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Free Water Intake Calculator

Daily water needs based on weight and activity.

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Daily water

92 oz

Cups (8 oz)11.5
Liters2.72 L

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Daily water needs based on weight and activity.

What is the Water Intake Calculator?

Daily water needs based on weight and activity.

How does the Water Intake Calculator work?

Enter the inputs above and read the result.

Formula

oz = 0.5 × weight(lbs) + 12 per 30 min exercise

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    Explanation

    Common practitioner guideline; adjust for climate and health.

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              Related concepts

              The Water Intake Calculator sits inside the Health Calculators hub, in the nutrition & diet cluster. Energy targets and macronutrient planning. Understanding the terms below makes the output easier to interpret and easier to compare against neighbouring measures.

              energy balancemacronutrient splithydrationthermic effectmicronutrient

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              Understanding Water Intake

              Daily water needs based on weight and activity. Within health calculators, water intake belongs to the nutrition & diet cluster, where it shares terminology and assumptions with closely related tools.

              Learning how water intake is calculated

              Common practitioner guideline; adjust for climate and health. Working through the variables one at a time — — makes the result reproducible by hand and easier to sanity-check.

              Using water intake to make a decision

              Because outputs depend on the assumptions you enter, run more than one scenario before committing to a figure.

              How water intake compares with related measures

              energy balance, macronutrient split, hydration, thermic effect all describe adjacent aspects of nutrition & diet. Comparing this calculator's output against those measures — using the related tools listed on this page — prevents a single metric from being read in isolation.

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