Brand database
Waterproof Jacket Brands
Brand profiles written to be useful rather than promotional: where a brand comes from, which membranes it builds with, how it prices, what it repairs and what it publishes. No brand pays for placement here.
Canada
Arc'teryx
A Canadian technical outerwear brand known for precise pattern work, minimal seam counts and consistently high retail pricing.
Upper mid to premium
United States
Patagonia
A Californian outdoor brand that tests waterproof garments against its own H2No standard and pairs its products with an unusually strong repair operation.
Mid to upper mid
United Kingdom
Rab
A Sheffield-founded mountain brand with a British hill-weather focus, using both licensed laminates and supplier fabrics across a wide price span.
Accessible technical to premium
United States
The North Face
A large-volume outdoor brand spanning inexpensive DryVent rainwear up to air-permeable FUTURELIGHT and GORE-TEX Pro mountain shells.
Entry to premium
United States
Outdoor Research
A Seattle brand with a long association with air-permeable membranes, now centred on its electrospun AscentShell Dry rain shells.
Mid
United States
Columbia
A high-volume Portland outdoor brand whose waterproof range spans Omni-Tech basics and the outward-facing OutDry Extreme construction.
Entry to mid
Norway
Helly Hansen
A Norwegian brand with marine origins, strongest in sailing, professional workwear and ski outerwear.
Mid to premium
Switzerland
Mammut
A Swiss alpine equipment brand producing mountaineering-oriented shells alongside ropes and hardware.
Mid to premium
Sweden
Fjällräven
A Swedish outdoor brand known for durable trekking clothing and fluorocarbon-free Eco-Shell waterproofs, now also using GORE-TEX ePE.
Mid to premium
Germany
Jack Wolfskin
A German outdoor brand with a broad, value-focused waterproof range built on its TEXAPORE platform.
Entry to mid
United Kingdom
Mountain Equipment
A British mountain brand with a hillwalking and alpine focus, using GORE-TEX ePE laminates and its in-house DRILITE platform.
Mid to premium
United Kingdom
Montane
A British brand focused on lightweight mountain and endurance clothing, with its own PETRICHOR membrane alongside Pertex Shield and GORE-TEX.
Mid to premium
United States
Marmot
A long-established American outdoor brand with a broad waterproof range from the value PreCip line to GORE-TEX shells.
Entry to mid
United States
Black Diamond
A climbing-hardware brand whose apparel range concentrates on alpine and ski-touring shells built on its BD.dry platform.
Mid to premium
Sweden
Haglöfs
A Swedish outdoor brand with a technical Nordic aesthetic, using its PROOF platform alongside GORE-TEX ePE and Pertex Shield Revolve.
Mid to premium
Norway
Norrøna
A Norwegian brand producing activity-specific ski, alpine and bike shells at premium prices, with published per-product ratings.
Premium
France
Salomon
A French brand strongest in trail running and ski, including very light running-specific waterproofs.
Mid to premium
Germany
Adidas Terrex
Adidas's outdoor line, combining licensed laminates with sport-derived cuts.
Entry to mid
United States
Cotopaxi
An American benefit-corporation brand with a travel and colourful everyday emphasis alongside technical pieces.
Mid
United States
REI Co-op
The co-operative retailer's own label, typically strong on price-to-feature ratio in the US market.
Entry to mid
France
Forclaz / Decathlon
Decathlon's trekking label, notable for publishing internal test figures — including whole-garment shower tests — more often than most brands at any price.
Entry
United Kingdom
Berghaus
A British hillwalking brand pairing its own Hydroshell fabrics with licensed GORE-TEX across a broad waterproof range.
Entry to mid
Germany
VAUDE
A German family-owned brand whose Ceplex membranes carry published, method-named water-column figures — rare transparency at its price point.
Entry to mid
France
Millet
A French alpine brand pairing its own DRYEDGE membrane — with published per-model figures — alongside licensed GORE-TEX for mountaineering shells.
Mid to premium
United States
Mountain Hardwear
An American alpine brand whose own Dry.Q and DrySpell fabrics sit alongside licensed laminates, with a lifetime warranty bounded by the product's practical life.
Mid to premium
Sweden
RevolutionRace
A Swedish direct-to-consumer brand whose Hypershell membranes carry published per-model figures at entry-to-mid prices.
Entry to mid
Sweden
Klättermusen
A small Swedish mountaineering brand whose proprietary Cutan fabric family spans 2-layer to 3-layer builds with published per-model figures.
Premium
Denmark
Rains
A Danish urban outerwear brand whose PU-coated rainwear is rated by its own guide for moderate daily rainfall — city protection, not mountain equipment.
Mid
Sweden
Stutterheim
A Stockholm maker of PVC-rubberised raincoats in the fisherman idiom — an absolute barrier with no breathability pretension, plus newer water-resistant woven lines.
Mid to premium