Best Lightweight Strollers For The City 2025

Navigating city life with a little one in tow calls for a stroller that’s sleek, portable, and ready for action. The Best Lightweight Strollers for the City in 2025 are designed to strike the perfect balance between convenience and functionality.

Whether you're hopping in and out of taxis, squeezing through crowded sidewalks, or jet-setting across the globe, these strollers make urban parenting a breeze.

With innovative features, compact designs, and versatility to match busy lifestyles, the right stroller can transform your daily routine. Let’s dive into the top picks that blend lightweight portability with city-savvy performance!

Table Of Contents

• Best Lightweight Strollers 2025: Key Features
• Best Lightweight Strollers 2025: Our Top Picks
• On-The-Go With Your Lightweight Stroller
• Stroll Into Babesta

 

Key Takeaways

Takeaway #1: When it comes for crowning the best lightweight strollers for the city in 2025 it's a matter of several factors including weight, age range, features, wheels and suspension and underseat space to name a few.

Takeaway #2: Some of the top strollers this year include the Minu V3 by UppaBaby, Bugaboo Butterfly, Yoyo Stroller by Stokke, and Joolz Aer+.

If you're looking for a head-turner, the Coya by Cybex is a great choice, and if you would rather drag than carry, go for the Jet5 by SilverCross.

Takeaway #3: The best way to decide is to come in to try them out at Babesta. You can roll them on the city streets, learn to fold them and throw them on your shoulder. We'll walk you through features and trade offs and you can walk out with a great new ride!

Best Lightweight Strollers 2025: Key Features 

After testing, folding, and lugging countless lightweight strollers, we’ve learned the trade-offs in this category inside and out.

The lightest strollers often sacrifice features, comfort, and wheel size for portability, while heavier ones deliver a smoother ride and more convenience—but at the cost of added weight.

The best lightweight strollers strike that perfect balance: easy to carry while still packing in the features you need. For families with older kids, shaving off weight and skipping cushiness might be the way to go.

On the other hand, parents with younger babies might prioritize extra comfort and features, even if it means a bit more heft. Your stroller, your choice!

Choosing the perfect stroller starts with thinking about your child’s age and how often you’ll use it. Consider the fold—how easy it is and how compact the stroller becomes—especially if you’re a frequent traveler.

For those who fly often, a stroller that fits into an airplane’s overhead bin is a total gamechanger and makes navigating airports with kids a breeze.

When picking our top lightweight strollers for the city for 2025, we focused on key features that matter most:

• Weight

• Wheels

• Recline

• Child’s Age/Size Range

• Bassinet Compatibility

• Car Seat Adaptability

• Foldability (Ease & Size)

• Accessories

• Price

Balancing convenience, functionality, and value is the secret to finding “the one”!

Note with prices, these are subject to change both up and down. Please refer to our current site for the most recent prices and promotions!

Best Lightweight Strollers 2025: Our Top Picks

UppaBaby Minu V3

Woo hoo, we're loving the newest lightweight to our lineup, the UppaBaby Minu V3. The folks at Uppa really upped the game (or Uppa'ed the game, as it were) when it comes to lightweight strollers.

This new model folds seamlessly with one hand for one (and fit's easily in the overhead bin of an airplane!) Easy peasy!

Also, unlike most of its competition (except for the Jet 5 by SilverCross), it accommodates a newborn out of the box, no extras needed!

That's thanks to the deep recline and a protective cover that is under the seat and can be affixed to shield your little one. 

Keep in mind, though in this stroller, your little one is always facing out to the world, so if you want to see their cute little mug, you might want to use the car seat adapters (though only for a couple hours at a time!)

We also love that many things that are extras on other strollers come in the box of this one: namely the footrest and the integrated cover for newborns!

• Weight: 16.9 lbs
• Wheels: Good-Very Good
• Recline: 0 months +
• Optimal Age/Size of Child: newborn to 50lbs
• Bassinet Option: No
• Car Seat Adaptability: Yes, with separately purchased car seat adapters. 
• Fold (Size of Folded Stroller and Ease of Fold): 21.5" x 10" x 18". Super easy one step fold
• Accessories: car seat adapters, bumper bar, snack tray, rain shield
• Price: $399.99

** We have a few comparison articles to review if you love this but aren't sure: See Minu V3 vs. Joolz Aer+; Minu V3 vs Bugaboo Butterfly; and Minu V3 vs. Yoyo Stroller.

 

Stokke Yoyo3

The Yoyo has long been a MVP of the lightweight stroller game. Since it came out about 2012, it has been wowing new parents with its super small fold and sleek look.

The fold is small enough for the overhead bin on an airplane, which means if you’re traveling by plane, you can bring your stroller on board and have it on the ready for when you land.

Even more importantly, you don’t have to worry about it being lost or broken in transit.

Besides its compact fold the Yoyo also has a slew of accessories that will enhance your trip, from extra storage of the wheeled board and the buggy board for a second child to stand, to a padded travel bag and cup holder.

A great choice for younger babies, the Yoyo works with a number of infant car seats using their car seat adapter, and you can purchase the newborn pack that allows lie-flat for newborns, while maintaining the small fold or the hard-shell bassinet that gives a snuggly spot for the youngest jet-setters.  

All in all, this is a top-pick for Babesta and the parents who shop the store as it makes travel much easier and more comfortable all around!

• Weight: 13.6 lbs
• Wheels: Good-Very Good
• Recline: 145 degrees
• Optimal Age/Size of Child: Yoyo 6+ (seat) is for 6 months-48lbs. But can be used for a newborn with additional accessories
• Bassinet Option: Yes, soft bassinet and hard shell bassinet sold separately
• Car Seat Adaptability: Yes, with additional adapters sold separately. Works with Maxi-Cosi compatible car seats like by Nuna, Cybex, Maxi Cosi and Clek
• Fold (Size of Folded Stroller and Ease of Fold): Folded 20” x 17” x 7”. Although this can be done as a 2-step one-hand fold, it is a little more complicated though easy to master!
• Accessories: Car seat adapters, leg rest, cup holder, travel bag, buggy board, connect (to make it a double), umbrella, mosquito net, rain cover, skis, wheeled bag, footmuff, bassinet, 6+ fabric set, 0+ newborn set
• Price: $449

 

 

Bugaboo Butterfly

Bugaboo’s Butterfly stroller is as lightweight as the name suggests. This is an elegant entrant to the lightweight stroller game that is super-easy to boot.

The stroller’s one-hand fold is a head-turner, so new parents can hold the baby and fold the stroller in one swoop.

We’re happy to say that the footrest come with the Butterfly Stroller, adaptable to the Bugaboo Turtle car seats as well as various Maxi-Cosi compatible seats including the Cybex and Clek.

This one has been received  very well and people are really loving the excellent quality of the stroller (typical Bugaboo!) as well as the one-hand fold.

Two other great points on the Butterfly are its easy recline as well as its oversized underbasket! Additionally, if your little one is tall, it's got a nice tall seat to accommodate! 

• Weight: 16.09 lbs
• Wheels: Good-Very Good
• Recline: Suitable for 6 months + (143 degrees)
• Optimal Age/Size of Child: 6 months-50lbs
• Bassinet Option: No
• Car Seat Adaptability: Yes with additional adapters sold separately. Works with Bugaboo Turtle Air and One, Nuna Pipa and Maxi Cosi Mico Series and other Maxi Cosi infant car seats
• Fold (Size of Folded Stroller and Ease of Fold): 17.72” x 9.06” x 21.26”. Super easy one-hand fold.
• Accessories: Buggy board, car seat adapter, bumper bar, transport bag. Many other accessories are "stroller agnostic" so can also be used including the cupholder, seat liner, organizer, parasol, changing backpack, smartphone holder and footmuff
• Price: $449 

Joolz Aer+ Stroller

We love the Joolz Aer+ as it's super light and is easy to maneuver. There are lots of accessories as well that you can purchase separately.

For someone using the stroller from the very beginning, we like the Aer+ because you have the choice of car seat adapters, a structured bassinet. The bassinet can even fold with the stroller and needn't be removed. 

This stroller is super easy to recline (just a zipper) and it has a pretty big underseat basket so you will be good to go with all of your stuff!

When it's folded, it's quite elegant as well and stands on its own, and is small enough for most airlines' overhead compartments. 

The push is excellent and wheels too. This is definitely a top contender for travel!

Weight: 13.2 lbs
Wheels: Good-Very Good
Recline: Suitable for 6 months -4 years
Optimal Age/Size of Child: 6 months-50lbs
Bassinet Option: Yes
Car Seat Adaptability: Nuna Pipa, Pipa RX, Pipa Lite, Pipa Lite R, Maxi Cosi Pebble, Pebble Plus, Pebble Pro, Coral, Cybex Cloud Q, Cloud Q plus, Cloud Z, Aton Q i-size, Aton 3, Aton 4, Aton 5, Clek Liing, and more
Fold (Size of Folded Stroller and Ease of Fold): 17.7” x 8.5” x 21”. Super easy one-hand fold.
Accessories: Cup holder, mosquito net, leg rest, rain cover, carrycot, foldable bumper bar, footboard, Aer+ LED light, footmuff, car sea adapters
Price: $449

 

 

 

Cybex Libelle 2

The Cybex Libelle is another fabulous lightweight choice. It’s the lightest of the group, and has the smallest fold. It also comes with car seat adapters so that it’s newborn appropriate as well, which makes it a very convenient choice.

Its wheels are a bit smaller than some of the other choices, so take that into account if you’re considering this stroller. But if size matters and you want the smallest possible, this stroller is the littlest engine that definitely can!

• Weight: 13.7 lbs
• Wheels: Fair
• Recline: 6 months +
• Optimal Age/Size of Child: birth-55lbs
• Bassinet Option: No
• Car Seat Adaptability: Yes, car seat adapter included in purchase. Compatible with Cybex car seats Cloud G and Aton G
• Fold (Ease of Fold and Size of Folded Stroller): 12.6” x 7.9” x 18.9”. This is an easy 2 step fold, but is very small!
• Accessories: bumper bar, travel bag
• Price: $299.95

 

 

 

UppaBaby G-Luxe 

The UppaBaby G-Luxe is the old-school choice for lightweight stroller. The G-Luxe is a traditional umbrella stroller and has a V-fold that is larger than the above more compact choices.

The G-Luxe has a nice recline and padded seat, making it comfy for children 3 months and up. It also features a standing fold.

The new version features a powder coat finish and a sleeker look. Note that the G-Luxe is not car seat compatible. For a family that wants something easy for the subway or the car that’s high quality at a more reasonable price, this is the perfect choice.

• Weight: 16.3 lbs
• Wheels: Good
• Recline: 3 months +
• Optimal Age/Size of Child: 3 months – 55lbs
• Bassinet Option: No
• Car Seat Adaptability: No
• Fold (Ease of Fold and Size of Folded Stroller): 19.2” x 12” x 41.8”. Two hand but easy fold
• Accessories: Travel bag, rain shield, carryall parent organizer
• Price: $199.99 

 

 

Doona+ Car Seat / Stroller

We’ve included the Doona in this listing not because it’s super light, but it’s a top choice for easy travel. If your baby is 0-12 months (approximately) and still in a car seat, the Doona car seat stroller travel system is a great option for any getaways with baby.

With its patented design, a set of wheels can tuck underneath the car seat as you drive around town and then pop the wheels out with ease when you get to your destination and want to stroll around.

Although you don’t want baby in a car seat for prolonged periods (meaning this shouldn’t be your full-time stroller solution), we can hardly think of something more simple for getting out on the town. 

• Weight: 16.5 lbs
• Wheels: Fair
• Recline: None, but suitable for 0+ *a child should only be in a car seat position for a couple hours at a time
• Optimal Age/Size of Child: 4 lbs-35 lbs / 32” (child should stop using once they grow out of the max height OR the max weight – usually 12 months)
• Bassinet Option: No.
• Car Seat Adaptability: It is a car seat!
• Fold (Size of Folded Stroller and Ease of Fold): With wheels collapsed: 26” x 17.4” x 22.4” One Button Fold – very easy!
• Accessories: Rain cover, snap on storage, travel bag, sunshade, insect net, vehicle seat protector, cupholder, footmuff
• Price: $550

Coya Stroller by Cybex

This is a gorgeous option for a travel stroller. The Coya by Cybex is part of Cybex's Platinum line, with the luxe styling of the Priam and Mios Stroller only light and compact.

This stroller is all luxury, from wheels up! It's foldable within seconds, and is overhead compatible. It's got a great recline, an integrated leg rest and a nice one-pull harness so your precious passenger is super safe. It's also travel-ready, able to be used with the Cybex car seat. 

• Carry On Compatible - small enough to fit in the overhead!
• One-Hand Fold - super easy to fold and hold the baby!
• Awesome Recline - this is easy to recline, and when used with the footrest, it gives a great resting position for baby!
• One-Pull Harness - This makes it super simple to tighten the harness so baby is super safe
• Car Seat Compatible - make a travel system by adding a Cybex infant car seat (Aton G!). You can go from stroll to car to stroll in a snap!
• Sun Canopy with Mesh Insert - Super breathable and with UPF 50+ fabric.
• Smooth Front Wheel Suspension - Basically, it's a good ride!
• Large Shopping Basket - the shopping basket holds up to 11 lbs of extras
• folded: 20.5" x 17.3" x 7.1"
• assembled: 31.1" x 17.3" x 38.2"
• weight: 14.6lbs
• Price: $549.95+

SilverCross Jet 5 Stroller

The SilverCross Jet 5 Stroller is a great travel stroller that's suitable for babies from newborn on up.

Its unique fold is also something to note  -- you don't have to bend to fold it, nor do you even have to pick it up. It can be dragged luggage-style which is extra convenient for anyone who has back or shoulder issues. 

• Age: Suitable for 0+
• Dimensions:
  • Unfolded L33: x W20" x H 41.5"
  • Folded L10" x W 14.5" x H24.5"
  • Seat: L15:xH17"
• Weight: 15.87lbs
• Fold and drag instead of carry
• Cabin-approved
• UPF 50+ sun portection
• Flip flop friendly brake
• Magnetic buckle
• Price: $479.99

 

 

On-The-Go With Your Lightweight Stroller

With so many fantastic options, you’re bound to find the perfect stroller for your family. Focus on the key features that align with your priorities to make the best choice.

Consider what matters most: Will the stroller need to accommodate an infant? Are you planning to travel by plane? What’s your budget? How old is your child? Each of these factors plays a crucial role in narrowing down your decision.

Take a moment to weigh your needs, and you’ll be ready to choose a stroller that checks all the boxes for your lifestyle and adventures ahead!

Stroll On Into Babesta!

The best way to find the perfect stroller is by visiting Babesta and exploring the latest models firsthand. Here, you can compare your top picks side-by-side and experience their features in action.

Test drive our floor samples on curbs and streets to truly understand how each one performs in real-life situations.

Once you’ve made your choice, we’ll assemble your stroller, so you can simply walk out ready to roll. Before you leave, our team will ensure you’re confident with folding, unfolding, and using all its features, so you’re fully prepared for your adventures ahead.

 Let’s make stroller shopping seamless and fun!

When you shop the best lightweight strollers at Babesta, we make sure it’ll be smooth strolling on your next adventure!

Doing more research on the best solutions for your family? Check our our guides for the best nursery furniture, primary strollers, high chairs, car seats, and more!

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FAQs:

What features should I prioritize in a lightweight stroller for city living?

Learn which factors—like portability, durability, and compatibility with public transportation—matter most for your day to day in the city. 

Do you need to take the subway? Are you strolling all day long and need the best wheels? How old is the baby? It all has to do with what you need to make navigating the city easy peasy!

Are lightweight strollers suitable for newborns and infants?

They can be! Some lightweight strollers are suitable for 0+ out of the box (SilverCross Jet 5 and UppaBaby Minu 3). On top of that many strollers offer add ons that will make strolling comfy for a little one: like an additional bassinet, or car seat adapters. 

The Yoyo Stroller and Joolz Aer+ offer a very nice bassinet (if you're strolling alot, we prefer this to the layflat of other models, just because baby is a little more protected. All of the options above have car seat adapters that can work too!

Can a lightweight stroller handle rough terrain like cobblestones or uneven sidewalks?

They can, but not as well as a stroller built for comfort with big wheels and top notch suspension. There's always a trade offs with strollers, so think of your primary use. 

What’s the best lightweight stroller for traveling by plane or using in taxis? All of the above strollers with the exception of the GLuxe by UppaBaby and the Doona Car Seat Stroller are suitable for the overhead bins of the airpane. 

As for the best --- again, it's what's the best for you. It will always depend on your priority!