Camp Gear Finder

Five questions — what kind of gear, how much weight you will carry, what you can spend, how much weather it will see, and what it runs on — across 429 items in eight categories. Every result is placed against the median weight for its own category and band.

The finder searches the whole corpus. It ranks nothing, it promotes nothing, and it does not hide a product because its listing is incomplete — one that never stated a figure still appears, marked not stated, because a thin listing is not a worse product.

Your requirements

What are you shopping for?

Weight only means something within a category — a 2 kg tent and a 2 kg cooler are not the same kind of heavy — so the class medians below are always computed inside one.

How much weight are you willing to carry?

Weight is what this site exists to compare, and the one figure the category publishes almost everywhere — 379 of 429 items state it. What it buys you differs by category, which is why the comparison is always against the class.

What can you spend?

How much weather will it see?

Stated on 96% of the tents and 87% of the lanterns. The distinction worth having is between a coating that sheds a shower and a rating that survives a night of sustained rain.

What does it run on?

Fuel decides resupply as much as performance. Propane bottles are in every hardware store, isobutane canisters are a specialist buy you cannot fly with, and a battery lantern needs no fuel at all.

429 items match

LED Camping Lantern Rechargeable, 1800LM, 4 Light Modes, 4400mAh Power Bank, IP44 Waterproof, Perfect Lantern Flashlight for Hurricane, Emergency, Power Outages, Home and More, with USB Cable (2 Pack)

ResistantBattery$30–75
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

1.16kg

Too few items in this class to publish a baseline.

Eveready LED Camping Lantern 360 PRO (3-Pack), Super Bright Tent Lights, IPX4 Water Resistant LED Lanterns for Power Outage Hurricane Preparedness, (Batteries Included)

Not weatherproofBatteryUnder $30
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

1.11kg

Too few items in this class to publish a baseline.

Lichamp LED Camping Lantern, 4 Pack Battery Powered Flashlight for Power Outages, Portable Collapsible Hanging Light Essential for Home, Outdoor, Emergency Lamp Survival Kit Gear for Hurricane, Gray

ResistantBatteryUnder $30
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

1.09kg

Too few items in this class to publish a baseline.

Consciot 1000LM Battery Powered LED Camping Lantern, 4 Light Mode, Dimmable | IPX4 Waterproof Camping Lights; Portable Flashlight for Power Outages, Emergency Kit, Hurricane Preparedness, Indoor Outdoor

WaterproofBatteryUnder $30
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.99kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +149% against the class median of 0.40.

Lepro LED Camping Lanterns Battery Powered, Collapsible, IPX4 Water Resistant, Outdoor Portable Lights for Emergency, Hurricane, Storms and Outages

ResistantBatteryUnder $30
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.91kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +128% against the class median of 0.40.

innofox LED Camping Lantern, 1500 LM Lanterns for Power Outages with 4 D Batteries Included, Battery Powered Lantern Flashlight with 4 Light Modes, Weatherproof Tent Light for Storms and Hurricanes

Not weatherproofBattery$30–75
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.73kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +83% against the class median of 0.40.

LE LED Camping Lantern Rechargeable, 600LM, Detachable Flashlight, Camping Essentials, Perfect Lantern Flashlight for Hurricane Emergency, Hiking, Fishing and More, USB Cable and Car Charger Included

ResistantBattery$30–75
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.72kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +81% against the class median of 0.40.

Eveready LED Camping Lantern X-250 (2-Pack), Super Bright Tent Lights, Rugged Water Resistant LED Lanterns, 100 Hour Run-time (Batteries Included), Red and Black

Not weatherproofBatteryUnder $30
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.66kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +66% against the class median of 0.40.

Coleman 400L LED Lantern, Water & Impact-Resistant Lantern with Carry Handle, Lifetime LED Lights Never Need Replacing, 4D Battery not Included

ResistantBattery$30–75
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.64kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +60% against the class median of 0.40.

Solar Camping Lantern, Rechargeable Battery Powered Camping Light 6000mAh Up to 80HRS Lasting, Dimmable Night Lamp, Survival gear for Emergency, Power Outages, Outdoor, Indoor

ResistantBatteryUnder $30
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.59kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +49% against the class median of 0.40.

Lepro 1000LM LED Camping Lantern Rechargeable, 4400mAh, 4 Light Modes | Tent Light, Camping Essentials, Waterproof Lantern Flashlight for Camping, Emergency Light, Power Outages, USB Cable Included

ResistantBattery$30–75
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.55kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +39% against the class median of 0.40.

ENERGIZER WeatheReady LED Camping Lantern PRO-360, IPX4 Water Resistant Tent Light, Ultra Bright Battery Powered Lanterns for Camping, Outdoors, Emergency Power Outage

ResistantBatteryUnder $30
Capacity
not stated
Sleeps
not stated
Temp rating
not stated
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Weight

0.55kg

Lanterns · under 1 kg · 44 items

Weight is +39% against the class median of 0.40.

How to read the results

The figure beside each result is its weight, and beneath it, where one exists, the median for its own class and size band. 379 of the 429 products state a weight; the rest appear unbanded rather than being dropped.

Where a class holds fewer than eight products with a stated figure, no median is shown. That is a deliberate floor, not a missing feature: quartiles computed from five products describe those five and not the class. 17 class cells clear it here.

This is not a leaderboard

The finder sorts nothing by merit. When this site ranked sleeping bags by warmth per kilogram, the top of the list filled with listings whose published weights were implausible — a double bag recorded at 450 g, warm-weather bags carrying winter ratings. Every one of those figures came from a real specification field and every one was wrong. A median is resistant to that; a ranking is built out of it.

What the finder cannot tell you

It cannot tell you whether a temperature rating was measured to a standard, because not one bag in this corpus cites ISO 23537 or EN 13537. It cannot compare sleeping pads on R-value, which a quarter of them state. And it cannot tell you how a pack carries, which is the thing that actually decides a backpack and is not a number at all.

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