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Find your cycling shoe size

Shimano measures the way we do: “Stand on the paper with your heel against the wall and mark the longest toe on the paper. Measure the distance from the wall to the mark.” Type that length:

Step by step, with the mistakes that add a size: how to measure your foot.

Shimano’s size chart

Shimano sizes its shoes in EU numbers, with half sizes from 37.5 to 46.5. Its US column follows: where an EU size falls between two US sizes, the chart prints both (EU 38 is US 5-5.5, EU 38.5 is US 5.5-6). Against the standard EU sizes, Shimano’s are made for feet about 2 mm shorter on average: its EU 42 fits a foot up to 26.5 cm, the standard EU 42 up to 26.7 cm.

Shimano’s women’s chart runs EU 36 to 44; it’s in the calculator above.

How snug

Shimano: “Cycling shoes are meant to be form-fitting and on the snug side. If between sizes, size up.” Our sizes already round up: your size is the first whose foot length covers your foot, and the calculator says when you’re within a few millimetres of the size below.

How any shoe should fit, and what to do between sizes: how shoes should fit.

Wide feet

Shimano makes some models in wide versions. Answering a customer on its RC703 page, Shimano says its wide sizes “are not just standard shoes that have been stretched horizontally. Instead, wide sizes feature a larger circumference (about 9 to 10 mm compared to standard sizing) around the ball of the foot.” To find out if you need one: shoe width chart.

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