Cups to Milliliters Converter
Convert US cups to milliliters instantly. 1 cup = 236.588 mL. Formula, table and why "a cup" means different things worldwide.
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Quick answer
One US cup equals 236.588 milliliters. Multiply cups by 236.588 to get millilitres, so 2 cups (a common recipe quantity) is about 473 mL, just under half a litre.
| Cubic metre (m³) | 0.0002365882365 |
| Litre (L) | 0.2365882365 |
| Millilitre (mL) | 236.5882365 |
| Cubic centimetre (cm³) | 236.5882365 |
| Cubic inch (in³) | 14.4375 |
| Cubic foot (ft³) | 0.008355034722 |
| Cubic yard (yd³) | 0.0003094457305 |
| US gallon (gal) | 0.0625 |
| US quart (qt) | 0.25 |
| US pint (pt) | 0.5 |
| US cup (cup) | 1 |
| US fluid ounce (fl oz) | 7.999999966 |
| US tablespoon (tbsp) | 15.99999993 |
| US teaspoon (tsp) | 48 |
| Imperial gallon (gal (UK)) | 0.05204213654 |
| Imperial pint (pt (UK)) | 0.4163370923 |
| Oil barrel (bbl) | 0.001488095238 |
| Board foot (lumber) (FBM) | 0.1002604173 |
| Thousand board feet (MBF) | 0.0001002604166 |
| Cord (firewood) (cord) | 0.00006527370884 |
cup to mL conversion table
| cup | mL |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | 236.5882365 mL |
| 2 cup | 473.176473 mL |
| 3 cup | 709.7647095 mL |
| 4 cup | 946.352946 mL |
| 5 cup | 1182.941182 mL |
| 6 cup | 1419.529419 mL |
| 7 cup | 1656.117656 mL |
| 8 cup | 1892.705892 mL |
| 9 cup | 2129.294129 mL |
| 10 cup | 2365.882365 mL |
| 20 cup | 4731.76473 mL |
| 30 cup | 7097.647095 mL |
| 40 cup | 9463.52946 mL |
| 50 cup | 11829.41183 mL |
| 60 cup | 14195.29419 mL |
| 70 cup | 16561.17656 mL |
| 80 cup | 18927.05892 mL |
| 90 cup | 21292.94129 mL |
| 100 cup | 23658.82365 mL |
| 250 cup | 59147.05913 mL |
| 500 cup | 118294.1183 mL |
| 1000 cup | 236588.2365 mL |
How to convert cup to mL
A "cup" is not an internationally standard measurement: the US legal cup is 236.588 mL, the US customary cup used in older recipes is close but not identical, the metric cup used in Australia, Canada and New Zealand is a round 250 mL, and Japan's traditional rice-cooker cup is 180 mL. A recipe that just says "1 cup" with no origin given is genuinely ambiguous by up to 25%.
Because a cup measures volume rather than weight, and ingredients pack to different densities, professional and precision baking has moved toward weighing flour and sugar in grams instead. The cup-to-millilitre conversion here is exact, but it does not solve the separate, larger problem of a "cup of flour" varying by how firmly it was packed into the measuring cup.