Convert Liters to Quarts

About converting Liters to Quarts

Liters (L) and Quarts (qt) are both units of volume, so converting between them is a single multiplication: multiply your Liters figure by 1.0567. Ten Liters comes to 10.5669 Quarts, and a hundred works out at 105.6688 Quarts.

Rule of thumb: going from Liters to Quarts multiplies, so the figure always grows — one Liter is already 1.0567 Quarts. 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 Quart?

A quart is a quarter of a gallon, which is exactly where the name comes from — the Latin for a fourth part. Because the American and imperial gallons are different sizes, so are their quarts: the imperial quart is the larger by roughly a fifth, a discrepancy that quietly ruins recipes and technical specs copied across the Atlantic without checking. In the United States the quart is a supermarket fixture — milk, cream, motor oil and paint are all sold in them. Britain, having gone metric on the shelf, has largely dropped it and kept only the pint.

To put both in perspective: a large bottle of soda holds two liters, while a quart is the size of a standard carton of American milk.

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