Tablespoons to Cups Calculator

Convert tablespoons to cups, teaspoons, fluid ounces, milliliters, pints, quarts, and gallons for cooking, baking, meal prep, and recipe scaling.

Calculate Tablespoons to Cups

Cups = Tablespoons ÷ 16.
Your result will appear here.

How the tablespoons to cups calculator works

Enter tablespoons:
Type the number of tablespoons you want to convert.

Choose tablespoon type:
Use US tablespoon for most American recipes or imperial tablespoon for UK-style conversions.

Adjust recipe size:
Use the recipe multiplier to double, triple, halve, or scale an ingredient amount.

Why tablespoons to cups conversion matters

A tablespoons to cups calculator helps quickly convert smaller recipe measurements into larger cup measurements.

This is useful for baking, cooking, meal prep, recipe scaling, sauces, dressings, dry ingredients, liquid ingredients, and nutrition tracking.

What your result means

Your result shows how many cups equal the number of tablespoons entered. For standard US recipes, divide tablespoons by 16 to get cups.

Tablespoons to cups calculator formulas

Common tablespoons to cups conversions

Frequently asked questions

How many tablespoons are in a cup?

There are 16 tablespoons in 1 US cup.

How do you convert tablespoons to cups?

Divide the number of tablespoons by 16. For example, 8 tablespoons divided by 16 equals 0.5 cups.

How many cups is 4 tablespoons?

4 tablespoons equals 0.25 cups, or 1/4 cup.

How many cups is 8 tablespoons?

8 tablespoons equals 0.5 cups, or 1/2 cup.