The 5 Best butane Lanterns (2023 reviews)

We are personally inclined towards primus butane lantern, it is not so pricy, but it overachieves its purpose and outstanding in important aspects. This thing is plenty bright for a group of people around a table at night. It works with butane canisters and makes for a nice light weight lantern. It gives off a good amount of light (just enough) and some heat too. The attached cable allows you to hang the lantern from a tree branch, which is handy when no suitable rocks or bare ground is available.

The amount of light it puts out is very impressive. It creates a lot of natural looking, ambient light. The lantern puts out a lot of light, making it perfect for backpacking or front country camping. This unit is extremely lightweight (weighs about 4 ounces) and comes with its own handy bag to protect it from bumping around in your pack.

Why We Like This:

Doubles as a space heater hanging inside tent
Plenty small enough to take backpacking or camping
Good brand reputation

Best Runner up: Lixada butane Lantern

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The lixada butane lantern is capable of outshining several other lantern featured in this list in overall features. The Lixada lamp is designed for using a butane cannister with a lindal fitting. It works great, is compact and well made. It is perfect for a tent or emergency. The product is packaged in a protective plastic case within a card stock box with the usual BRS Chinese language written all over it. It is easy to control flame, nice heat from flame out of the top. It's very efficient, though not a clean blue burn, but it does put out fumes.

This brand has anodized the main metal base with a light blue. It is perfect for the late evening ambience light. It is bright enough for camping.

Why We Like This:

As bright as a bic lighter, soft and warm light
Good way to use nearly empty fuel canisters
New and hot release

Best For picnic: Do-Cooler butane Lantern

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The do-cooler butane lantern's high-end materials makes sure that it ages well with use. While it's not gonna light up an entire campsite like a double mantle lantern would, it puts out enough light that you could easily play cards, or prep a meal, or provide emergency lighting if the power goes out. It comes with an adapter for coleman style propane tanks. This is the fuel that comes in the short, squatty single use cans like MSR or Jetboil propane, most commonly 230 grams but other sizes are available. It's nice and compact, and works great.

Adopts an intensified light aluminum alloy and nickel alloy material, high-temperature resistant and corrosion-resistant. It only works with isobutane canisters or you can get an adapter to use it with a disposable propane canister. This thing will heat your tent up before you can get your boots off.

Why We Like This:

Must have for tent camping or backpacking
Great control over the amount of light getting put out
One of the new comers and featured product

Best For ultralight Camping: Eoocvt butane Lantern

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It is a cool compact lantern perfect for backpacking and camping. As bright as an 80W bulb piezo automatic ignition hanging chain the package includes the lantern, storage case, three mantles, and an adapter for a different type of butane canister you won't really use in the u.s. The lantern is lit the top and the ring glow bright red hot and the ring is a split ring so if its hung by the chain it will open up and the lantern will fall.

These lanterns work with any screw top iso-butane / propane canisters, available just about anywhere, msr, coleman, kovea, snow peak, camping gaz, etc. The wind screen is steal with holes so you don't have to worry about breaking glass but the mantel is still a typical ceramic mesh so that is going to break if you drop it anyway. A nice touch is that it uses standard mantels which you can find all over the place. The Thorium mantles put out more light, don't shrink down to nothing when pre-burned and hold up to some rough treatment in the pack.

Why We Like This:

Very cool piece of utilitarian camping, prepper equipment
Super light and small but makes a lot of light
Easy to use and the out put of light is solid
Produces plenty of light very well-built very sturdy

Best Light Weight: Valken butane Lantern

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Best part: valken butane lantern costs comparatively low and it is available to ship in 24 hours. This propane lantern can be used directly on the butane tank. It has low gas consumption, only about 6g/h. It will have high temperature when using it, pay attention to avoid being scalded. The high-temperature and toughened glass lamp globe is light and durable. It comes with a plastic box,easy to carry.

It does not have a propane adapter, it’s for a butane can. The firepower can be adjusted, the energy consumption is small, and the windproof design is easy to use.

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