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How big is Saturn?

Saturn: 120,536 km (395,459,318 ft). Measured as diameter — equatorial diameter.

Saturn 120,536 km next to human adult 1.7 mSaturn is 120,536 km and human adult is 1.7 m, drawn on one baseline at the same scale.
Saturn 120,536 km next to human adult 1.7 mSaturn is 120,536 km and human adult is 1.7 m, drawn on one baseline at the same scale.

Source: Wikipedia — Saturn

Where it sits

Among the 16 planets & moons on this page Saturn ranks 3rd from the top by size. The largest in the group is the Sun at 1,392,700 km, which is 11.6× the size of Saturn, while the smallest, Ceres, is 939 km.

Stand an adult of 1.7 m beside it and the ratio is 70,903,529×: you would need 70,903,529 people stacked head to foot to match its width — roughly a crowd the size of a small town standing on each other.

In everyday distances

A football pitch is about 105 m long. Saturn is 1,147,962× that, which puts it at 1,147,962 pitch lengths from end to end.

Light covers its diameter in 402 milliseconds. A jet cruising at 900 km/h would need 5.6 days to fly the same distance in a straight line.

Next to its neighbours in size

The nearest thing larger than it in this collection is Jupiter at 142,984 km (469,107,612 ft), 1.19× the size. Both figures are the same kind of measurement, so the gap is a fair one.

The nearest thing smaller is Uranus at 51,118 km (167,709,974 ft), so Saturn is 2.36× as big as it. They sit in the same group.

Against fixed yardsticks

Against three fixed yardsticks — Saturn is 365,261× the size of Eiffel Tower (330 m); Saturn is 4,031,304× the size of blue whale (29.9 m); Saturn is 9.46× the size of Earth (12,742 km).

How this figure was taken

Worlds are listed by diameter. Gas giants are not round, so equatorial diameter is used for them and mean diameter for the rest. All figures are rounded from published mission data.

How the sizes are taken. Each figure says what it measures — height, length, diameter or elevation — and for which individual or convention. Everything is drawn standing upright on one baseline so a single scale holds, including things that are long rather than tall. Values come from the linked Wikipedia article for each item.

Read the rest — common questions

How big is Saturn?

120,536 km (395,459,318 ft), measured as diameter: equatorial diameter.

Where does Saturn rank among planets & moons?

Number 3 of 16 on this site, from the Sun at 1,392,700 km down to Ceres at 939 km.

What is the next size up?

Jupiter, at 142,984 km, is 1.19× the size.

What is the next size down?

Uranus, at 51,118 km, is 2.36× smaller.

How reliable is the figure?

It is taken from the cited Wikipedia article and states its basis (equatorial diameter). Values are rounded, and where individuals differ the figure is a representative one, so expect small differences from other sources.

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