Best Puffer Jacket (2026): Patagonia, Arc’teryx, REI

Featured successful this article

• Best Puffer Jacket

  

  Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  Mammut

  Broad Peak IN Hooded Jacket

  Mammut's 700-fill-power down Waymarker IN hoodie stuffs down remarkably tiny (into its ain pocket), weighs small for the warmth it provides, and makes a bully all-around puffer. In fact, I deliberation this is 1 of the champion all-around puffer jackets you tin buy. It's stylish capable to enactment good astir town, but besides large connected the trail. The capable value is 4.5 ounces, which I deliberation is the cleanable magnitude of down for 2 precise communal scenarios: erstwhile you're retired being progressive connected a wintertime time with temps successful the 20- to 30-degree range, wherever you don't request thing erstwhile you're moving, but the infinitesimal you halt you request something. That's wherever a airy but lukewarm down overgarment similar this truly shines. The different script is chill evenings and mornings during enarthrosis play trips, erstwhile you privation warmth but don't privation to capable your pack.

  The 100 percent recycled, wind- and water-repellent Pertex outer ammunition is rather light, surely compressible. It doesn't consciousness rather arsenic durable arsenic immoderate others connected this list, but I haven't had immoderate issues aft galore months of testing. My 1 gripe present is that there's nary drawcord astatine the waist, which means you can't seal it up arsenic good arsenic immoderate others astatine this price. The manus pockets are besides connected the precocious side, which nicely accommodates a harness, and works good hiking with a pack, but mightiness not beryllium the champion if that's not your usage case.

  Specs

  Down capable power	700
  Fill weight	4.5 oz.
  Weight	13.5 oz.

• Best Shoulder Season Jacket

  • 

    Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  • 

    Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  • 

    Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  • 

    Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  Outdoor Vitals

  Vantage Alpine Down Jacket

  Outdoor Vital's Vantage Alpine down jacket is simply a astir cleanable puffer for enarthrosis play backpacking trips, wherever you request much warmth than an ultralight puffy, but don't request the bulk and value of a afloat –40-degree jacket. The Vantage is designed to supply maximum thermal ratio for arsenic small value arsenic imaginable (16 ounces for men's large), and it succeeds. Prior to utilizing this jacket, I would person been skeptical that you could marque a genuinely lukewarm overgarment similar this and support it nether a pound, but Outdoor Vitals has done it.

  There are 2 components that marque this overgarment truthful good. The archetypal is the ExpeDry down, which attaches golden particles to the down to interruption down hydrogen bonds successful h2o and forestall droplets from forming. This speeds evaporation and keeps the down adust successful precocious humidity (you know, erstwhile you're sweating). As down collects humidity during the day, it loses its loft, and truthful its quality to trap your assemblage warmth. ExpeDry mitigates this considerably. Outdoor Vitals is not the archetypal to usage it. Marmot, Katabatic Gear, and others besides person assorted sleeping bags and jackets with it, but the Vantage is the archetypal clip I person noticed a existent difference. There is precise small nonaccomplishment of loft successful this overgarment passim the day.

  The 2nd happening that Vantage does is mitigate vigor nonaccomplishment done the zero-stitch baffle design. Rather than stitching (which lets wind, dust, and h2o in), Outdoor Vital's cloth is 2 pieces of cloth woven into one. This helps forestall drafts and means little particulate gets successful the jacket, successful mentation meaning the down should past longer (dust is 1 crushed down starts to suffer its loft). The Vantage inhabits a too-often ignored mediate crushed of temps betwixt what a summertime puffy tin grip and what requires a full-on expedition coat. For maine this means the bulk of my trips, which thin to hap successful September and October, and again successful April and May. For those enarthrosis play trips, this is the champion overgarment I've tested.

  Specs

  Down capable power	850
  Fill weight	7.5 oz.
  Weight	16.1 oz.

• Best Value Puffer Jacket

  

  Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  Decathlon

  Simond MT100 Hooded Puffer

  Decathlon's Simond MT100 is my favourite fund down hoodie. It's got 3.1 ounces of 800-fill-power down, giving it a large warmth-to-weight ratio for the price. At 10.3 ounces for the men's medium, it's impressively light, and it easy packs down into its ain pocket, which serves arsenic its worldly sack, with a reversible zipper. The outer ammunition is 15D polyamide with a DWR decorativeness that stands up good to beingness connected the trail. I've had excavation for astir a twelvemonth now, and the DWR inactive does precise well, shedding snowfall without wetting out. This is simply a down puffer though, truthful you privation a ammunition if it rains.

  I similar the MT100 due to the fact that it's precise warm, doesn't measurement excessively overmuch more, and is regularly connected merchantability for astir $80, making it an outstanding bargain for ultralight hiking. I've utilized it arsenic stand-alone lukewarm overgarment constituent connected three-season trips, and arsenic portion of a wintertime layering strategy successful much utmost conditions, and it's done precise good astatine both. I suggest sizing up, successful portion due to the fact that this 1 runs small, but besides due to the fact that if you tin get a merino mid-layer nether it, you summation the versatility considerably without sacrificing the quality to usage it arsenic a stand-alone overgarment successful much mild conditions.

  The MT100 is comfy and doesn't consciousness similar you're trapped successful a slippery nylon sack the mode immoderate puffers do. The 15D ammunition (which is little shiny than lighter denier shells), combined with the little method cut, means this 1 looks good astir municipality and it's my prime erstwhile traveling to acold cities. The main contention to the Simond (which, by the way, utilized to beryllium called Forclaz, but was rebranded past year) is the REI Magma 650 hoodie, which is successful our honorable mentions.

  Specs

  Down capable power	800
  Fill weight	13.2 oz.
  Weight	10.3 oz.

• The Warmest Puffer Jacket

  

  Fjällräven

  Expedition Down Lite Jacket

  Based connected a classical plan from 1974, this profoundly awesome overgarment from Swedish outdoor specialists Fjällräven reminds america conscionable however lukewarm goose down tin be. With 14.6 ounces of 700-fill-power down, I uncertainty I volition ever beryllium acold successful it. In fact, successful a 17-degree acold drawback recently, I don’t deliberation I adjacent zipped it up. It’s big, bulky, but brilliantly insulating, acknowledgment to a clever operation of sustainably sourced goose down, feathers, and a generous helping of synthetic capable astir the shoulders. This clever thought means you won’t ruin the effectiveness of the down if you get caught successful the rain. Oh, and the hood is next-level. Just don't expect to beryllium capable to spot down you.

  The polyamide outer has a PFAS-free DWR coating and is 100 percent recycled, arsenic is the liner. The zippers are immense too, making them casual to usage erstwhile wearing large gloves and mitts, and there’s 5 generous pockets for stashing layers—not that you’ll request them. At 2.7 pounds (1,260 grams), this is not a overgarment for accelerated and airy adventures, and the bulk from the down tin consciousness astir excessive if you’re having to bash overmuch portion wearing it, particularly astir the immense (gloriously warm) hood. But, if you’re faced with a wintertime of subzero temperatures, this is arsenic bully arsenic I’ve recovered without having to put successful an Everest-ready suit. Remarkably, this is the Lite version. If you bash request adjacent much acold protection, there’s the archetypal Fjällräven Expedition Down overgarment with a longer illustration and 680 grams of insulation. —Chris Haslam

  Specs

  Down Fill Power	700
  Fill Weight	14.6 oz.
  Weight	44.4 oz.

• Best Puffer Jacket for Backpacking

  

  Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  Mountain Hardwear

  Ghost Whisperer UL Hoodie

  Mountain Hardware's Ghost Whisperer UL hoodie has been a fashionable prime among ultralight backpackers since it was introduced a fewer years ago. It remains the champion puffer overgarment for anyone trying to shave each past ounce disconnected their battalion weight. It weighs conscionable 6.7 ounces for a men's mean (7.3 ounces for the men's ample I tested), packs down to a tiny small happening (stuffing into its ain pocket), and the 1,000-fill-power goose down offers 1 of the champion warmth-to-weight ratios connected the market. The precise lightweight ammunition worldly is simply a premix of 5D and 7D ripstop nylon, which is simply a spot much fragile than heavier jackets, but it has held up good truthful acold successful my testing. I tin safely accidental that the Ghost Whisper UL is everything I ever wanted successful an ultralight down puffer and past some.

  What sets it isolated from immoderate different precise bully puffers retired determination are the small details. First there's the 1.9 ounces of 1,000-fill-power down, which is arsenic precocious a capable powerfulness arsenic you'll find successful a overgarment of this class, meaning you're getting the maximum warmth and loft that you tin for the slightest magnitude of weight. My lone caveat for this overgarment would be, if you are the benignant of idiosyncratic who gets acold easily, you mightiness privation thing with a spot much fill. The classical Ghost Whisperer Down Hoody (not the ultralight) has 3 ounces of 800 capable powerfulness and is somewhat warmer successful astir scenarios, the trade-off being it's heavier arsenic good (about 9 ounces for a men's medium). Also cheque retired the Katabatic Gear puffer below, which is considerably warmer. I bash not get acold easily, and I person recovered the Ghost Whisperer UL works good for maine arsenic a lukewarm furniture to propulsion connected successful campy astatine precocious elevation is summer, a mid-layer for hiking successful acold conditions, and a mid-layer nether the Rab Glaceon Pro successful utmost cold.

  Other details that marque the Ghost Whisperer UL our apical prime for ultralight hiking see 2 precise bully zippered manus pockets with a bully magnitude of abstraction to stash small worldly similar a three-season chapeau and immoderate gloves, on with an adjustable drawstring astatine the waist to support drafts out. I besides emotion however tiny this happening packs down, good nether the size of a 1L vessel (see photo). It packs into its ain near pouch with a reversible zipper, though it volition worldly down adjacent smaller if you get a abstracted worldly sack.

  My lone gripe astir this overgarment is that there's nary drawstrings. The hood, cuffs, and waist hem are each elastic. This works good for the cuffs and hood, but I privation determination were a drawstring for the waist. For this reason, if I americium expecting temps beneath 40, I bring a heavier puffer. The remainder of the time, this is what you'll find successful my backpack. Note that I recovered the acceptable to beryllium a small small. According to the acceptable usher connected the Mountain Hardware website, I americium close betwixt mean and large. I tried some and recovered the ample acceptable overmuch better.

  Specs

  Down capable power	1,000
  Fill weight	1.9 oz.
  Weight	6.7 oz.

• Another Remarkably Light Jacket

  

  Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  Stellar

  Ultralight Down Hoodie

  Stellar's Ultralight Down Hoodie packs 5.2 ounces of 850-power down capable into a remarkably airy overgarment that weighs a specified 9.9 ounces (men's large). Despite the debased weight, it manages to person 5 pockets (zippered manus pockets, thorax pocket, and driblet pockets inside) and a helmet-compatible, adjustable hood. Our tester recovered it to beryllium warmer than our top-pick Ghost Whisperer (not astonishing fixed the added down and wide weight), and suitable down to astir 30 degrees connected its own, 15 if you propulsion a a bully basal and mid-layer nether it. I similar the larger baffles, which mean little drafts, and the heavy-duty zippers that you don't typically find successful a overgarment this light.

  The recycled 10-denier nylon ripstop ammunition pairs good with the 850 down, the baffles capable retired rapidly erstwhile you propulsion it retired of your pack. The ammunition is water-resistant, shedding snowfall beauteous good successful our testing, but it is lone 10D, which means if it's truly coming down you'll privation a shell. The down is HyperDRY, which is water-resistant acknowledgment to the DWR coating (PFC free).

  Specs

  Down capable power	850
  Fill weight	5.2 oz.
  Weight	9.9 oz.

• An Electric Puffer Jacket

  

  Ororo

  Heated Puffer Jacket

  Unlike everything other connected this page, Ororo's insulated overgarment isn't conscionable insulated. In summation to the synthetic Thermolite insulation, the Ororo Heated Jacket generates vigor done a bid of carbon-fiber heating elements, which plug into a rechargeable battery. There are heating pads connected the near and close chest, mid-back, and collar. You can't power vigor to idiosyncratic pads, but determination are 3 vigor settings to fto you dial successful a comfy somesthesia to lucifer your exertion level. The outer ammunition is simply a DWR-treated nylon that does a bully occupation of shedding airy rainfall and snow, though arsenic with astir of these puffer coats, you'll privation a rainfall jacket if it truly starts to rain.

  Ororo claims up to 10 hours of artillery life. That's connected low. Running astatine precocious successful immoderate precise acold conditions, I recovered that 5 to 7 hours was much realistic, but it’s plentifulness of clip for astir things you'd privation this overgarment for (my girl declared it the cleanable ice-skating jacket). Due to the limitations of batteries, I would not instrumentality this overgarment into the backcountry, but for astir town, moving errands, walking the dog, this is simply a large overgarment for those coldest of days.

• Best Synthetic Jacket

  

  The Cirrus Flex is simply a synthetic jacket, with PrimaLoft Silver RISE recycled synthetic insulation. It has 5.5 ounces of capable successful a size mean jacket. The Thermic agelong fleece broadside panels connection a flexibility and state of question you won't find successful immoderate different overgarment here. It feels little similar you're wearing a puffer jacket, much similar a mid furniture (but with the warmth of a puffer). I liked the Cirrus Flex hoodie a batch due to the fact that it keeps the value down, packs up comparatively small, and it's casual to flip successful your container arsenic a benignant of “just successful case” jacket. It's not the warmest happening here, but it's large arsenic an progressive insulating furniture erstwhile temps driblet oregon the upwind picks up and you privation to support going.

  Specs

  Down capable power	Synthetic
  Fill weight	5.5 oz.
  Weight	15.7 oz.

• The Classic Puffer Jacket

  

  Patagonia

  Down Sweater Hoody

  I've owned Patagonia's classical down puffer for the amended portion of a decennary and usually scope for it aft the archetypal snowfall. It uses 800-fill-power down and borders connected overstuffed, making for a beefier overgarment than galore others I've tried. It has plentifulness of loft nonetheless, and the recycled nylon ripstop cloth inactive looks similar it does the time I took it location (that cloth is present made from recycled sportfishing nets). Patagonia jackets bash thin to tally a small ample successful my experience, and my puffer is simply a size ample though I usually deterioration an XL. —Martin Cizmar

  Specs

  Down capable power	800
  Fill weight	5.6 oz.
  Weight	12.1 oz.

• The Iconic City Puffer

  

  Aritzia's sleek, stylish Super Puff is 1 of the company's flagship pieces; it tin beryllium recovered connected metropolis dwellers each implicit the federation (it's Martha Stewart's favorite wintertime jacket, for example). There are a ton of antithetic variants, which see the Rain Supers and adjacent a Super Puff for dogs, but for the purposes of this guide, I opted to effort the packable Super Stuff Mid.

  This overgarment deserves the hype. Despite its premium reputation, it's reasonably priced. Aritzia does not station its capable value oregon weight, but the tiny goes down to my knees (I'm 5'2") and provides singular warmth for its weight. I person been wearing this during a damp Oregon wintertime wherever lows seldom dip beneath 40 degrees F astatine night; Aritzia rates this overgarment for down to 32 degrees, which is precisely right. The sheen is brushed but besides water-repellent and wind-resistant. It's hooded and packs into its ain pocket.

  This is simply a metropolis oregon question puffer; it's designed much for looks than layering. It's chopped precise slim, and I volition not beryllium stuffing my beloved Icelandic equine sweater underneath it anytime soon. However, I packed this for respective trips this wintertime and tin highly urge it for travel, if that question does not impact sitting successful the woods successful the snow. —Adrienne So

  Specs

  Down Fill Power	800
  Fill Weight	n/a
  Weight	n/a

• Best Warmer Ultralight Down Jacket

  

  Courtesy of Katabatic Gear

  Katabatic Gear

  Tin Cup Puffer

  When you request much warmth than our apical lightweight prime offers, but inactive privation to enactment arsenic airy arsenic possible, this is the overgarment to grab. I person a half-dozen down puffers successful my closet, but the Tin Cup overgarment from Colorado down specializer Katabatic Gear has been my go-to each winter. The overgarment uses 850-fill-power down and a lightweight 10D cloth made from recycled yarns, which gives it an awesome 48 percent ratio of capable to full weight. It's ace light, ace packable, and the size XL has a chopped that fits maine perfectly, hanging snug to my assemblage to support warmth without feeling constrictive erstwhile I'm progressive outdoors.

  Be warned that it's built for show implicit sheer durability, and aft months of deterioration I did extremity up with a mysterious burned spread successful the ammunition aft a agelong nighttime retired successful frigid New York, which I had to awkwardly patch. I'd inactive bargain and heartily urge this jacket, though I'd support it retired of unpredictable municipality environments. —Martin Cizmar

  Specs

  Down capable power	850
  Fill weight	5.6 oz.
  Weight	12.7 oz.

• Best for Cold Weather Climbing

  

  Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  Rab

  Glaceon Pro Down Jacket

  When the upwind gets down good beneath freezing, erstwhile the upwind makes my cheeks burn, this is the overgarment I turned to. With a basal furniture astatine the bottom, wool sweater implicit that, past this jacket, I was toasty lukewarm walking successful the aboriginal greeting chill of wintertime (usually –10 Fahrenheit successful January). If you're acquainted with Rab (which is simply a overmuch bigger marque successful Europe), this replaces the Axion Pro. The ammunition is lightweight (20D) Pertex ripstop nylon that's nicely windproof and water-resistant. I recovered it was capable to shed snowfall without issue, though if you're successful a decent downpour you'll privation immoderate benignant of outerwear, similar a rain jacket, implicit it.

  Inside, this overgarment has 9.3 ounces of recycled 700-fill-power down. There are generously large, fleece-lined manus pockets and a thorax pocket, though nary wrong stash pockets. The drawstring astatine the bottommost keeps drafts out, and the generous hood is made to spell implicit your helmet. That, combined with the two-way main zipper, which makes belaying easier, marque this our prime for cold-weather climbing. My lone contented with the Rab Glaceon Pro is that I've yet to find gloves that tin bash for my hands what this overgarment does for the remainder of me.

  Specs

  Down capable power	700
  Fill weight	9.3 oz.
  Weight	21 oz.

• A Great Value Down Jacket

  

  Photograph: Scott Gilbertson

  REI Co-op

  Magma 850 Down Jacket

  REI's upgraded, warmer, and packable down overgarment is the Magma line, which is disposable with oregon without a hood. This features a akin recycled ripstop nylon ammunition arsenic the 650 Down Jacket below, but ups the capable powerfulness to 850. At 12.5 ounces it's not the lightest successful the list, but for the terms it's hard to argue.

  The beforehand zip has a upwind flap, and there's adjacent a draught collar, thing you hardly ever find successful a puffer astatine this price. Even better, the hood uses an elastic cord successful the backmost that allows you to cinch it down and support acold aerial from blowing successful the sides. I've worn this successful immoderate beauteous icy winds coming disconnected Lake Superior, and I haven't been thing but warm. My lone existent interest is the sloped baffles connected the chest, which look similar they would pb to down piling up and acold spots, but I haven’t seen that successful my 3 months of testing.

  Specs

  Down capable power	850
  Fill weight	unlisted
  Weight	12.5 oz.

• Fashion Looks, Outdoor Performance

  

  Klättermusen

  Lopt Hooded Down Jacket

  Yet much insulated brilliance from Sweden, wherever northerly wintertime temperatures tin deed −20 degrees Fahrenheit oregon adjacent −40. Klättermusen, which translates to “Climbing Mouse,” manufactures immoderate of the highest-performing and stylish outdoor cogwheel available. Yes, they’ve been co-opted by the fashion-oriented Gorpcore Gang, but don’t fto the hipsters enactment you off. The Lopt, which is besides disposable arsenic a vest and without a hood successful some men's and women's sizes, weighs conscionable 15 ounces (435 grams) and boasts a generous 800 capable powerfulness of sustainably sourced achromatic goose down. It’s water-repellent, somesthesia rated betwixt +10 and –10 Celsius, and the PFC-free bio-based outer cloth is impressively wind-resistant.

  I’ve been utilizing this overgarment regular successful London and besides arsenic a mid-layer portion skiing, and I’ve been impressed by the lofty warmth from the down and the comfortableness of the fit. It tin besides battalion down into a pocket, which is ever a bonus. The asymmetrical opening—something you find connected a batch of their gear—does instrumentality a spot of getting utilized to, but erstwhile afloat zipped up there’s perfectly zero chin chafing oregon annoyance from the zipper. You mightiness not deliberation you’ve ever been irritated by a zip, but spot me, you announcement erstwhile it has been eliminated.

  It is hard to look past the precocious terms of Klättermusen gear, and you bash not request to walk $400 to find a overgarment that keeps you warm, but if you person heavy pockets, I deliberation the marque offers a important upgrade connected diversion and aesthetic show compared to fashion-focused brands specified arsenic Moncler and Canada Goose. —Chris Haslam

  Specs

  Down capable power	800
  Fill weight	unlisted
  Weight	15.3 oz.