Convert US pints to US cups
1 US pint is 2 cup. One US pint is exactly 2 US cups.
One US pint is 2 US cups. To convert US pints to US cups, multiply by 2; to go the other way, divide by 2 or multiply by 0.5. The factor is exact rather than rounded: it follows from NIST Handbook 130. Two US cups, about 473 ml.
Factor checked against the defining standard · How we check
- US pints × 2
1 * 22 cup
1 US pint in every volume unit
| Unit | Value | Exact factor |
|---|---|---|
| US teaspoons | 96 tsp | × 96 |
| US tablespoons | 32 tbsp | × 32 |
| US fluid ounces | 16 fl oz | × 16 |
| US cups | 2 cup | × 2 |
| US pints (as entered) | 1 pt | — |
| US quarts | 0.5 qt | × 0.5 |
| US gallons | 0.125 gal | × 0.125 |
| milliliters | 473.176473 ml | × 473.176473 |
| liters | 0.473176473 L | × 0.473176473 |
| imperial gallons | 0.1040842731 gal (UK) | × 0.104084273079 |
| imperial quarts | 0.4163370923 qt (UK) | × 0.416337092314 |
| imperial pints | 0.8326741846 pt (UK) | × 0.832674184629 |
| imperial fluid ounces | 16.65348369 fl oz (UK) | × 16.6534836926 |
| imperial gills | 3.330696739 gi (UK) | × 3.33069673852 |
| cubic millimetres | 473,176.473 mm³ | × 473,176.473 |
| cubic centimetres | 473.176473 cm³ | × 473.176473 |
| cubic inches | 28.875 in³ | × 28.875 |
| cubic feet | 0.01671006944 ft³ | × 0.0167100694444 |
| cubic yards | 0.0006188914609 yd³ | × 0.000618891460905 |
| cubic metres | 0.000473176473 m³ | × 0.000473176473 |
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.
How do you convert US pints to US cups? The converter and the working
- 1.Take the measurement in US pints.
- 2.Multiply by 2 — that is how many US cups fit in one US pint.
- 3.To go back the other way, divide by 2, or multiply by 0.5.
Worked example: 25 US pints to US cups
- Formula
- pt × 2 = cup
- Arithmetic
- 25 × 2 = 50 cup
- Answer
- 25 pt = 50 cup
The factor is exact, so this figure is exact too — only the display is rounded.
US pints to US cups conversion table
| US pints | US cups |
|---|---|
| 1 pt | 2 cup |
| 2 pt | 4 cup |
| 3 pt | 6 cup |
| 4 pt | 8 cup |
| 5 pt | 10 cup |
| 6 pt | 12 cup |
| 7 pt | 14 cup |
| 8 pt | 16 cup |
| 9 pt | 18 cup |
| 10 pt | 20 cup |
| 12 pt | 24 cup |
| 15 pt | 30 cup |
| 20 pt | 40 cup |
| 25 pt | 50 cup |
| 50 pt | 100 cup |
| 100 pt | 200 cup |
| 200 pt | 400 cup |
| 300 pt | 600 cup |
| 500 pt | 1,000 cup |
| 1000 pt | 2,000 cup |
| 2000 pt | 4,000 cup |
| 5000 pt | 10,000 cup |
| 10000 pt | 20,000 cup |
What is a US pint?
Two US cups, about 473 ml. A UK pint is 568 ml — a fifth larger.
What is a US cup?
Eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 ml. The "legal" cup on nutrition labels is a rounded 240 ml.
How many US cups are in a US pint?
One US pint is 2 US cups, exactly. Going the other way, one US cup is 0.5 US pints. 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 pint.
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Questions people actually ask
- How many US cups are in a US pint?
- 2. Eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 ml. The "legal" cup on nutrition labels is a rounded 240 ml.
- How do I convert US cups back to US pints?
- Divide by 2, or multiply by 0.5 — they are the same operation.
Other volume conversions
US cups to US pints — the same conversion the other way.