Cigar Size

Cigar sizes are presented on inches for the length followed by a number - the ring size. This means that if a cigar is ring guage 44, the cigar thickness or diameter is 44/100's of an inch.

You can find smaller cigars of ring guage 26 to the larger ones produced today over an inch - ring guage 66.

Cigar Shape

Cigars can be divided on two categories: those with straight sides - Parejos - and those with irregular shapes - Figurados.

Parejos are the most common cigars, those that the majority of smokers are most familiar with. In this category you can find most of the cigar sizes usually found on the market - Coronas, Churchills, Robustos, Double Coronas, Panatelas, Londsdales.

Figurados, the ones with irregular shapes, can be recognized by the following types:

Pyramid - have a pointed closed end and widens to an open foot.

Torpedo - also with a pointed head, has a more closed foot.

Perfecto - has both heads closed.

Culebra - has three panatelas twisted together.

Diademas - is a big cigar with eight inches, with one or both heads closed like perfecto.