Work out your snowboard size. You'll find your board in the shop.

Board length is governed first and foremost by weight; height serves as a plausibility check. The lower end of the range follows the manufacturers’ weight-led logic, the upper end the usual retailer charts. Both schools of thought are reasonable — hence a range rather than a single number. The recommendations in reputable size charts differ from one another by up to 10 cm.

The old rule of thumb “stood on end, between chin and nose” is outdated as a formula because it ignores weight. It still works as a quick visual check in the shop — the drawing shows you that the range fits it.

For children under 150 cm or 45 kg the page deliberately gives no figure in centimetres, but the visual check between chin and nose.

On a snowboard course you ride rental kit and find out which length suits you before you buy. To the snowboard courses

What matters is not your shoe size but the outer length of your snowboard boot — and that varies from brand to brand for the same EU size.

One to one and a half centimetres of overhang at the front and back is just right — that’s what lets you steer the board on its edge in the first place. More than that becomes a problem.

If you’re on the heavy side for your height, the board can be a little stiffer; if you’re on the light side, a little softer. Flex ratings aren’t comparable between brands — a 4 from one brand can feel like a 6 from another.

The binding has to fit your boot, not your shoe size. Put the boot in the binding in the shop — it should sit centred and finish flush at the front and back.

This chart comes from one manufacturer (Burton). Other brands size differently — treat it as a starting point, not a measurement. Check the mounting pattern: 2×4, 4×4 or Channel. Not every binding fits every board without the right disc.

Example: 175 cm, 75 kg, groomed runs. The calculator gives 152 to 162 cm. Manufacturers list a rider weight range for every board length; for one popular all-mountain model per brand we checked at which length 75 kg sits roughly in the middle, and compared the waist width.

Bottom line: almost all brands land in the lower half of our range; the upper end comes from retailer charts. Most boards have a waist of around 25 cm, Lib Tech tends to be wider, some K2 models narrower. Many manufacturers recommend wider boards from EU 43 to 44.5, i.e. earlier than our chart. And not every “W” board is truly wide: many sit at 25.8 to 26.2 cm, closer to mid-wide.

As of 9 Oct 2026, one model per brand, manufacturer data (partly via retailers). EU sizes are converted from US sizes and therefore approximate. Other models of the same brand may differ, and model years change. For HEAD and Arbor we found no reliable data.

• Burton Custom Camber
• Capita D.O.A. 2027
• Jones Frontier 2.0
• K2 Passport
• Lib Tech Terrain Wrecker
• Never Summer: Length and width
• Nitro Team 2026 (Blue Tomato)
• Ride Agenda
• Rossignol (evo Size Chart)
• Salomon Assassin 2026 (Blue Tomato)