Enter your body weight and minutes raking to calculate your calories burned raking leaves. Most people burn about 120 to 180 Calories in 30 minutes of steady raking, with higher totals from heavier body weights or harder yard work.
Calories Burned Raking Leaves Formula
The calculator uses body weight, time, and leaf-task intensity to calculate calorie burn.
Calories Burned = Body Weight × Minutes × Raking Factor
Common raking factors are:
- Raking leaves: 0.0302 per lb per minute
- Raking and bagging leaves: 0.0318 per lb per minute
- Using a leaf blower: 0.0262 per lb per minute
- Heavy yard cleanup: 0.0476 per lb per minute
If you enter kilograms, the calculator converts your weight automatically before applying the formula.
Calories Burned Raking Leaves by Body Weight
For 30 minutes of steady leaf raking, the calorie burn is roughly:
- 130 lb: 118 Calories
- 155 lb: 140 Calories
- 180 lb: 163 Calories
- 200 lb: 181 Calories
How to Calculate Calories Burned Raking Leaves
- Enter your body weight.
- Enter the total minutes spent raking.
- Use Advanced if you want to switch from standard raking to bagging, leaf blower work, or heavy yard cleanup.
- Press Calculate to see total Calories, Calories per minute, and Calories per hour.
Example
A 180 lb person who spends 45 minutes raking leaves burns about 244.35 Calories.
Calories Burned = 180 × 45 × 0.0302 = 244.35
That works out to about 5.43 Calories per minute or 325.79 Calories per hour during steady raking.
