Convert liters to quarts

One litre is 1.0567 US liquid quarts. Divide the value in litres by 0.946352946: quarts = litres ÷ 0.946352946[1].

The divisor moves with the measure you are working in. An imperial quart holds 1.1365225 litres, so a litre gives 0.8799 of one. A US dry quart holds 1.101220942715 litres, so a litre gives 0.9081 of one[1]. You set the measure on the Quart type switch under the fields.

The figure in quarts is always higher than the figure in litres, because a US quart is smaller than a litre.

The other direction is in the quarts to liters converter, and capacities quoted in gallons go through the liters to gallons converter.

A litre is a cube ten centimetres on a side, which is a cubic decimetre. The General Conference on Weights and Measures put that identity on record in 1964, allowing the word litre as a special name for the cubic decimetre[2]. From 1901 the definition ran through water instead: a litre was the volume of one kilogram of water at maximum density, 28 parts per million larger than the cubic decimetre[3].

The quart belongs to a different order and takes its value from the gallon, of which it is a quarter. A US gallon is 3.785411784 litres, so a US liquid quart is 0.946352946 litres. An imperial gallon is 4.54609 litres, which puts an imperial quart at 1.1365225 litres[1].

That difference is why a British and an American recipe using the same word land two-tenths of a litre apart at every quart. The switch under the fields keeps the two apart, and the line under it gives the capacity of each of the three quarts.

The United States counts volume in quarts and gallons, and yet two shelves in the shop carry litres. The first is soft drinks, sold in two-litre bottles — one of the few cases where a product in the United States is sold by a round number of metric units[4].

The second is alcohol. Federal rules give bottle sizes for wine and spirits in millilitres and litres only, and in January 2025 the spirits list grew again to include 700 ml, 945 ml and 1.5 litres among others[5]. That 945 ml size sits 1.35 millilitres below a US quart, so a bottle with that label is a quart in all but name.

Milk, motor oil and spring water stayed with quarts and gallons. That is how one basket ends up holding a two-litre bottle of soda next to a quart carton of milk.

Canada sells engine oil in litre bottles.

American recipes give volume in cups, pints and quarts, while a European kitchen counts in millilitres and litres. This direction earns its keep with pans and slow cookers, whose capacity the maker states in quarts.

A slow cooker sold as six-quart holds 5.68 litres, so a six-litre pan stands in for it. Large containers carry both measures in the United States, and the quarts to gallons converter handles that pair.