Unless you live out in the wilds, modern tyres are so good that there’s absolutely no point in fitting them these days.
Not those on a Seat Ateca with 19″ wheels, those tyres are complete pants, no grip at all even in 1cm of snow. They were so bad last year I never went out if it snowed!.
Oh god don’t get me started. They’re great in the dry in terms of lateral grip (albeit loud road roar), but especially in low speed applications, there just needs to be a slight wet hill in front of you and the tyres beg for mercy. Even while trying to accelerate somewhat slowly.
For an interesting tidbit, winter tyres (or to be more clear, “tyres with winter properties”, clarified by a snowflake on all season tyres) are mandatory in germany. Driving summer tyres in winter, or all season tyres without that snowflake symbol (for example M+S tyres), leads to fine of 60 euros, or 80 euros if you “inconvenienced other drivers” by getting stuck and blocking the road. Your insurance also will not play ball if you drive on summer tyres in winter, and have an accident that could reasonably be prevented by winter tyres.
Now.. Germany does have more snowy regions than the UK of course. It’s just meant as a “did you know”.
Prior: SEAT Ateca Xcellence Lux 1.5 TSI DSG MY19, VW Golf GTE PHEV DSG MY23
Current: Hyundai Ioniq 6 Ultimate
Next: we'll see what's available in 2028.