Facebook Event Cover Size
1920 by 1005 — and the reason the date and the venue should not be at the bottom of it, which is exactly where people put them.
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How it works
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Drop the image in
JPG, PNG, WebP or an iPhone HEIC. Several at once is fine — they all come out the same size.
The size is already set to 1920 by 1005
Change it if you need something else. Cover crops to fill, Contain fits the whole picture and pads the rest.
Check the preview, then save
The crop is shown before anything is written, so what you get is what you saw.
What people resize to this
A gig, a market or a club night
Artwork at the right shape, with the details left to the description where they can be read and copied.
A poster you already had printed
Cropped deliberately to 1.91:1 rather than letting Facebook take the middle.
A photo from last year's event
A landscape photo is close to the right shape already and needs only a trim.
A series of dates
Several covers to one size in a pass, so a run of events looks like a run.
The cover is not where the details go
1920 by 1005 pixels. That is what Facebook asks for, and it is a 1.91:1 landscape — the same proportion as a link preview, just larger.
The mistake that costs events attendance is not the size. It is treating the cover as a poster.
| Size | Ratio | File limit |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 × 1005 px | 1.91:1 | not published |
The bottom of it is not yours
On a phone, the event name, the date and the host are drawn over or immediately below the cover, and the exact overlap changes with the layout. A design with the date printed across the bottom competes with Facebook printing the date in the same place — and Facebook's version wins, because it is the one that is legible.
Keep anything you need read in the middle band, and treat the bottom fifth as decoration.
It is shown small far more often than large
Most people meet an event cover as a thumbnail in a feed or in their events list, at a fraction of 1920 pixels. A poster's worth of information — address, times, ticket prices, a QR code — is unreadable at that size, and all of it belongs in the event description, where it is searchable and copyable.
The cover has one job: make somebody stop and read the title Facebook has already printed for them.
A repurposed print poster rarely works
A poster is portrait and dense; a cover is wide and glanced at. Cropping an A4 poster to 1.91:1 keeps the middle third and throws away the top and bottom, which is usually where the title and the date were.
Better to take the artwork — the photograph, the illustration, the colour — and let Facebook's own text do the work it is going to do anyway.
Sharing it makes a second image
When somebody shares the event, the preview is generated from this cover. That preview is a shorter crop again, which is one more reason the centre is the only part you can rely on.
Cover or Contain, and what each throws away
Two ways to fit one shape into another, and the tool offers both.
Cover fills the frame completely and crops whatever does not fit. Nothing is distorted and nothing is padded; some of the picture is simply gone. This is what you want almost always.
Contain fits the whole image inside the frame and fills the leftover space with a colour you choose. Nothing is lost, but the picture is smaller and there are bars. Right when the whole frame matters — a poster, a diagram, a design you cannot cut.
Neither ever stretches. An image squashed to fit is the one mistake that cannot be undone by looking at it again later.
Nothing is uploaded
The resizing happens in your browser using your own processor, so the image never leaves your machine. That is why there is no file-size limit, no queue and no account, and why a batch of forty is limited by your computer rather than by somebody’s free tier.
Common questions
What size is a Facebook event cover?
1920 by 1005 pixels, a 1.91:1 landscape. It is the same proportion as a link preview image, at a larger size.
Why is text at the bottom of my cover hidden?
Because Facebook draws the event name, date and host over or immediately below the cover, and the overlap changes with the layout. Keep anything that must be read in the middle band.
Can I use my printed poster as the cover?
Only after cropping it deliberately. A portrait poster cut to 1.91:1 loses its top and bottom, which is usually the title and the date. Use the artwork and let the description carry the details.
Where should the event details go?
In the description. It is searchable, copyable and readable at any size, which none of it is when printed into an image shown as a thumbnail.
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