Pizza Dough Quantity Calculator

Work out pizza dough quantity instantly with clear inputs, formula shown and shareable results.

About Pizza Dough Quantity Calculator

Dough per base is the circle area times a thickness factor in grams per square centimetre; about 0.10 is a Neapolitan-style thin base and 0.14 a thicker pan crust. Dough scales with the square of the diameter, so a 40 cm pizza needs nearly twice the dough of a 30 cm one rather than a third more.

Formulas

Dough ball weight

ball = pi x (diameter / 2)^2 x grams per cm2

Flour share

flour = total dough / (1 + hydration + salt + yeast), about total / 1.65 at 65% hydration

Worked example

With the default values below, Pizza Dough Quantity Calculator returns Dough per ball of 70.7. Change any input above and every figure here is recalculated in your browser.

Inputs used

Number of pizzasminimum 1: 4
Pizza diameterminimum 1 cm: 30 cm
Dough per cm2 of baseminimum 0.01 g/cm2: 0.1 g/cm2

Results

Dough per ball: 70.7 g
Total dough needed: 283 g
Base area of one pizza: 706.9 cm2
Approximate flour at 65% hydration: 171 g

Step by step

1Values used
2Dough ball weight
3Flour share
4Dough per ball= 70.7 g
5Total dough needed= 283 g
6Base area of one pizza= 706.9 cm2
7Approximate flour at 65% hydration= 171 g

Assumptions and limits

The result is derived only from the 3 inputs listed above. Anything not among them is not part of the calculation.
In particular, this calculator does not take inflation, tax, fees or charges or compounding frequency into account.
Figures are rounded for display to 1 decimal place, so totals built from several rounded parts can differ slightly from the unrounded arithmetic.

How these calculators are built and tested is described on the Methodology page. If a figure looks wrong, please report it.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is the Pizza Dough Quantity figure worked out?

ball = pi x (diameter / 2)^2 x grams per cm2. Dough per base is the circle area times a thickness factor in grams per square centimetre; about 0.10 is a Neapolitan-style thin base and 0.14 a thicker pan crust.

Why does this matter?

Dough scales with the square of the diameter, so a 40 cm pizza needs nearly twice the dough of a 30 cm one rather than a third more.

What do I need to enter?

Enter number of pizzas, pizza diameter, dough per cm2 of base. The defaults shown are a realistic worked example — swap in your own figures to get a result you can use.