The UK's climate - mild, wet and unpredictable, with cold snaps far more common than deep snow - is close to the exact conditions all-season tyres are built for.
Premium all-season tyres such as the Michelin CrossClimate 3 keeps you on one set of tyres all year, avoids the cost and hassle of swapping and storing summer and winter tyre sets, and holds its grip and performance a long way into its life.
For a small minority of drivers - those doing very high summer mileage on high end cars, or living somewhere with very harsh winters - a dedicated summer-and-winter setup can still make more sense.
But for the typical UK motorist, a good all-season tyre is one of the more sensible investments you can make.
Why UK weather suits all-season tyres
Most of the world buys tyres with the climate they are in, in mind. For example, drviers in southern Europe buys summer tyres because it's hot and dry for most of the year. Those in the Alps and Scandinavia buy winter tyres because snow and ice are a given for months at a time.
The UK sits somewhere awkwardly in the middle - and that's precisely why the all-season question comes up so often.
If you think about a typical British year, there are a wide variety of conditions. With long stretches of it are wet rather than icy. Temperatures hover around the point where summer tyres start to lose their edge but full winter tyres would be perhaps overkill.
We get a handful of genuinely cold, frosty or snowy mornings, usually without much warning, and then it's back to grey and damp within a week. Deep, sustained snow is the exception for most of the country, not the rule.