Cups to Grams Calculator

Convert cups to grams for common cooking and baking ingredients including flour, sugar, butter, milk, water, rice, oats, cocoa powder, honey, and more.

Calculate Cups to Grams

Grams = Cups × Grams Per Cup.
Your result will appear here.

How the cups to grams calculator works

Choose an ingredient:
Select the ingredient you want to convert from cups to grams.

Enter cups:
Type the number of cups, such as 1, 1.5, 2, or 0.25 cups.

Use custom weight:
Select custom if you already know the grams per cup for your ingredient.

Why cups to grams conversion matters

A cups to grams calculator helps make recipes more accurate by converting volume measurements into weight.

This is especially useful for baking, meal prep, nutrition tracking, ingredient scaling, and recipes that use metric measurements.

What your result means

Your result shows the estimated weight in grams based on the number of cups and the selected ingredient. Since cups measure volume and grams measure weight, the conversion depends on ingredient density.

Cups to grams calculator formulas

Common cups to grams conversions

Frequently asked questions

How many grams are in a cup?

It depends on the ingredient. One cup of water is about 236.59 grams, while one cup of all-purpose flour is about 120 grams.

How many grams is 1 cup of flour?

One cup of all-purpose flour is commonly estimated at about 120 grams, but the exact amount can vary based on how the flour is measured.

How many grams is 1 cup of sugar?

One cup of granulated sugar is about 200 grams.

Why do cups and grams change by ingredient?

Cups measure volume, but grams measure weight. A cup of flour weighs less than a cup of sugar because the ingredients have different densities.