Convert Pints to Liters

About converting Pints to Liters

Pints (pt) and Liters (L) are both units of volume, so converting between them is a single multiplication: multiply your Pints figure by 0.4732. Ten Pints comes to 4.7318 Liters, and a hundred works out at 47.3176 Liters.

Rule of thumb: going from Pints to Liters divides, so the figure always shrinks — it takes about 2.1134 Pints to make a single Liter. If your answer came out bigger, you have the conversion the wrong way round.

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.

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.

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

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