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How long is a snooker table?

A snooker table is 3.57 m · 11.7 ft long.

Snooker table at true scale

Snooker table 3.57 m · 11.7 ft
Velociraptor 1.8 m · 5.91 ft
Average US man 1.75 m · 5.74 ft
Polar bear 1.7 m · 5.58 ft

Snooker table (blue) beside a Velociraptor, the average US man and a polar bear, all on one scale.

The WPBSA’s official rules set a snooker table’s playing area at 11 ft 8½ in by 5 ft 10 in (3,569 mm by 1,778 mm), measured inside the cushion faces. The game compares that playing length, not the frame around it.

Snooker table size

Encyclopaedia Britannica gives the table that snooker shares with English billiards as usually 12 ft by 6 ft 1½ in (3.7 m by 1.9 m). The WPBSA’s official rules fix the playing area inside the cushions and the markings below.

Measurement	Size
Playing area, inside the cushions	11 ft 8½ in × 5 ft 10 in (3,569 × 1,778 mm), ±½ in
Height, floor to top of the cushion rail	2 ft 10 in (864 mm), ±½ in
Baulk line, from the bottom cushion	29 in (737 mm)
Radius of the “D”	11½ in (292 mm)
Ball diameter	52.5 mm, ±0.05 mm

Sources: WPBSA — Official Rules of Snooker (May 2022), Section 1 (checked 2026-09-29); Encyclopaedia Britannica — Snooker (checked 2026-09-29).

Compared with familiar things

A snooker table is about 2.0× a Velociraptor (1.8 m · 5.91 ft).
A snooker table is about 2.0× the average US man (1.75 m · 5.74 ft).
A snooker table is about 2.1× a polar bear (1.7 m · 5.58 ft).
A snooker table is about 88% of a Volkswagen Beetle 1300 (4.07 m · 13.4 ft).

Can you guess it by eye?

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What is measured

Playing-area length: 3.57 m · 11.7 ft. WPBSA Official Rules: playing area 11 ft 8½ in × 5 ft 10 in (3569 mm × 1778 mm) within the cushion faces.

Source: WPBSA — Official Rules of Snooker. Checked 2026-09-28. The silhouette is scaled so this measurement is exact; its other proportions are illustrative.