12 comparison tools
Volume & capacity
Bottles, baths, tanks and swimming pools — how much actually fits.
- Blood volume A volume against a blood donation, total blood volume and the thresholds that matter clinically.
- Cooking volumes A kitchen volume against teaspoons, tablespoons, cups and the tins recipes assume.
- Daily water use A daily water figure against showers, flushes, laundry and the hidden water in food.
- Drink sizes A drink volume against shots, glasses, cans, pints and coffee-shop cup sizes.
- Engine size An engine displacement against scooters, family cars, supercars and ship engines.
- Fuel tanks A tank capacity against cars, trucks, ships and an Airbus A380.
- How much is that? Any volume placed between a teaspoon, a bathtub, a tanker and an Olympic swimming pool.
- Lakes and reservoirs A volume against reservoirs, famous lakes, seas and the world ocean.
- Olympic pools The standard media unit for large volumes: any volume in 2 500 m³ pools.
- Rainfall volume Millimetres of rain turned into the litres that actually land on a roof or a field.
- Shipping containers A volume in 20-foot containers, the box that global trade is counted in.
- Volume in bathtubs A volume divided by one 150-litre bath — the largest container in most homes.