Litres to Cups Converter

Convert kitchen volume from litres to the selected cup standard. Enter your own quantities and see the worked example.

How to use Litres to Cups Converter

1. Enter Litres, Cup Standard in the matching stated or selected unit. 2. Choose metric 250 mL, US customary 236.5882365 mL or Imperial half-pint 284.130625 mL. No dry-ingredient density is inferred. Cups and spoons are volume units with several standards. This does not convert ingredient volume to mass, or account for how tightly a dry ingredient is packed. 3. Select Convert or press Enter to see the result. 4. Select Select Copy result to copy the answer, or Reset to clear the form.

Why use this tool?

Use this tool to convert kitchen volume from litres to the selected cup standard. Choose the standard named by the recipe. A serving cup or cutlery spoon is not a calibrated measuring utensil.

How the calculation works

Cups = litres × 1,000 ÷ selected cup volume in mL. Choose metric 250 mL, US customary 236.5882365 mL or Imperial half-pint 284.130625 mL. No dry-ingredient density is inferred. Cups and spoons are volume units with several standards. This does not convert ingredient volume to mass, or account for how tightly a dry ingredient is packed. Decimal quantity arithmetic uses the entered values before display rounding. Quantities use up to six decimal places; smaller nonzero results use scientific notation. Currency uses the selected currency’s minor unit. Inputs and numeric results are bounded by magnitude 9,007,199,254,740,991. Unit reference: https://www.nist.gov/pml/special-publication-811/nist-guide-si-appendix-b-conversion-factors/nist-guide-si-appendix-b9

Example

Kitchen Volume example: 1 L × 1,000 ÷ 250 mL per metric cup = 4 metric cups.

Practical tip

Choose the standard named by the recipe. A serving cup or cutlery spoon is not a calibrated measuring utensil.