How to Choose the Right Lens Color for Your Ski Goggles

The importance of the color of the lenses in your goggles for different conditions. Let me help you avoid making that mistake.

Different goggles have different strong suits. Gray and photochromic lenses will be the best all-rounders. For lower light and overcast conditions, choose a warmer tone like orange or yellow. For high sunlight, the best choice would be a dark color like green or black.

Different Types of Conditions

You’ll find a range of different conditions when you decide to go out onto the slopes on different days. These weather conditions play a huge role in how you should prepare for the day’s activities. This is true from outerwear to goggles.

In the case of ski goggles, different colors definitely work better in different conditions. The most important of these conditions is the amount of sunlight and its intensity.

For the purpose of this article, we’ll break the weather conditions into three main types, being very sunny, very overcast or blizzard conditions, as well as more neutral conditions. The neutral category typically consists of moderate sunshine and moderate overcast.

Visible light transmission or VLT is the amount of light that your goggles will pass through the lens and into your eyes. This rating is usually listed as a percentage rating on goggles.

As the VLT rating is measured as a percentage, it makes sense to think the higher the percentage, the better the goggles will be at letting bright light through your eyes.

This is important to note because it shows that while some lens colors can be better for certain conditions, the VLT rating also plays an important role.