A database of things and their weight

Put the world on a scale

From a grain of rice to a pyramid, find the weight of almost anything.

2886items
11categories
430source articles
2.5 milligrams–947,000,000,000,000,000 tonnesweight span

Weight distribution

From milligrams to megatons, every dot is an object.

Weight distribution

From milligrams to megatons, every dot is an object.

2886 items
All items
Categoryitems
< 1 g9
1–100 g153
100 g–1 kg223
1–10 kg266
10–100 kg863
100 kg–1 t645
1–10 t428
10–100 t169
100 t–1 kt64
1–100 kt27
100 kt–1 Mt32
> 1 Mt7

Explore by category

Eleven categories, from pocket-sized things to skyline-sized structures and celestial bodies.

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Guides

Read the fine print

Short guides on ranges, units and data quality.

Guides

Collections

Browse by weight band

From featherweight objects to megaton-scale structures.

Weight collections

How the data is made

Every step keeps a source; weights are only organized and converted.

01

Read the source

Extract objects and weight statements from weightofstuff.com articles.

02

Structure and check

Normalize units, ranges and approximations, keeping the original snippet for traceability.

03

Translate and serve

Chinese, English and Japanese content is read from MySQL and rendered by Flask.