Milliliters to cups

Convert milliliters to US cups.

250 ml = 1.05669 cupscups (US) = milliliters × 0.004226752838

How to convert milliliters to cups (US)

  1. Take the value in milliliters.
  2. Use the formula cups (US) = milliliters × 0.004226752838.
  3. For example, 250 ml is 1.06 cups.

About milliliters and cups

Divide milliliters by 236.5882 to get US cups. One milliliter is 0.004227 cups and one liter is 4.23 cups.

This comes up when a metric recipe meets a US measuring cup. If the recipe was written for a 250 ml metric cup (Australia, New Zealand, Canada) each of its cups is 1.06 US cups. US nutrition labels count a cup as 240 ml, which is 1.01 US cups.

Examples

  • 250 ml (one metric cup) is 1.06 cups
  • 500 ml (a standard bottle of water) is 2.11 cups
  • 1,000 ml (a liter carton of milk) is 4.23 cups
  • 125 ml (half a metric cup) is 0.528 cups

Milliliters to cups chart

Milliliters (ml)Cups (US)
100.0423
250.106
500.211
600.254
750.317
800.338
1000.423
1200.507
1250.528
1500.634
1750.74
2000.845
Milliliters (ml)Cups (US)
2250.951
2401.01
2501.06
3001.27
3501.48
3751.59
4001.69
4501.9
5002.11
6002.54
7503.17
1,0004.23