How many kilograms are in 500 liters of water?
How many kilograms are in 500 liters of water?
Answer
The density of water is 0.998 kg/L (liquid water at 20 °C; rounding to 1.00 kg/L is fine for everyday use).
How the mass of 500 liters of water was worked out
0.998 kg/L × 500 L
=499 kg
The density comes from FAO/INFOODS Density Database v2.0. Liquid water at 20 °C; rounding to 1.00 kg/L is fine for everyday use.
Why a liter and a kilogram are not the same thing
A liter measures volume, a kilogram measures mass, and density is what ties them together: how many kilograms one liter of this particular substance comes to. The coincidence that makes people treat them as one thing is historical — in 1795 the gram was defined as the mass of one cubic centimeter of water, so a liter of water weighed a kilogram by construction. For anything else the equality breaks.
The extremes of this page make it obvious: one liter of LPG weighs 0.51 kg, while one liter of densely packed sand weighs 2 kg — four times more at the very same volume.
If the substance is not known in advance, start from how many kilograms are in 500 liters — the same volume across every substance at once.
The other way round: how much room a kilogram takes
This page starts from a volume and answers in kilograms. The opposite question — how many liters a given mass comes to — is what the kilograms to liters calculator is for. Both read the same density table, so the two pages agree wherever the answer is volume times density.
For water that means 500 liters weigh 499 kg here, and one kilogram of it takes 1 liter there.
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- Gallons to Pounds - How much a gallon of water, milk, gasoline, diesel, oil or propane weighs in pounds — by density
- L to Ml - Convert Liters to Milliliters
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How much 500 liters of each substance weigh
| Substance | Mass | Density, kg/L |
|---|---|---|
| Beer | 505 kg | 1.01 |
| Cement | 625–700 kg | 1.25–1.4 |
| Coal | 327–633 kg | 0.654–1.266 |
| Cucumbers | 310–320 kg | 0.62–0.64 |
| Diesel | 417 kg | 0.834 |
| Gasoline | 370 kg | 0.74 |
| Honey | 710 kg | 1.42 |
| Juice | 530 kg | 1.06 |
| LPG | 255 kg | 0.51 |
| Milk | 515 kg | 1.03 |
| Mineral spirits | 390 kg | 0.78 |
| Motor oil | 425 kg | 0.85 |
| Sand | 825–1,000 kg | 1.65–2 |
| Soil | 650–750 kg | 1.3–1.5 |
| Sugar | 360–450 kg | 0.72–0.9 |
| Tomatoes | 275–300 kg | 0.55–0.6 |
| Vegetable oil | 460 kg | 0.92 |
| Wall primer | 500 kg | 1 |
| Water | 499 kg | 0.998 |