The BFG is 24 feet tall in Roald Dahl’s story.

Quick Scoop

  • In the original book The BFG , the Big Friendly Giant is described as a 24-foot -tall giant, much smaller than the other giants in Giant Country.
  • A fact shared by the official Roald Dahl account confirms this exact number: “the BFG was 24 ft tall,” matching the book’s description.
  • Fan and reference sites about the character also list the BFG’s height consistently as twenty-four feet, reinforcing this as the accepted in-universe height.

So if you’re picturing him next to an average human (around 5–6 feet tall), the BFG would be roughly four to five times a person’s height.

TL;DR: The BFG is 24 feet tall.

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