Convert US cups to Liters
1 US cup is 0.24 L. One US cup is exactly 0.2365882365 liters.
One US cup is 0.23658824 liters. To convert US cups to liters, multiply by 0.23658824; to go the other way, divide by 0.23658824 or multiply by 4.2267528. The relation is exact but the figure is not: it is a rounding of a number that does not terminate, and it follows from NIST Handbook 130. Eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 ml.
Factor checked against the defining standard · How we check
- US cups × 0.23658824
1 * 0.23658820.237 L
1 US cup in every volume unit
| Unit | Value | Exact factor |
|---|---|---|
| US teaspoons | 48 tsp | × 48 |
| US tablespoons | 16 tbsp | × 16 |
| US fluid ounces | 8 fl oz | × 8 |
| US cups (as entered) | 1 cup | — |
| US pints | 0.5 pt | × 0.5 |
| US quarts | 0.25 qt | × 0.25 |
| US gallons | 0.0625 gal | × 0.0625 |
| milliliters | 236.5882365 ml | × 236.5882365 |
| liters | 0.2365882365 L | × 0.2365882365 |
| imperial gallons | 0.05204213654 gal (UK) | × 0.0520421365393 |
| imperial quarts | 0.2081685462 qt (UK) | × 0.208168546157 |
| imperial pints | 0.4163370923 pt (UK) | × 0.416337092314 |
| imperial fluid ounces | 8.326741846 fl oz (UK) | × 8.32674184629 |
| imperial gills | 1.665348369 gi (UK) | × 1.66534836926 |
| cubic millimetres | 236,588.2365 mm³ | × 236,588.2365 |
| cubic centimetres | 236.5882365 cm³ | × 236.5882365 |
| cubic inches | 14.4375 in³ | × 14.4375 |
| cubic feet | 0.008355034722 ft³ | × 0.00835503472222 |
| cubic yards | 0.0003094457305 yd³ | × 0.000309445730453 |
| cubic metres | 0.0002365882365 m³ | × 0.0002365882365 |
Factors are entered by hand from NIST Handbook 130 rather than derived from a units library, so the ones that terminate are exact rather than rounded.
The same converter answers this pair however it is written: US cups to litres is the British spelling of the same units — the metre and the litre are spelled that way outside the United States and the quantity does not change.
How do you convert US cups to liters? The converter and the working
- 1.Take the measurement in US cups.
- 2.Multiply by 0.23658824 — that is how many liters fit in one US cup.
- 3.To go back the other way, divide by 0.23658824, or multiply by 4.2267528.
Worked example: 25 US cups to liters
- Formula
- cup × 0.23658824 = L
- Arithmetic
- 25 × 0.23658824 = 5.91 L
- Answer
- 25 cup = 5.91 L
The factor is rounded for display; the figure above is computed from the full value.
US cups to liters conversion table
| US cups | Liters |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | 0.24 L |
| 2 cup | 0.47 L |
| 3 cup | 0.71 L |
| 4 cup | 0.95 L |
| 5 cup | 1.18 L |
| 6 cup | 1.42 L |
| 7 cup | 1.66 L |
| 8 cup | 1.89 L |
| 9 cup | 2.13 L |
| 10 cup | 2.37 L |
| 12 cup | 2.84 L |
| 15 cup | 3.55 L |
| 20 cup | 4.73 L |
| 25 cup | 5.91 L |
| 50 cup | 11.83 L |
| 100 cup | 23.66 L |
| 200 cup | 47.32 L |
| 300 cup | 70.98 L |
| 500 cup | 118.29 L |
| 1000 cup | 236.59 L |
| 2000 cup | 473.18 L |
| 5000 cup | 1,182.94 L |
| 10000 cup | 2,365.88 L |
What is a US cup?
Eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 ml. The "legal" cup on nutrition labels is a rounded 240 ml.
What is a liter?
One cubic decimeter. A liter of water weighs almost exactly one kilogram, which is how the unit was designed.
How many liters are in a US cup?
One US cup is 0.23658824 liters. Going the other way, one liter is 4.2267528 US cups. Both figures come from the same defined relation rather than from a measurement, which is why they are the same today as they were in 1959.
Every volume unit here
The whole group — 20 units with their symbols and the size of each one in liters — is on the conversion index, along with every pair it makes. The table above already gives each of them relative to a US cup.
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Questions people actually ask
- How many liters are in a US cup?
- 0.23658824. One cubic decimeter. A liter of water weighs almost exactly one kilogram, which is how the unit was designed.
- How do I convert liters back to US cups?
- Divide by 0.23658824, or multiply by 4.2267528 — they are the same operation.
Other volume conversions
Liters to US cups — the same conversion the other way.