Blood Alcohol Calculator
Estimate blood alcohol content with the Widmark formula and see the hours until you reach zero.
Blood alcohol estimate
Blood alcohol content: —
Legal limit: —
Already eliminated: —
Hours to sobriety: —
How to use the Blood Alcohol Calculator
- Select your sex and enter your body weight.
- Add the number of drinks, their strength and their volume.
- Enter the hours since your first drink to see the estimate.
Features
- Widmark formula with sex and weight
- Drinks, strength, volume and time
- Estimated elimination and hours to sobriety
- Comparison with a 0.08 percent limit
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the free online blood alcohol calculator.
The tool uses the Widmark formula: alcohol in grams divided by body weight in grams times the
Widmark factor for your sex.
It estimates how much of your body is water: about 0.68 for men and 0.55 for women, which
changes the resulting blood alcohol.
Volume in millilitres times alcohol by volume times 0.789, the density of ethanol, gives
grams of pure alcohol per drink.
The model removes about 0.015 percent blood alcohol per hour, which is a common population
average used in estimates.
The estimated blood alcohol is divided by the elimination rate, so it is the time until the
estimate reaches zero.
It compares against 0.08 percent, the common limit for driving in many places, but local laws
differ and can be lower.
No. It is an estimate for general information and not medical advice. If you have been
drinking, do not drive.
Food, hydration, genetics, medication and drinking speed all shift real blood alcohol, so any
calculation is only approximate.
Last updated: October 10, 2026