Drinks per week calculator
Free drinks per week calculator: enter what you usually drink each day, see your weekly total, daily average, and yearly figure.
A drinks per week calculator adds up your daily intake across Monday through Sunday to give you one honest weekly number. The yearly figure underneath multiplies that weekly by 52, useful as a back-of-the-envelope sense check against US moderate-drinking guidelines (7 per week for women, 14 for men) or the UK 14-unit weekly low-risk guideline.
This drinks per week calculator gives you one honest number. The math is addition; the value is having the number written down where you can see it. The yearly figure underneath comes from multiplying the weekly by 52, useful as a back-of-the-envelope sense check.
How this calculator works
Weekly total = sum of drinks on each day. Per-day average = total ÷ 7. Per-year figure = weekly Ã- 52. The calculator does not normalise to standard drinks, enter whatever unit makes sense for you (drinks, pints, glasses), and remember that a "drink" of strong wine is not the same as a "drink" of light beer.
For an apples-to-apples count across drink types, use the standard drinks calculator or the UK units calculator to convert each drink first.
Public-health context lives on the methodology page.
Drinks per week calculator: questions people ask
How many drinks per week is moderate?
The US Dietary Guidelines define moderate as up to 1 drink per day for women (7 per week) and up to 2 for men (14 per week). The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend not regularly drinking more than 14 UK units per week, which is a different measure but similar in spirit. Neither is a safety guarantee.
How many drinks per week is heavy drinking?
The US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism defines heavy drinking as more than 7 drinks per week for women and more than 14 for men. The thresholds are statistical, not lines anyone crosses cleanly, risk scales continuously with intake.
Does day order matter?
For the weekly total, no. But concentrating drinks into one or two days (binge drinking) carries different risks than spreading the same total across the week. Public-health guidance generally recommends several alcohol-free days per week.
Should I enter standard drinks or what I actually pour?
For an apples-to-apples weekly count, enter standard drinks. A pint of strong beer is often 2 standard drinks; a large glass of wine is closer to 2 than to 1. The standard drinks calculator on this site converts a specific drink to its equivalent number.
What if my drinking varies a lot week to week?
Enter a typical week. The annual figure at the bottom assumes the same pattern for 52 weeks, useful as an envelope, not a forecast. If your real pattern is bingier than the average, that average will hide the binge.