Convert Tablespoons to cups (tbsp to cup)

To convert tablespoons to cups (tbsp to cup), multiply by 0.0625. 1 tablespoon equals 0.0625 cup, about 3 times as much as a teaspoon.

1 tablespoon equals
0.0625cup
1 tbsp = 0.0625 cup · 1 cup = 16 tbsp
tbsp = - cup
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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. A tablespoon is not the same everywhere. These figures use the US customary tablespoon of 14.79 mL, close enough to the 15 mL metric spoon sold almost everywhere. Australia is the exception at 20 mL - a third larger - so an Australian recipe means something different by the word. So the count changes too: 1 US cup is 16 US tablespoons, but 1 Australian metric cup is 12.5 Australian tablespoons.

Reference table

tablespoonscups
1 tablespoon0.0625 cup
2 tablespoons0.125 cup
5 tablespoons0.3125 cup
10 tablespoons0.625 cup
25 tablespoons1.5625 cup
50 tablespoons3.125 cup
100 tablespoons6.25 cup
250 tablespoons15.625 cup
500 tablespoons31.25 cup
1000 tablespoons62.5 cup

Is the tablespoons to cups conversion exact?

The factor is 0.0625000, 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 0.0625000.

Going the other way, one cup is 16 tbsp, which is usually the easier direction to work in. Because the forward factor is small, watch the decimal place rather than the digits: a factor-of-ten slip is the common error, not a rounding one.

To anchor the scale: 20 tablespoons is about 1.25 cup.

Show the working
1. Convert to the base unit (L):
1 tbsp × 0.014787 = 0.014787 L

2. Convert from L to cup:
0.014787 L ÷ 0.23659 = 0.0625 cup

Common questions

How many cups is 1 tablespoon?
1 tablespoon equals 0.0625 cup, about 3 times as much as a teaspoon.
How many tablespoons is 1 cup?
1 cup equals 16 tbsp, about 67% of a soft-drink can.
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