Liters to gallons converter
Convert liters to US gallons for fuel, containers, recipes, and everyday liquid measurements.
1 liter = 0.264172 US gallons
How to convert liters to US gallons
Divide liters by 3.785411784 to get US liquid gallons. Metric Flip uses US customary liquid gallons in its volume converter.
Example: 20 liters in US gallons
20 ÷ 3.785411784 = 5.28344105 US gal. Rounded to two decimal places, 20 liters is 5.28 US gallons.
US gallons and Imperial gallons are different
An Imperial gallon is 4.54609 liters, while a US gallon is 3.785411784 liters. Check which convention a source uses before converting: substituting one for the other changes the result materially.