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The common guideline is no more than 20% of your body weight fully loaded, so 14 kg for a 70 kg hiker, and 10-15% if you are new to carrying a load or the terrain is steep. Food, water and fuel are usually a third of that, which is why they are counted separately here.

About 30 ml per full-body application, so one adult spending four hours a day in the sun for seven days needs roughly 420 ml — two applications a day at the two-hourly reapplication interval. Most holidaymakers apply about a quarter of the recommended dose, which is why a single 100 ml bottle rarely lasts a trip.

Roughly one per three to four nights on mainstream lines: one on a three or four-night sailing, two on a seven-night one and about four on a fortnight. Luxury lines and expedition ships often have none at all, so check your line's evening dress code before packing a dinner jacket.

Plan on about 1.5 litres of baseline intake plus roughly 0.75 litres for every hour you are active in the heat, so a six-hour excursion works out near 6 litres per person per day. Treat 12 litres a day as an upper bound — drinking far past your sweat losses dilutes blood sodium and causes its own problems.

Roughly the dry-air time divided by (1 − RH/100): at 88% humidity that is about eight times longer, so a quick-dry top needing 45 minutes in dry air takes over six hours, and cotton takes nearly seventeen. Once a garment passes about twelve hours it cannot dry overnight, which is why washing mid-trip stops helping.

One per function, since events are photographed and outfits do not repeat, plus roughly one casual set per two days of the trip and one travel outfit. A four-function Indian wedding over four days therefore comes to about seven outfits in total.