Stones and pounds to kg converter
Type a weight like 11 st 4 lb to get kilograms and pounds, or type kilograms to get stones and pounds.
That's 1.02× as heavy as an average woman, while an average man is 1.19× heavier.
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Stones and pounds are rounded to the nearest pound. 1 stone is 14 lb, exactly 6.35029318 kg.
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A stone is 6.35 kg
Roughly 6⅓ kg per stone: 10 stone is 63.5 kg, 12 stone 76.2 kg.
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Weighing with stones
Traders once balanced goods against stones, and the weight of a “stone” varied by town and trade. The 14 lb stone was fixed by English law in 1835.
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11.4 stone is not 11 st 4
11.4 stone is 11 st 5.6 lb. The pounds after the stones are fourteenths, not tenths.
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About stones
In Britain and Ireland body weight is still given in stones and pounds: 14 pounds to the stone, so 11 st 4 lb is 158 lb. One stone is 6.35 kg.
To convert by hand, turn it into pounds first (stones × 14 + pounds), then multiply by 0.4536.