Your weight on Saturn and Saturn's gravity

Updated October 19, 2026 · 5 min read

On Saturn you would weigh about 6.5% more than on Earth. Saturn's gravity at the 1-bar level near the equator is about 10.44 m/s², or 1.065 times Earth's 9.81 m/s². A person whose bathroom scale reads 70 kg on Earth would read about 74.6 kg on Saturn, assuming they could hover at the cloud tops, since the planet has no solid surface to stand on.

Calculate your weight on Saturn

Enter your weight as your scale shows it on Earth, in kilograms or pounds. The calculator multiplies it by 1.065, Saturn's gravity relative to Earth's at the 1-bar equatorial reference level.

Strictly speaking, your mass (the amount of matter in your body) does not change from one planet to another. What changes is your weight, the force with which the planet pulls on you. A bathroom scale measures that force and converts it to kilograms or pounds assuming Earth's gravity, which is why the number it shows would change.

Why Saturn's gravity is so close to Earth's

Saturn is 95 times more massive than Earth, yet its gravity at the cloud tops is only slightly stronger. The reason is distance. Gravity at a planet's "surface" depends on its mass divided by the square of its radius:

• Saturn's mass is 95.2 times Earth's.
• Its equatorial radius is 9.45 times Earth's, and 9.45² is about 89.
• 95.2 ÷ 89 is about 1.07.

In other words, Saturn's enormous mass is spread over such a large, low-density ball (see density) that at the 1-bar level you stand far from most of that mass. Jupiter, with 3.3 times Saturn's mass but a radius only about 19% larger, has a gravity of about 2.5 g.

Weight on Saturn compared with other worlds

The table below uses standard surface gravity values (at the 1-bar level for the giant planets) and a reference person who weighs 70 kg (154 lb) on Earth.

The giant planets' values in this table are the pure gravitational pull at the reference radius, the same convention behind Saturn's 1.065. Figures are rounded; published values vary slightly with the convention used. On Saturn's largest moon, Titan, you would weigh less than on our Moon, while on little Enceladus a firm jump could carry you dozens of meters up.

Spin and shape: gravity is not the same everywhere

The 1.065 figure is a convenient reference, but the pull you would actually feel on Saturn depends on latitude, for two reasons:

• Rotation. Saturn spins once every 10 h 33 min (see day length). At the equator, the cloud tops move at about 36,000 km/h, and the resulting centrifugal effect offsets part of gravity.
• Flattening. Saturn is the most oblate planet: its polar radius (54,364 km) is about 10% smaller than its equatorial radius. At the poles you are closer to the center, so gravity is stronger.

Combining these effects, a visitor floating at the equator would feel something closer to 0.9 g, while near the poles the effective gravity rises to roughly 1.2 g. These are approximate values derived from Saturn's mass, shape and spin. NASA's Saturn fact sheet makes the distinction explicit: it lists a gravity of 10.44 m/s² and an effective equatorial acceleration of about 8.96 m/s² once rotation is included. The widget above uses the standard 1.065 figure.

Escape velocity and orbits

Gravity at the cloud tops is modest, but escaping Saturn is hard. Its escape velocity is 35.5 km/s, more than three times Earth's 11.2 km/s, because escaping means climbing out of the gravitational well of the whole planet, not just lifting off its upper layers. A rocket launched from Saturn's atmosphere would need far more energy than one leaving Earth.

Saturn's gravity also governs everything around it. It holds 274 confirmed moons and a ring system extending some 140,000 km from the planet's center. It bent the trajectories of Voyager toward the outer solar system and was used repeatedly by Cassini, which navigated among the moons using precise gravity assists. Tidal forces from Saturn flex Enceladus and help keep its subsurface ocean liquid.

How we know Saturn's gravity

Saturn's gravity field was measured by tracking spacecraft radio signals. Tiny Doppler shifts in the signal reveal how the spacecraft accelerates as it passes the planet. During its 2017 Grand Finale, Cassini dove between the planet and the rings 22 times, mapping the gravity field in unprecedented detail. Those data revealed deep differential rotation in the atmosphere and helped estimate the mass of the rings.

Sources

• NASA Goddard: Saturn Fact Sheet
• NASA Goddard: Planetary Fact Sheet
• Iess, L. et al. (2019), "Measurement and implications of Saturn's gravity field and ring mass", Science
• NASA Science: Saturn facts