Padel Calories Calculator — what the night burned

Your weight, your court time and how hard the night actually went, run through the standard MET formula — with the published padel figure, the arithmetic shown, and tennis and running lined up beside it for scale.

The night

Your weight 80 kg

176 lb

Time on court 90 min

1 h 30 min — court time, not the time you left the house.

How the night went

Match night uses MET 6.4, the published figure for padel. Social rallies and full send are that value −20% and +20% — a band, not a measurement.

This calculator runs entirely in your browser, so it needs JavaScript switched on. The formula and a fully worked example are written out in the questions further down the page.

Why this matters

Every calorie figure for a sport comes from the same place: a MET value, which is how many times your resting metabolism a given activity costs. Padel’s published value is 6.4 — the number burned-calories.com and padelpioneers cite — and the arithmetic around it is one line: kcal = MET × 3.5 × kilos ÷ 200 × minutes. That is the whole model, and it is worth knowing how thin it is.

What the model cannot see is you. It does not know whether you covered the court or parked at the net, whether the rallies ran twelve shots or two, whether it was 32 °C in a glass box or a cold indoor hall, or how fit you already are. Two players of the same weight in the same match can differ by a couple of hundred calories, which is why the social, match and full-send settings here are the published value ±20% and are labelled as estimates rather than readings.

Used honestly, it is still useful. A 90-minute match night at 80 kg comes out around 800 kcal — enough to explain the appetite afterwards, not enough to justify treating the number as a licence. If you want precision, wear a heart-rate strap; if you want the truth about consistency, count sessions rather than calories.

Questions

How many calories does an hour of padel burn?

For most club players, somewhere between 400 and 600 kcal an hour. The standard estimate uses MET 6.4, the published value for padel: kcal = MET × 3.5 × kilos ÷ 200 × minutes. An 80 kg player at that intensity burns about 540 kcal in an hour and roughly 806 kcal across a 90-minute session — this calculator shows 810, because rounding a population average to the nearest calorie would be pretending.

Does padel burn more calories than tennis or running?

More than doubles tennis, less than running. Padel sits at MET 6.4 against about 6.0 for doubles tennis and 9.8 for an easy run, so the same 90 minutes gives padel a small edge over tennis and running a decisive one. What padel wins on is time actually spent moving: rallies are longer, the walls keep the ball alive, and almost nobody runs for 90 minutes twice a week without hating it.

Does rotating off court change the number?

Yes, and this is the honest catch in every calorie estimate. The figure here is court time, so if your night is 90 minutes of booking but you sit out a third of it, enter the minutes you actually played. Standing behind the glass burns roughly what standing anywhere burns.

Is padel good for losing weight?

It is good at the part most exercise fails at: getting you to turn up. Two sessions a week at 500–800 kcal each is a real weekly deficit if the rest of your eating stays put, and the social pull of a fixed crew beats a treadmill you have to talk yourself onto. But weight is decided mostly at the table, and a MET estimate is a band rather than a measurement — treat the number as a rough guide, not a budget you can spend.

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