{ "id": "calories-burned-biking", "version": "5b258356cf81", "status": "published", "name": "Calories Burned Biking Calculator", "question": "How many cycling calories do I burn?", "summary": "Estimates the calories burned cycling from body weight, riding speed or kind of ride (road, mountain, e-bike, stationary bike by watts) and minutes, with MET values from the 2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities.", "category": "health", "subcategory": "body", "url": "https://www.acalculator.org/health/calories-burned-biking-calculator", "markdown": "https://www.acalculator.org/health/calories-burned-biking-calculator.md", "kind": "function", "method": "Calories = MET × 3.5 × weight (kg) ÷ 200 × minutes; calories above resting use MET − 1.", "assumptions": [ "MET values are the 2024 Adult Compendium’s, measured in adults 19 to 59 years old.", "One MET is taken as 3.5 mL of oxygen per kilogram per minute, and 1 litre of oxygen as 5 kilocalories (the Compendium’s conversions).", "The answer is an estimate for an average rider; wind, hills, the bike and riding position change the real cost.", "This is for information only and is not medical advice." ], "inputs": { "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema", "type": "object", "properties": { "weight": { "title": "Weight", "description": "Your body weight.", "type": [ "number", "string" ], "x-quantity": "mass", "minimum": 20, "maximum": 350 }, "ride": { "title": "Speed or kind of ride", "description": "Your riding speed, the kind of ride, or the power on a stationary bike, which sets the MET value.", "type": "string", "enum": [ "01018", "01010", "01019", "01020", "01030", "01040", "01050", "01060", "01014", "01015", "01016", "01017", "01011", "01013", "01065", "01066", "01009", "01003", "01004", "01008", "01080", "01084", "01088", "01070", "01200", "01210", "01214", "01216", "01218", "01220", "01224", "01228", "01232", "01236", "01240", "01244", "01248", "01270", "01290", "01305" ] }, "min": { "title": "Minutes ridden", "description": "How long you ride, in minutes.", "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 1440 } } }, "outputs": { "calories": { "label": "Calories burned", "description": "Total kilocalories burned during the ride, including what the body burns at rest.", "format": "number" }, "net": { "label": "Above resting", "description": "Kilocalories beyond what you would burn resting for the same time: (MET − 1) of the total.", "format": "number" }, "perHour": { "label": "Calories per hour", "description": "Kilocalories burned per hour at this effort and weight.", "format": "number" }, "met": { "label": "MET value", "description": "The Compendium’s energy cost of the ride as a multiple of the resting rate.", "format": "number" } }, "defaultAnswer": { "inputs": { "weight": 72.57477920000001, "ride": "01030", "min": 60 }, "outputs": { "calories": 609.62814528, "net": 533.42462712, "perHour": 609.62814528, "met": 8 }, "text": "Cycling for 60 minutes (12 to 13.9 mph, moderate effort) at 160 lb burns about 610 calories." }, "examples": [ { "given": { "weight": 72.57477920000001, "ride": "01030", "min": 60 }, "expect": { "calories": 609.62814528, "net": 533.42462712, "perHour": 609.62814528, "met": 8 }, "source": "2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities, Bicycling, https://pacompendium.com/bicycling; Compendium of Physical Activities, Unit Conversions (kcal/min = METs × 3.5 × body weight in kg ÷ 200), https://pacompendium.com/unite-conversions/; code 01030, 8.0 MET; hand calculation in content.mdx" }, { "given": { "weight": 70, "ride": "01040", "min": 30 }, "expect": { "calories": 367.5, "net": 330.75, "perHour": 735 }, "source": "2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities, Bicycling, https://pacompendium.com/bicycling; Compendium of Physical Activities, Unit Conversions (kcal/min = METs × 3.5 × body weight in kg ÷ 200), https://pacompendium.com/unite-conversions/; code 01040, 10.0 MET; hand calculation in content.mdx: 10 × 3.5 × 70 ÷ 200 × 30" }, { "given": { "weight": 90.718474, "ride": "01228", "min": 45 }, "expect": { "calories": 571.5263862, "net": 500.085587925, "perHour": 762.0351816 }, "source": "2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities, Bicycling, https://pacompendium.com/bicycling; Compendium of Physical Activities, Unit Conversions (kcal/min = METs × 3.5 × body weight in kg ÷ 200), https://pacompendium.com/unite-conversions/; code 01228, 8.0 MET; hand calculation in content.mdx" }, { "given": { "weight": 55, "ride": "01088", "min": 20 }, "expect": { "calories": 77, "met": 4 }, "source": "2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities, Bicycling, https://pacompendium.com/bicycling; Compendium of Physical Activities, Unit Conversions (kcal/min = METs × 3.5 × body weight in kg ÷ 200), https://pacompendium.com/unite-conversions/; code 01088, 4.0 MET; hand calculation in content.mdx: 4 × 3.5 × 55 ÷ 200 × 20" } ], "sources": [ "2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities, Bicycling (codes 01xxx and their MET values). https://pacompendium.com/bicycling (retrieved 2026-10-02)", "Compendium of Physical Activities, Unit Conversions (1 MET = 3.5 mL O₂/kg/min; METs to kcal/min = METs × 3.5 × body weight in kg ÷ 200). https://pacompendium.com/unite-conversions/ (retrieved 2026-10-02)", "Herrmann SD and others. 2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities: a third update of the energy costs of human activities. Journal of Sport and Health Science 2024;13:6–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs.2023.10.010 (retrieved 2026-10-02)", "NIST Special Publication 811, Appendix B (1 lb = 0.45359237 kg exactly). https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811 (retrieved 2026-10-02)" ], "related": [ "calories-burned", "calories-burned-running", "calories-burned-walking", "tdee" ], "changelog": [] }