Flow Rate Converter

Convert gallons per minute, liters per minute, cubic feet per minute, cubic meters per hour and more.

Decimals, fractions (3 1/2) and e-notation (1.5e6) all work.
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How to Convert Flow Rate Units

Flow rate is volume per unit time, so each factor combines a volume factor and a time factor. One US gallon per minute is 3.785411784 L/min.

L/min = gpm × 3.785412   m³/h = cfm × 1.699011   gpm = cfs × 448.831

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1 gpm3.785412 L/min
1 L/min0.2641721 gpm
1 cfm1.699011 m³/h
1 m³/h4.402868 gpm
1 gpm0.002228009 cfs
1 L/s15.85032 gpm
1 gph3.785412 L/h

Unit Definitions

UnitEqualsExact?
Milliliters per minute (mL/min)0.001 L/minExact
Liters per second (L/s)60 L/minExact
Liters per minute (L/min)1 L/minExact
Liters per hour (L/h)0.01666666667 L/minExact
Cubic meters per hour (m³/h)16.66666667 L/minExact
Cubic meters per second (m³/s)60,000 L/minExact
US gallons per minute (gpm)3.785411784 L/minExact
US gallons per hour (gph)0.0630901964 L/minExact
US gallons per day (gpd)0.002628758183 L/minExact
Cubic feet per minute (cfm)28.31684659 L/minExact
Cubic feet per second (cfs)1,699.010796 L/minExact
UK gallons per minute (UK gpm)4.54609 L/minExact
Oil barrels per day (bbl/d)0.1104078437 L/minExact
Million US gallons per day (MGD)2,628.758183 L/minExact

Factors follow NIST Special Publication 811, Appendix B. "Exact" means the unit is defined as that value; results are rounded only for display.

Tips

Use gpm for water and cfm for air. To work out flow from pipe size and velocity, see the pipe flow rate calculator.