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US cups to teaspoons

1 US cup in teaspoons
1 cup = 48 tsp
tsp = cup × 48

To convert US cups to teaspoons, multiply by 48. The table below gives the values people look up most often, and the converter works for any number.

US cups to teaspoons table

Common US cup values converted to teaspoons.
US cups Teaspoons
1 cup 48
2 cup 96
3 cup 144
4 cup 192
5 cup 240
10 cup 480
15 cup 720
20 cup 960
25 cup 1,200
30 cup 1,440
40 cup 1,920
50 cup 2,400
75 cup 3,600
100 cup 4,800
250 cup 12,000
500 cup 24,000
1,000 cup 48,000

How the conversion works

The relationship is tsp = cup × 48. Both units measure volume, so the conversion is a fixed factor that never changes. The figure is exact rather than approximate: since the international yard and pound agreement of 1959, an inch is defined as exactly 25.4 millimetres and a pound as exactly 0.45359237 kilograms, and every other imperial and US customary unit here is derived from those two.

US cup: US legal cup is 240 mL; the customary cup used here is 236.588 mL.

Common questions

How many teaspoons are in one US cup?
One US cup equals 48 teaspoons. tsp = cup × 48.
How do you convert US cups to teaspoons?
Use tsp = cup × 48. So 10 cup is 480 tsp.
How many US cups are in one teaspoon?
One teaspoon equals 0.020833 US cups, which is the reverse of the conversion above.
Is there more than one kind of US cup?
US legal cup is 240 mL; the customary cup used here is 236.588 mL.

Related pages

Sources

  1. Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SP 811) — NIST (Public domain (US Government))
  2. The International System of Units (SI Brochure) — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
  3. Calculated on this page — At One Place

How these figures are compiled and checked