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So many times we have bought a tent, hoping it would be long enough, but the actual (measured) floor dimensions are not even close to the specs. It’s not even that the slope of tent walls makes the tents SEEM shorter, the actual floor dimensions, the part that lies flat on the ground, are so often much shorter (and narrower) than the specs. It is a pet peeve of ours. Frustrating. I guess this thread is related to the thread about backpack volumes: Reality vs specs.
Tent sizes are like Asian clothing sizes. Size up.
Shrug… it’s only a problem if you try to squeeze into the labeled size.
Hmmmm… I’ve never actually measured the floor in any of my tents. Now you have me wondering…
… I’ve always been consumed with “livable” space and my experience was that the prevailing issue there was wall angle.
Certainly there can be discrepancies, but also keep in mind that dimensions can be affected by this pitch. With a trekking pole tent, a higher pitch will lift up the edges of the floor into the sidewalls, and with a freestanding tent it likely still need to be staked out tight at the 4 corners to stretch out all the wrinkles in the floor.
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How much smaller have they been?  As Dan says, there are many pitching decisions that will affect floor area, as well as site conditions.  Could the published dimensions be attained with a “perfect pitch”…indoors on a level floor?  That is what I would expect for the published dimensions of any tent.
My wife and I have always opted for the 3-man version when buying a tent for ourselves. 6 oz more weight, and a world of difference in terms of space.
We always make sure to pull out the corners tightly. And we’ve seen stuff off by as much as 5-6″.
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