14 of the best lawn mowers in 2025, as tested and rated by our reviews experts

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As trained gardeners and seasoned users of all sorts of garden tools, Kay Maguire, myself, and the rest of the team at BBC Gardeners' World Magazine have reviewed literally shedloads of lawn mowers over the years, using our trusted testing matrix to make sure we're giving balanced, fair judgements.

We test lawn mowers in varied, real-world conditions, cutting the sort of grass most of us actually have in our gardens. Because we're real-world gardeners with lots of experience, we know what to look out for and the sorts of things that will make all the difference once you're using a mower week in and week out.

We give each mower an at-a-glance list of pros and cons for clarity, and a rating out of five. We also don't share product reviews with manufacturers or retailers before they're published, and we don't accept payment in exchange for positive reviews, either. Oliver Parsons, gardenersworld.com

How we test the best lawn mowers

When we test lawn mowers, we follow the whole process from start to finish without any shortcuts. We unpack the mower from the box, put it together following the instructions (sometimes these are clear as mud, sometimes not!), and then get started, cutting grass over a wide area.

We mow over rough grass, smoother grass, slopes and bumps – whatever is in our way – just as you would with your own mower. And after that, we also take notes on how easy the mower is to fold down and put away, because if a mower is annoying in that regard you'll always hate using it.

Then, we score each model against these four criteria, with equal marks attributed to each one:

• Set-up and storage. We assess how easy the mower was to put together and fold up or store afterwards.
• Handling. We also judge the mower for how comfortable it is to use, and how easy it is to control. Handle-height adjustment, cut-height adjustment, overall weight, noise levels and (with cordless models) run time on one charge all make a big difference here.
• Mowing. Also important, we look at the cutting width and the range of cutting heights that can be selected. The capacity of the grass box, AKA collection bag, also makes a big difference here, and can save you from making constant trips over to the compost heap. We also look out for neat extra features such as cutting to the edge, or mulching modes.
• Value for money. Tricky but super-important: how well does the mower weigh up when you balance the quality, features, warranty and overall package of benefits against the price? For example, the Worx WG779E was awarded Best Buy for the range of features it offered at its low price point.

For more on our testing process across all the different gardening product categories, see How we review

In every review category, we award the most outstanding products our coveted Best Buy award. To see these and the others we recommend (the best of the rest), browse our pick of the best lawn mowers, below.

Meet our testing panel

Oliver Parsons, Strategic Projects Editor
Oliver is a gardener and magazine journalist of 20 years’ experience. He trained as a professional horticulturalist at RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Chelmsford and has also worked for Gardening Which?, as a freelance gardener and with the gardening team at Down House in Kent. He is now Strategic Projects Editor at BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine and GardenersWorld.com, heading up our reviews desk, Apple News output and weekly newsletter.

Kay Maguire, Magazines Editor
Kay trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and has been writing and making films about gardening ever since. She has written for websites and magazines, including The Garden and Amateur Gardening, was Horticultural Editor on BBC Gardeners' World for five years, and has also written several books on a range of gardening topics from growing house plants to making the most of a small space. After several years as Reviews Editor, building up our reviews section into a leading resource for UK gardeners, she has now become Magazines Editor for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine, responsible for all print output.

Harry Duncton, freelance powered tools tester
Harry has a wealth of experience, from being a language teacher to a tree surgeon, and has built this into a career writing about all things DIY and gardening. A passionate believer in self-reliance, his aim is to inspire others to give it a go themselves and not worry about making a few mistakes along the way. A regular contributor to popular DIY blogs and a recent addition to the BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine team, he loves tracking down the best new tools and writing about them.

Sue Fisher, freelance garden writer
Sue’s extensive horticultural career spans over 40 years, starting with a decade in the garden centre and nursery industry before developing into an accomplished gardening writer, designer and speaker. Sue writes regularly for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, GardenersWorld.com, and Garden Answers magazine. She has written 10 books on subjects including container gardening, plants for small gardens and designing with colour, and she has co-authored other books with some of the biggest names in gardening.

Emma Crawforth, Horticulture Editor
Emma holds the Kew Diploma in Horticulture and has been working in horticulture for 18 years, including roles in public gardens, a plant nursery supplying plants for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and a training college for young horticulturists. She looks after an ornamental, fruit and veg garden at home and regularly undertakes trips to see plants growing in their natural habitats. She is the author of the Kew Publications book, ‘Things to do with Plants’.

Best lawn mowers at a glance:

• Best value cordless self-propelled mower: Worx Nitro WG749E 40V 46cm
• Best cordless self-propelled mower for smaller gardens: Ego LM1702E-SP 42cm self-propelled mower (kit)
• Best cordless self-propelled mower for larger lawns: Stihl RMA 448 RV rear roller
• Best cordless mower for ease of use 2023: Husqvarna Aspire LC34 P4A
• Best cordless mower for ease of use 2024: Webb Eco WEV20X2LM43B4X 40V cordless mower
• Best cordless mower for budget: Greenworks GDG24LM33
• Best cordless mower for small to medium lawns 2022: Yard Force LMG37A
• Best budget electric mower: Mountfield Electress 38
• Best electric mower all round: Webb WEER33
• Best budget hand-push mower: Webb 30cm Autoset sidewheel
• Best hand push mower all round: Gardena Comfort Hand Cylinder 400C
• Best robotic mower for performance: Stihl iMOW 5
• Best robotic mower for wire-free mowing: Segway Navimow i105E
• Best robotic mower for installation and features: Worx Landroid Vision L1300 WR213E

Best cordless self-propelled mowers

Worx Nitro WG749E 40V 46cm

RRP: £448.32

Our rating: 4.8 out of 5

Available from Donaghy Bros

Pros:

• Battery power is visible when you mow
• Cutting power adjusts to grass length
• Part of Worx 20V PowerShare system

Cons:

• Collection bag is fiddly to assemble
• Heavy

This easy-to-use mower needs no assembly and has a quick-release, collapsible handle so it’s very simple to store. It even stands up vertically, taking up much less space than most. It requires two 20V 4Ah PowerShare batteries, which give a 40-minute run time, and the battery power level is clearly visible while you mow. The batteries and the charger are also interchangeable with all other Worx PowerShare tools. It offers seven cutting heights, 20-80mm, which are easy to adjust with a simple lever. It also has a cutting width of 46cm, making it ideal for medium-sized lawns.. The mower also has a simple speed control, plus it adjusts its cutting power according to grass length and conditions, which helps save on battery. It has a safety key and a 55L collection bag, so there's plenty of room for the cuttings, but there's also a mulching option, so you can choose to let the cuttings fall back on the lawn to feed the grass rather than worry about emptying the bag. Considering the wealth of features this mower offers, it's a great-value option. It has a warranty of three years, plus two more if registered, and we awarded it a BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Best Buy for the best value self-propelled mower.

Available from Donaghy Bros

Ego LM1702E-SP 42cm self-propelled mower (kit)

RRP: £619 £559 (save £60 or 10%)

Our rating: 4.5 out of 5

Available from Just Lawnmowers

Pros:

• Adjustable handle for different users
• Easy to handle and store
• Battery charge clearly visible as you mow

Cons:

• Shorter run time and no mulching option
• Only available as a kit

This is a well-thought-out mower that requires no assembly, so you can get mowing almost as soon as it arrives. It has a quick-release, telescopic handle, which offers a bespoke handle height and also makes it very easy to compact down and store. Once folded, it can also be stood up vertically, helping it take up even less space in storage. It offers a wide choice of cutting heights, 20-80mm, and a 42cm cutting width, so it's ideal for smaller-sized gardens. It runs on a 56V battery, which can mow 300m² on a single charge, and is compatible with other Ego Power+ tools. The battery level is also clearly visible whilst you mow. This mower has a safety key, which can be stored away from the mower to ensure only the user can operate it, and it is easy to operate and handle, with an easy speed control, a 55L grass bag, and even headlights. We awarded it a BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Best Buy for the best self-propelled mower for smaller lawns. It comes with a five-year warranty.

Available from Just Lawnmowers

Stihl RMA 448 RV rear roller cordless mower

RRP: £764 £729 (save £35 or 5%)

Our rating: 4.5 out of 5

Available from Just Lawnmowers

Pros:

• Energy-saving mode increases run time
• Rear roller for stripes
• Easy to switch to mulching
• Low cutting height for a neat finish
• Compatible with Stihl AK system

Cons:

• Large, fiddly plastic grass box
• No safety key

This distinctive mower is ready to use straight out of the box; only the grass box needs assembly, and that is a little tricky. The mono handle allows for easy access to the grass box but also adjusts in height and can be folded flat over the mower, making it easier to store. When folded, the mower can also be stood up vertically, helping it take up even less room in the shed or garage. It lacks a safety key but has other good features, including speed control and a mulching option that's as simple as a flick of a switch. It has a cutting width of 46cm and offers a wide range of five cutting heights, from 15 to 60mm, so you can get a neat, tight clip. This is particularly useful as this mower also has a rear roller to create beautiful stripes on the lawn. It requires a 36V 5Ah battery, which gives you enough power to mow a 340m² lawn on a single charge, plus there's space for a spare battery, if you have one. It's also compatible with all Stihl AK cordless tools, saving you money if you invest in the future. It comes with a two-year warranty, and we awarded it a BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Best Buy for the best self-propelled mower for larger lawns.

Available from Just Lawnmowers

Best cordless mowers

Husqvarna Aspire LC34-P4A

RRP: £339 £289 (save £50 or 15%)

Our rating: 4.9 out of 5

Available from Husqvarna

Pros:

• Quiet
• Cuts even long grass with ease
• Battery level visible while mowing
• Small and compact for easy storage
• Part of the POWER FOR ALL cordless range

Cons:

• Only four cutting heights
• 95 minutes charge time

Part of the new Husqvarna Aspire cordless range, which includes a hedge trimmer, pruner and leaf blower, this 34cm mower is powered by an 18V POWER FOR ALL ALLIANCE battery and charger. These are interchangeable with tools in other leading brands such as Flymo, Gardena and Bosch so if you also invest in tools in these ranges, you’ll only need to buy the bare tool and won’t have different batteries and chargers taking up space in the shed.

Great for small gardens, the mower comes ready to go; there’s no assembly or handles to attach, and it folds down to a compact size when you’re finished, with a telescopic handle that folds completely flat over the body of the mower. It can then be stood up against a wall or hung up, and it even comes with a handy hook. The 30L grass bag also flattens down to take up very little room and can be hung on the mower.

The Aspire is light, with a carry handle so that lifting it up steps or into other areas is easy, and it has an adjustable handle to suit different heights. It’s comfortable and easy to manoeuvre around the garden and has just four cutting heights to choose from, ranging from 25-65mm and can be changed easily with a single lever on the body of the mower. It cuts grass quietly and smoothly and has an automatic boost that increases blade speed when you’re mowing in tougher, longer areas, which works well. You can hear it kick in when you push the mower into longer grass, and unlike other cordless mowers that can cut out, it just carries on cutting the grass. While you mow, the battery charge level is always clearly visible, so you know how much battery you have left and when it needs charging. It comes with a two-year warranty, and we awarded it a BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Best Buy in 2023 for ease of use.

Available from Husqvarna

Webb Eco WEV20X2LM43B4X 40V cordless mower

RRP: £299.99 £257.99 (save £42 or 14%)

Our rating: 4.8/5

Available from Downtown Stores

Pros

• Quiet, comfortable, and smooth to handle
• Long run time
• Great for storage
• Spare parts available

Cons

• Battery level not visible when mowing
• No safety plug

Easy to put together, this mower just needs the handle attaching and the 50L fabric grass bag has already been assembled. There’s a choice of three handle heights, and it double-folds snugly over the mower, so it takes up very little space in storage. The two 20V 4Ah batteries have a charge indicator on the end, and although there’s no way of seeing this when the mower’s in use, the approximately 60-minute run time means there’s time to finish cutting most small to medium lawns. The handle is padded for comfort, and this mower is smooth and easy to push, even over longer, bumpier lawns. It cut very well in our test and the six heights of cut, from 25-75mm are easy to adjust with a single lever. At 96 dB, the mower is reasonably quiet, and we awarded it a BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy award for ease of use. It also feels durable and sturdy with spare parts readily available from Webb, and it comes with a three-year warranty.

Available from Downtown Stores

Greenworks GDG24LM33

RRP: £149.99 £127.49 (save £22.50 or 15%)

Our rating: 4.5 out of 5

Available from Amazon, Tooled Up and B&Q

Pros:

• Easy to assemble and use
• Comfortable padded handle
• Choice of mulching or collecting clippings
• Interchangeable battery with the Greenworks 24V family

Cons:

• Short handle for taller users
• Struggles with long grass

Ideal for smaller gardens, this sturdy, great value cordless mower is easy to put together, well thought out and simple to use. Thanks to a padded handle, it's comfortable to push, although it did feel a little short for our taller tester, and it's light and easy to manoeuvre around trees, beds and borders. There are five cutting heights to choose from, adjusted with the simple lift of a lever, and it offers the choice of collecting clippings in the 30-litre fabric grass bag or inserting the mulching plug and leaving them on the lawn to break down and feed the grass. It mows well but doesn't like very long grass, with the battery cutting out occasionally, but its long-lasting brushless motor offers a decent run time of 46 minutes, and it charges in two hours. Plus, as part of the Greenworks 24V family, both the battery and charger are interchangeable with all the other tools in the range, saving you money if you invest in more items in the future. We awarded it a BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Best Buy for the best budget cordless mower in 2023.

Available from Amazon, Tooled Up and B&Q

Yard Force LMG37A 40v 37cm cordless lawn mower

RRP: £199

Our rating: 4.8 out of 5

Available from Amazon and B&Q

Pros:

• Rear roller
• Double-folding handle for easy storage
• Quickest charge time
• Part of the Yard Force GR40 cordless range

Cons:

• Assembly is slower than some

This sturdy mower, awarded a BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Best Buy for small to medium lawns, has a 37cm cutting width and useful features, including a rear roller for those much-desired stripes. Clippings are collected in the large 40L fabric grass bag, there is a wide range of seven cutting heights from 25-75mm, and this mower is easy to fold away at the end of the day. The 40V battery is quick to charge, taking just 50 minutes and when full it has the capacity to cut a 400m² lawn.

Available from Amazon and B&Q

Best electric corded mowers

Mountfield Princess 34 electric corded lawn mower

RRP: £189 £179 (save £10 or 5%)

Our rating: 4.75 out of 5

Available from Just Lawnmowers and B&Q

Pros:

• Light, quiet and manoeuvrable
• Cut, collect or mulch
• Rear roller and anti-scalp plate
• Easy to adjust

Cons:

• Collection box is slightly fiddly to assemble

This mower is powerful yet surprisingly quiet, and our testers found a number of the additional features useful. There’s a mulching option, rear roller, vision window in the grass collector to check levels and more. There’s also a choice of six cutting heights, and our experts found that the mower handles well on the job.

Read the full review: Mountfield Princess 34 review

Available from Just Lawnmowers and B&Q

Webb WEER 33 electric corded mower

RRP: £109.95

Our rating: 4.8 out of 5

Available from Tooled Up and B&Q

Pros

• Comfortable and easy to use
• Cable relief clip for safety
• Great features
• Cuts efficiently
• Cuts to the edge

Cons

• Black cable is hard to see when you're mowing

This mower is well thought out and has excellent features. It’s easy to assemble and folds for storage with a comfortable, foam handle that can be adjusted to various heights. There are five cutting heights to choose from, and a single lever easily changes these. The grass collection bag has a generous 35L capacity and a full indicator that lets you know when it needs emptying. The mower is relatively quiet, and it cuts well, right up to the edge. It’s lightweight and comfortable to manoeuvre, and our only quibble is the black mower cable, which could be a brighter colour so it's easier to see. For just £99.99, this is a great value mower.

Read the full Webb WEER 33 electric corded mower review

Available from Tooled Up and B&Q

Best hand push mowers

Webb 30cm Autoset sidewheel

RRP: £88

Our rating: 4.8 out of 5

Pros:

• Comfortable to push and hold
• Cuts all grass smoothly and tightly
• Front-loading grass collector catches clippings well
• Quiet

Cons:

• Short cutting width

Easy to put together and use, this simple hand push mower is comfortable, thanks to rubber grip handles, even when pushing over longer grass. It has six cylinder blades offering four cutting heights that are easy to change. The mower cuts from 40mm to 10mm, giving a precise, neat clip but also cutting longer grass well. It's quiet, copes with bumpy ground easily and the 17L front collector was the best at collecting clippings in our test. We gave it a BBC Gardeners World Magazine Best Buy for the best budget push mower in 2023.

Gardena Comfort hand mower

RRP: £140.95

Our rating: 4.5 out of 5

Available from Tooled Up and Amazon

Pros:

• Easy height-of-cut adjuster
• Large grass collector that catches clippings well
• Feels sturdy and well designed
• Cuts well

Cons:

• Heavy
• The grass collector is sold separately

There’s more to assemble on this model than with other hand push mowers, but our testers found that the instructions were clear to follow. The comfortable-to-use handle also folds easily for storage. In use, the mower feels sturdy, and our experts thought it was well-designed, although the 49L grass collector has to be purchased separately. This model has a two-year warranty.

Read the full Gardena Comfort hand mower review

Available from Tooled Up and Amazon

Best robotic mowers

Stihl iMOW 5

RRP: £1,614

Our rating: 4.8/5

Available from Garden Machinery Direct

Pros

• Easy to set up on the smartphone app
• Wide range of cutting heights and cuts even longer grass well
• Quiet
• Good features, including rain sensor, anti-stuck and 40% slope capacity
• Long warranty

Cons

• Need to be tech/app savvy
• No mobile connectivity for the price
• Installation kit sold separately

The iMow 5 is the smallest in a new range of six robotic mowers from Stihl that cover three sizes of larger garden – 1,500m², 300m² and 500m². Together with the iMow 5,6 and 7 there is also the iMow EVO range that covers the same size lawns with the same features but also has mobile connectivity, allowing you to connect to your mower even when you’re not at home.

When you purchase an iMow, you have the choice of installation by a Stihl-approved dealer (the cost of this will depend on the size of your garden), or installing it yourself and purchasing an additional installation kit. To cut down on waste, different size installation kits are available, and as well as the standard fixing pins which hold the wires in place, there’s also the option to purchase bio pins made from 100% biodegradable material that gradually break down in the soil.

Like many robotic mowers, the iMow requires a boundary wire around the perimeter of the lawn and a guide wire through the middle of the lawn to help it find its way back to the docking station. The mower comes with a clear instruction booklet and helpful guides on the Stihl website if you need them, and laying the wires in our 1,250m² test garden took 3-4 hours. When laying the wires, it’s worth noting that the boundary wire needs to be 37cm from paths, a deck or fence, unless they’re level with the lawn, and then it can be right up against them and 100cm from a pond. You also need a clear 2m area straight in front of the docking station for the guide wire and 37cm on either side before you start laying the wires.

Once the wires are laid, it’s easy to programme the mower via its app – as long as you’re comfortable with this kind of tech. There’s no control panel on the new iMows, so bending over a control panel is unnecessary to set mowing times, heights and zones, etc. All of this is programmed through the My iMow app, which is pretty intuitive and straightforward to use, but only works via your own wifi at home, if it reaches into your garden, or by Bluetooth when you’re standing next to the mower. There are also four large control buttons on the mower that allow you to stop, start, unlock, and send the mower home without using the app, and an info button that talks to you and gives you status updates.

Like many other robotic mowers, the iMow has three free-swinging blades, and it cuts very well. The lawn was quite long before it was installed but with an impressively wide cutting height range of 20-60mm it didn’t struggle, and after a few days the whole lawn looked good with no tufts of uncut grass and it continues to look good. Unlike the Husqvarna Automower, once you’ve laid the boundary wire, you can’t completely alter mowing zones and would have to lift and relay to change this, but you can divide your lawn into zones by directing the mower to only mow on one side of the guide wire. It cuts close to the edge, so there’s no need to tidy up afterwards, and if it comes across an obstacle, it gently bumps into it and then turns away. It also has a feature that helps it manoeuvre out of a situation. If it does get stuck, it can cope with slopes of 40%, has an anti-theft alarm and a rain sensor feature, which you can adjust to interrupt or not start mowing if it’s raining. You can choose what degree of rain you want it to mow in, and when the sensor on the top of the mower dries, it automatically begins mowing.

The iMow comes with a five-year warranty, and a host of accessories are available, including spare wire, pins and clips, a sun canopy for the docking station and upgrade wheels for the EVO range to enable them to cut slopes of up to 60%.

For the size of larger lawn it cuts, this is a reasonably priced mower that’s packed with features and cuts very well. We are particularly impressed with the range of cutting heights, its ability to cut longer grass and the simplicity of its design and awarded it a BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Best Buy for performance in 2024.

Buy the Stihl iMOW 5 from a Stihl approved dealer

Segway Navimow i105E

RRP: £949

Our rating: 4.8 out of 5

Available from Navimow

Pros

• At 58 dB, it’s almost silent when cutting
• More than enough cable to position the GPS antenna included
• The app offers live help and features
• Cuts in straight lines, so fewer tufts are left behind

Cons

• The default light settings are far too bright
• You need to find a place for a large GPS antenna in your garden
• It makes a lot of unnecessary beeping noises until you turn them off

The latest addition to Navimow’s fleet of robot lawn mowers has built on the success of the previous H series. They’ve listened to criticism and tweaked this new mower to work better in the garden with easy setup and impressive features. Because of this, we've awarded the i105N a BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Best Buy award for wire-free lawn mowing in 2024. Not only is the GPS that helps guide it around the garden an upgraded 2.0 version, its camera technology can detect and avoid all sorts of obstacles in the garden.

It’s a simple addition, but you now get 20 metres of antenna and power cable, which makes placement of the GPS receiver much simpler, and all without the need to buy extra wires. The app can also help you to find the ideal place to position both the GPS antenna and the charging station in your garden.

They’ve kept in our favourite features, like the brilliant app that lets you drive the mower around like a remote control car to define the shape of your lawn. You can also watch the mower work in real time, and it lets you know immediately if there are any problems. The mower also checks the weather online and adjusts the mowing program accordingly. The i105N model can happily cut moderate-sized gardens up to 500 m², and thanks to the large orange wheels with an aggressive tread pattern, it can cope with slopes up to 30%. The quality of cut is just as good as the previous mower, but now comes with a class-leading 20 - 60 mm range of cut depth. It still cuts the lawn in pleasing straight lines as well, which helps to avoid untouched tufts of grass.

Available from Navimow

Worx Landroid Vision L1300 WR213E

RRP: £1,676.77

Our rating: 4.5/5

Available from Amazon

Pros

• No boundary cable to install or GPS antennae to deal with
• Cuts as close to the boundary as possible with a robot mower
• It cuts lawns up to 1,300 m²
• You can control multiple Landroid mowers via the app

Cons

• A significant expense for a lawn mower

A rather astonishing leap forward in robotic mowing technology, the Worx Landroid mower does away with boundary cables and tricky GPS receivers, and uses cameras and AI technology to mow your lawn instead. We awarded it a BBC Gardeners' World Magazine Best Buy for installation and features in 2023.

This big and futuristic-looking mower is installed in seconds and connects to your phone or tablet via the Landroid app. However, you can also control most of the functions via the onboard LCD screen and dial if you like. Using cameras rather than boundary wires, it knows where your lawn ends, keeps an eye out for obstacles, and even avoids hitting wildlife or pets.

The cutting height ranges from 30 to 60 mm, and you can adjust this via the app or the LCD screen, but the Landroid also self-levels the cutting deck to ensure that uneven ground is cut properly. The three blades underneath are offset, allowing the mower to cut close to the edge of hard boundaries, and big knobbly wheels help the mower keep a good grip on slopes up to 35%. It cuts to an excellent finish, and after a few days of mowing, there are no tufts or patches of uncut grass.

It creates its own mowing schedule to suit the time of year and uses a standard Worx battery that you might find on one of their drills or saws. Packed with features and clever technology, the only thing that might put you off is the price. However, it's capable of tackling huge gardens up to 1,300 m², so it’s ideal for very large lawns and could even replace a ride-on lawnmower. The mower comes with a two-year warranty that can be extended to three years.

Available from Amazon

Mower types explained

Struggling to work out what type of mower you need? Here's our guide to the four main types on offer.

• Battery-powered cordless lawn mowers are the newest type and are the most lightweight and manoeuvrable. However, you need to remember to keep the battery charged, and although prices are coming down, they can be more expensive than corded mowers. Self-propelled models are ideal if you have a larger or sloping garden and want to remove the strain from mowing, while push-type cordless mowers are more lightweight, but will need you to do all the work in terms of moving it about. Check out our pick of the best cordless mowers.
• Corded electric mowers are generally in the mid-price range and are relatively light and quiet. You'll need a charging point and possibly an extension cord, and the electric cable can get in the way. Take a look at our pick of the best electric lawn mowers.
• Hand-push mowers are cheap and manually powered, so they're the most eco-friendly mowers you can buy. However, they can be hard work for the user, particularly if strength and mobility are an issue. Read our round-up of the best hand-push mowers.
• Robotic mowers automatically mow your lawn. Set to a regular mowing schedule, a robot mower constantly clips the lawn, saving you the job and keeping it neat and tidy. However, they are the most expensive type of mower on the market – even budget options will set you back about £500. Learn more with our tests of the best robotic mowers.

Powerful petrol lawn mowers are also available, but they tend to be loud and heavy and are less environmentally friendly. They also need an annual maintenance checkup and a supply of petrol and oil.

This review was last updated in August 2025. We apologise if anything has changed in price or availability.