Milliliters to cups converter
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Convert milliliters to cups instantly: 1 cup is 237 ml. Recipes, jugs and coffee makers, with the exact math and one-click copying.
250 ml is a cup and a tablespoon — the jug's idea of a joke.
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pro tips
Quick mental math: divide by 240. 480 ml becomes 2 cups, minus a whisper the recipe will survive.
237 ml is exactly 1 US cup — the number printed on every jug that never explains itself.
A coffee "cup" is 5 oz, not 8: your 12-cup machine holds 1.7 liters of optimism.
what it does
The milliliters-to-cups trick divides by 236.59 — or by 240 if you like your numbers round. It's the math behind every recipe that says "1 cup" while the only measuring jug in the drawer speaks milliliters.
It shows up the moment US recipes meet metric glassware: a pancake batter asking for 300 ml of milk while the cup measures stay smug in the cupboard, a frosting recipe built in cups and a milk carton that isn't, and every coffee maker that counts "cups" using a size no human owns.
The rough version: 250 ml is "about a cup" — one tablespoon over, close enough for batters, soups and marinades. Baking is the one place the extra 13 ml can tattle, which is exactly what the widget below refuses to do.
Type any milliliter number and the widget answers in cups instantly, with the math written in the hint. Click the result to copy it, and hit swap when the recipe heads the other way — the cups-to-milliliters version is one click from putting the jug back in charge.
quick answers
How many milliliters are in a cup?
236.59 ml. Most recipes round to 240 and hope nobody measures the difference.
Is 250 ml the same as 1 cup?
Close — it's a cup plus about a tablespoon. Fine for soup, ambitious for fudge.
What is a metric cup?
250 ml, used in Australia, Canada and elsewhere. This page converts to the US cup (237 ml), the one in American recipes — 13 ml of quiet difference.
Why do coffee makers count cups differently?
The "cup" on a coffee maker is 5 fluid ounces, a serving size from a smaller century. It has never matched the cup in your cupboard and never will.