16 comparison tools

Weight & mass

What your number weighs against animals, cars, aircraft and the things people actually lift.

• Backpack weight A pack weight against the guidance for hiking, school bags and military loads.
• Bench press standards A lift against beginner to elite standards and the current world records.
• Birth weight A newborn’s weight on a scale marked with the low, average and large thresholds clinicians use.
• Dog weight by breed A dog’s weight against typical adult weights for common breeds, from chihuahua to mastiff.
• How heavy am I? Your weight against a bowling ball, a washing machine, a golden retriever and a grand piano.
• How much is a tonne? A tonne made concrete: the everyday objects that add up to 1 000 kilograms.
• Luggage weight Your bag’s weight on a gauge marked with the usual cabin, checked and excess-fee thresholds.
• The weight of money A pile of banknotes and coins turned into kilograms — the reason heists need a van.
• Weight in bricks A mass in standard 2.7 kg clay bricks — the unit every builder already thinks in.
• Weight in cars Any mass expressed in 1.2 tonne family cars — the heaviest object most people own.
• Weight in cats Any weight, divided by one 4.5 kg house cat, drawn out as a room full of cats.
• Weight in elephants Big weights made legible: any mass divided by one six-tonne African elephant.
• Weight in gold bars A mass in 12.4 kg Good Delivery gold bars — the ones stacked in central-bank vaults.
• Weight in water bottles A weight in one-litre water bottles, which weigh exactly one kilogram each.
• Weight vs animals Your weight lined up against cats, dogs, bears, horses, elephants and a blue whale.
• Weight vs dinosaurs A weight against the best current mass estimates for the famous dinosaurs.