Stroller Folded Size and Weight: A Sourced Comparison Table

This page exists because the single most useful stroller specification is also the least trustworthy one.

Folded dimensions decide whether a stroller fits your trunk, your hallway, your building’s lift or an overhead bin. Every maker publishes them. Almost no two makers measure them the same way - and once you start reading spec sheets side by side, the inconsistencies are not subtle. One manufacturer publishes its folded size with the seat attached and never publishes a frame-only figure. Another publishes two different folds for the same stroller. A third contradicts its own axis labels between its spec table and its FAQ, on the same page. A fourth flips the axis order between two rows of its own comparison chart.

So this is not a ranking. It is a sourced reference table with the conditions attached, plus a methodology note explaining why the numbers resist comparison. Every figure comes from the manufacturer’s own site, spec sheet or manual. Where a maker does not publish something, we print that instead of quietly substituting a retailer’s number - and the list of things manufacturers decline to publish turns out to be one of the more revealing sections here.

If you want recommendations rather than raw data, the six stroller guides linked at the foot of this page do that job. This page is the underlying data.

The table: folded dimensions and weight

All figures in inches and pounds, in the axis order the manufacturer itself publishes. Read the methodology note below before comparing any two rows.

Sources: manufacturer product pages, spec sheets and comparison PDFs fetched 2026-07-28, except the two rows marked in the table. Figures are printed in the axis order each maker publishes, which is not consistent between makers - see the methodology note.

Open dimensions, limits and car seat compatibility

What manufacturers decline to publish

These absences are findings, not gaps in our research. We looked; the numbers are not there.

• gb publishes the Pockit+ All-Terrain’s folded size, which is its entire marketing proposition, but publishes no stroller weight, no open dimensions, no maximum child height and no compliance statement on its US product page.
• Thule publishes folded dimensions for the Urban Glide 3 but not unfolded ones - only unlabelled dimension drawings.
• Baby Jogger serves its City Mini GT2 specifications from a JavaScript-only help centre that returns nothing to a plain request, so the maker’s own specs are effectively not citable.
• Summer Infant no longer exists as an independent manufacturer site; the brand now sits under Kids2 as Summer by Ingenuity, and we could not locate a Kids2-hosted 3Dlite+ spec page at all. Every figure in circulation is retailer-sourced.
• No maker in this set publishes a seat-back height. The nearest published proxies are Thule’s sitting height of 20 in, Baby Jogger’s seat-to-canopy of 26 in and Bugaboo’s sitting space under canopy of 26.8 in - three different measurements with three different names. There is no comparable tall-child longevity column available from manufacturer data, which is itself worth knowing if you are shopping for one.
• No maker in this set publishes a compliance statement on its consumer product page, with one partial exception: UPPAbaby’s 2026 comparison PDF carries a Baby Safety Alliance Verified row. Thule states only the unlabelled phrase that it meets safety standards, without naming a standard.

Why folded dimensions are not comparable

This is the part worth citing. Every observation below was made directly in manufacturer-published data during this research.

1. Wheels on or off is rarely stated, and it changes everything. BOB is the only maker here that publishes both states - 38 x 25 x 16 in with wheels on, 35 x 20 x 10 in with them off. That is roughly a 65% reduction in folded volume from the same stroller. Everyone else publishes a single number without saying which condition it represents.
2. Seat on or off is rarely stated either. UPPAbaby explicitly labels its column folded with seat, which is more transparency than anyone else offers - and it means the Vista V3’s published figure is the larger of two possible answers, with no frame-only figure published.
3. Some strollers have two folds and no single number is correct. Bugaboo publishes both a two-piece compact fold and a one-piece self-standing fold for the Fox 5, with completely different dimensions.
4. A maker can contradict itself on one page. The Cybex Libelle’s spec table gives folded dimensions as length 12.6, width 7.8, height 18.9 in. Two FAQ answers on the same page give the identical numbers in centimetres with the axis labels swapped between them.
5. Axis order is not standardised, even within a brand. Bugaboo’s Butterfly 2 figures put width first in both the folded and unfolded triples, while Thule and UPPAbaby use length, width, height.
6. Orientation convention can flip inside a single table. In UPPAbaby’s 2026 comparison PDF, the Vista V3 folded figure leads with the short axis while the G-Link V2 leads with the long axis - same column, same document. Sorting that column compares incompatible quantities.
7. Weight basis is almost never disclosed. Bugaboo states it explicitly; Babyzen publishes an unexplained range; everyone else publishes a bare number. BOB mixes bases within one sheet, giving dimensions wheels-off and weight with no stated basis at all.
8. Max child weight and max capacity get conflated. Thule publishes both, 49 lb and 75 lb, on the same table. Retail listings routinely quote the larger figure.
9. Third parties disagree with makers and with each other, as the three conflicting Urban Glide 3 figures show.
10. Self-standing and one-hand fold are marketing terms. UPPAbaby alone distinguishes one-step, one-handed and two-step folds across its own range - three different behaviours that a yes/no column flattens into one.

Our rule for this table: publish the maker’s number verbatim, publish the condition the maker states or say that no condition is stated, and never silently normalise. Compare within a row, not across rows, unless both makers state the same condition.

Overhead bin arithmetic

American and Delta both publish a carry-on maximum of 22 x 14 x 9 in including handles and wheels; Delta adds a combined cap of 45 linear inches. Applying those published limits to each maker’s own published folded figures gives the following. This is arithmetic on published numbers, not a test.

Limits from American Airlines' and Delta's own published carry-on pages, fetched 2026-07-28. United, Southwest, JetBlue and Alaska are omitted because their baggage pages would not render for us and we will not publish airline limits we have not read. Gate agents apply judgement; this is a paper check, not a guarantee.

What this table does not cover

Stated openly, because a reference asset that hides its scope is not a reference asset. This pass covers single strollers only. The entire double and twin category is absent - the Vista V3 in its double configuration, the City Mini GT2 Double, the Bugaboo Donkey 5, the Joovy Scooter X2, Graco’s DuoGlider and Modes Duo, and the Thule Urban Glide 3 Double. Also absent: Colugo, Chicco’s Bravo and Goody, the Thule Spring, the Nuna MIXX, the BOB Wayfinder, the Baby Jogger Summit X3, the Graco FastAction Jogger, the Kolcraft Cloud Plus and the Maclaren range. Zoe strollers are deliberately excluded: we found no CPSC recall, but a reported stability issue could be neither verified nor refuted from published sources, and we do not table claims we cannot source in either direction.

If you maintain a stroller brand and we have printed “not published by the maker” against a number you do in fact publish, we would genuinely like to correct it - the contact page is the fastest route.

The standing note: we analyze published specifications, certifications, and manufacturer documentation, and we compare head-to-head. We do not test products ourselves, and every figure here is traceable to the manufacturer, the Code of Federal Regulations, the CPSC or an airline’s own published policy.