A "per kg" search assumes a metric price tag, and that is the wrong table for anyone shipping out of the United States. DHL Express's own Service & Rate Guide 2026: United States prices an export shipment in whole-pound steps up to 150 lb, then switches to a per-pound rate above that — the kilogram table in the same document is for shipments coming into the country, not leaving it. Read from dhl.com on 2026-08-30. This site sells no DHL Express label; the domestic leg of a trip is priced separately below.
Outbound from the US runs in pounds. The same guide's inbound side runs in kilograms.
Every DHL Express price starts from the same two inputs regardless of what unit the table happens to print in: the shipment's chargeable weight, which is the greater of the scale reading and a volumetric figure worked from its dimensions, and the zone DHL assigns the destination country. Our DHL shipping cost guide covers the surcharge stack that lands on top of both, and our DHL volumetric weight page works the dimensional formula by hand. Neither is repeated here — this page is only about how the base weight charge itself is printed and stepped.
Shipping from the United States, DHL Express's Zones and Rates section prints three separate tables, all in pounds: an envelope tier at a flat rate under 0.625 lb, a documents table running 1 lb to 4 lb, and a non-documents table that runs 1 lb to 150 lb in whole-pound steps and also covers documents once they pass 5 lb. There is no half-pound row anywhere in it. Past 150 lb the printed table stops entirely, and the guide says why: “For shipments over 150 lbs., the rate is calculated by multiplying the total weight by the Zone multiplier rate per pound.” DHL Express Service & Rate Guide 2026: United States, read 2026-08-30.
That multiplier itself is not flat. For Zone A (Canada), it runs 8.50 USD per lb from 150.1 to 330 lb, 8.53 USD from 330.1 to 660 lb, 8.80 USD from 660.1 to 2,199 lb, and 9.69 USD above that — so a real 200 lb shipment to Canada, sitting in the first band, prices at 200 × 8.50, or 1,700.00 USD, before any surcharge. The guide's own zone matrix puts Canada in Zone A, Mexico in Zone B, the UK, Germany and France in Zone C, Japan in Zone F, China in Zone G, and Australia and India in Zone I.
Because the printed table has no kilogram column, the rows below are the whole-pound weights that land closest to 1 kg, 5 kg, 10 kg and 25 kg — 2 lb, 11 lb, 22 lb and 55 lb, each within about 50 grams of the target. The per-kilogram figure in the last column is our own division of DHL's published dollar amount by that row's exact kilogram weight; DHL prints the dollars, not the rate per kilogram.
| Weight (published row) | Canada, Zone A | UK / Germany / France, Zone C | China, Zone G | Australia / India, Zone I |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 lb 0.91 kg, nearest to 1 kg | 131.15 USD 144.57 USD/kg | 174.47 USD 192.32 USD/kg | 173.48 USD 191.23 USD/kg | 191.07 USD 210.62 USD/kg |
| 11 lb 4.99 kg, nearest to 5 kg | 212.13 USD 42.52 USD/kg | 329.99 USD 66.14 USD/kg | 365.25 USD 73.20 USD/kg | 425.16 USD 85.21 USD/kg |
| 22 lb 9.98 kg, nearest to 10 kg | 318.52 USD 31.92 USD/kg | 503.44 USD 50.45 USD/kg | 614.40 USD 61.57 USD/kg | 703.57 USD 70.50 USD/kg |
| 55 lb 24.95 kg, nearest to 25 kg | 582.45 USD 23.35 USD/kg | 1,037.88 USD 41.60 USD/kg | 1,271.08 USD 50.95 USD/kg | 1,426.56 USD 57.18 USD/kg |
Two things move at once as the parcel gets heavier. The per-kilogram cost drops hard on every zone — for Canada it falls from roughly 145 USD/kg near 1 kg to roughly 23 USD/kg near 25 kg, about an 84 percent drop on the same lane. And the gap between zones widens in dollar terms even as it narrows in percentage terms: at 1 kg the farthest zone shown, Australia and India, costs about 46 percent more than Canada; at 25 kg it costs about 145 percent more. A small parcel is expensive everywhere; a heavy one is expensive mainly by how far it is going.
The non-documents table above is one of four the guide prints for a US-origin shipment, and none of the other three share its numbers. An envelope under 0.625 lb is a flat rate regardless of exactly how light it is — 61.40 USD to Zone A. A document up to 4 lb runs its own table with lower figures than an equivalent parcel: 1 lb to Zone A prices at 99.20 USD as a document against 117.50 USD as a non-document parcel, the same lane, the same day. And documents heavier than 5 lb roll onto the non-documents table and are billed exactly like a parcel from that point on.
The same rate guide's inbound side, for shipments moving into the United States rather than out of it, is the one actually denominated in kilograms — 0.5 kg steps up to 70 kg, then a multiplier rate published per half-kilogram, not per whole kilogram, above that. A 5 kg import to Zone A prices at 201.76 USD on that table, a different number from the 212.13 USD an outbound 11 lb (4.99 kg) parcel prices at on the export table above, because they are two different tables built around two different units for two different directions. Someone searching "DHL price per kg" gets an honest answer only once the direction is pinned down.
Everything above is the published, no-account rate card, and DHL Express states plainly that an account brings preferred pricing on top of it. A live number for a specific box needs its own weight, dimensions and destination run through MyDHL+, or looked up in the printed guide directly — this page states the structure and a handful of worked rows, not a quote engine. SMKlog does not sell DHL Express labels; the carriers behind this site's checkout are UPS, FedEx and USPS, pricing any leg of a shipment that stays inside the United States.
DHL revises this guide on its own schedule, and the network restrictions and rates in it are stated as subject to change on 30 days notice. Treat every figure above as what the guide showed on the date read, and pull a live quote from DHL's own tools before booking anything close to these numbers.
Not for a shipment leaving the United States. DHL's own Express Service and Rate Guide 2026 for the United States prices Express Worldwide exports in whole-pound steps up to 150 lb, then switches to a per-pound multiplier above that. The kilogram-denominated table in the same guide belongs to shipments moving into the country, not out of it. Read 2026-08-30.
It stops reading a weight off the printed table and multiplies the total weight by a per-pound zone rate instead, in four weight bands. At the current Zone A band for 150.1 to 330 lb, that rate is 8.50 USD per pound, so a real 200 lb shipment to Canada prices at 1,700.00 USD before any surcharge.
No, it falls hard. On the published Zone A (Canada) rows, a shipment near 1 kg works out to roughly 145 USD per kilogram, and one near 25 kg works out to roughly 23 USD per kilogram, on the same rate guide, the same zone and the same product.
No. DHL runs documents up to 4 lb on their own table, separate from the non-documents table that also covers documents from 5 lb up. At 1 lb to Zone A, the published document rate is 99.20 USD against 117.50 USD for a non-document parcel on the same lane.
No. DHL Express is not one of the carriers behind this site's checkout, and the figures above come straight from DHL's own published rate guide, not from anything sold here. What the calculator prices is the part of the trip that stays inside the United States.