Granulated sugar: cups to grams
Granulated (white) sugar is the most consistent dry ingredient to measure by volume: the crystals do not compress, so a cup weighs 198 to 200 g however you fill it. Caster (superfine) sugar is slightly denser, about 225 g per cup, because the finer grains pack closer.
1 cup granulated sugar = 200 g · 1 tbsp = 12.5 g · 100 g = 0.5 cups
Based on 200 g per US cup of granulated sugar, spooned and levelled. Real-world cups vary by about ±10 % for powders.
How to measure granulated sugar
Scoop or spoon, then level; both give the same weight. For caster sugar use 225 g per cup, for icing sugar see the separate page, it is very different.
Weight is the only measure that does not depend on the container or on how the ingredient was filled. The figure of 200 g per US cup comes from the King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart; other charts differ by a few percent, which is within the spread between two cooks filling the same cup.
Cups of granulated sugar to grams
| Cups | Volume | Weight | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⅛ cup | 30 mL | 25 g | 0.9 oz |
| ¼ cup | 59 mL | 50 g | 1.8 oz |
| ⅓ cup | 79 mL | 67 g | 2.4 oz |
| ½ cup | 118 mL | 100 g | 3.5 oz |
| ⅔ cup | 158 mL | 133 g | 4.7 oz |
| ¾ cup | 177 mL | 150 g | 5.3 oz |
| 1 cup | 237 mL | 200 g | 7.1 oz |
| 1½ cups | 355 mL | 300 g | 10.6 oz |
| 2 cups | 473 mL | 400 g | 14.1 oz |
| 3 cups | 710 mL | 600 g | 21.2 oz |
| 4 cups | 946 mL | 800 g | 28.2 oz |
Spoons and metric measures
| Measure | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 teaspoon | 4.2 g |
| 1 tablespoon | 12.5 g |
| 2 tablespoons | 25 g |
| 4 tablespoons (¼ cup) | 50 g |
| Metric cup, 250 mL | 211 g |
| 100 mL | 85 g |
Grams of granulated sugar to cups
| Weight | US cups | Tablespoons | Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.13 cups | 2 tbsp | 0.88 oz |
| 50 g | 0.25 cups | 4 tbsp | 1.76 oz |
| 75 g | 0.38 cups | 6 tbsp | 2.65 oz |
| 100 g | 0.5 cups | 8 tbsp | 3.53 oz |
| 125 g | 0.63 cups | 10 tbsp | 4.41 oz |
| 150 g | 0.75 cups | 12 tbsp | 5.29 oz |
| 200 g | 1 cup | 16 tbsp | 7.05 oz |
| 250 g | 1.25 cups | 20 tbsp | 8.82 oz |
| 300 g | 1.5 cups | 24 tbsp | 10.58 oz |
| 400 g | 2 cups | 32 tbsp | 14.11 oz |
| 500 g | 2.5 cups | 40 tbsp | 17.64 oz |
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Frequently asked questions
About 200 g when spooned into the cup and levelled. Source: King Arthur Baking.
100 g of granulated sugar is 0.5 US cups, or about 8 tablespoons.
12.5 g, since a US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup. A teaspoon is 4.2 g.
No. This page uses the US cup of 236.6 mL. The metric cup of 250 mL used in Australia, New Zealand and most of Europe holds 211 g of granulated sugar, about 6 % more. Old British recipes used a 284 mL cup.