Estimate total honey weight, jar count, and gallons from your frame inventory. Based on Langstroth deep / medium / shallow capped-frame yields and standard 17% moisture honey density.
Frames in your supers
Deep frames
9 1/8" · ~6 lb each capped
Medium frames
6 1/4" · ~4 lb each capped
Shallow frames
5 3/8" · ~3 lb each capped
80% of frame capped & full
0% (empty drawn comb)100% (every cell capped)
Most honey supers come off the hive at 70–95% capped. Below 80% capping, moisture content may exceed the 18.6% Codex prudent-extract floor — consider waiting or running a refractometer before extracting.
Estimated total yield
96.0lb
(43.5 kg · 8.11 US gallons)
From 20 frames at 80% average fill
How that fills out as jars
96
1-lb jars
32
US quart jars
(~3 lb each)
64
US pint jars
(~1.5 lb each)
Jar counts assume honey is fully bottled with no headroom margin. Real bottling runs lose ~2–3% to drum residue, foam skim, and filter retention — round down for sales-channel planning.
Per-super context. A standard 10-frame Langstroth super, fully drawn and capped, holds about 60 lb from a deep super, 40 lb from a medium, or 30 lb from a shallow. A typical northern-US hive yields one to three honey supers per season after deducting the 2 deeps left for brood and winter stores; southern-US hives often pull four or more in a strong flow year. Beekeeper-extension surveys (USDA NASS) report a national average around 50 lb per managed colony per year, with sideline operations on good forage routinely doubling that. Variation by region, weather, and varroa pressure is large.
Method. Yield = Σ (framesk × yieldk) × fill, where yielddeep = 6 lb, yieldmedium = 4 lb, yieldshallow = 3 lb at fully drawn and fully capped state. Volume conversions use the US National Honey Board reference of 11.84 lb per US gallon (ρ ≈ 1.4225 g/mL at 17% moisture, 20 °C). Quart and pint jar weights are full-fill values for the standard mason-jar dimensions (32 fl oz = 946 mL → ~2.97 lb honey; 16 fl oz = 473 mL → ~1.48 lb). Frame-yield anchors come from Dadant & Sons frame-yield tables, Mann Lake Bee & Ag Supply planning guides, and Sammataro & Avitabile (1998) The Beekeeper's Handbook (Cornell University Press). Density model and the 11.84 lb/gal reference: Bogdanov (2009) Physical Properties of Honey; National Honey Board (2010) Honey: A Reference Guide to Nature's Sweetener.
Planning tool, not a metrology lab. Frame yields vary ±20% with comb depth, drawn-comb age, varietal viscosity, and bee-population strength. Heather and stingless-bee honey thixotropy & lower density break the 6/4/3 anchor — extract actual weight on a scale. For commercial labelling, weigh every drum.