Welcome to your ultimate guide to all-season tires! Whether you’re tackling rain, snow, or dry roads, I’ve got you covered with in-depth reviews, comparisons, and expert insights to help you choose the perfect tires for your vehicle.
Explore the five main types of all-season tires, each designed for specific driving needs.
Let’s start with the most popular, grand touring tires.
By the way, you can learn more about all these all-season categories here.
Grand Touring All-Season Tires
Grand Touring is the most common all-season category, where tires excel in wet and winter conditions. These tires feature advanced siping, and are mostly 3PMSF and M+S rated. They also provide relatively better overall comfort and dry performance as well, compared to standard touring tires. Check out my list of Best Grand Touring All-Season Tires here.
Following are some of the most popular grand touring tires, I’ve reviewed.
Michelin CrossClimate 2
Renowned for its snow performance, the Michelin Crossclimate 2 leads the way, and of course, it’s rated with the 3 peak mountain snowflake rating. Moreover, the tire is exceptional in both dry and wet conditions too, where its dry traction slightly outshines the wet performance.
Detailed Review: https://tiredriver.com/michelin-crossclimate-2-review/
Continental AllSeasonContact 2
AllSeasonContact 2 is a very nice premium all-weather tire, providing superb dry, wet and winter performance. Moreover, while the tire is average in fuel economy and tread mileage, it impresses with noise comfort and ride quality.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/continental-allseasoncontact-2-review/
Bridgestone WeatherPeak
The Bridgestone WeatherPeak favors wet over dry performance. While grip is limited, it offers lower rolling resistance, beneficial for fuel economy and tread wear. Moreover, it’s comfort levels are high, though noise reduction could be better a bit, in my experience.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/bridgestone-weatherpeak-review/
Firestone WeatherGrip
The Firestone WeatherGrip shines in wet and winter conditions but struggles in dry performance, particularly with braking and steering responsiveness. Despite this and consistent road noise, its fuel efficiency, tread life, and design are praiseworthy, surprisingly.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/firestone-weathergrip-review/
Michelin Primacy Tour A/S
The Michelin Primacy Tour A/S offers a truly standout performance in both wet and dry roads, offering excellent steering in particular. The tire although has a label of grand touring, it feels more like a performance all season tire. Though compared to other all-weather tires here, it lacks slightly in winter conditions.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/michelin-primacy-tour-a-s-review/
Vredestein Quatrac Pro
Vredestein Quatrac Pro is rated as the best for overall wet performance in my books. It outperforms all other grand touring tires in terms of wet braking, handling, and wet slalom tests thanks to its excellent steering responsiveness.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/vredestein-quatrac-pro-review/
Other Grand Touring Tires
Click any of the following grand touring tires to see their detailed reviews.
Standard Touring All-Season Tires
Standard touring tires offer a nice balanced performance including dry traction, durability, and fuel efficiency, all at an affordable price. These tires stand out for their long tread life, often accompanied by warranties exceeding 70,000 miles. So overall these tires offer better overall economy. Check out my list of best standard touring tires here.
Goodyear Assurance MaxLife
The durable Goodyear Assurance MaxLife delivers a well-rounded performance. It provides exceptional dry handling and fuel efficiency, coming off with an impressive 85k-mile warranty. Though, it could improve in wet braking and winter performance, especially in terms of lateral traction.
Read full review of MaxLife here: https://tiredriver.com/goodyear-assurance-maxlife-review/
Michelin Defender 2
The reliable Michelin Defender 2 caters especially to those valuing dry performance, longevity, and efficiency. Its sturdy build might affect its winter/wet traction and ride comfort, but its aptitude in noise mitigation makes it a viable everyday choice.
Read full review of here: https://tiredriver.com/michelin-defender-2-review/
Continental TrueContact Tour
Continental’s TrueContact Tour impresses across terrains, offering superb dry steering and wet braking. Its winter attributes and tread durability are also very appreciable, due to its distinct rubber and tread design. Nevertheless, ride comfort and noise reduction, particularly at higher speeds, could see improvements.
Read full review of TrueContact Tour here: https://tiredriver.com/continental-truecontact-tour-review/
Other Standard Touring Tires
Explore more standard touring tires below.
Crossover/SUV Touring All-Season Tires
Like the name suggests, these tires are build for slightly heavier vehicles (then your typical sedans). These SUV/CUV tires though don’t offer LT sizes, so they are still not suitable for towing. Let’s go through some of the most popular SUV touring options.
Pirelli Scorpion AS Plus 3
The Pirelli Scorpion AS Plus 3 offers stable handling but can improve in dry grip and wet braking. Moreover, when it comes to aquaplaning, the tire shows occasional understeer, and winter performance is also like that. Though noise is well-managed and comfort is prioritized, with the tire’s composition absorbing road vibrations effectively. Moreover, the tire gives off slight hint of off-road capability, which adds to its versatility.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/pirelli-scorpion-as-plus-3-review/
Michelin Latitude Tour HP
Michelin Latitude Tour HP is a decent performer on dry roads, thanks to its well engineered design. Yet, it could use improvements in wet conditions. Winter traction is impressive, even without the 3-Peak Mountain Snowflake certification. And as for fuel efficiency, the tire truly shines, resulting from its silica composition. Lastly, areas like ride comfort and noise level could be enhanced.
Read full review of Latitude Tour HP here: https://tiredriver.com/michelin-latitude-tour-hp-review/
Firestone Destination LE3
The Firestone Destination LE3 delivers praiseworthy dry traction and braking, owing to its thoughtfully crafted grooves. Yet, handling could see enhancement. Moreover, wet conditions highlight its improvements, with the full-depth sipes making a difference. Though, in terms of snow grip, the tire is, you can say just okay. Also, while the tire operates quietly, there’s room to refine its ride comfort. But both fuel efficiency and tread life deserve a nod, due to its minimal rolling resistance generation.
Read full review of LE3 here: https://tiredriver.com/firestone-destination-le3-review/
Other SUV Touring Tires
Click any of the following SUV/CUV touring tires to see their detailed reviews.
Ultra High Performance All-Season Tires
See the List of Best Ultra-High Performance All-Season Tires.
Following are all the UHP all-season tires I’ve reviewed so far.
Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4
Michelin Pilot Sport All Season 4 variant provides well-rounded performance. It offers responsive steering and reliable traction across dry and wet terrains. While it has room for improvement in comfort, its winter performance is top-tier in its category. However, its exceptional qualities come with a higher price tag. It’s right, you get what you pay for.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/michelin-pilot-sport-all-season-4-review/
Continental ExtremeContact DWS 06 Plus
The Continental ExtremeContact DWS06 Plus, while having areas for enhancement, shines as a solid high-performance all-season tire. It offers exceptional dry road braking and acceleration, stellar hydroplaning resistance, and impressive wet grip. On the downside, its steering may feel slightly artificial, and though designed for noise reduction, its ride comfort and bump cushioning need a little bump up still.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/continental-extremecontact-dws-06-plus-review/
General G-MAX AS-05
The General G-MAX AS-05 offers strong dry grip due to its silica-rich compound but can be over-responsive in steering. While decent in the wet, its performance in snowy conditions is slightly lagging, due to it’s harder rubber composition. This stiffer rubber also impacts ride comfort but at the same time enhances the tire’s tread life, so you get 50,000-mile warranty here, which is great given that it’s a UHP AS tire.
Read full review: https://tiredriver.com/general-g-max-as-05-review/
By the way, the G max 05 tire is now replaced by G Max AS-07 (successor).
Other High Performance All Season Tires
Find more UHPAS tires below.
Highway All-Season Tires
Highway all-season tires are basically the most aggressive and offer better durability. They are actually the only ones that come with LT sizes (unlike standard and grand touring tires). So they can be used for minor off-roading and towing.
Michelin Defender LTX MS
The Michelin Defender LTX MS is the most popular highway all-season tire which provides a very reliable overall performance. It’s particularly great in wet and snow and provides superb tread life. And its P metric sizes are also great for fuel economy.
Read full review of Defender LTX here: https://tiredriver.com/michelin-defender-ltx-ms-review/
Kumho Crugen HT51
Kumho Crugen HT51 is another noteworthy option in highway all season category. It also offers great wet and snow performance. And its softer compound and construction delivers excellent impact comfort and noise reduction as well.
Read full review of Crugen here: https://tiredriver.com/kumho-crugen-ht51-review/