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How Big Is a Woolly Mammoth?

A woolly mammoth is about 10 ft (3.2 m) tall. That is 4 ft 11 in (149 cm) taller than the average man (5 ft 7 in). A shaggy Ice Age elephant.

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How big is a woolly mammoth compared to the average man?

A woolly mammoth is 4 ft 11 in (149 cm) taller than the average man (5 ft 7 in). That makes a woolly mammoth 1.9× the size of the average man. By volume, about 95 average men would fit inside a woolly mammoth.

Woolly Mammoth height in feet, inches, centimeters and meters

A woolly mammoth measures:

Unit	Value
Feet and inches	10 ft 6 in
Inches	126 in
Centimeters	320 cm
Meters	3.2 m

Woolly Mammoth size facts

Woolly mammoths stood about 2.7 to 3.4 meters tall at the shoulder, similar to African elephants.
The last ones lived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago.

How does a woolly mammoth compare to other things?

A woolly mammoth next to 25 things of similar size, plus some everyday references:

Thing	Size	Compared to Woolly mammoth
Sun	865,000 miles (1,393,000 km) across	435 million× bigger
Earth	7,920 miles (12,740 km) across	3.98 million× bigger
Mount Everest	5.5 miles (8.849 km)	2,770× bigger
Eiffel Tower	1,083 ft (330 m)	103× bigger
School bus	40 ft (12.2 m) long	3.8× bigger
Great hammerhead	13 ft (4 m) long	2 ft 7.5 in (80 cm) bigger
White rhinoceros	13 ft (3.9 m) long	2 ft 3.5 in (70 cm) bigger
Tiger shark	12 ft (3.7 m) long	1 ft 7.5 in (50 cm) bigger
Hippopotamus	11 ft (3.5 m) long	12 in (30 cm) bigger
African elephant	10 ft (3.2 m)	0 pm smaller
Basketball hoop	10 ft (3.05 m)	6 in (15.2 cm) smaller
Tiger	9 ft 10 in (3 m) long	7.9 in (20 cm) smaller
Bottlenose dolphin	9 ft 10 in (3 m) long	7.9 in (20 cm) smaller
Sunflower	9 ft 10 in (3 m)	7.9 in (20 cm) smaller
Goliath	9 ft 6 in (290 cm)	12 in (30 cm) smaller
Moose	9 ft 6 in (290 cm) long	12 in (30 cm) smaller
Lion	9 ft 6 in (290 cm) long	12 in (30 cm) smaller
Robert Wadlow	8 ft 11 in (272 cm)	1 ft 7 in (48 cm) smaller
Komodo dragon	8 ft 6 in (260 cm) long	1 ft 11.5 in (60 cm) smaller
Sultan Kösen	8 ft 3 in (251 cm)	2 ft 3 in (69 cm) smaller
Polar bear	8 ft 2 in (250 cm) long	2 ft 3.5 in (70 cm) smaller
Bigfoot	7 ft 10 in (240 cm)	2 ft 7.5 in (80 cm) smaller
Horse	7 ft 10 in (240 cm) long	2 ft 7.5 in (80 cm) smaller
Average man (world)	5 ft 7 in (171 cm)	4 ft 11 in (149 cm) smaller
Average woman (world)	5 ft 3 in (159 cm)	5 ft 3 in (161 cm) smaller

Where do these numbers come from?

Sizes are typical adult or reported values, rounded for readability. Read how we measure and compare sizes.

Silhouettes from PhyloPic: Woolly mammoth by Amy Beauvois. See credits.