Millilitres to Cups

Convert millilitres to cups using 240 ml per cup.

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The engine uses a 240 ml cup: 500 ml / 240 = 2.0833 cups. Check the recipe's cup standard before measuring.

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About Millilitres to Cups

Use this ml to cups converter when a recipe gives a liquid volume in millilitres and you want an equivalent in 240 ml cups. Enter the millilitre amount and read the result below the input. A cup is not a universal measure: this page uses 240 ml consistently. A US customary cup is approximately 236.588 ml, and a metric cup is 250 ml. These differences matter when scaling recipes. Keep the original millilitre amount when using a metric jug, and use the worked examples below to check the arithmetic.

Using Millilitres to Cups

Type a number of ml. You can paste a value with its unit; the tool reads the number.
The exact factor is applied and the result is shown as cups, updating live as you type.
Copy the answer, or switch to the reverse converter to go from cups back to ml.

Where millilitres to cups helps

The cup standard used here

This converter divides millilitres by 240. Its cup is the 240 ml US legal cup, not the approximately 236.588 ml US customary cup or the 250 ml metric cup. There is no cup-standard selector on this page. Check the recipe's definition before using the output.

Common ml to cups conversions

With a 240 ml cup, 100 ml = 0.4167 cups, 120 ml = 0.5 cups, 180 ml = 0.75 cups, 240 ml = 1 cup, 250 ml = 1.0417 cups, and 500 ml = 2.0833 cups. One litre is 1000 ml and therefore approximately 4.1667 of these cups.

Scaling a recipe

A recipe calling for 360 ml of liquid needs 1.5 cups on this page's standard. For half the recipe, halve the millilitres first: 180 ml becomes 0.75 cups. Working from the original amount avoids accumulating rounding errors when scaling repeated batches.

Volume is different from ingredient weight

Millilitres and cups both measure volume. Grams measure mass, so converting 250 grams of flour, oil or sugar into cups requires ingredient-specific density information. Do not paste a weight into this tool: it reads the number and assumes millilitres. A metric measuring jug avoids a cup-standard mismatch when the recipe already specifies ml.

Before you use the result

This page uses 240 ml per cup. It does not automatically detect a recipe's cup standard.
Units in your input are ignored - only the number is read - so make sure the figure you type is really in ml.

Questions about Millilitres to Cups

Is 250 ml one cup?

Roughly. Against the US legal cup of 240 ml, 250 ml is about 1.04 cups. A metric cup is defined as exactly 250 ml, so it depends which standard a recipe means.

Is my data uploaded?

No. Millilitres to Cups does the arithmetic in this browser tab; the value is calculated on your device and is not sent to a server.