Liters to Cups
One liter is 4.2268 US cups. This L to cup page has the formula, a conversion table, three worked examples and answers to common questions.
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How liters convert to US cups
This page converts liters (L) to US cups (cup). In the converter's unit table, one liter equals 4.226752838 US cups, so every result here comes from a single multiplication by 4.226752838.
Reading the formula backwards gives L = cup ÷ 4.226752838. Dividing by 4.226752838 undoes the multiplication, and 1 cup equals 0.23658824 L.
Liters to US cups reference table
Here are 12 values converted from liters to US cups. Each row is the left-hand number multiplied by 4.226752838.
| Liters (L) | US cups (cup) |
|---|---|
| 0.5 | 2.113376419 |
| 1 | 4.226752838 |
| 2 | 8.453505675 |
| 5 | 21.13376419 |
| 10 | 42.26752838 |
| 20 | 84.53505675 |
| 25 | 105.6688209 |
| 50 | 211.3376419 |
| 100 | 422.6752838 |
| 250 | 1,056.688209 |
| 500 | 2,113.376419 |
| 1,000 | 4,226.752838 |
Every row comes from the same function as the widget and keeps its rounding, so a figure copied from this table matches what the converter returns for that input.
Examples: turning liters into US cups
For the first example, take 75 liters. The factor is 4.226752838, so the amount comes to 317.0064628 US cups.
Take 650 liters as the second case. The widget returns 2,747.389345 US cups, and that figure divided by 4.226752838 returns to about 650.
Going the opposite way, 550 US cups comes to 130.1235301 liters using the inverse ratio 0.23658824.
Going from US cups to liters
Reversing the units with the swap button turns this into US cups to liters, where 1 cup = 0.23658824 L.
Units outside this pair can be selected in the main Volume Converter, which uses the same unit table.
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Frequently asked questions
How many US cups are in one liter?
Each liter corresponds to 4.226752838 US cups, which means 42.26752838 US cups for 10 liters and 422.6752838 US cups for 100 liters.
One US cup equals how many liters?
One US cup equals 0.23658824 liters. Ten US cups equal 2.365882365 liters.
What does 15 L come to in cup?
The result is 63.40129257 cup. The widget scales the L figure by 4.226752838 and trims the digits shown.
What precision does the L to cup result use?
Yes, the displayed cup value is trimmed. The converter prints at most 10 significant digits at or above 1, at most 8 below 1, and at most 6 decimals from 1,000 up, using exponent notation for extreme sizes. Two samples from this pair: 0.123456789 L becomes 0.52182133 cup, and 1,234.5678 L becomes 5,218.212952 cup.
How does the widget get from liters to US cups?
Every unit in this converter stores a factor relative to one shared reference unit. The widget multiplies the input by the factor of liters, then divides by the factor of US cups; for this pair that nets out to 4.226752838.
Can this converter go from cup to L too?
Yes. Press the swap button in the widget above, or choose cup as the "From" unit. The arithmetic is cup × 0.23658824, so 25 cup is 5.914705912 L.
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