Liters to Tuns (L to tun)

1 liter equals 0.001048301795 tuns (rounded).

1 liter = 0.001048301795 tuns

How to convert liters to tuns

To convert liters to tuns, multiply the number of liters by 0.001048301795. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply tuns by 953.9237696 (rounded).

tuns = liters × 0.001048301795

Example: 10 liters = 0.01048301795 tuns.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

Tun (tun)

US customaryHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

252 US gallons (954 L), four hogsheads or two pipes.. A very large wine cask, related to the word 'ton'.

From Old English tunne and Medieval Latin tunna, the tun gave English both a cask and, through its close cousin ton, a way of rating ships by how many tuns of wine they could carry. The spellings were once used interchangeably, and a full tun of wine weighs about one long ton of 2,240 pounds.

Its size drifted. The tun began at 256 wine gallons and was cut to 252 before the fifteenth century, a number divisible by seven and many smaller integers. A customs paper of 1507 gives 240 gallons. The Queen Anne gallon of 231 cubic inches, adopted in 1706, made a tun roughly a cylinder 42 inches across and high, and the 1824 imperial system redefined it as 210 imperial gallons.

The US figure of 252 gallons is about 953.9 litres (953.92 L as used here), while the imperial tun is only about 0.08 percent larger. It tops the English wine ladder: two butts, three puncheons, four hogsheads or six tierces, with the same arithmetic working in either gallon.

1 tun = 953.9237696 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Tun (unit); Wikipedia: Hogshead

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