The height h of a liquid column is given by Jurin's law
where  is the liquid-air surface tension (force/unit length), θ is the contact angle, ρ is the density of liquid (mass/volume), g is the local acceleration due to gravity (length/square of time), and r is the radius of tube.
As r is in the denominator, the thinner the space in which the liquid can travel, the further up it goes.  Likewise, lighter liquid and lower gravity increase the height of the column.
For a water-filled glass tube in air at standard laboratory conditions,  at 20°C,  , and . Because water spreads on clean glass, the effective equilibrium contact angle is approximately zero. For these values, the height of the water column is
Thus for a  radius glass tube in lab conditions given above, the water would rise an unnoticeable . However, for a  radius tube, the water would rise , and for a  radius tube, the water would rise .