How many pints are in a quart?

Two. The ratio is the same in US and in imperial custom, which is why this one conversion never depends on which country's recipe you are reading: 1 qt is 2 pt, 2 qt is 4 pt and 4 qt is 8 pt. What does depend on the system is how much liquid that is, since a US quart is 0.946352946 litres and an imperial quart is larger. The quart in this list is the US one.

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 473.176473 mL and an imperial pint is 568.26125 mL, so the imperial one is about 20 percent larger and the two are worth keeping apart. Both are in the list under separate names, with Pint (imperial) behind the Show 5 more switch: 1 US pint is 0.832674184629 imperial pints. Choosing Pint (imperial) in the From box converts a British pint into 0.600474962752 US quarts, because this table carries no imperial quart and answers in the US one.

Is this the liquid pint or the dry pint?

The liquid pint. Pint (US) here is the 473.176473 mL liquid measure used for milk, stock and beer, and the US dry pint used for berries and produce is not one of the units. If a US recipe gives dry pints of a loose ingredient, its volume in cups is the safer route through this converter.

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

Because the conversion runs through litres, which leaves floating-point residue in the last digits, and the page then rounds the result to 12 significant digits before printing it. That absorbs the residue without inventing precision: a figure that is genuinely long, such as an imperial pint at 0.600474962752 US quarts, still prints its 12 digits in full.

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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1 pt in every volume unit

MillilitremL
473.176473
LitreL
0.473176473
Cubic metrem³
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

Common questions

How many pints are in a quart?: Two. The ratio is the same in US and in imperial custom, which is why this one conversion never depends on which country's recipe you are reading: 1 qt is 2 pt, 2 qt is 4 pt and 4 qt is 8 pt. What does depend on the system is how much liquid that is, since a US quart is 0.946352946 litres and an imperial quart is larger. The quart in this list is the US one.
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 473.176473 mL and an imperial pint is 568.26125 mL, so the imperial one is about 20 percent larger and the two are worth keeping apart. Both are in the list under separate names, with Pint (imperial) behind the Show 5 more switch: 1 US pint is 0.832674184629 imperial pints. Choosing Pint (imperial) in the From box converts a British pint into 0.600474962752 US quarts, because this table carries no imperial quart and answers in the US one.
Is this the liquid pint or the dry pint?: The liquid pint. Pint (US) here is the 473.176473 mL liquid measure used for milk, stock and beer, and the US dry pint used for berries and produce is not one of the units. If a US recipe gives dry pints of a loose ingredient, its volume in cups is the safer route through this converter.
Why does 3 pints come out as exactly 1.5 and not 1.4999999999999998?: Because the conversion runs through litres, which leaves floating-point residue in the last digits, and the page then rounds the result to 12 significant digits before printing it. That absorbs the residue without inventing precision: a figure that is genuinely long, such as an imperial pint at 0.600474962752 US quarts, still prints its 12 digits in full.
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.

Conversion factors are the exact legal definitions where one exists. An inch is exactly 2.54 cm and a pound exactly 0.45359237 kg, so those conversions are exact rather than approximate. Temperature uses offsets rather than factors, and that is shown in the working.