The biggest pizza in the world is the 1,296.72-square-metre (13,990-square-foot) pizza made by Airrack and Pizza Hut at the Los Angeles Convention Center on January 19, 2023. Guinness World Records recognizes it as the largest pizza by area.
That measurement makes it the official answer when “biggest” means total surface area. The pizza covered more than 130 feet across, but other records use different standards, including diameter, length, weight, and commercial availability.
The biggest pizza in the world: Airrack and Pizza Hut’s 1,296.72 m² Guinness area record (Los Angeles, January 19, 2023)
Airrack, the creator behind the record attempt, worked with Pizza Hut and a large production team to build the record-breaking pizza in Los Angeles. Guinness measured the finished pizza’s total surface area at 1,296.72 m². That equals roughly 0.32 acre or nearly 14,000 square feet of pizza.
The record date was January 19, 2023, and the category was largest pizza by area. This distinction matters because a pizza can have a greater total area without holding the record for the longest or widest pizza. The Airrack and Pizza Hut creation replaced an earlier area record set in Rome by NIPfood in 2012.
How the biggest pizza was made: rolled dough, toppings, sectional baking, and assembly
A pizza this large could not fit into a conventional commercial oven. The team rolled and shaped the dough across the convention-center floor, creating a giant pizza footprint in sections. Workers then added the sauce, cheese, and pepperoni before baking the sections with specially designed mobile equipment.
The process required careful coordination to keep the dough, toppings, and baking temperatures consistent across the entire footprint. After the sections were cooked, the team assembled them into one continuous pizza so Guinness could assess the completed surface.
- Dough: The team used more than 13,000 pounds of dough.
- Sauce: Nearly 5,000 pounds of pizza sauce covered the base.
- Cheese: The pizza required about 8,800 pounds of cheese.
- Toppings: The finished pizza included roughly 630,000 pepperoni slices.
The record attempt used a modular construction method rather than treating the pizza as one object that had to enter a single oven at once. That approach allowed the team to bake, inspect, and join manageable sections while preserving the required overall shape.
Area versus diameter and weight: why pizza records need a metric
“Biggest pizza” can describe several different measurements. Area measures the total amount of pizza on the ground. Diameter measures the straight-line distance across a round pizza. Weight measures the mass of the finished product, including its dough and toppings.
If you treat the Airrack pizza as a circle, its area equals an approximate diameter of 40.6 metres, or 133 feet. That is a calculation for comparison, not the Guinness category used to award the record. A pizza can be heavier because it has a thicker crust or more toppings without covering more ground.
Other records for the world’s largest pizza: longest, heaviest, and commercial-sale pizzas
- Largest by diameter: The 2012 “Ottavia” pizza made by NIPfood in Rome measured 40.15 metres (131 feet 8.5 inches) across. Its diameter record is separate from Airrack’s later area record.
- Longest pizza: A pizza made in Fontana, California, measured 1,853.88 metres (6,082 feet 4 inches) on June 10, 2017. It was designed to extend in length, so it does not automatically qualify as the largest by area.
- Heaviest pizza: NIPfood’s Ottavia pizza in Rome weighed 26,883 kilograms (59,241 pounds). Its weight record reflects mass, not the greatest footprint.
- Largest commercially sold pizza: Guinness has listed Big Mama’s & Papa’s Pizzeria in Los Angeles for a 54-inch (1.37-metre) pizza available for customers to order. This category covers a product sold commercially, not a one-time record event.