Convert millilitres to pints

Five hundred millilitres is 1.0567 US liquid pints. A pint holds 473.18 millilitres[1], and the formula reads: pints = millilitres ÷ 473.176473.

The same divisor works for sizes printed on labels. A 250-millilitre glass gives 0.5283 of a pint. A 750-millilitre wine bottle is 1.5850 pints. A litre gives 2.1134 pints.

The pint you pick changes the result. The difference grows with the volume. Five litres is 10.5669 US pints. The same volume gives 8.7988 imperial pints. You set the pint with the Pint type switcher below the fields, and the divisor changes with your choice.

An American cup of 236.59 millilitres is exactly half a liquid pint[1]. Two cups, or 473.18 millilitres, therefore give one full pint in the converter.

You can turn pints back into millilitres with the pints to millilitres converter, and the millilitres to quarts converter gives the result in quarts.

In the metric system a thousand millilitres make one litre. Since 1964 the word litre may be used as a special name for the cubic decimetre[2], so a millilitre has the same volume as a cubic centimetre.

The pint comes from the English systems of measurement and has three values today. In the United States sixteen fluid ounces make a liquid pint of 28.875 cubic inches[1], which is 473.176473 millilitres[3].

In the United Kingdom a pint is 20 British fluid ounces and 568.26125 millilitres[3]. The third value, 550.6104713575 millilitres, belongs to the US dry pint. It is half of the dry quart in the American series of dry measures[1].

Divide the number of millilitres by 473.176473 and you get US liquid pints.

Take a drink in a 330-millilitre bottle. Three hundred and thirty divided by 473.176473 gives 0.6974 of a US pint. Two such bottles hold 660 millilitres, which is 1.3948 pints.

Cancelling units gives the same result: 330 ml × (1 pt ÷ 473.176473 ml) = 0.6974 pt. The millilitre in the numerator cancels the millilitre in the denominator, and pints are left.

The Pint type switcher fills in the divisor for you, including when you change the option after a number is already typed.

Smaller amounts in American cups are handled by the millilitres to cups converter.

A 375-millilitre bottle is 0.7925 of a US pint. In American usage it is considered a metric pint[5]. It is 98.18 millilitres short of a full liquid pint.

Metric sizes for bottles of distilled spirits were proposed in 1975 by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms together with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. The new sizes were to take effect in January 1979[7].

Since 10 January 2025 the list of authorized sizes has included, among other new sizes, 475, 570 and 945 millilitres[8]. The first is 1.82 millilitres more than the US liquid pint. The second is 1.74 millilitres more than the imperial pint. The third is 1.35 millilitres below the US quart.