Convert megajoule to kilocalorie
1 MJ = 239.0057361 kcal
1 MJ = 239 kcal
1 MJ in every energy unit
| joule | 1,000,000 J |
| kilojoule | 1,000 kJ |
| megajoule | 1 MJ |
| calorie | 239,000 cal |
| kilocalorie | 239 kcal |
| watt-hour | 278 Wh |
| kilowatt-hour | 0.278 kWh |
| British thermal unit | 948 BTU |
| foot-pound | 738,000 ft⋅lb |
| electron volt | 6.24e+24 eV |
| kiloelectron volt | 6.24e+21 keV |
| megaelectron volt | 6.24e+18 MeV |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 239.0057361 to go from megajoule to kilocalorie, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (J) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? kilocalorie to megajoule — 1 kcal = 0.004184 MJ.
megajoule to kilocalorie — common values
| 1 MJ | 239.00574 kcal |
| 2 MJ | 478.01147 kcal |
| 3 MJ | 717.01721 kcal |
| 5 MJ | 1,195.0287 kcal |
| 10 MJ | 2,390.0574 kcal |
| 15 MJ | 3,585.086 kcal |
| 20 MJ | 4,780.1147 kcal |
| 25 MJ | 5,975.1434 kcal |
| 50 MJ | 11,950.287 kcal |
| 75 MJ | 17,925.43 kcal |
| 100 MJ | 23,900.574 kcal |
| 250 MJ | 59,751.434 kcal |
| 500 MJ | 119,502.87 kcal |
| 1000 MJ | 239,005.74 kcal |