Post Holes & Footings

Concrete Bag Calculator

Enter the size and number of post holes or footings you're pouring, pick your bag size, and this works out the volume and how many bags to buy — using the yield figures printed right on the bag, not a rough guess.

Your pour

ROUND POST HOLES OR RECTANGULAR FOOTINGS

Shape & size

Optional: cost estimate

Bag yield figures are the standard values printed on Quikrete/Sakrete-style concrete mix bags. Actual yield can vary slightly by brand — check your specific bag if precision matters.

How this is calculated

A round hole's volume is π × radius² × depth; a rectangular footing is just length × width × depth. Both get converted to cubic feet, multiplied by however many holes or footings you're pouring, and divided by the bag's yield to get a bag count, rounded up since you can't buy a fraction of a bag.

For anything larger than roughly half a cubic yard (about 40–45 bags of 60 lb mix), ready-mix delivery is usually both cheaper and a lot less physical labor than mixing that many bags by hand — this calculator will still give you the right number, but it's worth pricing out a small ready-mix load past that point.