Size

Needle

There are so many different sizes for knitting needles that we have included a Knitting Needle Size Conversion chart here, and on a PDF file download. The comparisons are between US, UK, Canada and Japan.

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Knitting Needle Size
Conversion Chart
Metric (mm)	US	UK & Canada	Japan
2.00	0	14
2.10			0
2.25	1	13
2.40			1
2.70			2
2.75	2	12
3.00		11	3
3.25	3	10
3.30			4
3.50	4
3.60			5
3.75	5	9
3.90			6
4.00	6	8
4.20			7
4.50	7	7	8
4.80			9
5.00	8	6
5.10			10
5.40			11
5.50	9	5
5.70			12
6.00	10	4	13
6.30			14
6.50	10½	3
6.60			15
7.00		2	7mm
7.50		1
8.00	11	0	8mm
9.00	13	00	9mm
10.00	15	000	10mm
12.00	17
16.00	19
19.00	35
25.00	50
Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting_needle