Facebook event cover photo size

Meta’s help centre spells out cover sizes for Pages and for groups, but its article on adding an event cover photo gives no figure for events, only a note that you can’t edit the size once the photo is added. The number in circulation comes from social media guides: Sprout Social’s, updated in May 2026, gives 1920 × 1005, and most event cover guides repeat it. The shape works out at 1.91:1.

Some older guides gave 1920 × 1080, a 16:9 frame that is 75 pixels taller. If you have a design in that shape, keep its words away from the top and bottom edges, the strips a 1.91:1 frame would lose.

Tip: Upload the full 1920 × 1005 even though most screens show the cover smaller. The spare pixels keep it sharp on high-resolution screens and wherever Facebook shrinks it.

Two other Facebook images share the 1.91:1 shape. A link preview, the picture shown when someone shares your ticket or sign-up page, is 1200 × 627 in Hootsuite’s guide, and a landscape post is 1080 × 566. A master design at 1920 × 1005 scales down to either to within a pixel.

Keeping a single master also keeps the event looking the same wherever people meet it, from the event page to a friend’s share of your ticket link.

Facebook prints the event’s name, date, time and location as text on the event page, so the image doesn’t have to carry them. That frees the cover for one job: show what the event will be like, or put its name in large letters.

• A gig or club night: the performers or the room, with the date in large type only if the date is the draw.
• A workshop or class: what people will make or learn, shown rather than described.
• A sale or launch: the product and one short line, such as the discount.
• An online event: the topic in a few words, plus the host’s photo if the host is the reason to come.
• Leave out full addresses, long schedules and rows of small sponsor logos. None of them survive being shown small.

The cover is also reused at smaller sizes, for example in posts that share the event and in event lists. One large element survives that shrinking; a poster with ten lines of text does not.

Both are called covers, which is why they get mixed up. A Page or profile cover is 851 × 315, about 2.7:1, a long thin strip. An event cover at 1.91:1 is much taller for its width. Put a Page cover on an event and it has to be enlarged to more than twice its width and lose its sides to fill the frame, which shows as blur and missing edges.

Going the other way fails too. An event image cropped into a Page cover loses almost 30% of its height, so the top and bottom of a poster-style design are cut off.

1. Start a 1920 × 1005 canvas. Build a landscape version rather than cropping a vertical poster down to it.
2. Keep text and faces near the middle, clear of the edges, since the cover is shown at many sizes.
3. Export photos as JPG in sRGB and lettering-heavy designs as PNG, the formats Meta suggests for Page covers.
4. Add the cover when you create the event, then open the event on a phone and on a computer to check it. Meta says you can add or remove an event cover photo, but not edit its size once it is added.
5. If the date or line-up changes, edit the event and swap the cover so the picture and the details agree.