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Does New Balance run true to size?

New Balance women's shoes, by its own chart

Chart runs long: maybe half a size down

By its own size chart, New Balance builds each size for a foot about 0.3 cm longer than the median of 14 other brands' charts. On length alone that points you half a size down. A chart does not measure width, so if your feet are wide or you are between sizes, stay with your usual size.

Source: New Balance size guide, checked 2026-09-17.

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US women's sizes. Each cell reads the other brand's own chart, then finds the New Balance size built for the same foot (or the same label, when one chart has no foot lengths).
You wearSize 7 thereSize 8 thereSize 9 there
NikeNew Balance 7New Balance 8New Balance 9
adidasNew Balance 7 or 6.5New Balance 7.5New Balance 8.5
HOKANew Balance 7New Balance 8New Balance 9
BrooksNew Balance 7New Balance 8New Balance 9
ASICSNew Balance 7New Balance 8New Balance 8.5 or 9
OnNew Balance 7New Balance 8New Balance 9
SauconyNew Balance 6.5New Balance 7.5New Balance 8.5
Every size, not just these three: follow a brand name for the full New Balance table.

Size by size: New Balance against the other charts

The foot length New Balance builds each US women's size for, beside the median of every other brand that publishes one. Half a US size is 0.42 cm.
US women'sNew Balance builds it forMedian brandDifference
623 cm23 cm (14 brands)same
6.523.5 cm23.5 cm (13 brands)same
724 cm24 cm (14 brands)same
7.524.5 cm24 cm (13 brands)+0.50 cm
825 cm24.5 cm (14 brands)+0.50 cm
8.525.5 cm25 cm (12 brands)+0.50 cm
926 cm25.5 cm (14 brands)+0.50 cm
9.526.5 cm26 cm (12 brands)+0.50 cm
1027 cm26.5 cm (14 brands)+0.50 cm
Tinted rows differ by half a size or more. Brands round their foot lengths, often to the half centimetre, so read the average, not a single row.

What a size chart cannot tell you

A chart gives one number per size: the foot length. Width, toe box shape, the heel and how much the upper stretches are on no chart, and they decide whether a shoe feels short. That is why people sometimes say a brand runs small when its chart says it runs long: a narrow toe box can crowd a foot the chart says fits.

If you have wide feet or sit between sizes, take the larger size, or check whether the model comes in a wide fit.

Wearer reports appear on the shoe converter once five people who own both brands have told us what fits. They rank above the charts, because charts describe a shoe and wearers describe a fit. Add a pair you own to help.