Osprey Daylite 60 Review

The Osprey Daylite 60 is one of our top picks as a budget duffel, competing with bags double or triple the price. While it isn't the easiest to carry long distances, the Daylite works well for air travel, gym use, or as a general gear transporter, making it a fairly versatile option.

Storage and Ease of Packing

The Osprey Daylite 60 comes in at 60 liters of volume, making it very spacious for a wide variety of uses. We did have a few nit picky qualms with this duffle in this metric, but it ultimately came in as one of the better scoring options.

The Osprey Daylite 60 has a traditional duffel shape, with a deeper main compartment and a couple useful side pockets that aided in staying organized on a multi-day trip or even a quick jaunt to the gym. However, it doesn't have as much rigidity as the competition for easy packing, as the sides sometimes need to be held open. Once the bag had more clothing or gear inside, the more flimsy construction of the Daylite wasn't an issue, and it was just as packing friendly as a hard-sided roller bag.

Ease of Transport

This wasn't the strongest metric for the Osprey Daylite 60 when compared to the rest of the lineup, but this bag still boasts great padding across the handles and backpack straps. While testing heavier loads, the Daylite also fell a bit behind, but we were still happy with its performance for shorter distances.

If you're needing a lighter weight bag, transporting gear and clothing in the Osprey Daylite 60 is fairly easy if the load is on the lighter side. Once we got above about 40 pounds, we found the Daylite to be less comfortable to backpack, though it was adequate for getting to the check-in counter at the airport or from the gear garage to the car. If we were able to fully stuff the main compartment of this duffel, it didn't fold as much while backpack carrying, but if the bag was half-empty or less, it tended to fold in the middle. The wide handles on the sides of the Daylite were some of our favorites, with great padding that was easy to grab.

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Protection

While this duffel isn't the most protective, we found it to offer at least some padding and even kept our clothes and gear dry for lighter rains. Ultimately, the Osprey Daylite 60 landed about average in the review.

Osprey built this duffel to not slow you down. The trade off is that it won't protect your gear or clothing as much as a shell duffel, but those also weigh more. The Osprey Daylite 60 offers some padding in the main compartment, especially on the bottom, and the polyester fabrics range from 200-600 denier. Osprey also used a DWR treatment made without PFAS that did a great job of repelling water, but we still wouldn't recommend leaving this bag out deliberately in a storm.

Construction Quality

Quality is often synonymous with the Osprey brand, making packs and duffels for decades. The Daylite 60 furthers this reputation with thicker denier polyester and stitching that held up throughout testing. This is a simpler, no-frills duffel that doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the competition, but the Daylite still scored well.

As we've shared previously, this bag uses polyester as its primary fabric. On the bottom, that fabric is an impressive 600 denier, which is ideal for prolonging the life of a bag that gets drug across gravel, dirt, mud, snow and pavement. The rest of the exterior uses a 300 denier polyester, which still held up well, and the DWR treatment performed consistently throughout our testing. We also had no qualms with the zippers or backpack in this metric.

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Weight-to-Volume Ratio

This was one of the top scorers in the review's lineup for the weight to volume ratio. Osprey did a great job focusing on keeping weight down while still offering a 60 liter duffel.

The Daylite 60 weighs an impressive 1.6 pounds despite being a larger capacity bag. While this does reduce some transport comfort and protection, it makes for a jaw-dropping ratio of .44 ounces a liter. When compared to some of the roller bags, the Daylite is several times lighter per ounce.

Should You Buy the Osprey Daylite 60?

This should be placed in your shopping cart if you're hunting for a bag that's both light and inexpensive. The Daylite 60 is as much as 6 times lighter than some of the competition and is a fraction of the price of some premium models, while still boasting a large capacity for a wide variety of uses. If you're needing a bag that can handle miles of walking or rolling, this might not be the most comfortable option, but if price or versatility is a priority, look no further.

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