US Cups to Liters Converter
1 US cup ≈ 0.236588236 liters
US recipes may also use the "legal" cup of exactly 240 mL used on nutrition labels.
1 US cup equals 0.236588 liters
How to convert US cups to liters
Choose the named US, Imperial or metric unit before converting a recipe or container size. A US liquid gallon is 3.785411784 L; an Imperial gallon is 4.54609 L. Volume alone cannot give ingredient mass without density.
L = cup × 0.2365882365One US cup is 0.2365882365 liters, so a single multiplication converts any value.
2.36588 L ≈ 10 × 0.2365882365US recipes may also use the "legal" cup of exactly 240 mL used on nutrition labels.
US cups to liters conversion table
Common values in US cups, converted to liters.
| US cups (cup) | Liters (L) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.23658824 |
| 2 | 0.47317647 |
| 3 | 0.70976471 |
| 4 | 0.94635295 |
| 5 | 1.1829412 |
| 10 | 2.3658824 |
| 20 | 4.7317647 |
| 25 | 5.9147059 |
| 50 | 11.829412 |
| 100 | 23.658824 |
| 250 | 59.147059 |
| 500 | 118.29412 |
| 1,000 | 236.58824 |
About these units
US cupcup
The US customary cup: 8 US fluid ounces, about 236.6 mL.
literL
Exactly one cubic decimetre, or 1,000 cm³. The everyday metric volume unit.
Reference: BIPM, non-SI units accepted for use with the SI.
Sources and precision
Table results are rounded to 8 significant digits; formula constants may be rounded to 10. Worked example answers use 6 significant digits. The converter starts at 6 significant digits and lets you change display precision. Calculations use the stored factors without intermediate rounding. Exact unit definitions do not make an input measurement more precise; conventional and measured factors follow the assumptions stated here.