Milliliters to US quarts Converter
Convert Milliliters (mL) to US quarts (qt) instantly, or use the conversion table below to look up common values.
Milliliters to US quarts conversion table
| Milliliters (mL) | US quarts (qt) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.001057 |
| 2 | 0.002113 |
| 3 | 0.00317 |
| 4 | 0.004227 |
| 5 | 0.005283 |
| 10 | 0.010567 |
| 25 | 0.026417 |
| 50 | 0.052834 |
| 100 | 0.105669 |
How to convert Milliliters to US quarts
1 mL equals 0.001057 qt. Use the converter above for any value, or read the table for common conversions.
qt = mL × 0.0010566882094325937 · mL = qt × 946.352946Multiply a milliliters figure by 0.001057 to get us quarts, or divide it by 946.352946 to go the other way.
Worked examples
- 1 mL= 0.001057 qt
- 2 mL= 0.002113 qt
- 5 mL= 0.005283 qt
- 10 mL= 0.010567 qt
- 20 mL= 0.021134 qt
What these units are
Milliliters (mL). A milliliter is one thousandth of a liter, and exactly the same volume as one cubic centimeter. It is used for drinks, medicine doses and recipe quantities.
US quarts (qt). A US quart is a quarter of a US gallon, or 0.946352946 liters. It is used for milk, oil and other liquids in the United States.
US and imperial units are kept separate because they are genuinely different sizes. Confirm which system a source means before trusting a converted figure.
Converting Milliliters to US quarts in practice
Working in milliliters
A milliliter is one thousandth of a liter, exactly one cubic centimeter, or 0.000001 cubic meters. It is the small metric unit for liquid and dose volumes.
Medicine doses, laboratory samples, cosmetics, flavorings and small bottles of liquid are measured in milliliters. Syringes, measuring spoons and dosing cups are graduated in milliliters. Beverage cans and bottles often carry the volume on the label.
Milliliters to liters is a division by 1,000 exactly, and milliliters to cubic centimeters is a one-to-one identity. The fluid ounce is exactly 1/128 of a US gallon, and printed results are rounded, so a return conversion can differ in the final digit.
The mistake is treating a milliliter as a drop or a spoonful; a metric teaspoon holds five milliliters and a tablespoon fifteen. This site uses the US fluid ounce, not the imperial one, when converting small volumes.
Milliliters suit small quantities, liters suit bottles and fuel, and US cups and fluid ounces serve recipes written on the other scale. A 240-milliliter measure is the US legal cup, while a metric cup of 250 milliliters is a different unit.
Checking a milliliters to us quarts conversion
The metric volume units are a clean decimal chain around the liter, so liters to milliliters is a shift of three places and cubic meters to liters is a shift of three the other way. Those pairs a reader can do without a converter.
Every pair that names a US or imperial liquid unit has to go through the definition first, because three of these units differ from a metric unit by amounts too large to round away: a liter is not a quart, a gallon is 3.785411784 liters in the US system and 4.54609 in the imperial one, and a US fluid ounce is not an imperial fluid ounce.
When checking a volume conversion, convert into liters and out again, or measure the container. The mistake that survives every other check is reading a US measure as the imperial unit of the same name, which changes a recipe, a fuel figure or a tank size by about a fifth.
Tanzania reference points
Real quantities, converted into the units on this page.
The 20-litre bucket or canister used to carry water in Tanzania
20 L = 20,000 mL = 21.133764 qt
WaterAid puts the minimum daily water need per person at 20 litres, so one container is roughly one person's daily requirement.
Source: IPS News — water access in Tanzania, citing WaterAid · verified 2026-09-14
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