Canada passport photo size: 50×70mm
The size Canada requires for a passport photo, in every unit you might be asked for — plus a free tool that crops and sizes your photo to match, in your browser.
The specification
| Photo size | 50 × 70 mm |
|---|---|
| In centimetres | 5.0 × 7.0 cm |
| In inches | 1.97 × 2.76 in |
| Pixels at 300 DPI | 591 × 827 px |
| Pixels at 600 DPI | 1181 × 1654 px |
| Head height (chin to crown) | 31 – 36 mm |
| Background | Plain white or light-coloured |
Verify before you print: these figures are consistently published for Canada and follow the ICAO Doc 9303 standard, but we have not read them off a government page ourselves. Requirements change — India moved from 51×51mm to 35×45mm in September 2025 — and the instruction from the office handling your application always wins. Issuing authority
What trips people up
- 50×70mm is unique to Canada — no other major country uses it.
- Two prints are required, and the photographer's name, studio address and date must appear on the back.
Making the photo
Physical size is what the authority specifies, so work in millimetres and let the pixels follow. At 300 DPI, 50×70mm is exactly 591×827 pixels — that is the number most upload forms quote, and it is the same photo, not a different one.
A phone photo is not the right shape, so it has to be cropped to 50:70 before resizing — squashing it to fit distorts your face and gets the application rejected. The Passport & Visa Photo Maker centre-crops, sizes to the exact millimetres, and can lay out a 4×6in sheet of copies for a print shop. It runs entirely in your browser — your photo is never uploaded.