Convert Liters to Pints

About converting Liters to Pints

Liters (L) and Pints (pt) are both units of volume, so converting between them is a single multiplication: multiply your Liters figure by 2.1134. Ten Liters comes to 21.1338 Pints, and a hundred works out at 211.3376 Pints.

Rule of thumb: going from Liters to Pints multiplies, so the figure always grows — one Liter is already 2.1134 Pints. If your answer came out smaller, you have the conversion the wrong way round.

What is a Liter?

The liter is not, strictly speaking, an SI unit — it is merely accepted for use alongside SI, and is defined as exactly one cubic decimetre: the volume of a cube ten centimetres on a side. That pedantic status has done nothing to slow it down, since it is how most of the world buys fuel, milk, paint and soft drinks. Both L and l are accepted symbols, but the capital L is preferred in the United States and increasingly elsewhere, because a lowercase l in most typefaces is almost indistinguishable from the digit 1 — a genuine hazard on a dosage label.

What is a Pint?

The pint is where the US-imperial split becomes most visible, because both countries still use the word every day. A US pint is 16 US fluid ounces; an imperial pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, making the British pint the larger by about a fifth. So a pint of beer in London is meaningfully more beer than a pint in New York — the same word, a different drink, and no label anywhere warns you. The imperial pint is also one of the few imperial units still legally mandated in the UK, where draught beer and cider must be sold in pints or fractions of one.

To put both in perspective: a large bottle of soda holds two liters, while a pint is the standard glass of beer in a British pub.

The converter above updates as you type, and the table lists common values for quick reference. Need the opposite direction? Use the Pints to Liters converter, or browse all Volume converters.