Milliliters to Cups Converter: Your Handy Kitchen Buddy

0 milliliters = 0 cups

The conversion factor

This tool divides your milliliter input by 236.588 — the volume of a US customary cup (used in US recipes, as opposed to the metric cup of 250 mL used in Australia and parts of Europe, or the UK's now-obsolete imperial cup of ≈284 mL).

Worked example

A 500 mL bottle: 500 ÷ 236.588 = 2.1134 cups, shown to four decimal places since the field updates live as you type (no button to click).

Reference amounts

mLUS cups
600.2536 (≈ ¼ cup)
1180.4988 (≈ ½ cup)
2371.0018 (≈ 1 cup)
1,0004.2268

US cups vs. the metric cup

Because this tool assumes a 236.588 mL US cup, using it on a recipe written for a 250 mL metric cup (common outside North America) will overstate the cup count by about 5.6% — for metric-cup recipes, divide by 250 instead of relying on this converter's fixed factor.