Sports Ball Size Comparison: every ball at its true scale
The balls of the best-known sports, and a puck, a shuttlecock and a curling stone, seen from above, side by side at their true relative size, from the smallest to the largest.
- Pétanque jack: 3 cm
- Table tennis ball: 4 cm
- Squash ball: 4 cm
- Golf ball: 4.3 cm
- Snooker ball: 5.3 cm
- Racquetball: 5.7 cm
- Pool ball (8-ball): 5.7 cm
- Lacrosse ball: 6.4 cm
- Badminton shuttlecock: 6.5 cm
- Padel ball: 6.6 cm
- Tennis ball: 6.7 cm
- Hurling sliotar: 7.1 cm
- Floorball ball: 7.2 cm
- Cricket ball: 7.2 cm
- Field hockey ball: 7.3 cm
- Baseball: 7.4 cm
- Pickleball (outdoor): 7.4 cm
- Pétanque boule: 7.5 cm
- Ice hockey puck: 7.6 cm
- Polo ball: 8.3 cm
- Croquet ball: 9.2 cm
- Softball: 9.7 cm
- Bocce ball: 10.7 cm
- Shot put (men's): 12 cm
- Lawn bowl: 12.7 cm
- Sepak takraw ball: 13.4 cm
- American football (NFL): 28 × 17 cm
- Australian rules football: 28 × 17.5 cm
- Handball (men's, size 3): 18.8 cm
- Rhythmic gymnastics ball: 19 cm
- Rugby ball (size 5): 29 × 19.1 cm
- Futsal ball (size 4): 20 cm
- Volleyball: 21 cm
- Bowling ball: 21.6 cm
- Football (size 5): 22 cm
- Water polo ball (men's): 22 cm
- Gaelic football: 22.1 cm
- Netball (size 5): 22.3 cm
- Basketball (size 7): 24.3 cm
- Curling stone: 29.1 cm
- Kin-ball: 122 cm