Nice and small but the numbers are quite legible. The white-on-black digits are hours, the black-on-white digit is tenths-of-an-hour (6 minutes each). It has a cool little "blinking thing" on the right of the display that "tics" every few seconds to let you know it's counting. (Helpful for installation.) The display is mechanical (wheels) and easy to read in bright sunlight. (Whereas those funky-cheap-popular LCD displays even on high dollar items are difficult to see at times.) I put mine in a very small plastic box, screwed to the podium inside wall instead of cutting a square hole in the dash. And being mechanical, it remembers the count forever without any power so winter storage or a dead battery aren't a concern.