Milliliters to Cups Converter

This converter divides by 236.59, because its cup is the US customary cup: exactly 16 US tablespoons, or 236.5882365 ml. That is not the only cup in use, and recipes written in milliliters are often aimed at a different one:

If you are filling a 250 ml cup, the tool's answer is 5.67% higher than the number of cups you will actually pour. With a cup rounded to 240 ml, it is 1.44% higher.

A recipe from a metric kitchen might call for 200 ml of milk. The tool gives 0.84535 cups. That is not a line on any measuring cup, so split it:

1. Take the largest common fraction that fits: 3/4 cup, which is 177.44 ml.
2. Measure the rest with a spoon. The 22.56 ml left over is about 1 1/2 US tablespoons.

For liquids, a jug marked in milliliters is simpler and more accurate than any conversion. Use cups when they are all you have.

Below about 60 ml, a cup result is hard to measure. 15 ml shows as 0.063401 cups and 30 ml as 0.1268 cups, just over a sixteenth and an eighth of a cup. A tablespoon is far easier: a US tablespoon holds about 14.79 ml, so 15 ml is one tablespoon and 30 ml is two, near enough.

One milliliter is 0.0042268 cups in this tool. That figure shows up when you check the factor, but nobody measures a fraction of a cup that small.

Milliliters and cups both measure volume, so the conversion is exact for water, milk, stock and oil. Flour, sugar and grated cheese are different. How tightly you pack them changes how much fits in a cup. If a metric recipe gives flour in grams, weigh it. Turning grams into ml first and then into cups adds two layers of guesswork, and this tool can't do the first step anyway.