Australian Shoe Size Converter

For women, the conversion is the easiest of any system on this site: there is nothing to add or subtract. Australian women's sizing is the US scale, so an AU women's number is already the US number. Reading the women's chart above, AU women's 8 is US women's 8, AU women's 9 is US women's 9, and AU women's 10 is US women's 10 — the AU and US columns hold the same value on every row. When a retailer lists a women's shoe in "AU/US" sizing, that single label is accurate for both markets at once.

The other systems still shift, because only the AU/US pairing is identical. From AU women's 8 (US 8), the UK figure sits roughly two sizes lower at about UK 6, and the EU figure lands near EU 39 — exactly the values printed on the women's row above. Because foot length in centimetres is the anchor for the whole table, the safest check is to measure your foot and match the cm column rather than trusting the printed size alone; lasts vary between brands, so treat the converted number as a starting point and confirm against the maker's own guide.

Men's conversion needs one extra step, because Australian men's sizing follows the UK scale rather than the US one. Men's US sizes run about half a size higher than UK sizes, so to reach a US figure you add roughly half a size to the AU/men's number. Reading the men's chart above, AU men's 9 (UK 9) is about US 9.5, AU men's 10 (UK 10) is about US 10.5, and AU men's 8 (UK 8) is about US 8.5. The AU and UK columns match on every men's row, while the US column sits half a step ahead.

The EU figure for men climbs alongside the US one: AU men's 9 is near EU 42, and AU men's 10 is near EU 43, matching the men's row above. If you are buying a women's style in men's sizing or comparing across the two charts, remember that US women run about one and a half sizes above US men for the same foot, which is why the two AU charts on this page never line up by number alone. For the background on how this split came about, see our guide to Australian shoe sizes.

On most country pages the gender setting only nudges the result, because both genders draw on the same parent scale. Australia is the exception: women's sizes are built on the US scale and men's on the UK scale, so the converter has to apply a different rule depending on which tab is active. Pick the wrong one and the answer is not slightly off — it is wrong by the entire gap between the men's and women's systems, which is around one and a half sizes for the same foot length.

In practice that means an AU 8 read on the women's tab points to a noticeably smaller shoe than an AU 8 read on the men's tab, even though the printed number is identical. Before you trust a result, confirm the gender tab matches the shoe you are actually buying, then sanity-check the foot-length column in centimetres. The cm anchor is the same physical measurement regardless of which scale you started from, so it is the quickest way to catch a tab mix-up before you order the wrong size.