Garage Door Sizes

What size garage door do I need?

Pick what you are parking. Get the size, drawn to scale, and what it costs installed.

Vehicle
How many
Material
9'0" 7'0" 2.0' spare · 12" each side

You need a 9x7 — One car or a normal pickup. The standard single door.

Estimated cost

$2,580 – $5,250

Typical: $3,920 · installed, old door taken away

Line items

Insulated steel door, 9x7$2,600
Fitting, springs and tracks$900
Old door out and away$410

National guide ranges, checked September 2026. The same door costs noticeably more in some states than others — treat this as a starting point and get a written quote.

Exact price

Want the real number for your opening?

The range above is a guide. Tell us what you need and somebody who works your area will price it properly.

What do you need?

Tell us what you need first

Your details are used to quote this job and nothing else.

A white raised-panel double garage door with a row of windows, on a sage-green house with a paved driveway.
The commonest door there is, on the commonest kind of house. — MF Garage Doors, Sebring, Florida.

All standard sizes

Every size, and what fits through it

SizeTypeWhat fits
16x7doubleTwo normal cars side by side. The most common double door in America.
10x10singleOne vehicle with height — a lifted truck, a small RV, a box van.
8x7singleOne small car. Tight for anything wider than a sedan — mirrors are the problem, not the body.
9x7singleOne car or a normal pickup. The standard single door.
10x8singleOne full-size truck or SUV with a roof rack.
16x8doubleTwo vehicles, one of them tall. The double door for a truck household.
12x10oversizeA workshop bay, a boat on a trailer, a dual-wheel truck.
12x12oversizeAn RV, a lifted dually, a shop with a lift in it.
10x7singleOne vehicle with room to open the door without touching the frame.
18x7doubleTwo vehicles with real space between them. Common on newer builds.
18x8doubleTwo vehicles, one tall, with room to walk between them.
12x7singleOne wide vehicle, or one car plus a workbench along the wall.
20x10oversizeTwo tall vehicles, or a commercial bay.
20x8oversizeA wide double for a three-car garage's main bay.
20x12oversizeAn RV bay. This is a commercial-weight door on a house.

Something wrong with it?

What it is, and whether it is yours to fix

Garage door won't closeGarage door will not openBroken garage door springGarage door off trackGarage door stuckGarage door opens by itselfGarage door closes then opens againLoose garage door chainGarage door keypad not workingGarage door will not close all the wayGarage door hanging crookedGarage door sensor blinking

What it costs

Repair prices, and when not to bother

Garage door spring replacement costGarage door opener installation costGarage door repair costGarage door panel replacement costGarage door cable repair costGarage door tune-up costGarage door roller replacement costGarage door sensor replacement cost

Do it yourself

The jobs that are genuinely yours

How to program a garage door openerHow to open a garage door manuallyHow to lubricate a garage doorHow to reset a garage door openerHow to align garage door sensorsHow to insulate a garage doorHow to paint a garage doorHow to replace garage door rollersHow to program a garage door keypadHow to program a car to your garage doorHow to adjust a garage doorHow to measure for a garage door

Guides

The questions people ask next

What is a standard garage door size?What size garage door do you need for two cars?How tall is a standard garage door?Garage door sizes chartWhat is the rough opening for a garage door?

Where to buy

Home DepotLowe'sMenardsCostco

Before you frame anything

Rough opening and clearances

For a sectional door the rough opening equals the door size exactly. A 16x7 door needs a 16'0" wide by 7'0" high finished opening.

ClearanceMinimumWhy
Headroom, standard torsion12"Between the top of the opening and the ceiling. Clopay and Garaga both publish this.
Headroom, with an opener15"The opener rail runs above the door, so it needs three more inches.
Headroom, low-clearance kit9" front, 4.5" rearDepends where the spring mounts. Costs more and needs a different spring assembly.
Sideroom, each side3.75"For the vertical track. 5.5" if the opener rail is side-mounted.
Backroomdoor height + 16"Door height + 4'2" for a ceiling-mounted opener.
Track radius, 12 in12-14" headroomA tighter turn for a low ceiling. Works the opener harder.
Track radius, 15 in15-18" headroomThe smoother turn, and the normal choice on a 7 ft door.

Written by MF Garage Doors, who have been fitting and repairing garage doors out of Sebring, Florida since 2019. The photographs are of their own work.

Clearance and rough-opening figures are the manufacturers' published numbers, read through by Dmi, who has been fitting doors with us since 2019. Price bands checked against a working contractor's list, September 2026, and widened to national ranges — a guide, not a quote.

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