Electrical Wire Sizes

Diameter Cross-Sectional Area

AWG
mils inches mm cmils mm2
2000 MCM (Kcmil) 1414.0 1.414 35.916 1,999,396 1013.1089
1750 MCM (Kcmil) 1323.0 1.323 33.604 1,750,329 886.9048

National Electric Code (NEC)

1500 MCM (Kcmil) 1225.0 1.225 31.115 1,500,625 760.3779
1250 MCM (Kcmil) 1118.0 1.118 28.397 1,249,924 633.3458
1000 MCM (Kcmil) 1000.0 1.000 25.400 1,000,000 506.7075
NFPA 70

900 MCM (Kcmil) 949.0 0.949 24.105 900,601 456.3413

800 MCM (Kcmil) 894.0 0.894 22.708 799,236 404.9789
750 MCM (Kcmil) 866.0 0.866 21.996 749,956 380.0083
700 MCM (Kcmil) 837.0 0.837 21.260 700,569 354.9836
600 MCM (Kcmil) 775.0 0.775 19.685 600,625 304.3412
500 MCM (Kcmil) 707.0 0.707 17.958 499,849 253.2772
400 MCM (Kcmil) 632.0 0.632 16.053 399,424 202.3911
350 MCM (Kcmil) 592.0 0.592 15.037 350,464 177.5827
300 MCM (Kcmil) 548.0 0.548 13.919 300,304 152.1663
250 MCM (Kcmil) 500.0 0.500 12.700 250,000 126.6769
4/0 460.0 0.460 11.684 211,600 107.2193
3/0 409.6 0.410 10.404 167,772 85.0114
2/0 364.8 0.365 9.266 133,079 67.4321
1/0 324.9 0.325 8.252 105,560 53.4880
1 289.3 0.289 7.348 83,694 42.4086
2 257.6 0.258 6.543 66,358 33.6240
3 229.4 0.229 5.827 52,624 26.6652
4 204.3 0.204 5.189 41,738 21.1492
5 181.9 0.182 4.620 33,088 16.7657
6 162.0 0.162 4.115 26,244 13.2980
AWG sizes go to 56, but I skipped those here

7 144.3 0.144 3.665 20,822 10.5509

8 128.5 0.129 3.264 16,512 8.3669
9 114.4 0.114 2.906 13,087 6.6315
10 101.9 0.102 2.588 10,384 5.2615
Per ASTM B258-02

11 90.7 0.091 2.304 8,226 4.1684

12 80.8 0.081 2.052 6,529 3.3081
13 72.0 0.072 1.829 5,184 2.6268
14 64.1 0.064 1.628 4,109 2.0820
15 57.1 0.057 1.450 3,260 1.6521
16 50.8 0.051 1.290 2,581 1.3076
17 45.3 0.045 1.151 2,052 1.0398
18 40.3 0.040 1.024 1,624 0.8229
19 35.9 0.036 0.912 1,289 0.6530
20 32.0 0.032 0.813 1,024 0.5189
21 28.5 0.029 0.724 812 0.4116
22 25.3 0.025 0.643 640 0.3243
23 22.6 0.023 0.574 511 0.2588
24 20.1 0.020 0.511 404 0.2047
25 17.9 0.018 0.455 320 0.1624
26 15.9 0.016 0.404 253 0.1281
27 14.2 0.014 0.361 202 0.1022
28 12.6 0.013 0.320 159 0.0804
29 11.3 0.011 0.287 128 0.0647
30 10.0 0.010 0.254 100 0.0507
Metric Wire Specification: IEC 60228
British Wire Specification: BS 3737 (superseded by the metric standard)