Tablespoons to US cups
1 tablespoon in US cups
1 tbsp = 0.0625 cup
cup = tbsp × 1/16
To convert tablespoons to US cups, multiply by 0.0625. The table below gives the values people look up most often, and the converter works for any number.
Tablespoons to US cups table
| Tablespoons | US cups |
|---|---|
| 1 tbsp | 0.0625 |
| 2 tbsp | 0.125 |
| 3 tbsp | 0.1875 |
| 4 tbsp | 0.25 |
| 5 tbsp | 0.3125 |
| 10 tbsp | 0.625 |
| 15 tbsp | 0.9375 |
| 20 tbsp | 1.25 |
| 25 tbsp | 1.5625 |
| 30 tbsp | 1.875 |
| 40 tbsp | 2.5 |
| 50 tbsp | 3.125 |
| 75 tbsp | 4.6875 |
| 100 tbsp | 6.25 |
| 250 tbsp | 15.625 |
| 500 tbsp | 31.25 |
| 1,000 tbsp | 62.5 |
How the conversion works
The relationship is cup = tbsp × 1/16. 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 US cups are in one tablespoon?
- One tablespoon equals 0.0625 US cups. cup = tbsp × 1/16.
- How do you convert tablespoons to US cups?
- Use cup = tbsp × 1/16. So 10 tbsp is 0.625 cup.
- How many tablespoons are in one US cup?
- One US cup equals 16 tablespoons, 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
- Guide for the Use of the International System of Units (SP 811) — NIST (Public domain (US Government))
- The International System of Units (SI Brochure) — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
- Calculated on this page — At One Place