Healthy weight range for your height
A range, not a target weight. Most people can be healthy anywhere inside it.
By height
| Height | Healthy weight range | Width of the range |
|---|---|---|
| 150 cm | 42 to 56 kg | 14 kg |
| 155 cm | 44 to 60 kg | 16 kg |
| 160 cm | 47 to 64 kg | 17 kg |
| 165 cm | 50 to 68 kg | 18 kg |
| 170 cm | 53 to 72 kg | 19 kg |
| 175 cm | 57 to 77 kg | 20 kg |
| 180 cm | 60 to 81 kg | 21 kg |
| 185 cm | 63 to 86 kg | 23 kg |
| 190 cm | 67 to 90 kg | 23 kg |
| 195 cm | 70 to 95 kg | 25 kg |
Every row is simply the weights that give a BMI between 18.5 and 25 at that height. The third column is there to make a point: the healthy range is wide, and treating one end of it as a goal and the rest as failure is a choice nobody made for you.
Why this page will not give you a single number
Plenty of calculators will. They usually run a formula from the 1970s that was written to help dose medication, not to tell people what to weigh. Producing one number from your height alone ignores your build entirely, and it invites you to treat a rounding artefact as a goal.
If you want to know more than your weight, thebody fat calculator and thewaist to height ratio both tell you things that scales cannot.
Common questions
Is there one ideal weight for my height?
No, and that is the honest answer rather than a dodge. What exists is a range, about ten to twenty kilograms wide at most adult heights, inside which BMI reads as healthy. Where you sit inside it depends on your build, how much muscle you carry and what you are comfortable at.
What about the Devine and Robinson formulas?
Those older formulas produce a single ideal body weight figure and are still used in clinical settings, mainly for drug dosing rather than for telling people what to weigh. They were never intended as personal targets and they take no account of build, so this page uses the healthy BMI range instead.
The range seems wide. Why?
Because it should be. A healthy BMI spans 18.5 to 25, and at 170 cm that is more than eighteen kilograms. Anyone offering you a single number for your height is discarding most of that range for no good reason.
Does this work for muscular people?
Less well, like everything derived from BMI. Muscle is dense, so a well trained person can sit above this range while carrying very little fat. If that sounds like you, the body fat and waist calculators will tell you more than this one.
Sources
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This is not medical advice. Body Numbers is a calculator. It does not diagnose, treat or monitor any condition, and no number it produces should replace a conversation with a doctor or a dietitian. If a result worries you, or if you are pregnant, unwell, or under eighteen, speak to a health professional.
