Pack Perfect Luggage Calculator
Find out where you stand with your airline's luggage limits.
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Find out where you stand with your airline's luggage limits.
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Some airlines charge more than the ticket for a kilo over. Others do not care. The question is whether your bag will pass. This calculator tells you, BEFORE you leave home. Pick your airlines and ticket types, choose the bags you own, add the clothes you plan to bring. It weighs each item by size and gender, checks the totals against airline limits, flags which carriers run strict, and lets you shift weight between bags until it fits. Printable packing list at the end. A few minutes, free.
Hey guys, I've been traveling carry-on only for 12 years (teaching it for 6 years) and the most common question I get from other travelers is some version of:
"How do I actually know my bag will pass the checks BEFORE I get to the airport?"
And in the past, the real answer used to be quite time-consuming: check each airline's rules yourself, weigh all your luggage on a scale, hope your bag is the size you think it is, and find out at the counter whether you guessed right.
As you can image: Many would skip all of that and just gamble. And the "unlucky" ones would up paying fees that can cost more than the ticket itself.
So I built this calculator to do the work instead.
You pick your airlines and ticket types, choose the bags you actually own (duffel, hardcase, softcase, backpack, and so on), and add what you plan to pack.
The tool estimates the weight of each item based on size and gender, totals everything against your airline limits, tells you whether those carriers run strict or relaxed, and lets you shift weight between bags until everything fits.
At the end you get a printable list with the baggage rules for your trip, your final packing list, and the weight distribution across each bag.
A few things that make it different from other calculators:
1. It weighs your clothes for you based on size and gender, so no kitchen/bathroom scale at the planning stage
2. You can add every airline on your trip, and it uses the strictest limits as your baseline
3. The output is a tanglible, usable, list you can take to fill your suitcase, not just a number on screen
Takes a few minutes, completely free, no signup.
Feedback
I've covered most, but I would love feedback on which airlines and ticket types I should prioritize for future rule updates, anything that feels "missing", or awkward in the flow, and edge cases worth adding like luggage or even bag types.
I'm also happy to answer all questions, central European time-zone though :)
Thanks for taking a look and getting back to me.
And in the future, safe travels,
-Tor