The Thickest Trunks We Have Measured

Girth is the honest measure of a big tree. Height depends on what the tree is competing with for light, and age is usually somebody's estimate, but a tape around a trunk at chest height is a fact, and it is the number every register in the world records. This page ranks every tree we map whose trunk passes four metres, thickest first, and it re-ranks itself whenever a new measurement arrives. What it cannot show is a tree nobody has measured, which is most of them: the ranking grows as the measurements do. The arm counts are a rough guide rather than a challenge, though the top of this list would take a school class. Start with the banyan in Hilo, which is wider round than most living rooms are long.

Ten metres round and more (11)

Buenos Aires →

Hilo →

Mexico City →

Mexico City →

Cyprus →

Oahu →

Hilo →

Sardinia →

Copenhagen →

Mexico City →

Palermo →

Seven to ten metres round (18)

Bilbao →

Perth →

Bucaco →

Nijmegen →

Sardinia →

Palermo →

Cyprus →

Seattle →

Cyprus →

Geneva →

Oahu →

Geneva →

Zwolle →

Bucaco →

Frankfurt →

Geneva →

Guimaraes →

Palermo →

Five to seven metres round (51)

Oahu →

Alicante →

Naples →

Seattle →

Alicante →

Genoa →

Geneva →

Utrecht →

Perth →

Naples →

Mexico City →

Bratislava →

Madeira →

Copenhagen →

Apeldoorn →

Dresden →

Vienna →

Montreal →

Frankfurt →

Bari →

Milan →

Sardinia →

Mexico City →

Utrecht →

Palermo →

Palermo →

Geneva →

Bucaco →

Geneva →

Mexico City →

Bucaco →

Haarlem →

Copenhagen →

Porto →

Seville →

Sardinia →

Geneva →

Wroclaw →

Toronto →

Cologne →

Seville →

Bucaco →

Vienna →

Krakow →

Paris →

Bucaco →

Geneva →

Bucaco →

Mexico City →

Frankfurt →

Geneva →

Four to five metres round (43)

Toronto →

Bucaco →

Rome →

Graz →

Dallas →

Lucca →

Mexico City →

Guimaraes →

Palermo →

Madeira →

Dallas →

Paris →

Seville →

Bucaco →

Palermo →

Genoa →

Frankfurt →

Palermo →

Warsaw →

Vienna →

Seville →

Barcelona →

Sardinia →

Fukuoka →

Vilnius →

Caserta →

Hawaii →

Nijmegen →

Utrecht →

Barcelona →

Bucaco →

Krakow →

Dallas →

Bucaco →

Munich →

Naples →

Geneva →

Barcelona →

Frankfurt →

Krakow →

Groningen →

Seville →

Utrecht →

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