Alcohol Spending Calculator (yearly drinking cost & alcohol calories)

How it works

Pure alcohol in one drink = volume × ABV × 0.789 g/mL (the density of ethanol). Each gram of alcohol provides about 7 kcal, so the calorie figure counts the alcohol only — sugars in beer, wine or mixers add more. Yearly spending = (drinks per week × price + drinking days × other spending) × 52.18 weeks. The meal comparison divides the alcohol calories by the meal calories you enter.

⚠ This is not a diagnosis — talk to a doctor about your results.

FAQ

Why only “alcohol calories”?

The calories from sugar differ a lot between drinks, while the alcohol content is easy to calculate from the label. Beer, sweet wine and cocktails contain extra calories on top of these.

Is there a safe amount of alcohol?

Health agencies set low-risk drinking guidelines that differ by country, and the World Health Organization notes that no level of drinking is risk-free. This calculator only shows money, grams and calories, not health risk.

Checked 11 Nov 2026. Ethanol density 0.789 g/mL at 20 °C (CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics); energy of alcohol 7 kcal/g (FAO, “Food energy – methods of analysis and conversion factors”, Food and Nutrition Paper 77, 2003). WHO Regional Office for Europe, “No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health” (news release, 4 January 2023). Prices are your own.