#flagpole height

Flag Pole Height Chart and Maritime Flag Arrangements

For our purposes, flagpole means a permanent pole cemented into the ground and flagstaff is one that is carried.

For flagpoles a general rule of thumb is the height of the flag should be 1/3 or 1/5 the height of the flagpole (the pole should be three or five times the height of the flag). Here is an example.

For a twenty-five foot flagpole:

1/5 of twenty-five is five.

1/3 of twenty-five is eight…