Liters to US Dry Quarts (L to dry qt)

1 liter equals 0.9080829843 US dry quarts (rounded).

1 liter = 0.9080829843 US dry quarts

How to convert liters to US dry quarts

To convert liters to US dry quarts, multiply the number of liters by 0.9080829843. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US dry quarts by 1.101220943 (rounded).

US dry quarts = liters × 0.9080829843

Example: 10 liters = 9.080829843 US dry quarts.

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

US Dry Quart (dry qt)

US customaryTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

One 32nd of a US bushel (1.1012 L), about 16% larger than a liquid quart. Used for berries and small produce.

Quart comes from the Latin quartus, a fourth, by way of French, and a quart is meant to be a quarter of a gallon. American usage splits the unit in two, though, because a liquid gallon and a dry gallon were never the same. The dry quart is 1/32 of a US bushel, 67.200625 cubic inches, about 1.101 L. The liquid quart is 57.75 cubic inches, about 0.946 L, so the dry one is roughly 16 percent larger.

Britain avoids this split, since the imperial system has one quart for both liquids and solids, 69.35 cubic inches or about 1.1365 L, and it is a little larger than the American dry quart. Because gallons of many sizes were once in use, quarts have also come in many sizes, and the dry quart itself sometimes varied by commodity. Berries and small produce are the usual goods sold by it. NIST lists it as 1.101221 L.

1 US dry quart = 1.101220943 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Quart; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

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