Turkey Roasting Time Calculator

About this calculator

This calculator estimates roasting time from bird weight using the common guideline of roughly 13 minutes per pound at 325°F (163°C) for an unstuffed turkey — close to what the USDA and most poultry roasting charts recommend, with stuffed birds needing extra time since heat has to reach the center of the stuffing too. It also estimates safe fridge-thawing time using the standard rule of about 24 hours of thawing for every 4–5 pounds of frozen turkey, the slow, food-safe method recommended over thawing at room temperature.

Home cooks planning a Thanksgiving or holiday roast use this to work backward from a serving time — figuring out both when to move the turkey from freezer to fridge and when to put it in the oven — without over- or under-shooting the cook, since roasting time scales with weight but not perfectly linearly across very small or very large birds.