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A blue whale can weigh as much as 200 short tons (400,000 lbs). An adult blue whale can weigh up to around 180 metric tons (400,000lbs). A blue whale can weigh as much as 200 short tons (400,000 lbs).An adult blue whale can weigh up to around 180 metric tons (400,000lbs). A blue whale calve can weigh up to 2.7 metric tons (almost 6000lbs)
Explaining exactly how much a whale weighs is quite a difficult question to answer because there are currently about 80 â 90 different species of cetacea and each species is a different size and weight. First of all the cetacean species is divided into two groups known as the toothed whale and baleen whale suborders.