Ring Size Tool

Free, measured on your device: Measure instantly on screen in MM, CM, and Inches — No download needed.

Computed to ISO 8653 Standards

Free online ring sizer, calibrated to your screen

Work out your ring size without a ring sizer: hold a bank card against your screen to calibrate it to real millimetres, then measure a ring you already own — or your finger with a strip of paper. Nothing is uploaded.

Measured On-Device (No Upload)Bank Card 1:1 ScaleMM, CM & Inches

Four ring size sites give three different UK answers for US 6. Every number here is computed from the published standard instead. See the arithmetic →

Prerequisite: Any standard bank card — every one is 85.60 × 53.98 mm (ISO/IEC 7810), which is what makes this accurate. A ring that already fits helps; a strip of paper works just as well.

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Line drawing of a hand wearing a ring

What is my ring size?

Measure a ring on screen, or type a measurement you already have. The calculator converts between diameter and circumference in millimetres, centimetres and inches, and gives you every national size at once.

Interactive ring sizer

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Calibrate Screen Scale

What will you hold against the screen?

Hold the card against the screen and match its short edge to the outline. Bank, ID, driving licence and most membership cards are all this exact size.

Size from ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 — 85.60 × 53.98 mm

Match outline to card3.78 px/mm
53.98 mm

Hold a bank card against the screen and line its short edge up between the two bars

What do you have?

Lay the ring flat on the circle below, then size the circle until its outer edge meets the inside of the band.

Or set what you measured, and its unit

Lay your ring on the circle

10 mm
16.51 mm

Inside Diameter

Not calibrated yet — sizes assume a standard screen

12.90 mm24.34 mm

Your Size Is

US / CA
6
UK / AU
L½
EU / ISO / FR
52
Japan (JP)
12

Why UK and India can differ from your jeweller’s chart

UK charts vary by up to half a size, mostly because many list only whole letters. Ours follows the published British rule of 1.25 mm per letter. If you get a half size and your jeweller stocks only whole letters, go up to the next letter — rounding down gives a ring smaller than your finger. Or give them the circumference in millimetres.

India has no official ring size standard. Four Indian jewellers we checked number rings by inner circumference in millimetres minus 40, and that is what we show. Tanishq publishes a chart that runs about one size smaller. Give your jeweller the diameter in millimetres - that number is unambiguous.

How UK letter sizes work · why Indian charts disagree

Show Size Chart ↓
India: 12IT/ES/CH: 12
Inside diameter
16.51 mm or 0.650 in
Inside circumference
51.87 mm or 2.042 in

How this ring sizer works

Most online ring sizers ask you to hold a ring against a picture on your screen. That cannot work, and the reason is simple arithmetic: a screen has no fixed relationship between pixels and millimetres. The same image is physically larger on a 24-inch monitor than on a laptop, larger again on a 4K display running at a different scaling factor, and different once more if your browser is zoomed to 110%. An image that is correct on the developer's machine is wrong on almost everyone else's, and nothing on the page tells the visitor that it is wrong.

Calibrating against a bank card

This ring size calculator solves that before it measures anything. Every payment card in the world is manufactured to ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1: 85.60 × 53.98 mm, to a tolerance of a tenth of a millimetre. Bank cards, credit cards, most driving licences and most national ID cards are all the same object dimensionally. So you hold one against the screen, drag the slider until the outline matches its edges, and the tool now knows exactly how many pixels your display puts in a millimetre — on a standard 96 DPI screen that is about 204 pixels across the card, but the point is that it no longer has to assume.

That number is saved in your browser, so you calibrate once. Everything the tool draws afterwards — the ring circle, the millimetre grid behind it, the 10 mm scale bar — is scaled from it. If you change screens or zoom level, recalibrate and everything moves with you.

Three ways to give it a measurement

The tool asks what you have before it asks anything else, because “diameter or circumference, and in which unit?” is a question you can only answer once you are already holding a number. Choose a ring that fits, just my finger, or a measurement already, and it sets itself up for that: the ring route reads an inside diameter off the circle, the finger route expects the flat length of a paper strip as a circumference, and the third takes a jeweller’s reading or a caliper figure straight into the field.

Nothing is locked by that choice. The two switchers under the picker stay live, so a route you did not pick is one click away — and the technique for each is a little further down.

Those two switchers are deliberately separate. One asks what you measured — inside diameter or inside circumference — and the other asks which unit you want, millimetres, centimetres or inches. Those are independent questions, and putting them in one row of buttons, as this tool once did, quietly makes some combinations unreachable. If your ruler is marked in inches and you measured around the finger, that combination exists here.

What the conversions are built from

Every size shown is computed from the published rule for that country’s scale, not copied from another site's chart. EU sizes come from ISO 8653, where the size is the inner circumference in millimetres, defined from 41 to 76. Japanese sizes are the 号 scale Japanese shops use, 1 to 35: size 1 is 13 mm across and each size adds a third of a millimetre. It is a trade convention (JCS), not a standard — Japan’s industrial standard, JIS S 4700, numbers rings by circumference like ISO, which is the EU size here. UK letters follow the rule BSI set when it metricated the scale in 1987 (BS 6820), one letter per 1.25 mm of circumference. The US scale has no governing standard at all — it is a trade convention, and we say so rather than implying otherwise.

This matters more than it sounds. Because the numbers are computed rather than transcribed, no two readings on this site can disagree with each other, and the tool cannot drift from the chart. Run the same diameter through diameter mode, circumference mode, centimetres and inches and you get the same size every time — which is not true of every ring sizer chart published, including some by very large jewellers.

The slider covers 12.90 mm to 24.34 mm of inner diameter, which is the exact band where all seven systems answer. Beyond it at least one of them stops defining sizes, so the tool stops too: type a measurement outside that band and it says so, and labels the nearest size it can show as not your measurement rather than passing it off as one.

How accurate is it, honestly

The arithmetic is exact; your hands are not. A full US size is 0.81 mm of diameter and a quarter size is 0.2032 mm — small enough that a slightly sloppy calibration, a ring sitting at an angle on the glass, or a paper strip pulled half a millimetre tight will move the answer. Measure twice. Where the result falls between two sizes, and the ring is a gift or cannot be resized, take it to a jeweller with a steel mandrel; that is the one thing no screen can replace.

Fingers also change through the day — heat, salt and exercise swell them, cold shrinks them, and the swing across a single day is easily half a size. Measure in the evening at normal room temperature, on the hand the ring will actually be worn on.

Free, and your measurement never leaves your browser

There is no account, no email gate and no PDF to download. The whole ring sizer tool runs as JavaScript on this page: your measurement is never sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to be sent. The only thing stored is your screen's calibration, kept in your own browser so you do not have to redo it, and removable by clearing this site's data.

The page itself is counted, though, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise on a page about being trustworthy: if you accept it in the cookie banner, this site runs Google Analytics, which records the visit and sets two cookies. It never receives what you measure. The privacy policy names the cookies and how to opt out.

If you would rather work on paper, the printable ring sizer prints a paper gauge with a scale-check square, so you can prove your printer did not shrink the page — the failure that makes most printable sizers quietly wrong. For the full conversion tables see the ring size chart, and for step-by-step instructions there is a guide to measuring your ring size at home.

Is your size normal?

Almost certainly. Rings are sold from about US 3 to US 13, and most adults sit in a narrow band inside that — commonly quoted as US 6 for women and US 9 for men.

Worth stating plainly: those two figures are not standardised and there is no census of finger sizes. They describe what jewellers sell, not what people have.

Average ring size, and what it is actually worth →

Two ways to measure

If you have a ring that already fits, lay it on the circle above and size the circle until its outer edge meets the inside of the band — the metal itself is not part of the measurement. If you do not, wrap a strip of paper round the base of the finger, mark the overlap, and type the flat length in as a circumference.

Avoid string — it stretches, and it stretches in the direction that makes your finger read a size too small.

Full instructions for measuring at home →

Your size in every system

Computed from ISO 8653, the BS 6820 letter rule and the Japanese 号 scale.

See the full ring size chart, in quarter sizes →
Ring size conversion chart: US, UK, EU, Japan and India with diameter and circumference in mm, cm and inches
US / CAUK / AUEU / ISOJapanIndiaDia (MM)Dia (CM)Dia (In)Circ (MM)
3F½444414.07 mm1.407 cm0.554 in44.21 mm
3½G½455514.48 mm1.448 cm0.570 in45.48 mm
4H½477714.88 mm1.488 cm0.586 in46.76 mm
4½I½488815.29 mm1.529 cm0.602 in48.04 mm
5J½499915.70 mm1.570 cm0.618 in49.31 mm
5½K½51101116.10 mm1.610 cm0.634 in50.59 mm
6L½52121216.51 mm1.651 cm0.650 in51.87 mm
6½M½53131316.92 mm1.692 cm0.666 in53.14 mm
7N½54141417.32 mm1.732 cm0.682 in54.42 mm
7½O½56151617.73 mm1.773 cm0.698 in55.70 mm
8P½57161718.14 mm1.814 cm0.714 in56.97 mm
8½Q½58181818.54 mm1.854 cm0.730 in58.25 mm
9R½60192018.95 mm1.895 cm0.746 in59.53 mm
9½S½61202119.35 mm1.935 cm0.762 in60.80 mm
10T½62212219.76 mm1.976 cm0.778 in62.08 mm
10½U½63232320.17 mm2.017 cm0.794 in63.36 mm
11V½65242520.57 mm2.057 cm0.810 in64.64 mm
11½W½66252620.98 mm2.098 cm0.826 in65.91 mm
12Y67262721.39 mm2.139 cm0.842 in67.19 mm
12½Z68272821.79 mm2.179 cm0.858 in68.47 mm
13Z+170293022.20 mm2.220 cm0.874 in69.74 mm

UK sizes run as long stretches of half sizes. That is correct, not a bug: a US step is 2.55 mm of circumference and a UK step is 1.25 mm, so the two scales never line up. * Computed from ISO 8653:2016, the BS 6820:1987 letter rule and the Japanese 号 (JCS) scale. 1 Inch = 25.40 mm.

Why two ring size charts give you different answers

Search for a conversion chart and you will find dozens of tables that contradict each other. For a US 6, four popular charts give three different UK sizes: some say L, some say L ½, some say M.

The discrepancy is real, and it is not an error in anyone’s math. It comes from three things that ring size pages almost never explain. A fourth applies to on-screen sizers rather than to charts, and it is the easiest of the four to catch yourself.

The UK standard doesn't say what you think it says

The British letter scale, metricated by BSI in 1987 (BS 6820:1987), puts size A at a 37.5 mm circumference, with every whole letter adding exactly 1.25 mm of circumference. A US size 6 has an inner diameter of 16.51 mm, which gives a circumference of 51.87 mm.

Subtract 37.5 from 51.87 and divide by 1.25, and you get 11.49 steps above A. Step 11 is L (51.25 mm); step 12 is M (52.50 mm). 11.49 lands dead in the middle, just 0.01 mm from L ½.

A chart that rounds down gives you L. A chart that rounds up gives you M. A chart that keeps half-sizes gives you L ½. None of those three charts is “wrong”, but they are not equally safe: L is smaller around than the finger you measured, M is larger by about the same amount. If your jeweller only stocks whole letters, go up to M. A ring a touch loose still goes over the knuckle; one a touch tight may not.

We checked this against the size charts UK high-street jewellers publish, in September 2026. Most use the same letter-to-millimetre scale as this page. Their “US 6 = M” comes from listing whole letters only, which forces that rounding — and the one group we found running a scale half a letter higher also puts a US 6 on M. Either way, the millimetre figure is the one to give a jeweller: it means the same thing on every chart. Every letter from A to Z+6, with its millimetres, is on the UK & Australian ring size chart.

India, Italy, Spain and Brazil are one scale — and France is not

This is the part no other ring size page seems to say out loud. Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Brazil all number rings the same way: take the inner circumference in millimetres and subtract 40. Brazil’s standard, ABNT NBR 16058, is aligned to ISO 8653 and gives the same answer — the Brazilian trade rule is literally “add 40 to the size to get the perimeter”. So an Italian 12 and a Brazilian aro 12 are the same physical ring. Our table shows them in separate columns because that is what people search for, but the number will always match.

France is the trap, and this page got it wrong until 21 September 2026. France is on ISO 8653, not on the minus-40 scale: a French taille is simply the inner circumference in millimetres, so the ring an Italian jeweller calls 12 is a French 52, not a French 12. Read France from the EU / ISO / FR box. The mistake came from widening a sentence that names only Italy, Spain and Switzerland until it covered France as well — exactly the copying-instead-of-computing failure this site exists to avoid, so it is recorded here rather than quietly corrected.

Where we are genuinely unsure: India

India has no sizing standard — there is no BIS specification for ring sizes, so there is nothing to be wrong about. What we did instead of copying somebody’s chart was compare the published tables of four Indian jewellers: Jewelove, RishiRich Jewels, Gems Mart Jewellers and Sukkhi. All four turn out to use the same “circumference minus 40” rule as Italy and Brazil, and they agree on every row they publish — Sukkhi’s table runs from size 1 to 37 and fits the rule exactly. That is what we compute.

The catch is Tanishq, the largest jeweller in India, whose published chart runs roughly one size smaller than that convention. We could not confirm the offset across their full range, because Tanishq blocks requests from Pakistan, where this site is built — so we are telling you what we know rather than papering over it. Every competitor we audited prints one Indian number as though it were settled. We print ours next to the diameter in millimetres, and that millimetre figure is the one to give your jeweller. It is the only unambiguous answer.

A unit is not a size — and some screen sizers confuse the two

A US 6 ring has an inner diameter of 16.51 mm. That is also 1.651 cm and 0.650 in. Three numbers, one physical object. Switching the unit changes the label on the measurement; it cannot change the ring.

So a sizer that draws a circle on your screen has one rule to obey: switch from millimetres to centimetres and the circle must not move. We audited one that failed it — its centimetre page drew the ring roughly ten times smaller than its millimetre page, which is the ratio of the two numbers (16.51 against 1.651), not of any two sizes. It was scaling the drawing by the figure on the slider instead of by the measurement the figure stands for. The same tool reported a European size of 51.8 on two of its three pages; European and ISO sizes are whole millimetres of circumference, so 51.8 is not a size at all.

You can test any on-screen sizer in about five seconds, including this one: set a size, then change only the unit. If the drawn ring changes size, the tool is measuring the number rather than your finger, and nothing it tells you afterwards is reliable.

Here the circle is drawn from the diameter in millimetres multiplied by the pixels-per-millimetre you set during calibration, and the unit never enters that calculation. All six combinations of measurement and unit draw the identical circle and report the identical size. The marker under the ring says Actual size on your screen once you have calibrated, and says plainly that it is assuming a standard screen until you do — because before calibration this tool does not know how large your pixels are either.

Cases the number alone won't cover

Your knuckle is wider than the base of your finger

Measure both, and take the size that clears the knuckle. A ring that fits the base perfectly but will not pass the knuckle is not wearable; a ring that clears the knuckle and sits a little loose is. If the gap between the two is more than about a full size, a jeweller can fit sizing beads inside the band — that solves it properly, and no calculator can.

The band is wide

A wide band covers more of the finger and feels tighter at the same diameter. The usual advice is to add a quarter to a half size above roughly 6 mm of width.

We will not dress that up as a calculation, and the reason is sharper than "it depends": width alone does not tell you which direction to move. That advice assumes a flat inside edge. A comfort-fit band is domed on the inside, and jewellers commonly advise going half a size down for one — with some saying a very wide comfort-fit ring needs no change at all.

ISO 8653 defines how a ring size is measured and designated. It does not cover band width, and we have not found a standard that does. So anyone handing you an exact figure for this has invented it. If the band is wide and flat and the fit is borderline, try the half size up; if it is comfort-fit, try your measured size first. If it matters, have a jeweller size you on a wide ring stick — that is the only method that genuinely accounts for it.

Fingers change size during the day

Warmth, salt, exercise and altitude all swell fingers; cold shrinks them. The swing is real enough to cross a half size, which is why a ring can spin in the morning and stick by evening. Measure at the end of the day, at room temperature, and if you get two different answers, take the larger.

Rings that get tighter with age

They can, and the place to look first is the knuckle rather than the finger. Osteoarthritis, which becomes more likely as you get older, can leave hard bumps on the middle joints of the fingers — the joint a ring has to pass to go on or come off. The base of the finger can measure exactly what it always did while the ring no longer clears the knuckle.

So measure both, as in the knuckle case above. If a size that clears the knuckle spins at the base, the answer is mechanical rather than a different number: sizing beads inside the band for a small gap, or a shank that opens at the bottom to pass the knuckle and closes to fit the base. Jewellers fit those for exactly this.

You are sizing someone else's finger, secretly

Borrow a ring they already wear on the right finger and measure it with method 1 above. The finger matters: a ring worn on the right hand is usually a quarter to a half size different from the same finger on the left, and non-ring fingers are not comparable at all. If you can only get a ring from the wrong finger, buy the ring resizable and size it after.

Some rings cannot be resized at all

Eternity rings set with stones the whole way round, tension settings, and rings in tungsten, titanium, ceramic or stainless steel are effectively fixed — there is no plain metal to cut and no safe way to work the material. For any of those, and for an engagement ring, confirm with a jeweller before you buy. An on-screen measurement is a good estimate; it is not a fitting.

A ring three sizes out — a 7 that needs to be a 10

Usually not as a simple resize. Jewellers commonly put the comfortable limit at about two sizes either way, and how far past it a particular ring can go depends on its design. Up is the harder direction: a ring made smaller has metal taken out, a ring made larger needs metal added — and from US 7 to US 10 that is 7.66 mm more round the inside, as the diameter goes from 17.32 to 19.76 mm.

A plain band has the most room. A ring with stones in the band or the shoulders has the least, and the usual answer there is to move the stones to a new band in the right size. Either way, have a jeweller look at the ring itself before you pay for the work.

Questions people actually ask

Taken word for word from Google’s “People also ask”. Nothing here is invented to pad the page.

Every answer below is written straight into the page — open or closed, it is already there, nothing loads only after a click. We checked seven of the top-ranking ring-sizer pages the way a search engine actually reads them rather than the way a person browsing does: fetch and read, nothing clicked. Six of the seven returned under 130 words apiece, and two listed their FAQ questions with no answers attached at all — because those only appear once a visitor expands them.

How can I measure my ring size at home?

Two ways, both on this page. If you own a ring that fits, calibrate your screen against a bank card, then size the on-screen circle until its outer edge meets the inside of the band. If you do not, wrap a strip of paper around the base of your finger, mark the overlap, lay the strip flat on the sizer's on-screen ruler — true to scale once you have calibrated — or on any ruler, and type the length in. Both give you an inner diameter, which is the only measurement ring sizes are actually built from.

Can I measure my ring size on my phone?

Yes, and a phone is often better than a laptop because you can hold the ring flat against the glass. Calibrate on the phone itself — screen scale differs between devices, so a calibration saved on your laptop will not be right here. Keep browser zoom at 100%.

Is there a virtual ring sizer?

This is one. A virtual ring sizer draws a circle on your screen at a known physical size so you can compare a real ring against it. The part that matters is calibration: without it the tool is guessing how large a millimetre is on your display, and the answer can be a full size out.

Is size 7 a large ring?

No. US 7 is an inner diameter of 17.32 mm and sits just above the most common women's size of 6 and below the most common men's size of 9. It is one of the most frequently sold sizes there is.

How can I find out my ring size?

Measure the inner diameter of a ring that already fits, or the circumference of the finger itself, then convert. Everything else — printable charts, string tricks, guessing from glove size — is a less direct route to the same two numbers. Diameter and circumference are locked together as circumference = π × diameter, so either one gives you the other exactly.

Can I size my ring at home?

You can measure at home accurately enough to buy most rings. You cannot resize one at home — that needs a jeweller's saw, solder and mandrel. If the ring is an engagement ring, or in tungsten, titanium, ceramic or steel, confirm the measurement with a jeweller before buying, because those cannot be altered afterwards.

Does ring size vary by finger?

Considerably. Every finger differs, and the same finger differs between hands — a ring worn on the right hand is commonly a quarter to a half size away from the left. Measure the exact finger the ring will live on. A measurement from any other finger is not transferable.

How can I tell my ring size without measuring?

You cannot, reliably. Estimates from height, glove size or shoe size are guesses, and the range they cover is wider than the whole sold size range. The closest thing to "without measuring" is borrowing a ring that already fits and comparing it to the circle on this page, which takes about a minute.

Can I measure my ring online?

Yes — this page does it entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, no photo is taken and no account is needed. The calibration is stored only on your own device so a repeat visit skips that step.

Is there an app to check your ring size?

There are several, but you do not need to install anything. A browser page can measure exactly as accurately as an app, because both depend on the same thing: calibrating the screen against an object of known size. This page uses a bank card, which is 85.60 × 53.98 mm everywhere in the world under ISO/IEC 7810.

What is the most common ring size?

US 6 for women — an inner diameter of 16.51 mm — and US 9 for men. Most adult sizes fall between US 4 and US 13. Being outside that band is normal, it just narrows what is available off the shelf.

What is the best ring sizer to use?

A jeweller's steel ring gauge set is the most accurate thing there is, and it is what you should use for an engagement ring. For buying online, a calibrated on-screen sizer or a correctly printed paper sizer is close enough for a resizable ring. The main failure in every method is scale: an uncalibrated screen and a printer set to "fit to page" are both wrong in the same way.

Can I size my ring on my phone?

Yes. Open this page on the phone, calibrate against a bank card held flat on the screen, then lay the ring on the glass and size the circle to the inside of the band. Do not reuse a calibration from another device — pixel density differs, and that is exactly what calibration corrects for.

How do I know my correct ring size?

Measure more than once, on different days, and at room temperature. Fingers swell with heat, salt and exercise and shrink when cold, and the swing across a day can cross a half size. If two measurements disagree, take the larger — a slightly loose ring is wearable, a tight one is not.

Is a ring sizer universal?

The measurement is; the numbering is not. Inner diameter in millimetres means the same thing everywhere. The size label does not — US uses numbers, the UK uses letters, EU/ISO uses the circumference itself, and Japan uses its own scale. That is why this tool reports the diameter alongside every size: the millimetre figure is the one no jeweller can misread.

Is a size 7 ring big for a girl?

No. US 7 (17.32 mm inner diameter) is one step above the most common women's size of US 6 and well inside the ordinary range. Adult women's sizes commonly run from about US 4 to US 9.

How do I convert my finger diameter to ring size?

Multiply the diameter by π to get the circumference, then read off the scale you need. EU/ISO 8653 sizes are the circumference in millimetres, and France uses the same number (taille 52 = 52 mm); Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil and most Indian jewellers use that number minus 40; the US scale is diameter in inches, where size 0 is 0.458 in and each size adds 0.032 in. The tool on this page does all of these at once from one diameter, which is why its outputs cannot contradict each other.

How to size a ring with a sizer?

With a set of graduated rings, slide each one on until you find the one that passes the knuckle with slight resistance and sits without spinning. With a mandrel, drop the ring over the cone and read the mark where it stops. With this page, match the on-screen circle to the inside of the ring — not the outside, which includes the metal.

Can I size a ring at home?

Measuring, yes. Physically resizing, no — home methods such as ring adjusters, tape or glue-in inserts change the fit but not the ring, and they can mark soft metals. Treat them as a temporary fix while you have the ring properly sized.

Which rings cannot be resized?

Eternity rings set with stones all the way round, tension settings, and anything made of tungsten, titanium, ceramic or stainless steel. There is no plain section of metal to cut and rejoin, and those materials cannot be worked the way gold or silver can. For any of them, get the size confirmed by a jeweller before ordering.

What is 7 inches in ring size?

Nothing — 7 inches is far too large for a finger, and anyone measuring that has almost certainly measured a wrist. A ring is roughly 2 inches around: US size 7 has an inner circumference of 2.14 in (54.42 mm) and an inner diameter of 0.68 in (17.32 mm). If you meant 7 inches of paper strip wrapped around your finger, measure again — the strip should read close to 2.14 in.

Is this ring sizer free?

Yes — the whole tool, the chart and the printable sheet, with no account, no email address and no trial. Nothing you measure is uploaded: the sizing runs entirely in your browser. Four things are remembered on your own device and sent nowhere — your screen calibration, which reference object you calibrated with, whether you chose the light or dark theme, and your answer to the analytics cookie question. There are no ads and no advertising cookies today; the site is intended to carry advertising eventually, and the privacy policy will name the network, and ask EEA and UK visitors for consent, before any advertising cookie is set.

Can I find my ring size online without a ring sizer?

Yes, and there are two honest ways. If you own a ring that fits, calibrate your screen against a bank card and match the on-screen circle to the inside of the band — that measures a real object and is the more accurate of the two. If you do not, wrap a strip of paper round the base of the finger, mark the overlap and read it against the ruler on this page. What does not work is estimating from height, glove size or shoe size; the spread on those is wider than the whole range of sizes sold.