mm2 AWG Wire Size AWG

0.05 30 14
0.08 28 12
0.14 26 10
0.25 24 9
0.34 22 8
0.50 UL 21 UL 7
0.5 20 6
0.75 UL 19 UL 5
0,75 18 4
1.0 UL 18 UL 3
1 17 2
1.5 16 1
2.5 14 1/0
4 12 2/0
6 10 3/0
10 8 4/0
16 6
25 4
35 2
50 0 (1/0)
70 00 (2/0)
95 000 (3/0)
120 0000 (4/0)
150 300 MCM
185 350 MCM
240 500 MCM
300 600 MCM
400 750 MCM
500 1000MCM
630 1250 MCM
800 1575 MCM
1000 2000 MCM

Terms and notation

AWG – American Wire Gauge
mm2 – millimeters squared
MCM – thousands of circular mils

The #/0 notation is used for wire larger than 1 AWG.

The number before the slash means the number of
zeros (pronounced “aught”) of the gauge. For
example: 2/0 is 00 and pronounced “two aught”
Wire Size kcmil Wire Size mm2 Wire Size inch2 Dia in mm
4.11 2.1 0.0032 1.64
6.53 3.3 0.0051 2.05
10.38 5.3 0.0082 2.60
13.09 6.6 0.0103 2.90
16.51 8.4 0.01296 3.27
20.82 10.6 0.01635 3.67
26.24 13.3 0.02061 4.12
33.09 16.8 0.02598 4.62
41.74 21.1 0.03278 5.18
52.62 26.7 0.04133 5.83 Dia (mm) area (mm2)
66.36 33.6 0.05212 6.54 20 314.2
83.69 42.4 0.06573 7.35
105.6 53.5 0.08294 8.25 area (mm2) Dia (mm)
133.1 67.4 0.10454 9.26 126.7 12.70
167.8 85.0 0.13179 10.40
211.6 107.2 0.16619 11.68
250 126.7 0.19635 12.70
300 152.0 0.23562 13.91
350 177.3 0.27489 15.02
400 202.7 0.31416 16.07
450 228.0 0.35343 17.04
500 253.4 0.3927 17.96
550 278.7 0.43197 18.84
600 304.0 0.47124 19.67
650 329.4 0.51051 20.48
700 354.7 0.54978 21.25
750 380.0 0.58905 22.00
800 405.4 0.62832 22.72
900 456.0 0.70686 24.10
1000 506.7 0.78540 25.40
1100 557.4 0.86394 26.64
1200 608.1 0.94248 27.83
1250 633.4 0.98175 28.40
1300 658.7 1.02102 28.96
1400 709.4 1.09956 30.05
1500 760.1 1.1781 31.11
1600 810.7 1.25664 32.13
1700 861.4 1.33518

33.12
1800 912.1 1.41372 34.08
1900 962.7 1.49226 35.01
2000 1013.4 1.57080 35.92