Kilograms to Pounds
Convert kilograms to pounds, with stone and both tons alongside.
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One kilogram is 2.20462 pounds. Doubling and adding a tenth gets you within half a percent, which is fine for a suitcase and not fine for a dosage.
More about Kilograms to Pounds
Airline baggage is where most people meet this conversion under time pressure. A 23 kg allowance is 50.7 lb, and a 32 kg limit is 70.5 lb — both suspiciously close to the round imperial numbers airlines actually print, because the limits were set in pounds first and converted afterwards. Standing at a check-in desk with a scale reading one unit and a policy written in the other is the whole use case.
Body weight is the other common reason, and it is worth knowing that the stone is a third system again: fourteen pounds to the stone, so 70 kg is 154.3 lb or 11 stone 0.3 lb. British medical records and British bathroom scales frequently disagree about which of the three to use.
The factor is exact by definition. A pound is 0.45359237 kilograms, fixed by the same 1959 agreement that defined the inch, and the ounce is a sixteenth of that. Nothing here is rounded until it is displayed.
- Exact factor: one pound is 0.45359237 kilograms by definition
- Stone, ounce and both kinds of ton listed alongside
- Common airline baggage allowances converted in the text
- Swap button for either direction without retyping
- Numbers grouped the way your language writes them
How to use it
- 1Type the number of kilograms you have.
- 2Read the answer in pounds as it updates.
- 3Swap the direction to convert pounds back to kilograms.
- 4Take stone, ounces or grams from the table underneath.
Questions
How many pounds is 1 kg?
2.20462 lb. Ten kilograms is 22.05 lb and a hundred is 220.46 lb.
What is the airline 23 kg allowance in pounds?
It is 50.7 lb, which is why the limit is usually printed as 50 lb. The 32 kg limit is 70.5 lb.
How many pounds are in a stone?
Fourteen. So 70 kg is 11 stone and about 0.3 lb, or 154.3 lb outright.
Is a US ton the same as a metric tonne?
No. A metric tonne is 1000 kg, a US short ton is 907 kg and a UK long ton is 1016 kg. All three are listed separately here.
Is this weight or mass?
Strictly it is mass, which is what both kilograms and pounds measure in everyday use. Weight in the physics sense is a force and would be measured in newtons.