Liters to cups

How to convert liters to cups (US)

1. Take the value in liters.
2. Use the formula cups (US) = liters × 4.226752838.
3. For example, 0.25 L is 1.06 cups.

About liters and cups

A US cup is 236.588 ml, so 1 liter is 4.22675 US cups. Multiply liters by 4.227 to get cups, or by 4.25 for a quick estimate that is about half a percent high.

Milk, stock and cream are sold by the liter in most countries, while US recipes measure them in cups. Metric recipes from Australia, Canada and the UK often use a 250 ml cup, which makes a liter exactly 4 metric cups.

Examples

• 0.25 L (a 250 ml metric cup) is 1.06 cups
• 0.5 L (a half-liter bottle) is 2.11 cups
• 1 L (a liter carton of milk) is 4.23 cups
• 2 L (a 2-liter soda bottle) is 8.45 cups

Liters to cups chart