How high should you mount your TV?
Your screen, your seat
Your TV size
How far you sit
Example distance: 2.5 m. Enter your measurement.
How to measure your distance
Tap the button. Stand the plate flat against the TV wall, walk back to your seat, and read the number at your feet.
Measure horizontally from your eyes to the TV wall, parallel to the floor, not diagonally to the screen centre. The example starts with a 65-inch TV at 2.5 m.
Your seated eye height
Example eye height: 102 cm. Enter your measurement.
How to measure your eye height
Floor to your eyes, sitting the way you actually watch. Around 102 cm (40 in) on a typical couch; measure once, it is worth it.
Tap the button. Stand the staff on the floor by your seat, sit the way you watch, and look at it: the coral ring that flattens into a line is exactly at your eye height. Read its number and type it below.
Watch leaning back? Set your gaze angle
Sitting upright, leave this at 0°: the centre goes at eye level. Leaning back, you look higher, so the screen can go higher too. The angle is where your eyes rest, not your chair angle; Measure gaze angle walks you through finding it.
0° is eye level. Positive looks up, negative looks down.
Enter an angle from −60° to +60°.
Your mounting height
Hang the TV with the centre of the screen 102 cm from the floor, level with your eyes.
- Screen centre
- 102 cm
- Bottom edge
- 62 cm
- Top edge
- 142 cm
Mark your wall
Mark the screen centre at 102 cm. Measure the vertical offset to your TV's mounting hooks or bar, then mark the bracket position.
Check a fixed mounting heightFor furniture, a fireplace or an existing mount
Enter the screen's bottom-edge height from the floor to check its centre and viewing angle.
Compare other TV sizesScreen heights and mounting ranges for your seat
| Size | Screen height | Bottom edge (cm) | Top edge (cm) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 in | 54 cm | 75 to 142 | 129 to 196 |
| 50 in | 62 cm | 71 to 138 | 133 to 200 |
| 55 in | 68 cm | 68 to 135 | 136 to 203 |
| 65 in your TV | 81 cm | 62 to 129 | 142 to 209 |
| 75 in | 93 cm | 55 to 122 | 149 to 216 |
| 85 in | 106 cm | 49 to 116 | 155 to 222 |
| 98 in | 122 cm | 41 to 108 | 163 to 230 |
Ranges span the recommended height to the 15° upper limit. All heights are measured from the floor, excluding the TV frame.
Common questions
How do I measure my seated eye height with an iPhone?
Tap Measure with your camera under step 3. It opens a true-scale measuring staff in augmented reality: stand it on the floor next to your seat, sit the way you watch, and look at the staff. Every graduation carries a thin horizontal ring; rings above your eyes show their underside, rings below show their top face, and the one exactly at your eye height flattens into a line. Read its number and type it in. A tape measure held to the wall works just as well.
How high should a 65 inch TV be mounted?
Put the centre of the screen at your seated eye height: about 102 cm (40 in) off the floor on a typical sofa. A 65 inch picture is about 81 cm (31.9 in) tall, so its bottom edge lands around 62 cm (24 in) and its top around 142 cm (56 in). Measure your own eye height, and set a gaze angle if you watch leaning back.
Is it OK to mount a TV above a fireplace?
Check the actual height and distance. From 3 m, a screen centre about 80 cm above your eyes is at the 15° reference; from 2 m the difference is about 54 cm. Tilting the screen down can face it toward you but does not reduce how far upward you look. Also follow the TV, mount and fireplace manufacturers' clearance and heat guidance.
Should a wall-mounted TV be tilted?
At eye level, a flat panel faces your seat. A higher panel can tilt down and a lower panel can tilt up by the angle reported here, within the mount's limits. Tilt changes panel orientation; moving the screen or your seat changes the direction you look.
Does mounting height depend on viewing distance?
Not when you sit upright: the centre goes at eye level whatever the distance. If you watch leaning back and set a gaze angle, the height changes with distance, so recheck it when you move your seat.
What about a bedroom or kitchen TV?
Measure eye height in the posture you actually watch from, including your usual pillows or head support. Sitting upright, most people prefer the screen centre at eye level. Reclining does not imply a fixed gaze angle, so use Measure gaze angle: move a sheet the size of the picture up from below and down from above until it stops getting more comfortable, and the calculator uses the midpoint. In a kitchen you usually watch standing, so measure your standing eye height the same way. Check the resulting height with a taped screen outline from your usual position.
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