Kilograms to Pounds

About Kilograms to Pounds

Most of the world weighs things in kilograms; the United States and, informally, the United Kingdom still think in pounds. Converting kilograms to pounds is the everyday need of anyone reading a metric weight - a suitcase allowance, a body weight, a recipe - who wants it in the units they feel. One kilogram is about 2.2046 pounds, and this tool applies that factor exactly so you get a precise figure rather than the rough 'times two' most people do in their head. Gym plates, bags of flour and shipping weights all tend to be labelled in kilograms outside the US, so the pounds figure is what tells an American reader whether a load is light or heavy at a glance. Fitness trackers sold internationally default to kilograms, and converting a logged bodyweight to pounds is how many US users make sense of their own progress week to week. When logging weight over time, use the same scale conditions as well as the same unit. For example, a change from 80 to 79 kg is about 2.2 pounds lost; comparing a kilogram reading directly with a pound reading would hide the actual trend.