Volume and Capacity Converter

Liters, milliliters, cubic meters: what is that in cups or gallons?

A European recipe asks for 250 ml of milk, an imported bottle is labeled 1.5 L, a water bill from abroad counts cubic meters. Jood's volume converter switches between eight units: liter, milliliter, cubic meter, gallon, quart, pint, cup and fluid ounce.

How to use it

1. Enter the amount, with decimals if needed.
2. Choose the unit you are converting from and the one you want.
3. Click "Start Now" to see the result with the unit name.

Examples worked out with the tool

• One cup is 236.5882 ml, and three cups are 709.7647 ml.
• A 12 fl oz can holds 354.8824 ml, and a 330 ml can is 11.1586 fl oz.
• A gallon is 3.7854 liters, so a 15-gallon tank holds 56.7812 liters.
• A cubic meter is 1,000 liters, or 264.172 gallons; 10 m³ on a water bill is 2,641.7205 gallons.

Careful: these are US units

The gallon, quart, pint, cup and fluid ounce in this tool are US customary measures. The British imperial units are bigger: an imperial gallon is about 4.546 liters and an imperial pint about 568 ml. A pint of beer in London is a fifth larger than one in New York.

Australia, Canada and New Zealand often use a metric cup of 250 ml. The gap from the US cup is small for one cup, but it adds up in a recipe that calls for four cups of flour.

A tip for the kitchen

A cup measures volume, not weight, so a cup of flour weighs far less than a cup of sugar. If a recipe gives flour in grams and you measure in cups, look up the weight of a cup of that ingredient rather than converting the volume alone. For weights, use the weight converter, and for oven settings the temperature converter.

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