What is being measured?
The owner's published diameter of one clock dial, commonly associated with Big Ben. It is not the size of the Great Bell or the height of Elizabeth Tower.
Use the named object, variant and dimension. A manufactured or natural object can differ from this reference.
- Dimension
- clock-dial diameter
- Reference value
- 7 m
- Evidence
- Published reference measurement
- In metres
- 7 m
- Variant
- One Great Clock dial at the Palace of Westminster
Put the length in perspective
One Elizabeth Tower clock dial represents approximately 81.8 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
Elizabeth Tower clock dial · 7 m
Metre · 1 m
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m