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US pints to Milliliters Converter

Convert US pints (pt) to Milliliters (mL) instantly, or use the conversion table below to look up common values.

1 pt = 473.176473 mL

US pints to Milliliters conversion table

US pints (pt)Milliliters (mL)
1473.176473
2946.352946
31,419.529419
41,892.705892
52,365.882365
104,731.76473
2511,829.411825
5023,658.82365
10047,317.6473

How to convert US pints to Milliliters

1 pt equals 473.176473 mL. Use the converter above for any value, or read the table for common conversions.

mL = pt × 473.176473 · pt = mL × 0.0021133764188651875

Multiply a us pints figure by 473.176473 to get milliliters, or divide it by 0.002113 to go the other way.

Worked examples

  • 1 pt= 473.176473 mL
  • 2 pt= 946.352946 mL
  • 5 pt= 2,365.882365 mL
  • 10 pt= 4,731.76473 mL
  • 20 pt= 9,463.52946 mL

What these units are

US pints (pt). A US pint is half a US quart, or 0.473176473 liters. A UK or imperial pint is larger, at 0.56826125 liters, which is why the same drink measures differently in each country.

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 and imperial units are kept separate because they are genuinely different sizes. Confirm which system a source means before trusting a converted figure.

Converting US pints to Milliliters in practice

Reading the result 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 us pints to milliliters 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 = 42.267528 pt = 20,000 mL

    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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