Pints to liters converter
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Convert pints to liters instantly: 1 US pint is 0.473 liters. Beer, milk and recipes, with the exact math and one-click copying.
a US pint is 473 ml — the metric answer to "how big is a pint".
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Rough math: multiply by 0.47. Two US pints is about 0.95 litres.
A US pint is 473 ml; a UK pint is 568 ml. Same word, different thirst.
4 US pints is 1.89 litres, just short of two litres of "closer to a gallon".
what it does
One US pint is 0.473 liters. Divide pints by 2.113 and the liters appear, which is what a European side of the story needs when the recipe arrives in pints.
It shows up when a recipe asks for "two pints of cream" and the jug is metric, when a beer is sold by the pint but brewed by the litre, when a US milk carton is poured into a metric recipe, and in any kitchen where the two systems share a counter and a measuring jug.
The shortcut: 1 US pint is about 473 ml, so 2 pints is 0.95 litres, 4 pints is 1.89 litres, and a UK pint is 568 ml — bigger, and the source of many "but a pint is a pint" arguments.
Type any pint value and the widget answers in liters instantly, with the math on screen. Click to copy, and swap when a litre-based recipe has to be measured out in pints.
quick answers
How many liters are in a pint?
0.473 for the US pint, 0.568 for the UK pint. Two countries, two pints.
Is a pint about half a liter?
The US pint is close (473 ml); the UK pint is a bit more (568 ml). Neither is exactly half.
Why convert pints to liters?
Because recipes and drinks arrive in pints while metric jugs, bottles and shops work in litres.