5 gallons to liters

If you are trying to convert 5 gal to liters you might be asking one of these questions (they are all the same): 

  • What is 5 gallon to liters?    
  • What is 5 gal to liters?
  • What is 5 gal to L?

Just a quick reminder about the abbreviations. gal=gallons and L=liters. 

When you convert 5 gal to liters the ANSWER is 18.92705892.

You can also use this converter to convert any number of gallons (gal) to liters (L):

Gallons To Liters Converter

Also here are the most common gallons (gal) to liters (L) conversions in this table:

 

Gallons (gal)  Liters (L) Gallons (gal)  Liters (L)
1 3.785411784 51 193.056001
2 7.570823568 52 196.8414128
3 11.35623535 53 200.6268246
4 15.14164714 54 204.4122363
5 18.92705892 55 208.1976481
6 22.7124707 56 211.9830599
7 26.49788249 57 215.7684717
8 30.28329427 58 219.5538835
9 34.06870606 59 223.3392953
10 37.85411784 60 227.124707
11 41.63952962 61 230.9101188
12 45.42494141 62 234.6955306
13 49.21035319 63 238.4809424
14 52.99576498 64 242.2663542
15 56.78117676 65 246.051766
16 60.56658854 66 249.8371777
17 64.35200033 67 253.6225895
18 68.13741211 68 257.4080013
19 71.9228239 69 261.1934131
20 75.70823568 70 264.9788249
21 79.49364746 71 268.7642367
22 83.27905925 72 272.5496484
23 87.06447103 73 276.3350602
24 90.84988282 74 280.120472
25 94.6352946 75 283.9058838
26 98.42070638 76 287.6912956
27 102.2061182 77 291.4767074
28 105.99153 78 295.2621192
29 109.7769417 79 299.0475309
30 113.5623535 80 302.8329427
31 117.3477653 81 306.6183545
32 121.1331771 82 310.4037663
33 124.9185889 83 314.1891781
34 128.7040007 84 317.9745899
35 132.4894124 85 321.7600016
36 136.2748242 86 325.5454134
37 140.060236 87 329.3308252
38 143.8456478 88 333.116237
39 147.6310596 89 336.9016488
40 151.4164714 90 340.6870606
41 155.2018831 91 344.4724723
42 158.9872949 92 348.2578841
43 162.7727067 93 352.0432959
44 166.5581185 94 355.8287077
45 170.3435303 95 359.6141195
46 174.1289421 96 363.3995313
47 177.9143538 97 367.184943
48 181.6997656 98 370.9703548
49 185.4851774 99 374.7557666
50 189.2705892 100 378.5411784

 

How to convert 5 gallons (gal) to liters (L)?

There are two methods you can use to do gal to L conversion:

1st Method – Multiply by 3.785411784

Since there are 3.785411784 gallons (gal) to liters (L) you can multiply the number of gallons (gal) you are trying to convert by 3.785411784. Therefore, multiply 5 by 3.785411784. Here is the formula:

5 x 3.785411784 = 18.92705892

2nd Method – Divide by 0.2641720524

In order to convert gallons (gal) to liters (L) you just need to divide the number of gallons you are trying to convert by 0.2641720524. Here is the formula:

5 ÷ 0.2641720524 = 18.92705892

Why divide by 0.2641720524 because there are 0.2641720524 gallons in 1 liter.

In case you need to do a reverse conversion from liters (L) to gallons (gal) use the converter below:

Liters To Gallons Converter

Facts about Gallon

A gallon is a unit of volume in the United States’ customary and imperial units. Nowadays three distinct versions are in use:

The imperial gallon expressed as 4.54609 litres, which is or was used in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and some Caribbean countries;

The US gallon (US gal) is defined as 231 cubic inches, exactly 3.785411784 L, which is used in the United States and some Latin American and Caribbean countries.

The US dry gallon “usdrygal” is expressed as 1/8 US bushel, precisely 4.40488377086 L. For both, an imperial gallon and United States (liquid), a symbol of the IEEE standard is “gal”. There are 4 quarts in a gallon and 8 pints in a gallon, which have different volumes in various systems. 

The gallon was developed in England as the basis of systems for measuring beer and wine. The sizes of gallons used in these 2 systems varied from each other. One was based on either the ale gallon or the larger imperial gallon and the other one on the wine gallon (equal in size to the US gallon).

By the end of the 18th century there were 3 definitions of the gallon in common use:

– The corn gallon (Winchester gallon), of about 268.8 cubic inches (about 4.405 L) – The corn or dry gallon is used (together with the dry quart and pint) in the US for grain and various dry commodities.

– Queen Anne’s gallon or the wine gallon, which was 231 cubic inches (about 3.785 L) – The wine, fluid, or liquid gallon has been the standard United States gallon since the early 19th century.

– The ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (about 4.622 L) – Britain adopted a close approximation, in 1824, to the ale gallon known as the imperial gallon and revoked all other gallons in favor of it.

In the US, gallons are often used for larger containers,  such as one-gallon cartons of milk or half-gallon tubs of ice cream. In the US, as well as some of its territories gallons are also largely used in fuel economy expression. The US gallon is used more frequently than the imperial gallon. Most countries across the world use liters for fuel referencing.

Facts about Liter

Liter, also spelled litre in British English, is a unit of volume with two official symbols in Latin: “L” and “l”. A liter is not part of the SI (International System of Units), however, CGPM (General Conference on Weights and Measures that defines SI, in French – Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures) accepts liter for use within SI. The International System of Units of volume is cubic centimeters (cm3), cubic decimeters (dm3), and cubic meters (m3). 1 liter=1dm3=1000cm3=0.001m3.

in 1795 liter was first introduced in France as a new “republican unit of measurement” that was equivalent to 1 cubic decimeter. Liter was named after litron, a Carolingian, old pre-revolutionary measurement unit. 1 liter of water (liquid state) nearly exactly is equivalent to 1 kilogram because in 1795 gram was defined as 1 cubic centimeter of water at the melting ice temperature point. At the 3rd CGPM conference, in 1901, a liter was defined as the space occupied by one kilogram of water at a temperature of its maximum density (3.98 °C ) under 1 atmosphere pressure. In 1964 CGPM reverted to the prior and now present definition where 1 liter is equivalent to 1 decimeter (dm3).

Liters are used to measure fluids by the capacity and size of their containers. Many fluid consumer commodities are measured in liters such as water, cooking oil, detergents, etc.

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