Shot glass

Table columns:
Country
Small
Single
Double
Notes

Table rows:
cells: Australia
30 ml
60 ml
A single shot is sometimes called a "nip".[5] At 30 mL, a typical spirit with 40 percent alcohol is roughly equivalent to one Australian standard drink.[6]
cells: Bulgaria
50 ml
100 ml
cells: Canada
30 ml (1 US fl oz) or 28 ml (1 imp fl oz)
44 ml (1.5 US fl oz) or 43 ml (1.5 imp fl oz)
71 ml (2.5 imp fl oz)
In Canada, a "shot" may refer to an official "standard drink" of 1.5 imperial fluid ounces or 42.6 millilitres,[7] though many establishments serve a "standard drink" of 1 oz.[8] However, shot glasses available in Canada typically are manufactured according to US fluid ounces rather than imperial,[9] making them about 4% larger.
cells: Denmark
20 ml
40 ml
cells: Estonia
20 or 30 ml
40 ml
cells: Finland
20 ml
40 ml
N/A
In Finland, the amount of strong alcohol that restaurants are allowed to serve is regulated by law to one portion of no more than 40 mL at a time per customer. Doubles cannot be legally served.[10]
cells: France
25 or 35 ml
50 or 70 ml
cells: Germany
20 ml
40 ml
In Germany, shot glasses (Schnapsglas, Pinnchen, Stamperl) are smaller.[citation needed]
cells: Greece
45 ml
90 ml
A shot is commonly referred to as a "sfinaki" and it can be made of one liquor or a cocktail mix. There is also a 3 oz – "bottoms up" version of "sfinaki", called "ipovrihio", Greek word for submarine. It's served in a standard liquor glass half full of blonde beer, where the bartender adds a glass shot filled with vodka or whiskey.[citation needed]
cells: Hungary
20 or 30 ml
40 or 50 ml
80 or 100 ml
In Hungarian, shot glasses are called felespohár (feles meaning "half", standing for 0.5 dl), pálinkáspohár (for pálinka), kupica or stampedli.[citation needed]
cells: India
30 ml
30 ml
60 ml
A shot is commonly referred to as a "peg", and is measured as a "small" (chhota), or a "large" (bud-da) peg. A 120 ml shot in India is called a Patiala peg.[11]
cells: Ireland
35.5 ml
71 ml
Derived from the use of a quarter-gill (35.516 ml, one-sixteenth of a pint) as the traditional Irish spirit measure.
cells: Israel
30 ml
50 or 60 ml
In Israel, the common word for a small shot is צ'ייסר ("chaser").[citation needed]
cells: Italy
30 ml
40 or 60 ml
In Italy, the common word for a shot is cicchetto or, more informally and used mainly in nightclubs by young people, shortino. In North Italy, the cicchetto is the most-common way to taste grappa from at least two centuries.[citation needed]
cells: Japan
30 ml
60 ml
In Japanese, the word ショットグラス (shottogurasu) is the singular term for a shot glass.
cells: Poland
50 ml
100 ml
A standard shot (small) is called pięćdziesiątka (lit. fifty, as in 50 ml) while a large shot (double) is called setka or, colloquially, seta (lit. a hundred, as in 100 ml).
cells: Romania
50 ml
100 ml
A single shot is traditionally known in the Romanian language as unu mic (una mică) meaning "a small one" or cinzeacă, meaning "a fifty", as in fifty milliliters. A double shot is simply called unu (una mare), meaning "one (big)".[citation needed]
cells: Russia
50 ml
100 ml
Both single and double shots are commonly called стопка (stópka) in Russian, though a variety of slang names exist. Before metrication a single shot was called шкалик (shkálik) and amounted to 61.5ml, while a double was called чарка (chárka) and was equal to 123 ml — both names are still occasionally used.
cells: Serbia
20 ml
30–50 ml
60–100 ml
A single shot is traditionally known in the Serbian language as чашица за ракију and ракијска чашица, meaning "small glass for rakija" and "rakija glass", or simply as мера—мерица, meaning "measure". A double shot is simply called Дупли, meaning "a double", while the smallest, 20 milliliter glass, is known as dvojka meaning "two".[citation needed]
cells: Sweden
20 ml
40 ml
60 ml
A single shot is referred to as a fyra, meaning "a four" and a double is referred to as a sexa, meaning "a six", as Swedes generally use centiliters rather than milliliters.
cells: Slovakia
20 or 25 ml
40 or 50 ml
80 or 100 ml
The most-common single-shot size is the pol deci (literally, "half a decilitre", 50 ml).[citation needed]
cells: Slovenia
30 ml
50 ml
100 ml
The 50 ml size is colloquially known as nula pet ("zero five", meaning 0.5 of a decilitre), and the small one nula tri ("zero three"). Another common term for a single shot is ta kratek, meaning "the short one".
cells: South Africa
25 ml
50 ml
The South African government has an official definition for the single-shot size.[citation needed]
cells: United Kingdom
25 or 35 ml
50 or 70 ml
Shots sold on-premises must contain either 25 ml or 35 ml measures of whisky, gin, rum, or vodka as defined in the Weights and Measures Act of 1985. This requirement does not extend to other spirits. A 2001 amendment allowed a double shot of 70 ml to be served. Generally, a single measure is equal to 35 ml in Northern Ireland and Scotland and 25 ml in England and Wales.[12]
cells: United States
30 ml (1 US fl oz)
44 ml (1.5 US fl oz)
59 to 89 ml (2 to 3 US fl oz)
There is no standard size for a single shot, except in Utah, where a shot is defined as 1.5 US fl oz (44 ml).[13] Elsewhere in the U.S., the standard size is generally considered to be 1.25–1.5 US fl oz (37–44 ml).[14][15] A double shot in the U.S. may be 2 fluid ounces[16] or more.

Questions about this table:
originalText: how many ml is in a shot of alcohol
answer: answerTexts: 37–44 ml