Convert Milliliter to Cup (ml → cup)

Converting milliliters to cups is straightforward: multiply by the conversion factor. Follow these three steps to do it by hand or in your head.

1. 1
   Take your value in milliliters

   Start with the number of milliliters (ml) you want to convert.
2. 2
   Multiply by 0.004167

   The conversion factor from ml to cup is 0.004167. Multiply your value by this number.
3. 3
   Read the result in cups

   The result is your value in cups (cup).

Multiply the value in milliliters by 0.004167. For the reverse direction, multiply by 240.

• ✓1 ml = 1 cm³ exactly.
• ✓Medicine: teaspoon ≈ 5 ml, tablespoon ≈ 15 ml, shot glass ≈ 25 ml.
• ✓Measuring jugs marked in ml provide 2–5 ml accuracy; use a syringe below 10 ml.

• ✗Dosing liquid medication by kitchen spoon — spoons vary 3–8 ml. Use the supplied syringe.
• ✗Confusing ml (volume) with mg (mass) on medication labels — different units entirely.
• ✗Reading a "cc" measurement as cubic centimetre with different value — it is identical to ml.

What is the Milliliter?

The milliliter equals one thousandth of a liter (0.001 L) and is the standard small-volume unit for cooking, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and laboratory work. One milliliter is exactly 1 cubic centimeter (1 cm³), a convenient relationship: 1 mL of pure water weighs 1 gram. The milliliter is the universal unit on medicine bottles (a typical cough syrup dose is 5 mL), cosmetics (a perfume bottle is 50–100 mL), and recipe measurements outside North America (a tablespoon is 15 mL, a teaspoon is 5 mL). Medical syringes are calibrated in mL, and IV drip rates are computed in mL per hour. The milliliter relates to the liter (1,000 mL = 1 L), the cubic centimeter (1 mL = 1 cm³ = 1 cc), the teaspoon (1 tsp = 5 mL), and the US fluid ounce (1 fl oz ≈ 29.57 mL).

• Liquid medication dosing in syringes
• Precise cooking and baking measurements
• Laboratory reagent measurement

What is the Cup?

The US cup equals exactly 240 milliliters (a definition standardized for nutrition labeling; the legal volume for cooking is 236.588 mL, derived from 8 US fluid ounces). The cup is the cornerstone of American baking and home cooking, with virtually every US recipe using volume measurements rather than the weight measurements common in European cooking. Standard measuring-cup sets include 1, ½, ⅓, and ¼ cup sizes. The metric cup (used in Australia, New Zealand, and increasingly in international recipes) is exactly 250 mL — slightly larger than the US cup. The cup relates to the gallon (16 cups = 1 gal), the pint (2 cups = 1 pt), the fluid ounce (8 fl oz = 1 cup), the tablespoon (16 tbsp = 1 cup), and the milliliter (1 cup ≈ 237–240 mL). American baking-by-volume is sometimes criticized internationally for its variability compared to gram-based measurements.

• US cooking and baking recipes
• Cereal and beverage serving sizes in US nutrition labels
• Volume estimation when no scale is available