Reading a metric scale
A reading of 70 kg is about 11.02 stone in UK terms.
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Converts kilograms to stone in this tab, with nothing sent anywhere.
Runs entirely on your deviceThe conversion happens in this browser tab. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored, which is worth knowing for anything you would not paste into a search box.
A scale reading of 70 kg is roughly 11.02 stone. People often express the remainder as pounds instead of a decimal, so 11.02 st is not the spoken form '11 stone 2 pounds'; it is closer to 11 stone and a quarter pound.
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Kilograms are how body weight is measured almost everywhere and in all of medicine, but in the UK and Ireland people think in stone, so a weight in kilograms often needs converting to be understood. Converting kilograms to stone turns a metric weight into the stone-and-pounds figure a British audience relates to. One kilogram is about 0.157 stone. This is the conversion a UK user reaches for when a gym machine, an app or a foreign form gives their weight in kilograms and they want it in the units they actually use day to day. Because a stone is 14 pounds, a kilogram is a small fraction of a stone, and the result is usually expressed as whole stone plus remaining pounds - though this tool gives the decimal stone figure. Weight-loss journeys in the UK are almost always tracked in stone and pounds, so someone weighing in on a metric scale converts back to stone to see their progress in familiar terms. Roughly, dividing kilograms by 6.35 gives the weight in stone. A decimal stone value is not a stone-and-pounds reading; multiply its fractional part by 14 to obtain pounds.
Using Kilograms to Stone
- Type a number of kg. You can paste a value with its unit; the tool reads the number.
- The exact factor is applied and the result is shown as st, updating live as you type.
- Copy the answer, or switch to the reverse converter to go from st back to kg.
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Both directions
Need the opposite? The st-to-kg converter is linked below and uses the exact inverse factor.
Read the remainder as pounds
A result of 11.5 stone is 11 stone plus half a stone, or 7 pounds. It is not 11 stone 5 pounds. Multiply the fractional part by 14 when translating a decimal-stone value into the mixed notation used on some scales. Preserve the kilogram source when recording a measurement.
Before you use the result
- The result is rounded for readability; the underlying factor is exact, so a value converted and back may differ in the last decimal place.
- Units in your input are ignored - only the number is read - so make sure the figure you type is really in kg.
Questions about Kilograms to Stone
How many stone is 70 kg?
About 11.02 stone. One kilogram is roughly 0.157 stone, and a stone is 6.35 kg, so 70 kg is just over 11 stone.
Is my data uploaded?
No. Kilograms to Stone does the arithmetic in this browser tab; the value is calculated on your device and is not sent to a server.
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