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Cubic metres to litres.

Convert m³ to L and L to m³. Type in either box and the other follows. Exactly 1000 litres to the cubic metre — a water bill in cubic metres is a bill in thousands of litres.

m³ → LExact definition
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Cubic metres to litres — common values, to 6 significant figures.
m³L
0.1 m³100 L
0.25 m³250 L
0.5 m³500 L
1 m³1000 L
2 m³2000 L
5 m³5000 L
10 m³10000 L
20 m³20000 L
50 m³50000 L
100 m³100000 L
1 m³=1000 L 1 L=0.001 m³

Definitions

  • The cubic metre is the SI unit of volume, and holds exactly 1000 litres. Water and gas meters read in it.
  • The litre is a thousand cubic centimetres — a cube 10 cm on each side. It is accepted for use with SI but is not itself an SI unit.
  • This conversion is exact by definition. 1 m³ = 1000 L.
  • US and imperial units of the same name are different sizes. A US pint is 473 mL; an imperial pint is 568 mL. Every unit below says which system it belongs to.

How it works

One direction multiplies and the other divides by the same number, so nothing is lost by going back and forth.

The value passes through m³, the unit every other volume & capacity unit on the site is defined against, rather than a number written into this page on its own. That is why the figure here, the figure in the table above and the general volume & capacity converter always agree.

Display precision sets a maximum number of significant figures and trims trailing zeroes, so it changes what you see and never what was calculated. The editable box always holds a plain number at full working precision, so you can carry on from either side.

Common questions this answers: how many litres in a cubic metre (1000), how many cubic metres in a litre (0.001), and what 5 m³ is in litres (5000 L).

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