Cups to milliliters converter
Convert cups to milliliters for recipes, baking, sauces, and everyday kitchen measurements.
About converting cups to milliliters
Why this is a common recipe conversion
Cups are used constantly in US recipes, while milliliters are standard on metric measuring jugs, cartons, and many international kitchen tools. That mismatch is why cups to ml is such a common cooking lookup. A recipe may ask for 1.5 cups of milk or stock, but the measuring jug in your kitchen might only show milliliters. This page gives you a quick translation that keeps recipe prep moving.
Kitchen formula
For US cooking measurements, 1 cup is about 236.588 milliliters. Many cooks round that to 240 ml for everyday use, but the more precise number can be useful when you are scaling a baking recipe, portioning liquids more carefully, or comparing a recipe instruction to the label on a bottle or carton.
Where it helps in the kitchen
This conversion is useful for soups, sauces, baking liquids, smoothies, dressings, and any recipe where a cup measure needs to be read on a metric tool. It is also handy when adapting recipes from US blogs or cookbooks for a kitchen that relies on milliliters instead of cups.
Formula
live referenceUse the same conversion rule shown below in the widget, examples, and table on this page.
milliliter = cup x 236.588236
2 cup x 236.588236 = 473.1765 ml
Example conversions
30 presetsQuick reference values for the most common cups to milliliters lookups.
0.125 cup
29.5735 ml
0.25 cup
59.1471 ml
0.3333 cup
78.8549 ml
0.5 cup
118.2941 ml
0.6667 cup
157.7334 ml
0.75 cup
177.4412 ml
1 cup
236.5882 ml
1.25 cup
295.7353 ml
1.5 cup
354.8824 ml
2 cup
473.1765 ml
2.5 cup
591.4706 ml
3 cup
709.7647 ml
4 cup
946.3529 ml
5 cup
1,182.9412 ml
6 cup
1,419.5294 ml
8 cup
1,892.7059 ml
10 cup
2,365.8824 ml
12 cup
2,839.0588 ml
16 cup
3,785.4118 ml
20 cup
4,731.7647 ml
24 cup
5,678.1177 ml
32 cup
7,570.8236 ml
40 cup
9,463.5295 ml
48 cup
11,356.2354 ml
64 cup
15,141.6471 ml
80 cup
18,927.0589 ml
100 cup
23,658.8236 ml
128 cup
30,283.2943 ml
160 cup
37,854.1178 ml
256 cup
60,566.5885 ml
Conversion table
30 rows| cup | ml |
|---|---|
| 0.125 cup | 29.5735 ml |
| 0.25 cup | 59.1471 ml |
| 0.3333 cup | 78.8549 ml |
| 0.5 cup | 118.2941 ml |
| 0.6667 cup | 157.7334 ml |
| 0.75 cup | 177.4412 ml |
| 1 cup | 236.5882 ml |
| 1.25 cup | 295.7353 ml |
| 1.5 cup | 354.8824 ml |
| 2 cup | 473.1765 ml |
| 2.5 cup | 591.4706 ml |
| 3 cup | 709.7647 ml |
| 4 cup | 946.3529 ml |
| 5 cup | 1,182.9412 ml |
| 6 cup | 1,419.5294 ml |
| 8 cup | 1,892.7059 ml |
| 10 cup | 2,365.8824 ml |
| 12 cup | 2,839.0588 ml |
| 16 cup | 3,785.4118 ml |
| 20 cup | 4,731.7647 ml |
| 24 cup | 5,678.1177 ml |
| 32 cup | 7,570.8236 ml |
| 40 cup | 9,463.5295 ml |
| 48 cup | 11,356.2354 ml |
| 64 cup | 15,141.6471 ml |
| 80 cup | 18,927.0589 ml |
| 100 cup | 23,658.8236 ml |
| 128 cup | 30,283.2943 ml |
| 160 cup | 37,854.1178 ml |
| 256 cup | 60,566.5885 ml |
About this converter
tool notesVolume conversions are most useful when liquids, recipes, and packaging labels refuse to stick to one unit system. A recipe might use cups, a bottle may show fluid ounces, and product packaging often switches to milliliters or liters. This hub brings those everyday conversions together so you can move quickly from a kitchen measurement to a packaging check or a beverage portion comparison. The goal is not just to provide a calculator, but to make common liquid-size conversions easier to scan, understand, and reuse across cooking, shopping, and product research.
How many milliliters are in 1 cup for cooking?
1 US cup equals about 236.588 milliliters, and many kitchens round that to 240 ml for quick measuring.
Why do recipes often need cups to ml conversion?
It helps when a recipe uses cups but your measuring jug, carton label, or kitchen tools are marked in milliliters.
Is cups to ml mostly for liquids?
Yes. It is most often used for milk, water, cream, broth, oil, and other liquid ingredients in recipes and baking.