Convert Cups to milliliters (cup to mL)

To convert cups to milliliters (cup to mL), multiply by 236.58824. 1 cup equals 236.58824 mL, about 67% of a soft-drink can.

1 cup equals
236.58824mL
1 cup = 236.58824 mL · 1 mL = 0.0042268 cup
cup = - mL
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A cup is not the same everywhere. These figures use the US customary cup of 236.59 mL. Australian, New Zealand and Canadian recipes use a metric cup of 250 mL (AS 1325); US nutrition labels use 240 mL (21 CFR 101.9); older British recipes use an imperial cup of 284 mL; a Japanese cup is 200 mL. Check where your recipe was written before converting, and for baking weigh in grams if you can.

Reference table

cupsmilliliters
1 cup236.58824 mL
2 cups473.17647 mL
5 cups1,182.9412 mL
10 cups2,365.8824 mL
25 cups5,914.7059 mL
50 cups11,829.412 mL
100 cups23,658.824 mL
250 cups59,147.059 mL
500 cups118,294.12 mL
1000 cups236,588.24 mL

Is the cups to ml conversion exact?

The factor is 236.588, which is derived rather than defined, so any decimal you see has been rounded somewhere.

No simple round multiplier is close enough to be useful, so this is one to look up rather than estimate. The exact factor is 236.588.

Going the other way, one milliliter is 0.0042268 cup. Because the numbers get large quickly, a whole-number answer is almost always enough here: carrying decimals implies a precision your original measurement probably does not have.

To anchor the scale: 1 cup is about 237 mL.

Show the working
1. Convert to the base unit (L):
1 cup × 0.23659 = 0.23659 L

2. Convert from L to mL:
0.23659 L ÷ 0.001 = 236.58824 mL

Common questions

How many milliliters is 1 cup?
1 cup equals 236.58824 mL, about 67% of a soft-drink can.
How many cups is 1 milliliter?
1 milliliter equals 0.0042268 cup, about 20% of a teaspoon.
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