For the last couple of years, the latest third-party research has shown that the SUV tyre space has increasingly become an all-season domain (see “The increasingly all-season SUV tyre market: Budget share grows in premium-dominated segment” – Tyres & Accessories magazine, March 2024 or online at tyrepress.com). And that’s why we have again trawled our database of over 300,000 tyres for the best products that qualify both as all-season and SUV tyres.
For example, the Nokian Wetproof SUV, which calls itself the “enemy of aquaplaning” and is marketed as the best product in three seasons, ranked in the main SUV category but couldn’t be considered here because we are looking – as objectively as possible – for the best third-party rated year-round product.
In practice that meant that we started with the same list of top-three sizes (235/60/18, 235/55/19 and 215/60/17) as we used in the general SUV run-down, choosing the best Tyrescore from each as a starting point. Together these sizes represent some 16 per cent of the SUV tyre market, so they are representative both of what drivers are actually buying and of the market as a whole.
In order to distinguish out-and-out SUV tyres from general car tyres, we required entrants to have a load rating equal to or greater than 105. Tyres also had to be marked as three-peak-mountain-snowflake (3PMSF) to show that they have enough winter prowess to actually be called all-season products.
With all that filtering in place, we also required each tyre in the list to achieve a Tyrescore of at least 6 on average across its range. By using individual key size tyre scores and range average tyre scores in parallel, we are able to put individual sizes in context of the wider range and highlight extraneous outliers.
A strong contender for years now and last year’s winner in this category, the Michelin CrossClimate 2 has retained its title in the 2024 analysis (Photo: Michelin)
Michelin Crossclimate 2 is WhatTyre’s all-season SUV Tyre of the Year 2024
Winner: At the end of the day, the Michelin Crossclimate 2 once again came out on top. From its AB label rating in the key size, to its strong average performance across the range and enduring success in tyre tests – this was a deserved by unsurprising victory. Here’s an illustration. Back in 2021, AutoBild Allrad rated the tyre as “Good”. By April 2024, Autobild Sportcars testers were calling it “exemplary”. In other words, like a good French wine, over the last few years, third-party scrutiny has revealed that this tyre has matured with age, so to speak.
Highly recommended: The Bridgestone Weather Control A005 is Bridgestone’s second-generation all-season touring tyre and has been praised from the outset for its short braking distances and balanced handling performance on wet and dry roads. As far as our research is concerned, it was on the only product on-test to achieve Tyrescores above eight in both its key size and range average other than the outright winner. Such consistently high-level performance makes the tyre worthy to be highly recommended.
Next up is the Continental AllSeasonContact 2, which has been out for a bit more than a year. By the end of its debut year, it had already been tested by Auto Bild and found to be “exemplary”. Indeed, testers praised its “convincing winter qualities, dynamic handling and short braking distances on wet roads” and “quiet passing noise”. That last point is interesting because, while demonstrably quiet, there are other tyres on-test that were even quieter, according to their label data, at least.
Not only do we commend the Hankook Kinergy 4S 2 H750A for its year-round across-the-board performance, the range also had the third-highest average tyrescore on-test making it amongst the most consistently performing all-season tyres whatever size you choose. Furthermore, when you divide average price by the tyrescore of our key size (in this particular case 235/55/19), the Hankook tyre is by far the best value in terms of pounds per point. And for that reason, the Hankook Kinergy 4S 2 H750A is the 2024 What Tyre all-season SUV Tyre of the Year value champion.
Then there’s the Nokian Tyres Weatherproof SUV, which not only met all of our all-season SUV filtering criteria in its key size (235/55/19) it also had the narrowest range-wide average margin, with an average variance of just 0.04 tyrescore points. In other words, when tyre labelling, third-party testing, original equipment fitments and ESG is taken into account, virtually every tyre in the range is representative of the other. And that means buyers can have confidence that – whatever size they hear about – the size they purchase should perform similarly.
Pirelli Scorpion Zero All Season (Photo: Pirelli)
The Pirelli Scorpion Zero All Season is arguably the quietest tyre on-test, so if tyre volume is a consideration when driving your SUV year-round, this is the tyre for you. Indeed, as well as A-rated wet grip in the key size (235/55/19), that is likely to be one reason why the Scorpion Zero All Season has been chosen as original equipment on high-profile vehicles including the Range Rover Velar and the Jaguar F-Pace SVR.
And finally, there’s the Vredestein Quatrac Pro, which was the only other tyre to achieve all our stringent judging criteria and has been repeatedly tested by the leading European magazines. Indeed, writing in May 2025, Autobild Sportscars described the tyre as having “good winter qualities” as well “stable handling on snowy/dry slopes”.
Close but no cigar…
In addition to the above winners, we should also look out for the Yokohama CV 4S, which was previewed in 2023 and released earlier this year and fits perfectly in the all-season SUV category. Sadly, that tyre is simply too new for us to have enough third-party datapoints to evaluate it further in this ranking.
And then there are the likes of the Falken Euroall Season range as well as The Firestone Multiseason 2, Cooper Discoverer All Season, Apollo Alnac 4G All Season, Nexen NBlue 4Season and CST Medallion All Season ACP1, which – in some cases at least – were tantalisingly close to being in the top seven.
