Snowboard Width Calculator Tool

Find The Perfect Waist Width From Your Boot Size

This is a simple calculator tool to help you learn what waist width you should look for in your next snowboard.

If you want tips about your snowboard’s length, check out our snowboard length calculator tool, too.

Snowboard Waist Width Chart for Men’s Boot Sizes

Snowboard Waist Width Chart for Women’s Boot Sizes

How Do You Know If You Need a Wide Snowboard?

Depending on your boot size, you might want to consider a wide snowboard, too. As you snowboard you don’t want your boots to hang over the edges as you carve.

If your snowboard boot size is larger than a size 10 in US men’s sizes, you might want to consider a wide snowboard. A wider snowboard will help you decrease toe or heel drag while carving down the mountain.  If you have a larger foot size, pay attention to the snowboard’s waist width. A snowboard’s waist width is the width of the point where the snowboard is most narrow. Usually, waist width is measured in millimeters.

Advantages to Getting the Ideal Waist Width for You

Ideally, you want to avoid going wider than necessary for the style of riding you like to do most often.

Here are the two main reasons why.

• Narrower waist width = faster edge-to-edge rolls for carving.
• When needed, a wider board prevents your toes from dragging and eliminates unnecessary friction as you carve.
  • For freestyle riding, wider boards are easier to land on, but add more material to the board which makes it heavier. Additionally, there is more material that could catch as you pop up and on to a rail feature.

In other words, it’s important to get a board that is as wide as it needs to be without being excessive.

What About Matching the Right Size Binding to Your Board?

Try our new binding size calculator to ensure you have the right size binding to match your boot and board.

I hope the calculator helps!

Good luck with your board search.

Steve Weber

Steve Weber is the passionate snowboarder, skateboarder, and author behind Board of the World. He understands that most gear reviews focus on having the perfect snow conditions, but his testing methodology is different. Living in Pennsylvania, Steve describes exactly how a board performs when the conditions aren’t perfect. His reviews cover performance on ice, hardpack, and flat-out brick conditions. In other words, he reviews boards for the conditions that East Coast riders actually face.

Bringing 27 years of East Coast snowboarding and 21 years of skateboarding experience, Steve is a 42-year-old intermediate park rider. His recommendations are informed by decades of battling icy conditions, ensuring every review accounts for the board’s performance on the roughest of terrain.

For the last five years, Steve has poured his passion into writing in-depth, unbiased reviews that help riders make informed decisions about the gear they’ll use. He also works part-time at a snowboard shop in Northeastern Pennsylvania, which gives him a direct line to learning about the new gear tech months in advance. When he’s not writing reviews, Steve is often found riding at Montage Mountain and testing out new boards.

Steve’s goal with Board of the World is simple: to help every reader find the right gear so they can have fun outside from the first time they use it.