US pints to US quarts Converter
Convert US pints (pt) to US quarts (qt) instantly, or use the conversion table below to look up common values.
US pints to US quarts conversion table
| US pints (pt) | US quarts (qt) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.5 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 1.5 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 2.5 |
| 10 | 5 |
| 25 | 12.5 |
| 50 | 25 |
| 100 | 50 |
How to convert US pints to US quarts
1 pt equals 0.5 qt. Use the converter above for any value, or read the table for common conversions.
qt = pt × 0.5 · pt = qt × 2Multiply a us pints figure by 0.5 to get us quarts, or divide it by 2 to go the other way.
Worked examples
- 1 pt= 0.5 qt
- 2 pt= 1 qt
- 5 pt= 2.5 qt
- 10 pt= 5 qt
- 20 pt= 10 qt
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.
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.
Checking a us pints 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 = 42.267528 pt = 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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