How many cups are in a quart?
There are 4 cups in a quart in US measurements. A quart also equals 2 pints or 32 US fluid ounces, about 946 milliliters.
US liquid measures build on each other: 2 cups make a pint, 2 pints make a quart and 4 quarts make a gallon. So a gallon contains 16 cups. The word quart comes from quarter, because a quart is a quarter of a gallon. One US cup equals 8 fluid ounces, or about 237 milliliters.
British imperial measures are larger. An imperial quart is about 1.14 liters and contains 40 imperial fluid ounces. An imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces, compared with 16 in a US pint. That is why a pint of beer in a British pub is bigger than one in the United States.
Metric conversion
In metric countries, recipes usually use milliliters and liters. A US quart is a little smaller than a liter, which is about 1.06 US quarts. Many measuring jugs show both cups and milliliters to make converting recipes easier.
Did You Know?
A memory trick for US measures is the gallon man drawing: a big G holding four Qs, each with two Ps, each with two Cs.