How many pints are in a quart?

Two pints make one quart when both units use the same system: 1 qt is 2 pt, 2 qt is 4 pt and 4 qt is 8 pt. This page selects US liquid Pint (US) and Quart (US), with 0.473176473 L per pint and 0.946352946 L per quart. A supplied imperial quart is separately 2 imperial pints, or exactly 1.1365225 L; there is no imperial-quart menu entry. Mixing imperial pints with US quarts changes the ratio. Confirm the source convention instead of inferring it from a country or recipe.

What is the formula for pints to quarts?

quarts = pints / 2, and pints = quarts x 2 in the other direction, which the swap button between the two boxes sets up in place. Fractions work the same way, so 0.5 pt is 0.25 qt and 0.25 pt is 0.125 qt, and the box accepts a decimal point, commas as thousands separators and exponent notation such as 2e3.

Worked example: how many quarts is 3 pints?

1.5 quarts. The list underneath gives the same 3 pints as 6 cups, 48 US fluid ounces, 96 tablespoons, 288 teaspoons, 0.375 gallons, 1,419.529419 mL and 1.419529419 L. Each row has its own Copy button, and Copy result above the list copies the headline figure on its own.

How big is a US pint against an imperial pint?

A US liquid pint is exactly 473.176473 mL; an imperial pint is exactly 568.26125 mL, about 20% larger. Both are in the menus. The expanded readout includes Pint (imperial): 1 US liquid pint displays as 0.832674184629 imperial pints. With Pint (imperial) in From and Quart (US) in To, 1 displays as 0.600474962752 US quarts. The source’s geography does not select a convention.

Is this the liquid pint or the dry pint?

Pint (US) means the US liquid pint of exactly 473.176473 mL. US dry pint is absent; a food or recipe name cannot establish either convention. For a supplied dry convention defined by a 2,150.42 in³ bushel and 64 dry pints per bushel, one dry pint is exactly 550.6104713575 mL. Perform that separate definition arithmetic before entering an mL quantity. Selecting Cup (US) does not make a dry-pint quantity correct; mass-to-volume conversion also requires an applicable density.

Why does 3 pints come out as exactly 1.5 and not 1.4999999999999998?

The exact US liquid quart is twice the exact US liquid pint. Decimal-rational arithmetic therefore preserves 3 / 2 = 1.5 quarts before display rounding. An imperial-pint to US-quart conversion has a different rational ratio: 1 displays as 0.600474962752 US quarts at twelve significant digits. 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. This focused page opens on Pint (US) to Quart (US), 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.

How many cups, ounces and tablespoons are in a pint?

A US pint is 2 cups, 16 US fluid ounces, 32 tablespoons and 96 teaspoons, and all four rows sit in the list under the headline whenever Pint (US) is the From unit. In imperial fluid ounces the same US pint is 16.6534836926, because an imperial fluid ounce is the smaller of the two.

How do pints and quarts scale up to gallons?

8 pints or 4 quarts make a US gallon, so 1 pt is 0.125 gal and the Gallon (US) row is in the list on every conversion. For the imperial gallon, switch on Show 5 more: it holds 4.54609 litres against the US gallon's 3.785411784, and it appears as its own row rather than replacing the US one.

Pints to Quarts Converter

Two pints make a quart, so this conversion is a halving: 1 pt is 0.5 qt, 3 pt is 1.5 qt, 7 pt is 3.5 qt and 8 pt is 4 qt, which is a full US gallon. The page opens with Pint (US) in the From box and Quart (US) in the To box, ahead of whatever pair the converter last remembered, and both menus name the system out loud because a US pint of 473.176473 mL and an imperial pint of 568.26125 mL are nearly a fifth apart. Under the headline the same volume is restated in millilitres, litres, cups, fluid ounces, tablespoons, teaspoons and gallons at once, so 3 pints reads 1.5 quarts, 6 cups, 48 fluid ounces, 1,419.529419 mL and 0.375 gallons on one screen. The Show 5 more switch adds the imperial fluid ounce, pint and gallon to that list, along with cubic inches and cubic feet, and the swap button turns the page into a quarts to pints converter, where 4 qt is 8 pt.

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Category: Volume

Base unit: liter

Uncommon units: Show 5 more

Spoons and cups are US customary measures. Imperial fluid ounces, pints and gallons have separate labeled entries; metric and Australian spoons are not separate units.

Results round to 12 significant digits using the listed unit definitions. Input must have a finite numeric magnitude and at most 512 significant digits. Type a single decimal or scientific number; a matching From unit suffix is accepted. Commas and grouped spaces separate thousands; decimal commas, fractions and compound measurements are refused.

1 pt in every volume unit

MillilitermL
473.176473
LiterL
0.473176473
Cubic meterm³
0.000473176473
Teaspoon (US)tsp
96
Tablespoon (US)tbsp
32
Fluid ounce (US)fl oz
16
Cup (US)cup
2
Quart (US)qt
0.5
Gallon (US)gal
0.125

Selectable complete conversion

Unit Converter — Volume
Input: 1 (Pint (US), pt)
Result: 0.5 qt (Quart (US))
Displayed values round to 12 significant digits.
Spoons and cups are US customary measures. Imperial fluid ounces, pints and gallons have separate labeled entries; metric and Australian spoons are not separate units.
All other units:
Milliliter (mL): 473.176473
Liter (L): 0.473176473
Cubic meter (m³): 0.000473176473
Teaspoon (US) (tsp): 96
Tablespoon (US) (tbsp): 32
Fluid ounce (US) (fl oz): 16
Cup (US) (cup): 2
Quart (US) (qt): 0.5
Gallon (US) (gal): 0.125
Fluid ounce (imperial) (fl oz): 16.6534836926
Pint (imperial) (pt): 0.832674184629
Gallon (imperial) (gal): 0.104084273079
Cubic inch (in³): 28.875
Cubic foot (ft³): 0.0167100694444

Common questions

How many pints are in a quart?: Two pints make one quart when both units use the same system: 1 qt is 2 pt, 2 qt is 4 pt and 4 qt is 8 pt. This page selects US liquid Pint (US) and Quart (US), with 0.473176473 L per pint and 0.946352946 L per quart. A supplied imperial quart is separately 2 imperial pints, or exactly 1.1365225 L; there is no imperial-quart menu entry. Mixing imperial pints with US quarts changes the ratio. Confirm the source convention instead of inferring it from a country or recipe.
What is the formula for pints to quarts?: quarts = pints / 2, and pints = quarts x 2 in the other direction, which the swap button between the two boxes sets up in place. Fractions work the same way, so 0.5 pt is 0.25 qt and 0.25 pt is 0.125 qt, and the box accepts a decimal point, commas as thousands separators and exponent notation such as 2e3.
Worked example: how many quarts is 3 pints?: 1.5 quarts. The list underneath gives the same 3 pints as 6 cups, 48 US fluid ounces, 96 tablespoons, 288 teaspoons, 0.375 gallons, 1,419.529419 mL and 1.419529419 L. Each row has its own Copy button, and Copy result above the list copies the headline figure on its own.
How big is a US pint against an imperial pint?: A US liquid pint is exactly 473.176473 mL; an imperial pint is exactly 568.26125 mL, about 20% larger. Both are in the menus. The expanded readout includes Pint (imperial): 1 US liquid pint displays as 0.832674184629 imperial pints. With Pint (imperial) in From and Quart (US) in To, 1 displays as 0.600474962752 US quarts. The source’s geography does not select a convention.
Is this the liquid pint or the dry pint?: Pint (US) means the US liquid pint of exactly 473.176473 mL. US dry pint is absent; a food or recipe name cannot establish either convention. For a supplied dry convention defined by a 2,150.42 in³ bushel and 64 dry pints per bushel, one dry pint is exactly 550.6104713575 mL. Perform that separate definition arithmetic before entering an mL quantity. Selecting Cup (US) does not make a dry-pint quantity correct; mass-to-volume conversion also requires an applicable density.
Why does 3 pints come out as exactly 1.5 and not 1.4999999999999998?: The exact US liquid quart is twice the exact US liquid pint. Decimal-rational arithmetic therefore preserves 3 / 2 = 1.5 quarts before display rounding. An imperial-pint to US-quart conversion has a different rational ratio: 1 displays as 0.600474962752 US quarts at twelve significant digits. 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. This focused page opens on Pint (US) to Quart (US), 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.
How many cups, ounces and tablespoons are in a pint?: A US pint is 2 cups, 16 US fluid ounces, 32 tablespoons and 96 teaspoons, and all four rows sit in the list under the headline whenever Pint (US) is the From unit. In imperial fluid ounces the same US pint is 16.6534836926, because an imperial fluid ounce is the smaller of the two.
How do pints and quarts scale up to gallons?: 8 pints or 4 quarts make a US gallon, so 1 pt is 0.125 gal and the Gallon (US) row is in the list on every conversion. For the imperial gallon, switch on Show 5 more: it holds 4.54609 litres against the US gallon's 3.785411784, and it appears as its own row rather than replacing the US one.

Results round to 12 significant digits using the listed unit conventions. Many factors are exact definitions; psi and parsec use rounded coefficients. Temperature includes scale offsets. Days and weeks are fixed-duration units, and unit conversion does not determine calendar dates, ambient pressure or a software label’s convention.