Liters to US Gills (L to gi)

1 liter equals 8.453505675 US gills (rounded).

1 liter = 8.453505675 US gills

How to convert liters to US gills

To convert liters to US gills, multiply the number of liters by 8.453505675. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US gills by 0.1182941183 (rounded).

US gills = liters × 8.453505675

Example: 10 liters = 84.53505675 US gills.

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 Gill (gi)

US customaryTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Four US fluid ounces (118.29 mL), a quarter of a pint. A traditional measure for spirits.

Pour a quarter of a pint and the result is a gill, a small liquid measure that is now mostly a matter for spirits and old books. In the United States the gill is 4 fluid ounces, about 118.3 mL, because the US pint is 16 fluid ounces. The British imperial gill is a quarter of the larger imperial pint: 5 imperial fluid ounces, about 142.1 mL, so the two countries' gills differ by roughly a fifth.

Local usage added more variety. Pub spirit measures in Britain and Ireland were fractions of a gill: 1/6 gill (23.7 mL) in England and Wales, 1/4 gill (35.5 mL) in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and 1/5 gill (28.4 mL) on the Isle of Man until 2022. In northern England a half pint was sometimes called a gill. After metrication most British pubs moved to 25 or 35 mL. NIST gives the US gill as 0.118294 L.

1 US gill = 0.1182941183 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gill (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

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