How thick is a human hair?
0.07 mmAbout 0.0028 in · Tiny
About 0.07 mm on average, but hairs range from roughly 0.02 to 0.18 mm.
💇0.07 mm
🧻a sheet of kitchen foil
To scale: a hair's width is about 4.4× bigger than a sheet of kitchen foil.
Things about the same size
- How thick is household aluminium foil?0.016 mm
- How long is a human sperm cell, tail included?0.05 mm
- How wide is one pixel on an iPhone 15 Pro screen?0.055 mm
- How thick is a sheet of printer paper?0.1 mm
- How thick is a US dollar bill?0.11 mm
- How wide is a human egg cell?0.12 mm
- How long is a dust mite?0.3 mm
- How wide is a grain of table salt?0.3 mm
Many real things vary in size, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].