Cubic yard

A cubic yard is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada, and the UK. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 yard (3 feet, 36 inches, 0.9144 metres) in length.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:

• cubic yards, cubic yard, cubic yds, cubic yd
• cu yards, cu yard, cu yds, cu yd, CYs
• yards/-3, yard/-3, yds/-3, yd/-3
• yards^3, yard^3, yds^3, yd^3
• yards³, yard³, yds³, yd³

Conversions

1 cubic yard is equivalent to:

• 46 656 cubic inches
• 27 cubic feet
• ≈0.000000000183 cubic miles
• ≈21.6962157 U.S. bushels
• ≈201.974 U.S. liquid gallons
• ≈4.80890476 crude barrels
• ≈764.554858 litres
• ≈764 554 858 cubic millimetres
• ≈764 554.858 cubic centimetres
• ≈0.764544858 cubic metres
• ≈0.000000000765 cubic kilometres

See also

• 1 E-1 m³ for a comparison with other volumes
• Square yard
• Orders of magnitude (volume)
• Conversion of units
• Cube (arithmetic), cube root
  • Cubic equation, cubic function