Liters to Pints Converter

Common questions

How many pints are in a liter?

1.75975398639 imperial pints, or 2.11337641887 US liquid pints, and this page opens on the imperial answer. Both scale straight up. In imperial pints: 0.5 L is 0.879876993196 pt, 1.5 L is 2.63963097959 pt, 2 L is 3.51950797279 pt, 5 L is 8.79876993196 pt and 10 L is 17.5975398639 pt. In US pints the same litres are 1.05668820943, 3.1700646283, 4.22675283773, 10.5668820943 and 21.1337641887 pt.

Which pint does this page use, and how do I get the other one?

The headline is the imperial pint of 568.26125 mL, under its stated definition; it does not infer what an actual serving or container holds. For the US liquid pint of 473.176473 mL you have two routes and neither reloads the page: choose Pint (US) in the To menu to put it in the headline, or simply read the Pint (US) row in the list under the answer, which is already there on arrival. At 1 L those two rows read 1.75975398639 and 2.11337641887.

What is the formula for liters to pints?

For imperial pints, pints = liters / 0.56826125; for US liquid pints, pints = liters / 0.473176473. Both divisors are exact definitions. The rounded reciprocals 1.75975398639 and 2.11337641887 only approximate those divisions. In reverse, liters = imperial pints × 0.56826125 or US liquid pints × 0.473176473. Decimal-rational arithmetic preserves the written input and these factors; displayed values round beyond twelve significant digits. Swap units reverses the pair while retaining the typed scalar.

How much bigger is an imperial pint than a US pint?

One imperial pint is 1.2009499255 US pints, so a little over a fifth more, and one US pint is 0.832674184629 imperial pints. In millilitres it is 568.26125 against 473.176473, a gap of 95.084777 mL. The gap follows through the whole imperial family: an imperial gallon is 4.54609 L while a US gallon is 3.785411784 L, which is why 1 L is 0.219969248299 imperial gallons and 0.264172052358 US gallons.

Is a pint 16 or 20 fluid ounces?

Twenty imperial fluid ounces make an imperial pint, and sixteen US fluid ounces make a US pint, so the two pints differ by more than the count suggests: the imperial fluid ounce is 28.4130625 mL and the US one is 29.5735295625 mL. One litre is 35.1950797279 imperial fluid ounces and 33.8140227018 US fluid ounces, and both rows are in the list, the imperial one once the Show 5 more switch is on.

How many litres are in 4 pints?

2.273045 L in four imperial pints, since each is exactly 0.56826125 L. Two imperial pints are 1.1365225 L, eight are 4.54609 L, which is exactly one imperial gallon, and half a pint is 284.130625 mL. In US pints the arithmetic runs on 473.176473 mL instead. Press the swap button between the two boxes and this page becomes a pints to litres converter, with the pint you had selected still in place.

Why does the list under the answer show a pint that is not the one in the headline?

Because the list leaves out only the unit you are converting from, which here is the litre. The US pint is a common unit, so it is listed from the start; the imperial pint is filed as uncommon along with the imperial fluid ounce, the imperial gallon, the cubic inch and the cubic foot, so the Show 5 more switch in the readout strip adds it as a row as well. Until you flip that switch the imperial pint is in the headline only, and the US pint is the one in the list.

Why does the page open on litres and imperial pints when I last converted something else?

This focused page opens on Liter and Pint (imperial), while preserving the main converter’s saved unit pair. When storage is usable, a saved value and uncommon-unit preference can travel between pages. Its suffix must still match From. Valid deliberate scalar edits can save those fields after a short delay; invalid or incomplete drafts preserve the saved record. Unusable or conflicting records remain until you use Forget saved settings, which keeps the current conversion on screen. Your input and converted values are calculated in the browser and are not uploaded by the converter. The definitions arrive with the page, so conversion needs no external data lookup and keeps working offline after the page has loaded. The core conversion needs no account. Copy result copies the displayed headline without digit-grouping commas; each visible conversion row has its own Copy button. Displayed and copied values round to twelve significant digits. If native copying fails, a complete selectable summary identifies the input, selected pair and conventions and includes every unit in the category, including uncommon units.