Iveco Daily dimensions by variant: all 9 vans, L1H1 to L5H3 — and what 35S and 35C mean

An Iveco Daily is 1.80 m wide inside on all 9 variants. The load floor runs from 2.61 m to 5.13 m, the height is 1.54 m, 1.90 m or 2.10 m, and every Daily is rear-wheel drive. It’s the big panel van converters look at last — it comes from the truck world, not the van world — and that’s why converting a Daily is a different question from converting a Ducato: the width doesn’t quite give you a bed across, the kerb weight eats into payload at 3.5 t, and the real reason to buy a Daily lies somewhere else.

Below is every variant from the planner’s van database, inside and out, with the payload left after a real build. The figures come from Iveco’s Daily Van brochure (October 2024) for the 3.5 t van — the 35S people search for — and are the same ones on the planner’s Iveco Daily page.

The 9 Daily variants, measured

Internal length is bulkhead to rear door, width between the walls (not between the wheel arches, which sit tighter), height from floor to ceiling before the build. Payload is 3.5 t minus kerb weight — and it needs one more caveat than on the Ducato: Iveco doesn’t print a kerb weight for the 3.5 t panel van in its European documents, so these are planning figures. Your van on a weighbridge is what counts.

35S, 35C, 50C: the plate first, then the codes

A Daily’s name starts with its weight class: 35 means 3.5 t, and the letter tells you how the rear axle is shod — S single wheels, C twin wheels. A 35S is the 3.5 t Daily on single wheels, the Daily you drive on a car licence and the one in this table. A 35C carries the same bodies on twin wheels, and the 50C and 70C go up to 7.2 t — with the licence that goes with it (category C1, up to 7.5 t). L1 to L5 and H1 to H3 describe the body and don’t change with the plate; the plate changes payload and licence, not a single internal dimension.

L and H don’t mean the same thing on every make either: a Daily L3 has 3.54 m of floor, a Ducato L3 and a Sprinter L3 clearly more. The L/H code decoder puts them all on the same ruler — and next to the Crafter, the Daily is one of only two bodies that go to L5.

1.80 m between the walls: the cross bed, honestly

1.80 m bare, about 1.74 m after insulation and lining. Sleeping across needs your height plus 5 cm: enough for a sleeper of at most 1.69 m. A standard 1.86 m mattress doesn’t fit across. Because the width is the same on every variant, the answer depends on neither length nor roof — it’s the same in the L1H1 as in the L5H3.

Even so, after the Ducato family (1.87 m) and the Crafter (1.83 m), the Daily is the widest big panel van: wider than a Sprinter (1.79 m), a Transit (1.78 m) or a Master (1.76 m). Flares or window pods that add about 12 cm take the finished width to about 1.86 m, and a 1.80 m sleeper fits across. Without them, plan a lengthways bed, which costs about half a metre of floor — the sleep-across table does the sum for every base van.

Standing height: H2 up to about 1.80 m, H3 for nearly everyone

The H2 has 1.90 m bare, about 1.83 m after floor and ceiling: anyone up to about 1.80 m stands. The H3 has 2.10 m bare and about 2.03 m finished — one of the few factory roofs where even tall people never duck. The H1 has 1.54 m bare: a sit-in van, only as an L1 or L2, and the only Daily that looks like an ordinary van. The standing-height table ranks the other roofs in the class.

Outside, the Daily is tall: 2.31 m as an H1, 2.66 m as an H2, 2.86 m as an H3, before a roof fan adds about 0.15 m. No variant gets under a 2 m barrier; an H3 with a fan stands at 3.01 m — remember that before ferries, car parks and car washes.

Wheelbase: two, not five

The L2 and L3 share a 3.52 m wheelbase, the L4 and L5 share 4.10 m. Only the L1 has its own, 3.00 m. So the L3 is an L2 with more body behind the rear axle (3.13 m → 3.54 m of floor, 5.72 m → 6.12 m outside), and the L5 an L4 with more overhang (4.68 m → 5.13 m of floor, 7.28 m → 7.68 m outside). The overhang buys floor and costs 160 kg of payload between the L2H2 and L3H2, 75 kg between the L4H3 and L5H3 — plus a tail that swings out in corners and loads the rear axle.

If the extra floor goes behind the rear axle anyway — a rear garage, a shower — the L3 and L5 are the cheap way to get it. If it has to carry weight, the axle-load sums argue for the shorter variant on the same wheelbase and a denser layout.

Payload at 3.5 t: from 1,430 kg down to 820 kg

The shortest, lowest Daily carries 1,430 kg, the longest, tallest 820 kg. Take off a typical 600 kg build and the two-person reserve from EN 1646-2 and you have about 683 kg in the L1H1, 548 kg in the L2H2, 384 kg in the L3H2, 339 kg in the L3H3, 172 kg in the L4H2, 127 kg in the L4H3 and 48 kg in the L5H3. At 3.5 t the Daily is no payload champion — its truck chassis weighs: a Daily L1H1 has a 2,070 kg kerb weight, a Ducato L1H1 1,940 kg, and the Ducato keeps 1,560 kg of payload against 1,430 kg. On a 3.5 t plate, a converted Daily L4 or L5 is a weighing exercise first and a layout second.

The real argument is the next plate up. Where a Ducato stops at 4.25 t, the same Daily bodies come as a 50C and 70C up to 7.2 t, on a ladder chassis built for it: an L5H3 that leaves 48 kg at 3.5 t becomes a real load carrier as a 50C — at the price of a C1 licence and everything else that comes above 3.5 t. The under-3.5 t comparison shows what every base van has left, and the payload calculator checks it against your own list.

Rear-wheel drive and wheel arches: what the chassis costs the layout

All 9 variants are rear-wheel drive, the only big European panel van in the database that is. For a conversion that is good for traction with a full rear garage — and a limit on the floor: the rear axle and springs intrude into the load space. On the planner’s axle model, 1.32 m remain between the wheel arches, the tightest among the big panel vans, against 1.42 m in the Ducato. What that means for bikes and motorbikes is in my e-bike and motorbike garage post, and the wheel-arch table lines the Daily up against the rest. A 35C on twin wheels has wider arches still; the table above describes the 35S.

Which Daily for which build

• L2H2 — the Daily for two: 3.13 m of floor, 5.72 m outside, standing room up to about 1.80 m, 548 kg after a typical build. A lengthways bed, or a cross bed with flares.
• L3H2 / L3H3 — the same base with a proper bathroom or a long kitchen; 6.12 m outside, so over the 6 m line many campsites and ferries draw. That leaves 384 kg as an H2 and 339 kg as an H3: still relaxed.
• L4H3 — a fixed lengthways bed over a full-width garage, or four berths, on 4.68 m of floor. 7.28 m outside and 127 kg of margin at 3.5 t: weigh every board, or take the 35C or 50C.
• L5H3 — 5.13 m of floor, the longest factory load floor in the database. At 3.5 t a typical build leaves 48 kg: this is a 50C or 70C vehicle, not a car-licence van.
• L1H1 / L2H1 — everyday van or weekender, no standing height, the best payload in the range.

The layout ideas show what fits in which length, and the base-van comparison puts the Daily next to the other big vans. The planner sets your layout in the real variant, weight and axle loads live — and with the licence, VanPlot AI (beta) works out on request how much payload your layout leaves in the L3H2 (how it checks).

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