38 gallons per minute (38 gal/min)

38 gallons per minute equals 143.84565 liters per minute, 5.0798611 cubic feet per minute, 8.6307389 cubic meters per hour and 2.3974275 liters per second.

38 gallons per minute = 143.8456478 liters per minute

What 38 gallons per minute means in practice

38 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

38 gallons per minute in all flow rate units

UnitValueScientific notation
Liters per minute (L/min) 143.84564781.43846 × 102
Cubic feet per minute (ft³/min) 5.0798611115.07986 × 100
Cubic meters per hour (m³/h) 8.6307388688.63074 × 100
Liters per second (L/s) 2.3974274632.39743 × 100
Liters per hour (L/h) 8,630.7388688.63074 × 103
Cubic meters per second (m³/s) 0.0023974274632.39743 × 10-3
Cubic feet per second (ft³/s) 0.084664351858.46644 × 10-2
Gallons per hour (gal/h) 2,2802.28 × 103
Barrels per day (bbl/d) 1,302.8571431.30286 × 103
Cubic meters per day (m³/d) 207.13773282.07138 × 102
Milliliters per minute (mL/min) 143,845.64781.43846 × 105
Cubic meters per minute (m³/min) 0.14384564781.43846 × 10-1
Gallons per day (gal/d) 54,7205.472 × 104
Imperial gallons per minute (imp gal/min) 31.641619023.16416 × 101
Liters per day (L/d) 207,137.73282.07138 × 105
Milliliters per hour (mL/h) 8,630,738.8688.63074 × 106
Cubic feet per hour (ft³/h) 304.79166673.04792 × 102
Imperial gallons per hour (imp gal/h) 1,898.4971411.8985 × 103
Gallons per second (gal/s) 0.63333333336.33333 × 10-1
Milliliters per second (mL/s) 2,397.4274632.39743 × 103
Million gallons per day (MGD) 0.054725.472 × 10-2
Imperial gallons per day (imp gal/d) 45,563.931384.55639 × 104
Acre-feet per day (ac⋅ft/d) 0.16792929291.67929 × 10-1
Megaliters per day (ML/d) 0.20713773282.07138 × 10-1
Million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) 0.0073157.315 × 10-3
Barrels per hour (bbl/h) 54.285714295.42857 × 101
Standard cubic centimeters per minute (sccm) 143,845.64781.43846 × 105
Thousand cubic feet per day (Mcf/d) 7.3157.315 × 100
Cubic inches per minute (in³/min) 8,7788.778 × 103

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.