than the typical low-cost resort glove while meeting the minimum warmth and water resistance requirements. Apart from a nose-wipe and a place to hang your gloves together, they don’t offer many features or extras. However, they are reasonably priced and will be quite warm for a typical day at the resort.

Tough Outfitters, marketed for online retailers as Tough Outdoors, deserves your consideration if you’re a no-frills skier who cringes at the prospect of gloves that cost half as much as your skis.

Gordini Storm Trooper II

For backcountry skiers, Gordini makes the Storm Trooper II gloves. As a result, they also fare well at the resort’s entrance.

They strike a good balance between warmth and sweat. The Storm Troopers II are a better value ski glove than most serious options available because of their good dexterity, durability, and one or two features—which may or may not be beneficial.

Outdoor Research Alti

The high-performance series from Outdoor Research is called the Alti line. The Alti glove offers out-of-the-box comfort with the high level of warmth and dexterity you’d expect from a performance glove, placing it right behind the Black Diamond Guide Glove in terms of durability.

The Alti is a top contender for resort skiers with cold hands and high demands and thrives in light-technical situations.

Although there’s no reason why the Alti, which is promoted as a high-mobility exploration glove, couldn’t be used in such situations, it performs best in a less formal atmosphere. If you want warmth and comfort, always go with the Alti.