280 gallons per minute (280 gal/min)

280 gallons per minute equals 1,059.9153 liters per minute, 37.430556 cubic feet per minute, 63.594918 cubic meters per hour and 17.665255 liters per second.

280 gallons per minute = 1,059.9153 liters per minute

What 280 gallons per minute means in practice

280 gallons per minute sits between a garden hose (7.92516 gal/min) and a fire hose (317.006 gal/min).

  • A low-flow showerhead: 1.99714 gal/min
  • A kitchen faucet: 2.06054 gal/min
  • A garden hose: 7.92516 gal/min
  • A fire hose: 317.006 gal/min
  • Niagara Falls: 38,040,800 gal/min
  • The Mississippi River: 266,285,000 gal/min
  • The Amazon River: 3,312,720,000 gal/min

280 gallons per minute in all flow rate units

UnitValueScientific notation
Liters per minute (L/min) 1,059.91531.05992 × 103
Cubic feet per minute (ft³/min) 37.430555563.74306 × 101
Cubic meters per hour (m³/h) 63.594917976.35949 × 101
Liters per second (L/s) 17.665254991.76653 × 101
Liters per hour (L/h) 63,594.917976.35949 × 104
Cubic meters per second (m³/s) 0.017665254991.76653 × 10-2
Cubic feet per second (ft³/s) 0.62384259266.23843 × 10-1
Gallons per hour (gal/h) 16,8001.68 × 104
Barrels per day (bbl/d) 9,6009.6 × 103
Cubic meters per day (m³/d) 1,526.2780311.52628 × 103
Milliliters per minute (mL/min) 1,059,915.31.05992 × 106
Cubic meters per minute (m³/min) 1.05991531.05992 × 100
Gallons per day (gal/d) 403,2004.032 × 105
Imperial gallons per minute (imp gal/min) 233.14877172.33149 × 102
Liters per day (L/d) 1,526,278.0311.52628 × 106
Milliliters per hour (mL/h) 63,594,917.976.35949 × 107
Cubic feet per hour (ft³/h) 2,245.8333332.24583 × 103
Imperial gallons per hour (imp gal/h) 13,988.92631.39889 × 104
Gallons per second (gal/s) 4.6666666674.66667 × 100
Milliliters per second (mL/s) 17,665.254991.76653 × 104
Million gallons per day (MGD) 0.40324.032 × 10-1
Imperial gallons per day (imp gal/d) 335,734.23123.35734 × 105
Acre-feet per day (ac⋅ft/d) 1.2373737371.23737 × 100
Megaliters per day (ML/d) 1.5262780311.52628 × 100
Million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) 0.05395.39 × 10-2
Barrels per hour (bbl/h) 4004 × 102
Standard cubic centimeters per minute (sccm) 1,059,915.31.05992 × 106
Thousand cubic feet per day (Mcf/d) 53.95.39 × 101
Cubic inches per minute (in³/min) 64,6806.468 × 104

Other amounts of gallons per minute

About the gallon per minute

US gallons per unit of time are used for pumps, plumbing, irrigation and fuel in the US; gallons per minute (gpm) is the standard for well pumps and faucets. Read more about gallons per minute.