The Best Selling Wetsuits Of 2020

Another year, another wetsuit roundup, and this time we look back on the best selling wetsuits of 2020. This year, we saw a lot of welcome upgrades from the wetsuit companies, most notably on a few Billabong and Rip Curl suits. The old favorites still fill out much of this list, however, there are some newcomers like the reintroduced O’Neill Mutant, which after a few years absent from O'Neill's catalog, has come back stronger than ever. Now that the new year has passed, we’ve looked back and reviewed the numbers to find the most popular suits of 2020.

*For this list we're including less common thicknesses like a straight 3mm or a 3.5mm in the most similar category. In this example, the 3/2mm section.

Best Selling 3/2mm Wetsuits

1. O’Neill Hyperfreak Chest Zip ($309.95)
2. O’Neill Reactor II Back Zip ($124.95)
3. O’Neill HyperFreak Comp Zip Free ($309.95)
4. O’Neill Epic Chest Zip ($189.95)
5. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Chest Zip ($209.95)
6. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Back Zip ($199.95)
7. Rip Curl Flash Bomb Chest Zip ($399.95)
8. Rip Curl E-Bomb Zip Free ($279.95)
9. Patagonia R2 Yulex Chest Zip ($458.95)
10. Quiksilver Syncro Chest Zip ($189.95)

Best Selling 4/3mm Wetsuits

1. O’Neill HyperFreak Comp Zip Free ($319.95)
2. O’Neill Hyperfreak Hooded Chest Zip ($369.95)
3. O’Neill Legend Mutant Hooded Chest Zip ($439.95)
4. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Back Zip ($219.95)
5. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Chest Zip ($229.95)
6. O’Neill Hyperfreak Chest Zip ($329.95)
7. O’Neill Epic Back Zip ($199.95)
8. Patagonia R3 Yulex Hooded Chest Zip ($518.95)
9. O’Neill Psycho Tech Chest Zip ($489.95)
10. Rip Curl Omega Back Zip ($169.95)

Best Selling 5mm Wetsuits

1. O’Neill Psycho Tech Hooded Chest Zip ($499.95)
2. O’Neill Hyperfreak Hooded Chest Zip ($389.95)
3. Quiksilver Syncro Hooded Chest Zip ($219.95)
4. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Hooded Chest Zip ($269.95)
5. Rip Curl Flash Bomb Hooded Chest Zip ($439.95)
6. Quiksilver Syncro Back Zip ($199.95)
7. Billabong Absolute X Hooded Chest Zip ($259.95)
8. Patagonia R4 Yulex Hooded Chest Zip ($548.95)
9. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol 5/3 Back Zip ($229.95)
10. Buell RB2 5/4 Hooded Chest Zip ($270.95)

Best Selling Women's 3/2mm Wetsuits

1. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Back Zip ($199.95)
2. O’Neill Reactor II Back Zip ($124.95)
3. Roxy Syncro Back Zip ($169.95)
4. Rip Curl Omega Back Zip ($149.95)
5. O'Neill Hyperfreak Chest Zip ($309.95)
6. Rip Curl Flash Bomb Chest Zip ($449.95)
7. O’Neill Epic Back Zip ($169.95)
8. Roxy Syncro Plus Chest Zip ($209.95)
9. O’Neill Psycho One Back Zip
10. Billabong Furnace Synergy Back Zip

Best Selling Women's 4/3mm Wetsuits

1. Roxy Syncro Back Zip ($179.95)
2. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Back Zip ($219.95)
3. Rip Curl G-Bomb Zip Free ($299.95)
4. O’Neill Psycho One Back Zip ($399.95)
5. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Chest Zip ($229.95)
6. O’Neill Hyperfreak Chest Zip ($329.95)
7. Rip Curl Omega Back Zip ($169.95)
8. Rip Curl Flash Bomb Heat Seeker Chest Zip ($479.95)
9. O’Neill Psycho Tech Chest Zip ($489.95)
10. Patagonia R3 Yulex Chest Zip ($488.95)

Best Selling Women's 5mm Wetsuits

1. Roxy Syncro Hooded Chest Zip ($199.95)
2. Roxy Syncro Back Zip ($189.95)
3. O’Neill Psycho Tech Hooded Chest Zip ($499.95)
4. Buell RB2 Hooded Chest Zip ($270.95)
5. Billabong Synergy Hooded Chest Zip ($229.95)
6. Rip Curl Dawn Patrol Back Zip ($229.95)
7. Rip Curl Flash Bomb Hooded Chest Zip ($439.95)
8. Patagonia R4 Yulex Hooded Chest Zip ($548.95)
9. Hotline Ultra Hot Combo ($429.95)
   

Best Selling Youth Wetsuits

1. Youth O’Neill Epic 4/3mm Back Zip ($169.95)
2. Youth O’Neill Reactor II 3/2mm Back Zip ($104.95)
3. Youth Rip Curl Omega 4/3mm Back Zip ($149.95)
4. Youth Quiksilver Syncro 5/4/3mm Hooded Chest Zip
5. Youth Rip Curl Dawn Patrol 5/4mm Hooded Chest Zip ($199.95)

The Breakdown

What does it all mean? Well, for the sixth consecutive year, the 5.5mm O’Neill Psycho Tech holds it down as our most popular wetsuit. Super warm, freakishly flexible, and pretty darn comfortable, the Psycho Tech is good as it gets, performance-wise in wetsuits.

Looking at all the results, the Rip Curl Dawn Patrol and Quiksilver Syncro make up the large majority of the lists and that doesn’t really come as a huge surprise. Those suits are all relatively affordable but spec’d out at a higher quality than most other entry-level suits out there.

The most popular women’s suit overall was the Roxy Syncro Hooded Chest Zip for the third year in a row, which makes sense considering how good of a value it is, and the Youth 4/3mm Epic sold more than all the other youth wetsuit models combined. See ya next year!

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