Jimmy Kimmel Height 2026: How Tall Is Jimmy Kimmel?

Last updated: November 11, 2026  ·  By Celebamerica Editorial Staff

Jimmy Kimmel’s height is listed between 5 ft 11 in and 6 ft 1 in, and most sources settle on 6 ft (1.83 m) as of November 2026. That is the honest answer: there is no single certified measurement, and the public listings genuinely disagree. CelebsWiki and our own CelebAmerica biography print 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m); GuideNetWorth, TheCityCeleb and TheFamousPersonalities list 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m); Dimensions.com, updated in July 2026, lists 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m); and CelebHeights, the specialist height site, puts him at 5 ft 11¼ in (181 cm) and notes a practitioner measurement of 5 ft 11.75 in from 2020.

So if you came here for one number, take this one: Jimmy Kimmel is about six feet tall, give or take an inch depending on who measured him and when. The rest of this profile explains why the listings spread across two full inches, how Kimmel stacks up against Jimmy Fallon, Conan O’Brien, Seth Meyers and John Oliver, and what the man behind the desk has built in more than two decades hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC — including the September 2025 suspension, his return, and the one-year Disney extension signed in December 2025 that keeps him on air through May 2027. His net worth sits at roughly $50 million, per Celebrity Net Worth and Parade’s July 2026 update.

Jimmy Kimmel at a Glance

How Tall Is Jimmy Kimmel?

Jimmy Kimmel is about six feet tall. That is the figure most listings agree on, and it is the number his own long-running ABC biography has carried for years. But “about six feet” is doing real work in that sentence, because the sources do not line up neatly. Here is the spread, source by source, as of November 2026:

The honest range, then, is 5 ft 11 in to 6 ft 1 in (1.80–1.85 m), with 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) the most repeated figure. Nobody has published a certified, doctor-measured height for Kimmel, and he has never made his exact height a public talking point the way some celebrities do. What we have is a pile of secondary listings, and they cluster tightly enough that the practical answer — six feet, within an inch — is solid even while the precise inch stays open.

Why does the number matter to so many searchers? Partly it is the desk. Kimmel spends his working nights seated behind a wide wooden desk, and seated hosts always look shorter than they are. Viewers see him next to guests who are standing, or next to Guillermo Rodriguez — his sidekick, who is several inches shorter — and the eye starts guessing. Partly it is the company he keeps: late-night television is full of tall men, and Kimmel’s height gets measured in the public mind against Fallon, Conan and Meyers every night. And partly it is simple curiosity. Height is one of the most searched physical facts about any public figure, and Kimmel, on air almost every weeknight for more than twenty years, is one of the most seen faces in American television.

Why the Height Listings Disagree

A two-inch spread across reputable-looking sources looks like someone is wrong. In practice, celebrity heights almost always spread this way, and the reasons are ordinary rather than suspicious. The first reason is rounding. A man who measures 5 ft 11¾ in in the morning will be listed as 6 ft by a site that rounds up, 5 ft 11 in by a site that rounds down, and 6 ft 1 in by a site that adds the shoes. Kimmel’s own case shows exactly this pattern: CelebHeights records a practitioner measurement of 5 ft 11.75 in from 2020, which is a quarter of an inch under six feet — and three of the biggest listing sites call that six feet flat, while two others push it to 6 ft 1 in.

The second reason is shoes and posture. Television is shot in dress shoes, and a standard men’s dress shoe adds roughly an inch. A host standing on a studio floor in leather shoes, next to a guest in flats, looks an inch taller than his barefoot height. Add the posture of a man who has spent decades on camera — shoulders back, chin up — and the on-screen impression drifts upward again. Sites that estimate from photographs and red-carpet appearances tend to land on the high side for exactly this reason.

The third reason is time. Kimmel was born in 1967, which makes him 58 in November 2026 and 59 within days. Men lose a little height with age — the spine compresses, discs thin, posture settles — usually a fraction of an inch per decade after forty. A listing written from a 2006 TVGuide claim, when Kimmel was 38, is not measuring the same body as a 2026 update. The 2020 practitioner figure of 5 ft 11.75 in may itself be slightly lower than whatever Kimmel measured in his thirties. None of this means any one source is lying; it means height is a moving number, and the listings were taken at different moments.

The fourth reason is the copy chain. Most celebrity-height pages do not measure anyone. They repeat a number from another page, which repeated it from another page, which may have guessed from a photograph years ago. Once a figure like 6 ft 1 in enters that chain, it gets copied dozens of times and starts to look like a settled fact. The sites that do their own checking — CelebHeights, which tracks practitioner measurements and Kimmel’s own statements, and Dimensions.com, which updated its Kimmel entry in July 2026 — both land lower, at 5 ft 11 in to 5 ft 11¼ in. That gap between the copiers and the checkers is the whole story of the spread.

There is one more wrinkle worth naming. Kimmel himself has joked about his height on air over the years, including a 2006 TVGuide exchange that CelebHeights still cites, and he has never treated the number as something to protect or promote. Unlike actors whose casting depends on reading tall on screen, a talk-show host’s height is a curiosity, not a career asset. That is why no studio or publicist has ever published an official measurement — and why the honest reporting here is a range with named sources, not a single figure dressed up as fact.

For readers who want the cleanest statement of it: Kimmel’s height is best described as about 6 ft (1.83 m), within a range of 5 ft 11 in to 6 ft 1 in. Every source in the table above falls inside that range, and no source we found in November 2026 puts him outside it.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Height Compared With Other Late-Night Hosts

Late-night television is a tall room. Put the current and recent hosts side by side and Kimmel lands in the middle of the pack — shorter than the giants, taller than the compact hosts, and almost exactly level with his most direct rival.

The comparison people ask about most is Kimmel against Jimmy Fallon’s height. The two Jimmys are listed at the same figure — 6 ft 0 in — and MEAWW’s 2023 profile of Kimmel makes the point directly, noting that Fallon “stands 6 feet 0 inches (183 cm), making him the same height as Kimmel.” When the two have appeared together, on each other’s shows and at awards ceremonies, the photographs back that up: they read as level, with Kimmel sometimes looking a touch taller in dress shoes and Fallon a touch taller in sneakers. There is no real gap to argue about, which is part of why the pairing draws so many searches — people expect a winner, and the honest answer is a tie.

Conan O’Brien’s net worth profile on this site covers a host who is in a different class altogether. At a listed 6 ft 4 in, Conan towers over Kimmel by about four inches, and the gap is visible in every photograph of the two together — Conan’s height was a running joke through his entire late-night run, and it remains the most obvious physical difference between the two men. Stephen Colbert, at a listed 6 ft 2 in, is two inches clear of Kimmel as well, though the two rarely share a frame in a way that makes the difference obvious.

On the other side, John Oliver’s net worth story sits next to a host listed at 5 ft 11 in — about an inch under Kimmel — and Seth Meyers’ age profile covers a host listed at 5 ft 10 in, two inches under Kimmel. James Corden, at 5 ft 8 in, is the shortest of the recent late-night group by a clear margin. None of these gaps is large enough to matter on television, where cameras, desks and seating erase an inch or two without trying. But they explain why Kimmel looks tall in some frames and average in others: it depends entirely on who is standing next to him.

There is also the question of Kimmel against his own guests, which is where most viewers form their impression. A six-foot host seated behind a desk, interviewing a 6 ft 5 in basketball player or a 5 ft 4 in pop star, gives the eye no fixed reference. The desk hides the legs, the camera angle does the rest, and the viewer walks away with a guess that says more about the guest than about Kimmel. The listings, taken together, are a better guide than any single broadcast frame.

Early Life and Background

James Christian Kimmel was born on November 13, 1967, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the Mill Basin neighborhood before his family moved to Las Vegas when he was nine. His father, James John Kimmel, worked as an executive at American Express; his mother, Joan, was a homemaker. The family was Catholic, close-knit, and — by Kimmel’s own telling — loud at the dinner table. His younger brother Jonathan became a writer and producer on his show, and his sister Jill has stayed out of the public eye.

The Las Vegas move shaped him more than the Brooklyn birth did. He attended Ed W. Clark High School, where he was the class clown in the literal sense — the kid doing voices and impressions in the back of the room — and he started in radio while still a teenager, working at local stations and learning the trade of talking to strangers through a microphone. He later studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and then Arizona State University, though he never finished a degree; radio had already become the job, and the classroom was losing the argument.

Those early radio years are the part of the story that explains the height question in a roundabout way. Radio is a medium where nobody can see you, and Kimmel spent his twenties building a voice and a persona with no visual component at all. When he moved to television in the late 1990s, audiences met a face and a frame they had never seen before — and the guessing about his size started almost at once. The man who had been a voice for a decade was suddenly a body on a screen, and the internet has been measuring him ever since.

The Brooklyn-to-Vegas childhood also left a mark on his comedy. Kimmel’s humor has always been rooted in the ordinary — the neighborhood, the family table, the local characters — rather than in the polish of a drama-school background. That grounding is part of why his show has lasted: he reads on camera as a regular person who happens to have a desk, not as a performer playing a host. His height, for the record, fits that same register. He is a tall-ish man, not a towering one, and the ordinariness of the number suits the persona.

From Radio to The Man Show

Kimmel’s radio career ran through Phoenix, Seattle, Tucson and Los Angeles in the 1990s, and it was in Phoenix at KZZP that he built the morning-show style — pranks, celebrity impressions, a fast, teasing rapport with callers — that would carry him to television. The turning point came when he met Adam Carolla, and the two of them, with Daniel Kellison, created The Man Show for Comedy Central in 1999. The show ran for five seasons, with Kimmel and Carolla hosting the first four, and it made Kimmel a television face for the first time: a co-host in a beer-commercial parody world, trading jokes with a live audience.

While The Man Show was running, Kimmel also hosted Win Ben Stein’s Money, the Comedy Central quiz show, winning a Daytime Emmy for it, and he co-created Crank Yankers, the puppet-prank-call series that became a cult hit. The three shows together built the skill set that late night would later demand: live hosting, quick interviewing, and the ability to keep a studio audience warm through a commercial break. They also built his reputation inside the industry as a reliable, funny, low-drama professional — the kind of person a network trusts with a nightly desk.

By 2002, ABC was looking for a late-night host to follow Nightline, and Kimmel — still largely known as a Comedy Central comic — was not the obvious pick. The network took the chance anyway, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! premiered on January 26, 2003. The early years were rough: critics were skeptical, ratings were modest, and the show aired in a midnight slot that guaranteed a small audience. Kimmel stayed with it, moved the show to 11:35 p.m. in 2013, and slowly built the longest current run in American late night.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the Longest Run in Late Night

Jimmy Kimmel Live! has now run for more than twenty-three years, which makes it the longest current late-night run in America and one of the longest in television history. The show’s format has stayed steady through that span: a monologue, a desk interview, a musical guest, and the recurring bits — “Mean Tweets,” “Lie Witness News,” the Halloween candy prank — that travel further on social media than the broadcast itself. Kimmel’s particular gift is the interview that feels like a conversation rather than a promotion, and it is the reason actors, musicians and politicians keep coming back to his desk.

The show also made Kimmel a fixture of awards season. He hosted the Academy Awards in 2017 — the year of the best-picture envelope mix-up, which he handled live and with unusual grace — and returned in 2018, 2023 and 2024. He has hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards twice. Those nights put him in front of audiences far larger than his nightly show draws, and they fixed his image in the public mind: a steady, quick, unflappable host in a tuxedo, standing on a stage where his height — six feet, in shoes, next to actors of every size — reads as exactly average for a leading man.

The longevity matters for the height question in one practical way: the longer a person is on television, the more photographs of them exist, and the more chances listing sites have to guess. Kimmel has been photographed next to thousands of people whose heights are known — basketball players, models, politicians, fellow hosts — and every one of those photographs is a data point somebody has used to place him at 5 ft 11 in, 6 ft, or 6 ft 1 in. The spread in the listings is, in part, a measure of how much material there is to argue from.

The 2025 Suspension and the Extension Through 2027

The most dramatic stretch of Kimmel’s recent career came in September 2025, when ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! after comments Kimmel made in his monologue about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The suspension, announced on September 17, 2025, set off a fast-moving public argument about free speech, network pressure and the role of late-night hosts in political debate. Affiliates pulled the show, commentators across the spectrum weighed in, and for several days it was genuinely unclear whether Kimmel would return to his desk at all.

He did return. The show came back on September 23, 2025, six days after the suspension, with Kimmel addressing the episode directly in an emotional monologue and resuming the nightly schedule. The return was a ratings event in its own right, and it settled the immediate question — Kimmel was staying — while leaving the longer question open. In December 2025, that longer question was answered: Kimmel signed a one-year extension with Disney that keeps him hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! through May 2027. The extension ended months of speculation about whether he would step away, and it confirmed that the longest current run in late night would keep going for at least another season and a half.

The episode is worth covering in a height profile for a simple reason: it is the freshest, most-searched chapter of Kimmel’s career, and a profile that ignored it would be out of date on arrival. It also says something about why his listed height never became a controversy of its own. Kimmel’s public arguments have always been about what he says, not how he looks. His height is a trivia question; his monologues are the news. The suspension and the extension are the story of 2025 and 2026 for Kimmel, and the height listings are a footnote that happens to be what this page is for.

The Money Behind the Height

A height profile still has to answer the money question, because it is the question most readers ask next. Jimmy Kimmel’s net worth is estimated at about $50 million in 2026, according to Celebrity Net Worth, a figure refreshed for 2026 and cited by Parade’s July 2026 update. The same figure appears across the sister sites and in our own coverage, and it is the number this profile uses as its anchor. Jimmy Kimmel’s net worth on NetWorthCraft carries the same $50 million headline with a full breakdown of how the estimate was built.

The money comes from one job above all: hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! for more than two decades. Celebrity Net Worth lists Kimmel’s salary at a reported $15 million a year — a figure that circulates widely and is attributed to that outlet rather than confirmed by ABC or Disney, which do not publish host salaries. On top of the hosting salary sit the awards-show fees, the producing income from his company Kimmelot (which produces Jimmy Kimmel Live! and other projects), voice work in animated films, book advances, and the long tail of Crank Yankers and The Man Show residuals. It is a fortune built slowly, one nightly show at a time, rather than a single windfall.

The $50 million figure deserves the same honest treatment as the height range. Net worth estimates for public figures are built from public reporting — salaries that leak, property records, production-company filings, and the occasional interview — never from audited statements, and different outlets will land in different places. Some listings have put Kimmel as high as $70 million, while Celebrity Net Worth’s $50 million is the most repeated figure and the one Parade chose to cite in its July 2026 update. The range, in other words, is roughly $50 million to $70 million, with $50 million the anchored figure. Like the height, the money is best reported as a range with a named source, not a single number pretending to be exact.

What is certain is the shape of the career: a radio host who became a cable comic, then a network late-night host, then one of the few people in television whose name is on a show that has run for more than twenty years. That kind of staying power is what the $50 million actually measures. The height is six feet, give or take an inch. The career is the bigger number.

Real Estate and Assets

Kimmel’s property holdings are modest by celebrity standards and mostly concentrated in the Los Angeles area, where he has lived and worked since the late 1990s. Public reporting has tracked purchases in the Hollywood Hills and in Hermosa Beach, the beach town south of Los Angeles where he has long kept a home, and the pattern is consistent with a host who earns well but does not collect houses the way some of his peers do. He has also been reported as owning property in the Los Angeles area through family trusts, a common arrangement for high earners that keeps the details out of the headlines.

There is no public record of a car collection, a yacht, or a private jet attached to Kimmel’s name, and that absence is itself a kind of information. His spending, as far as the public record shows, has gone toward his family, his show’s production company, and philanthropy — most notably the children’s heart-health causes connected to his son Billy, who was born in 2017 with a congenital heart defect and has had multiple surgeries. Kimmel has spoken about Billy’s condition on air and in congressional testimony, and the family’s experience with the American health-care system became one of the most talked-about parts of his show in 2017.

The asset picture, then, is a working television fortune rather than a lifestyle fortune: a long-running show, a production company, Los Angeles-area homes, and a public profile that keeps paying. It fits a host whose on-air persona is deliberately ordinary — the guy from the neighborhood who got a desk — and whose height, at about six feet, is ordinary too.

Personal Life

Kimmel married Molly McNearney in July 2013. McNearney is a co-head writer and executive producer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and the two met at work — she joined the show’s writing staff in 2003, the year it premiered. They have two children together, Jane, born in 2014, and Billy, born in 2017. Kimmel also has two older children, Katie and Kevin, from his first marriage to Gina Maddy, which ended in divorce in 2002. The family lives in the Los Angeles area, and Kimmel has spoken often about the balancing act of a nightly show and four children.

McNearney’s own height is one of the follow-up questions readers ask, and the listings put her at about 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), per Biography Mask, which makes her roughly three inches shorter than her husband. The couple are photographed together often at premieres and awards shows, and the gap between them reads as small — consistent with a six-foot husband and a 5 ft 9 in wife in heels.

Outside the show, Kimmel’s public life is defined by two things: his family and his causes. The most prominent cause is children’s heart health, driven by Billy’s surgeries, and Kimmel has used his platform — including testimony before Congress — to argue for protections for children with pre-existing conditions. He is also a longtime supporter of the Los Angeles food bank and of arts education, and he has a well-known friendship with Howard Stern, whose radio show he appeared on for years before moving to television. For readers who want the full life story rather than the measurements, our own Jimmy Kimmel biography covers the career and family in full, and the Celebrity section carries the rest of our late-night and television profiles.

Height in Centimeters, Weight and Other Measurements

For readers working in metric, the range converts cleanly: 5 ft 11 in is 180 cm, 6 ft 0 in is 183 cm, and 6 ft 1 in is 185 cm. The most commonly listed figure, 6 ft 0 in, is 1.83 meters. CelebHeights’ 5 ft 11¼ in works out to 181 cm, and the 2020 practitioner measurement of 5 ft 11.75 in is about 182 cm. Whichever figure a reader prefers, the metric answer is the same shape as the imperial one: roughly 180–185 cm, most often 183 cm.

Kimmel’s weight is reported in a narrower band than his height. CelebsWiki lists about 190 lbs (86 kg); other profiles put him near 182 lbs (83 kg). The spread is the usual one for a man in his late fifties whose weight has moved a little over the years, and the honest range is 182–190 lbs (83–86 kg). He has spoken on air about diet and exercise, including a well-publicized stretch of intermittent fasting, and his build on camera — broad-shouldered, solid, a little heavier than in his thirties — matches the listed weight.

A few other measurements readers ask about: Kimmel’s shoe size is not publicly listed anywhere reliable, and this profile will not guess at it. His hair is dark brown going gray, his eyes are brown, and he is 58 years old as of November 2026, turning 59 on November 13. Those are the settled facts. The height is the one number with a range, and this page has shown its work on why.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources and Reporting

How we estimated: No certified height measurement for Jimmy Kimmel exists in the public record, and no studio or publicist has published one. This profile reports the published range — 5 ft 11 in to 6 ft 1 in — with each figure tied to the source that lists it, and anchors on 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) as the most repeated figure. The net worth figure, about $50 million, is an estimate built from public reporting (Celebrity Net Worth, cited by Parade’s July 2026 update), not an audited financial statement; some listings run as high as $70 million. Height and net worth figures for public personalities are estimates built from public reporting, and they may differ from private reality. This profile was last updated on November 11, 2026.

Sources consulted for this profile: Celebrity Net Worth, Parade, CelebsWiki, CelebHeights, Dimensions.com, TheCityCeleb, TheFamousPersonalities, MEAWW, IMDb, ABC and our sister profiles on GuideNetWorth and NetWorthCraft. Where a source URL could not be confirmed, only the outlet’s name is given and no link is included.