How Many Cups in a Quart, Pint, or Gallon?

There are 4 cups in a quart, 2 cups in a pint, and 16 cups in a gallon. Everything else follows from those three — or use the converter below.

Cups, Pints, Quarts & Gallons Converter

Enter an amount and see it in every US volume unit

1 quart equals
32
fluid ounces
4
cups
2
pints
¼
gallons
about 946 ml

US Volume Conversion Chart

MeasurementFluid OuncesCupsPintsQuartsGallons
1 cup81½¼1/16
1 pint1621½
1 quart32421¼
½ gallon64842½
1 gallon12816841

The Gallon Ladder

US volume units double at every step, which makes the whole system easy to memorize as a ladder:

  • 1 gallon = 4 quarts = 8 pints = 16 cups = 128 fl oz
  • 1 quart = 2 pints = 4 cups = 32 fl oz
  • 1 pint = 2 cups = 16 fl oz
  • 1 cup = 8 fl oz = 16 tablespoons

Working in metric? See liters to cups and ml to cups. And remember fluid ounces measure volume — for weight ounces you want the ounces to grams converter.

Frequently Asked Questions

There are 4 cups in a quart. So 2 quarts is 8 cups, and half a quart (a pint) is 2 cups.

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