Not quite correct – all weather tyres have a longer stopping distance in warm weather compared to summer tyres.
Your wording suggests that summer tyres have a shorter stopping distance than all weather tyres in winter when it’s dry, which is patently wrong.
Summer tyres need temperatures consistently above 7 degrees celsius, if that isn’t given they perform worse in every single aspect compared to an all season tyre. Stopping distance, lateral grip, traction, dry or wet doesn’t matter.
Summer tyres also wear quicker than all season tyres in winter, because their harder compound seizes up in the cold leading to increased wear (and potentially even cracks).
I’m not suggesting any tyre either way, just correcting potentially misleading information. People should make up their own mind based on actual facts.
https://www.justtyres.co.uk/tyre-tips/all-season-tyres-vs-summer-tyres
One thing to note is that it’s not actually quite as easy as “well in summer all weather tyres suck”. Yes, dedicated summer tyres of course perform better once temperatures are consistently above 10 degrees – but that doesn’t mean that an all season tyre is useless in summer. It’ll reach probably 80% of the performance of a dedicated summer tyre, while also offering 80% of a dedicated winter tyre. A dedicated summer tyre will not reach any performance in winter, because the compound physically doesn’t allow for it.
Personally, i’m a seasonal tyre person – with the GTE, we’ll be running their standard summer tyre on the alloys for summer, and winter tyres on cheap steelies once winter kicks in. Even cheap winter tyres outperform expensive summer tyres (and even all season tyres) in current conditions, to me that’s £300 well spent.
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.