Climbing rating
A comparison chart for some of the free climbing rating systems in use around the world:
| Free Climbing Grading Systems | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YDS (USA) |
British
Tech/Adj |
French | UIAA | Saxon | Ewbank (Australia, NZ & South Africa) | Finnish | Norwegian | Brazilian | |||
| 5.2 | 1 | I | I | Isup | |||||||
| 5.3 | 2 | II | II | 11 | II | ||||||
| 5.4 | 3 | III | III | 12 | 3 | IIsup | |||||
| 5.5 | 4a | VD | 4a | IV | IV | 12 | 4 | III | |||
| 5.6 | S | 4b | IV+ | V | 13 | 5− | 5− | IIIsup | |||
| 5.7 | 4b | HS | 4c | V | VI | 14 | 5 | 5 | IV | ||
| 5.8 | 4c | VS | 5a | V+ | 15 | ||||||
| HVS | 5b | VI- | VIIa | 16 | 5+ | 5+ | IVsup | ||||
| 5.9 | 5a | E1 | 5c | VI | VIIb | 17 | 6− | V | |||
| 5.10a | 6a | VI+ | VIIc | 18 | 6− | 6−/6 | VI | ||||
| 5.10b | 5b | E2 | 6a+ | VII- | 19 | 6 | VI/VI+ | ||||
| 5.10c | 6b | VII | VIIIa | 20 | 6 | 6+ | VIsup/VI+ | ||||
| 5.10d | 5c | E3 | 6b+ | VII+ | VIIIb | 21 | 7- | VIsup | |||
| 5.11a | 6c | VIIIc | 22 | 6+ | 7 | 7a | |||||
| 5.11b | 6c/c+ | VIII- | 23 | 7b | |||||||
| 5.11c | 6a | E4 | 6c+ | IXa | 24 | 7− | 7+ | 7c | |||
| 5.11d | 7a | VIII | IXb | 7c | |||||||
| 5.12a | E5 | 7a+ | VIII+ | IXc | 25 | 7+ | 7+/8− | 8a | |||
| 5.12b | 7b | 26 | 8− | 8- | 8b | ||||||
| 5.12c | 6b | E6 | 7b+ | IX− | Xa | 27 | 8 | 8 | 8c | ||
| 5.12d | 7c | IX | Xb | 28 | 8+ | 8/8+ | 9a | ||||
| 5.13a | E7 | 7c+ | IX+ | Xc | 29 | 9− | 8+ | 9b | |||
| 5.13b | 6c | 8a | 9 | 9- | 9c | ||||||
| 5.13c | E8 | 8a+ | X− | 30 | 9+ | 9−/9 | 10a | ||||
| 5.13d | E9 | 8b | X | 31 | 10− | 9 | 10b | ||||
| 5.14a | 7a | E10 | 8b+ | X+ | 32 | 10 | 9/9+ | 10c | |||
| 5.14b | E11 | 8c | 33 | 10+ | 9+ | 11a | |||||
| 5.14c | 7b | E12 | 8c+ | XI− | 34 | 11− | 10− | 11b | |||
| 5.14d | 9a | XI | 35 | 11 | 10 | 11c | |||||
| 5.15a | 9a+ | XI+ | 10+ | 12a | |||||||
| 5.15b | 9b | 12b | |||||||||
