Best wetsuit hangers for quick and easy drying

By Andrew Lloyd

Published: Thursday, 31 March 2022 at 12:00 am

After a tiring swim in open water it’s tempting to kick off your wetsuit and leave it to dry by itself, but this can prove to be more time consuming and more costly in the long run.

For a start, you need to clean your wetsuit properly after swimming in open water. After that, a reliable wetsuit hanger will not only speed up the drying process due to its ventilation features, but it can also help preserve the shape of your wetsuit, making sure it doesn’t stretch in the wrong places and lose shape. 

If you decide to invest in a hanger it’s important to choose one that’s been especially made for the task at hand. That way you’ll know if it can handle the weight of your soaking kit and it’ll be more likely have additional features built in to make life a little easier.

With that in mind, we’ve put together some picks below. Whether you want a portable option you can unpack on the go or extra space for hanging your gloves and boots, there’s plenty to consider.

Best wetsuit hangers to buy in 2022

C-Monsta Wetsuit Hanger

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Regular open-water swimmers will know the pain of having wet neoprene endlessly strewn around the house dripping. This strange-looking device solves the problem by including uprights to place your booties and gloves on, as well as a large slot for hanging your wetsuit. We also used the central bar to hang up our neoprene swim cap and goggles.

Solidly constructed with an adjustable hanging strap, the C-Monsta quickly became indispensable over a winter of cold-water swimming that needed all our kit ready to go again every day. Hanging it allowed it to drain and ventilate easily (without clothes pegs marks!).

The adjustable hanging strap can be set to the appropriate length depending on where you’re leaving your items, and the hanger itself is said to be capable of holding at least 15kg at a time.

In her review of in issue 403 (on-sale 14 April), 220 editor Helen Webster summarised the C-Monsta by saying it was “a simple but well-constructed solution to a swimmer’s problem” and awarded it a rating of 92%.