Food · #954 biggest of 1,014

How big is a coffee bean?

1 cm

A coffee bean measures 1 cm. That's about 143 human-hair widths lined up end to end.

By the numbers

That's 1 cm, or about 0.394 inches.
You'd need about 170 of them stacked up to reach the height of an average adult.
Roughly 143 human-hair widths could line up across it.
Out of all 1,014 things in this collection, it ranks #954 by size.

How coffee bean stacks up against things of a similar size. Tap any bar to explore it.

coffee bean

1.0 cm

Bars use a logarithmic scale so everything fits — real differences are even more extreme!

You could line up roughly 170 of them along the height of an average person.

blueberry

1.2 cm

pea

8 mm

grain of rice

7 mm

peppercorn

5 mm

chia seed

2 mm

grain of sugar

500 µm

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