Pallet Loading Calculator | ContainerMetric

How Boxes Are Fit to a Pallet

This tool works in two stages. First it solves the footprint: how many boxes fit in a single layer on the pallet deck. It tests both base orientations of your carton — length-aligned and rotated 90° — and keeps whichever packs more units, using floor(pallet length ÷ box length) × floor(pallet width ÷ box width). Then it stacks layers up to the height limit, calculated as floor(maximum stack height ÷ box height).

Five deck sizes are built in: the EUR1 europallet (1200 × 800 mm), EUR2 (1200 × 1000 mm), US 48×40 (1219 × 1016 mm), US 42×42 (1067 × 1067 mm), and the Asia 1100 (1100 × 1100 mm). The default maximum stack height is 1800 mm, a common limit for double-stacked pallets inside a standard container; you can override it if your warehouse ceiling or truck differs.

For example, a 400 × 300 mm carton on a EUR1 pallet fits 3 along the 1200 mm length and 2 across the 800 mm width, giving 6 boxes per layer. If each box is 300 mm tall, floor(1800 ÷ 300) = 6 layers, for 36 boxes total. Because the model is an axis-aligned grid fit, it reports a clean upper bound; real loads may lose a few units to interlock patterns, edge protectors, or overhang rules.

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