How many grams are in a cup?

It depends entirely on the ingredient. A cup of flour is about 120 g, sugar 200 g, butter 227 g and honey 340 g. There is no single answer, which is why a plain volume converter cannot help.

Why do my baking results vary when I measure by cups?

Because dry ingredients pack differently. Flour scooped from the bag can be 150 g where spooned and levelled it is 120 — a 25 percent difference, enough to change the texture of a cake completely.

How many millilitres in a cup?

236.6 for a US cup and 250 for a metric one. That six percent gap is small enough to ignore in a soup and large enough to matter in a cake.

Should I measure by weight or volume?

Weight, for anything baked. It removes packing differences entirely and is why professional recipes give grams. Volume is fine for liquids and for anything forgiving.

How many tablespoons are in a cup?

Sixteen in a US cup, and three teaspoons to a tablespoon. Australian tablespoons are 20 ml against 15 elsewhere, which is worth knowing when following recipes from there.

Cooking Measurement Converter

Cups to grams for real ingredients — flour, sugar, butter and two dozen more.

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About the Cooking Measurement Converter

A cup is a volume and a gram is a weight, and nothing converts between them without knowing what is in the cup. A cup of flour is 120 g, a cup of sugar 200 g and a cup of honey 340 g — nearly three times the flour for the same volume. That is why a generic volume converter cannot answer 'how many grams in a cup'.

Flour is the worst offender even at fixed volume. Scooped straight from the bag it packs to 150 g or more; spooned in and levelled it is 120. That 25 percent difference is enough to change a cake from tender to dry, and it is the single most common cause of a recipe not working.

If a recipe gives grams, weigh it. That is why the author wrote it that way — professional and serious home baking moved to weight precisely because volume measurement of dry ingredients is unreliable.

How it works

Pick the ingredient — this is what a plain volume converter cannot do.
Enter an amount in cups, spoons, millilitres, grams or ounces.
Every other measure appears at once, with a full conversion table.

Frequently asked questions

How many grams are in a cup?: It depends entirely on the ingredient. A cup of flour is about 120 g, sugar 200 g, butter 227 g and honey 340 g. There is no single answer, which is why a plain volume converter cannot help.
Why do my baking results vary when I measure by cups?: Because dry ingredients pack differently. Flour scooped from the bag can be 150 g where spooned and levelled it is 120 — a 25 percent difference, enough to change the texture of a cake completely.
How many millilitres in a cup?: 236.6 for a US cup and 250 for a metric one. That six percent gap is small enough to ignore in a soup and large enough to matter in a cake.
Should I measure by weight or volume?: Weight, for anything baked. It removes packing differences entirely and is why professional recipes give grams. Volume is fine for liquids and for anything forgiving.
How many tablespoons are in a cup?: Sixteen in a US cup, and three teaspoons to a tablespoon. Australian tablespoons are 20 ml against 15 elsewhere, which is worth knowing when following recipes from there.

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