16 comparison tools

Height & size

How tall you are next to a giraffe, a bus, a T. rex or the Statue of Liberty — drawn to scale, not described.

• Celebrity height Put your height next to well-known actors, musicians and athletes, all drawn on the same baseline.
• Child height by age A child’s height against the median for every age from birth to eighteen.
• Height in bananas The internet’s favourite unit, worked out properly: your height divided by one 19 cm banana.
• Height in buses The British press unit of scale, worked out properly: any height in 4.38 m London buses.
• Height in Lego bricks Your height in stacked 2×4 Lego bricks, which are exactly 9.6 mm tall each.
• Height in phones Any height, converted into a stack of smartphones — the object everybody has to hand.
• Height vs animals Your height drawn beside a cat, a dog, a horse, an elephant, a giraffe and a polar bear.
• Height vs buildings Your height beside the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Burj Khalifa, drawn to scale.
• Height vs dinosaurs Your height against a velociraptor, a T. rex and a brachiosaurus, drawn on one baseline.
• How deep is that? A depth against a swimming pool, a scuba limit, a shipwreck and the deepest point in the ocean.
• How many people tall Enter any height and see how many average adults stacked head to foot would reach it.
• How tall am I? Enter your height and see it drawn to scale beside a door, a fridge, a giraffe, a bus and the average adult.
• NBA height Your height against NBA position averages and the tallest and shortest players in league history.
• Tallest buildings A building height against the tallest towers on Earth, drawn on one baseline.
• Tree height A tree’s height against typical garden trees, forest canopies and the tallest trees on Earth.
• Wave height A wave height against surfable swell, record big-wave rides and the largest waves ever measured.