How tall is a Greyhound?

What a Greyhound’s height measures

The American Kennel Club measures height at the withers, the top of the shoulders. Its standard gives 28 to 30 inches for males and 27 to 28 inches for females. The drawing uses the top of the male range.

Ranked by the tallest height its standard names (30 in), the Greyhound is the joint 10th tallest of the 297 dog breeds on this site. See the tallest dog breeds ranked.

Drawn at the same 30 in: Cougar, White-tailed deer and Scottish Deerhound. Same drawing, different listings: a Greyhound’s figure is the top of its male range, a cougar’s a maximum, a white-tailed deer’s and a Scottish Deerhound’s each the lower end of its male range.

This is a published species or breed reference, not a prediction for an individual animal. Where a range is supplied, both ends appear with the reading. Shoulder height and head height are kept apart when comparing animals.

Other hound dogs near its height

• Borzoi 28 in
• Irish Wolfhound 32 in
• Afghan Hound 27 in
• Bloodhound 27 in
• Otterhound 27 in
• Rhodesian Ridgeback 27 in
• Sloughi 26 in
• Azawakh 25 in

All 50 hound dogs by height, tallest first, or every dog breed. To compare your own dog, measure it at the withers.

Published heights