One US cup of granulated sugar weighs about 200 grams. That single number is what makes this conversion possible, and it is why baking by weight is more reliable than baking by volume.
One of the most consistent ingredients to measure by volume. Volume measures depend on how the ingredient is packed into the cup, while a gram is a gram no matter how you scoop it.
Enter your amount above to convert it. The table below covers the fractions recipes actually call for, including thirds and eighths of a cup.
Below the calculator sits the granulated Sugar cup to gram table: 11 rows — 0.125 cups at one end, 4 cups at the other — which is usually faster than entering a value you have seen before. Nothing has to be entered to see it work: the default for cups of granulated sugar is 1 cups, and the output recomputes the moment that changes. Every symbol in the formula — 3 of them (cups, 200, grams) — is defined above rather than left as notation to decode. Granulated Sugar: Grams to Cups Converter and Whole Wheat Flour: Grams to Cups Converter are the nearest neighbours to this one.
The formula
cups- Volume of granulated sugar in US cups
200- Grams in one US cup of granulated sugar
grams- Weight of the ingredient
How it works, step by step
- Enter your quantity of granulated sugar.
- The tool applies the density of 200 g per US cup.
- The converted figure appears immediately, along with an ounce equivalent.
- Use the table for common recipe fractions without typing anything.
Worked examples
A standard single batch
A recipe calling for 2 cups of granulated sugar needs 400 g. Weighing it removes the guesswork of how firmly to pack the cup.
Scaling a recipe by half
Half a cup of granulated sugar is 100 g — easier to hit accurately on a scale than to eyeball in a measuring cup.
Checking the 0.75 cups row
The reference table lists Cups = 0.75 cups, giving Grams: 150 g, Ounces: 5.3 oz. Entering that above should reproduce the same figures — if it does not, the input is being read differently to the way the table assumes.
Frequently asked questions
How many grams are in a cup of granulated sugar?
About 200 grams for a US cup. One of the most consistent ingredients to measure by volume.
How many grams are in a tablespoon of granulated sugar?
A US tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup, so about 12.5 grams.
Why do different sources give different gram values?
Because volume measuring is genuinely imprecise. How you fill the cup changes the weight, sometimes by 20% or more for flours and powders. Published values assume a specific method — usually spooned and levelled — and this page uses that convention.
Should I bake by weight or volume?
By weight whenever a scale is available. It is more repeatable, faster with fewer dishes, and it is the reason professional recipes are written in grams.
How precise is the weight in grams?
Internally the maths runs at full double precision and the display keeps the significant figures that carry information, dropping the digits that are only rounding noise. Rounding happens at the display step alone, so nothing accumulates error as you change the input. The figure is reported in g.
What formula does the Granulated Sugar: Cups to Grams Converter use?
It computes grams = cups × 200, where cups is volume of granulated sugar in US cups; 200 is grams in one US cup of granulated sugar; grams is weight of the ingredient. The same expression is printed on the page above the inputs, so the result can be reproduced by hand or in a spreadsheet.
Granulated Sugar conversion table
| Cups | Grams | Ounces |
|---|---|---|
| 0.125 cups | 25 g | 0.9 oz |
| 0.25 cups | 50 g | 1.8 oz |
| 0.333 cups | 67 g | 2.3 oz |
| 0.5 cups | 100 g | 3.5 oz |
| 0.667 cups | 133 g | 4.7 oz |
| 0.75 cups | 150 g | 5.3 oz |
| 1 cup | 200 g | 7.1 oz |
| 1.5 cups | 300 g | 10.6 oz |
| 2 cups | 400 g | 14.1 oz |
| 3 cups | 600 g | 21.2 oz |
| 4 cups | 800 g | 28.2 oz |
Based on 1 US cup of granulated sugar = 200 g. One of the most consistent ingredients to measure by volume.