Loading the chart…

Height Comparison

Compare heights visually, to scale: add yourself, friends, celebrities, animals, buildings or planets, then zoom between them. The average man is 5 ft 7 in (171 cm) and the average woman is 5 ft 3 in (159 cm); Dwayne Johnson is 9.8 in (25 cm) taller than the average man.

Pinch or scroll to zoom · drag to pan · tap anything to fly to it

Chart title (for saved images)

Arrange

Order Spacing

Display

Units

Labels Background Height lines

How do you compare heights?

Comparing heights on Height.compare takes 3 steps:

Add people or things. Search the catalog of 303 people, animals, buildings and more, or create a person with any height in feet and inches or centimeters.
See them to scale. Everything stands on the same ground line at its real height. Zoom, pan and change the order, spacing, units and labels.
Share or save it. Copy a link that recreates your chart, or save it as a PNG or JPG with no watermark.

What is the average height for men and women?

The average man worldwide is 5 ft 7 in (171 cm) and the average woman is 5 ft 3 in (159 cm). Averages differ a lot by country:

Group	Feet and inches	Centimeters
Average Dutch man	6 ft 0 in	182.5 cm
Average British man	5 ft 10 in	178 cm
Average Chinese man	5 ft 9 in	175.7 cm
Average American man	5 ft 9 in	175.3 cm
Average man (world)	5 ft 7 in	171 cm
Average Japanese man	5 ft 7 in	171 cm
15-year-old boy	5 ft 7 in	170 cm
Average Dutch woman	5 ft 6 in	168.7 cm
Average Indian man	5 ft 6 in	166.5 cm
Average British woman	5 ft 5 in	164 cm
Average Chinese woman	5 ft 4 in	163.5 cm
15-year-old girl	5 ft 4 in	162 cm
Average American woman	5 ft 4 in	161.3 cm
Average woman (world)	5 ft 3 in	159 cm
Average Japanese woman	5 ft 2 in	158 cm
Average Indian woman	5 ft 1 in	155.2 cm

See the full average height by country comparison.

Height conversion chart: feet and inches to centimeters

Common adult heights converted from feet and inches to centimeters and meters:

Feet and inches	Centimeters	Meters
4 ft 10 in	147.3 cm	1.47 m
5 ft 0 in	152.4 cm	1.52 m
5 ft 2 in	157.5 cm	1.57 m
5 ft 4 in	162.6 cm	1.63 m
5 ft 6 in	167.6 cm	1.68 m
5 ft 8 in	172.7 cm	1.73 m
5 ft 10 in	177.8 cm	1.78 m
6 ft 0 in	182.9 cm	1.83 m
6 ft 2 in	188.0 cm	1.88 m
6 ft 4 in	193.0 cm	1.93 m
6 ft 6 in	198.1 cm	1.98 m
6 ft 8 in	203.2 cm	2.03 m
6 ft 10 in	208.3 cm	2.08 m
7 ft 0 in	213.4 cm	2.13 m

Popular height and size comparisons

Start from one of these 16 ready-made charts:

Celebrity Height Comparison10 things to scale

NBA Height Comparison11 things to scale

Tallest People in the World8 things to scale

Historical Figures Height Comparison7 things to scale

Average Height by Country7 things to scale

Animal Size Comparison7 things to scale

Dinosaur Size Comparison8 things to scale

Shark Size Comparison8 things to scale

Whale Size Comparison7 things to scale

Building Height Comparison9 things to scale

Mountain Height Comparison9 things to scale

Planet Size Comparison10 things to scale

Universe Size Comparison10 things to scale

Ship Size Comparison6 things to scale

Rocket Size Comparison6 things to scale

Microscopic Size Comparison10 things to scale

What can you compare?

Every entry has a sourced height or size. Browse all 303:

People

Animals

Sea life

Dinosaurs

Buildings

Nature

Vehicles

Everyday

Tiny

Space

How does the height comparison tool work?

Every person and object is drawn at its real height relative to the others, from a hydrogen atom to the observable universe. The chart zooms across more than 37 powers of ten, so you can put an ant, a giraffe and the Sun on the same chart. Things too small to see become markers you can tap.

The Compare tab gives the exact height difference and how many of one thing would fit inside another. Read how we measure sizes for the method.

Is this height comparison tool free?

Yes. It is free with no sign-up, no limit on how many people you add, and no watermark on saved images. Custom people are stored only in your share link, and uploaded pictures never leave your device.