Convert liter to cubic meter
1 L = 0.001 m³
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1 L = 0.001 m³
1 L in every volume unit
| cubic millimeter | 1,000,000 mm³ |
| microliter | 1,000,000 μL |
| milliliter | 1,000 mL |
| cubic centimeter | 1,000 cm³ |
| US teaspoon | 203 tsp |
| centiliter | 100 cL |
| US tablespoon | 67.6 tbsp |
| cubic inch | 61 in³ |
| imperial fluid ounce | 35.2 imp fl oz |
| US fluid ounce | 33.8 fl oz |
| deciliter | 10 dL |
| US cup | 4.23 cup |
| US pint | 2.11 pt |
| imperial pint | 1.76 imp pt |
| US quart | 1.06 qt |
| liter | 1 L |
| cubic decimeter | 1 dm³ |
| imperial quart | 0.88 imp qt |
| board foot | 0.424 fbm |
| US gallon | 0.264 gal |
| imperial gallon | 0.22 imp gal |
| cubic foot | 0.0353 ft³ |
| US bushel | 0.0284 bu |
| hectoliter | 0.01 hL |
| US beer barrel | 0.00852 bbl beer |
| oil barrel | 0.00629 bbl |
| cubic yard | 0.00131 yd³ |
| cubic meter | 0.001 m³ |
| kiloliter | 0.001 kL |
| hundred cubic feet | 0.000353 CCF |
| cord | 0.000276 cord |
| acre-foot | 8.11e-07 ac·ft |
| million US gallons | 2.64e-07 MG |
| cubic kilometer | 1.00e-12 km³ |
How the conversion works
Multiply by 0.001 to go from liter to cubic meter, or divide by it to go back. Every conversion on this site routes through the SI value (m³) rather than a table of pairwise factors, so a round-trip returns exactly what you started with.
Going the other way? cubic meter to liter: 1 m³ = 1,000 L.
liter to cubic meter: common values
| 1 L | 0.001 m³ |
| 2 L | 0.002 m³ |
| 3 L | 0.003 m³ |
| 5 L | 0.005 m³ |
| 10 L | 0.01 m³ |
| 15 L | 0.015 m³ |
| 20 L | 0.02 m³ |
| 25 L | 0.025 m³ |
| 50 L | 0.05 m³ |
| 75 L | 0.075 m³ |
| 100 L | 0.1 m³ |
| 250 L | 0.25 m³ |
| 500 L | 0.5 m³ |
| 1000 L | 1 m³ |