Monitor size calculator
What size monitor fits your desk?
Enter your desk and how far you sit from it. We rank every size that fits and draw the one you pick at true scale, so you can see it rather than imagine it.
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Your desk is drawn at true scale
On a 120 cm desk, sitting at 65 cm
27″
Best fitUses about half your desk width, leaving 58.6 cm free. It sits at a comfortable 49° across from 65 cm, and 109 PPI is sharp for text. a little ahead of the alternatives.
- Fit96
- Viewing99
- Ergonomics100
- Sharpness100
- Screen width
- 59.8 cm61.4 cm with bezels
- Desk used
- 51%59 cm remaining
- Viewing angle
- 49° horizontal29° vertical
- Sharpness
- 109 PPI · 49 px/degSharp
- Clear each side
- 29.3 cm
- Height
- 4.4 cm below eye levelcomfortable
Every size at 65 cm
Nothing is hidden from you.
Every size in the catalogue is here, including the ones that do not fit. Knowing a 57″ needs 129.6 cm when you have 120 cm is more useful than it quietly disappearing.
| Best fit | 51% of the desk · 49° across · 49 px/deg | 61.4 cm | 99 | |
| Defensible | 53% of the desk · 51° across · 70 px/deg | 63.6 cm | 95 | |
| Defensible | 67% of the desk · 49° across · 49 px/deg | 80.5 cm | 95 | |
| Defensible | 55% of the desk · 53° across · 45 px/deg | 66.2 cm | 95 | |
| Defensible | 60% of the desk · 57° across · 62 px/deg | 72.4 cm | 93 | |
| Defensible | 47% of the desk · 46° across · 52 px/deg | 56.9 cm | 93 | |
| Defensible | 46% of the desk · 44° across · 41 px/deg | 54.7 cm | 91 | |
| Compact | 42% of the desk · 41° across · 45 px/deg | 50.3 cm | 87 | |
| Defensible | 75% of the desk · 54° across · 49 px/deg | 89.7 cm | 86 | |
| Defensible | 78% of the desk · 57° across · 62 px/deg | 93.9 cm | 81 | |
| Defensible | 95% of the desk · 49° across · 48 px/deg | 114.1 cm | 76 | |
| A lot of head turn | 82% of the desk · 63° across · 55 px/deg | 98.9 cm | 64 | |
| A lot of head turn | 79% of the desk · 71° across · 47 px/deg | 94.6 cm | 52 | |
| A lot of head turn | 81% of the desk · 72° across · 46 px/deg | 96.8 cm | 51 | |
| Wider than your desk | needs 129.6 cm of desk, you have 120 cm | 129.6 cm | 0 |
Alternatives
Close behind, for different reasons.
Whole setups on this desk
One big screen, or two?
Arrangements that people actually build, drawn from above on your desk.
The method
Four scores. One ranking. Every reason shown.
Four things decide the ranking. Fit is how much of your desk the screen takes up — roughly half to two-thirds looks and works best, and anything wider than the desk is ruled out with the exact shortfall. Viewing angle is how wide the screen appears from where you sit, judged against the range that suits what you do: a 27 inch at 65 cm is about 49°, which is comfortable for desk work and a little narrow for gaming.
Ergonomics checks that the top of the screen is not above eye level and that the stand leaves room for a keyboard. Sharpness uses pixels per degree rather than pixels per inch, because how sharp a screen looks depends on how far away you are as much as on its resolution.
Body sizes are estimates based on typical bezels and stands — check the spec sheet for a specific model. Every size that does not fit stays in the list with the reason, because knowing a 49 inch needs 121 cm when you have 120 is more useful than it quietly disappearing.
- Fit30%
Does it physically work on your surface? Anything wider than the desk is ruled out with the exact shortfall.
- Viewing25%
The angle it subtends, against the range that suits the task.
- Ergonomics20%
Not looking up at it, not sitting too close, room for a keyboard.
- Sharpness25%
Pixels per degree, not pixels per inch.
These weights are the ones used for productivity.