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US quarts to Imperial gallons Converter

Convert US quarts (qt) to Imperial gallons (imp gal) instantly, or use the conversion table below to look up common values.

1 qt = 0.208169 imp gal

US quarts to Imperial gallons conversion table

US quarts (qt)Imperial gallons (imp gal)
10.208169
20.416337
30.624506
40.832674
51.040843
102.081685
255.204214
5010.408427
10020.816855

How to convert US quarts to Imperial gallons

1 qt equals 0.208169 imp gal. Use the converter above for any value, or read the table for common conversions.

imp gal = qt × 0.2081685461572472 · qt = imp gal × 4.80379970201942

Multiply a us quarts figure by 0.208169 to get imperial gallons, or divide it by 4.8038 to go the other way.

Worked examples

  • 1 qt= 0.208169 imp gal
  • 2 qt= 0.416337 imp gal
  • 5 qt= 1.040843 imp gal
  • 10 qt= 2.081685 imp gal
  • 20 qt= 4.163371 imp gal

What these units are

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.

Imperial gallons (imp gal). An imperial gallon is 4.54609 liters, about 20% more than a US gallon. It is the traditional UK and Commonwealth liquid unit, now largely replaced by liters.

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 quarts to imperial gallons 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 = 21.133764 qt = 4.399385 imp gal

    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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