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Planet Weight Calculator

See what you would weigh on every planet, the Moon, Pluto, and the Sun.

kg
Unit
Your weight on Mars
26.39kg0.377× Earth g

Mars pulls at about 0.377× Earth’s gravity, so your weight there is roughly 38% of your Earth weight. Your mass never changes — only your weight scales with each body’s surface gravity.

Your weight across the solar system (kg)
BodyGravity (× Earth)Your weight (kg)
Mercury0.37826.46
Venus0.90763.49
Earth1.00070
Moon0.16611.62
Mars0.37726.39
Jupiter2.364165.5
Saturn0.91664.12
Uranus0.88962.23
Neptune1.12078.4
Pluto0.0634.41
Sun27.9001953

Your weight on another body equals your Earth weight times that body’s surface-gravity ratio. A 70 kg person weighs about 26 kg-force on Mars (70 × 0.377 ≈ 26.4), about 12 kg on the Moon, and roughly 165 kg on Jupiter. Your mass stays 70 kg everywhere — only weight changes with gravity.

Weight versus mass

Mass is constant; weight is not. Mass is the amount of matter in your body and never changes, whether you are on Earth, the Moon, or drifting in deep space. Weight is the force gravity exerts on that mass, so it scales directly with the local surface gravity. Stand on a world where gravity is half of Earth’s and you weigh half as much — but you are made of exactly the same stuff.

This tool uses surface-gravity ratios relative to Earth (Earth = 1.000). Multiply your Earth weight by a body’s ratio and you get your weight there in the same unit. Because it is a straight ratio, the unit passes through unchanged: enter kilograms and you read kilograms-force, enter pounds and you read pounds.

weight on body = Earth weight × g ratio

The g ratio is a body’s surface gravity as a multiple of Earth’s (Earth = 1.000); your unit is unchanged.

Worked example

What would a 70 kg person weigh on Mars? Mars has a surface-gravity ratio of 0.377× Earth’s.

  1. 1
    Note your Earth weight. Use your everyday scale reading, e.g. 70 kg.
  2. 2
    Find the body’s gravity ratio. Mars has a surface gravity of 0.377× Earth’s.
  3. 3
    Multiply. weight on Mars = 70 × 0.377 ≈ 26.4 kg-force.
  4. 4
    Repeat for other bodies. For the Moon (0.166): 70 × 0.166 ≈ 11.6; for Jupiter (2.364): 70 × 2.364 ≈ 165.5.

Surface-gravity ratios across the solar system

Conventional textbook surface gravity as a multiple of Earth’s (Earth = 1.000). Weight on a body = Earth weight × ratio.

BodyGravity (× Earth)Weight of a 70 kg person
Mercury0.37826.5 kg
Venus0.90763.5 kg
Earth1.00070.0 kg
Moon0.16611.6 kg
Mars0.37726.4 kg
Jupiter2.364165.5 kg
Saturn0.91664.1 kg
Uranus0.88962.2 kg
Neptune1.12078.4 kg
Pluto0.0634.4 kg
Sun27.901953 kg

How to read the numbers

Gas giants are not as crushing as you might guess. Jupiter is over 300 times Earth’s mass, yet its surface gravity is only about 2.4× Earth’s, because its enormous radius pushes the visible “surface” far from its centre of mass. Saturn, Uranus, and even Neptune sit surprisingly close to Earth’s gravity for the same reason.

The Sun is the extreme case. At 27.9× Earth’s gravity, a 70 kg person would weigh nearly two tonnes-force there — a reminder that surface gravity depends on how much mass is packed within a given radius, and the Sun packs an immense amount.

Does my mass change on another planet?
No. Mass is the amount of matter in your body and stays the same everywhere. Only your weight — the force of gravity on that mass — changes from body to body, which is why a scale reads differently on the Moon than on Earth.
Why would I weigh more on Jupiter?
Jupiter’s surface gravity is about 2.364× Earth’s, so its gravity pulls on your mass with more than twice the force. A 70 kg person would weigh roughly 165 kg-force there, even though their mass is still exactly 70 kg.
Why is the Sun’s value so high?
The Sun contains about 333,000 Earth masses within a radius only ~109 times Earth’s, so gravity at its surface is about 27.9× Earth’s. A 70 kg person would weigh nearly 1,950 kg-force — you could not stand on it, but the ratio still shows how intense its gravity is.
Do kilograms or pounds matter for the calculation?
Either works, because the result is a straight ratio. Multiplying by a body’s gravity ratio keeps your unit unchanged, so kilograms in give kilograms-force out and pounds in give pounds out.
Why is my weight on the Moon about one-sixth of my Earth weight?
The Moon’s surface-gravity ratio is 0.166, close to one-sixth. Multiplying your Earth weight by 0.166 gives your Moon weight, so a 70 kg person weighs about 11.6 kg-force there.
Are these gravity ratios exact?
They are the conventional textbook values rounded to three or four figures, based on each body’s mean surface gravity. Real gravity varies slightly with latitude and altitude, and gas giants and the Sun have no solid surface, so their figures refer to the visible cloud tops or photosphere.
Why do Mercury and Mars have almost the same weight result?
Their surface-gravity ratios are nearly identical (0.378 and 0.377) even though Mercury is smaller and denser while Mars is larger and less dense. Mass and radius balance out, so a 70 kg person weighs about 26.5 kg on Mercury and 26.4 kg on Mars.