US Cups to US Pints Converter
1 US cup = 0.5 US pints
US recipes may also use the "legal" cup of exactly 240 mL used on nutrition labels.
1 US cup equals 0.5 US pints
How to convert US cups to US pints
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.
pt = cup × 1/2One US cup is 1/2 US pints, so a single multiplication converts any value.
5 pt = 10 × 1/2US recipes may also use the "legal" cup of exactly 240 mL used on nutrition labels.
US cups to US pints conversion table
Common values in US cups, converted to US pints.
| US cups (cup) | US pints (pt) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.5 |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 1.5 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 2.5 |
| 10 | 5 |
| 20 | 10 |
| 25 | 12.5 |
| 50 | 25 |
| 100 | 50 |
| 250 | 125 |
| 500 | 250 |
| 1,000 | 500 |
About these units
US cupcup
The US customary cup: 8 US fluid ounces, about 236.6 mL.
US pintpt
One eighth of a US gallon: 16 US fluid ounces.
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.