Butter: Cups to Grams
One US cup (240 ml) of butter weighs about 227 grams, based on its typical kitchen density. Convert any amount below, or use the reference table for common cup fractions.
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1 cup butter = 227 g (cupsngrams.com)
Based on butter at 227 g per US cup.
Cup standard: US legal cup (240 ml)
Baking from a UK, Australian or New Zealand recipe? Their cup is not the American one. Pick the standard your recipe assumes and every cup figure above follows it.
Butter conversion table
| Cups | Grams | Millilitres | Tablespoons | Ounces (weight) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/4 cup | 56.8 g | 60 ml | 4 tbsp | 2 oz |
| 1/3 cup | 75.7 g | 80 ml | 5.33 tbsp | 2.67 oz |
| 1/2 cup | 114 g | 120 ml | 8 tbsp | 4 oz |
| 2/3 cup | 151 g | 160 ml | 10.7 tbsp | 5.34 oz |
| 3/4 cup | 170 g | 180 ml | 12 tbsp | 6.01 oz |
| 1 cup | 227 g | 240 ml | 16 tbsp | 8.01 oz |
| 1 1/2 cups | 341 g | 360 ml | 24 tbsp | 12 oz |
| 2 cups | 454 g | 480 ml | 32 tbsp | 16 oz |
| 2 1/2 cups | 568 g | 600 ml | 40 tbsp | 20 oz |
| 3 cups | 681 g | 720 ml | 48 tbsp | 24 oz |
Ounces here are ounces of weight (1 oz = 28.35 g), not fluid ounces. One US cup is 8 fluid ounces of volume whatever is in it, but what it weighs in ounces depends on the ingredient: a cup of butter weighs about 8.01 oz. Why these two are not the same.
In grams, 1/4 cup of butter is about 57 g, 1/3 cup is about 76 g, 1/2 cup is about 114 g, 2/3 cup is about 151 g, 3/4 cup is about 170 g, 1 cup is about 227 g, 1 1/2 cups is about 341 g, 2 cups is about 454 g and 3 cups is about 681 g.
A tablespoon of butter is about 14.2 grams, and a teaspoon is about 4.7 grams.
About measuring butter
Butter is one of the few ingredients with a clean, memorable conversion: one US cup is exactly 227 grams, which is also two US sticks or half a pound. That tidy number is a gift, because measuring soft butter by volume is otherwise messy. Most US butter wrappers are printed with tablespoon marks, so you can slice off what you need, but weighing removes any doubt when a recipe is written in grams or when your sticks are an unusual size.
One cup of butter is 227 grams, two US sticks, or half a pound. A very handy anchor.
How many grams is a cup of butter?
One US cup (240 ml) of butter weighs about 227 grams. Because a cup measures volume rather than weight, that figure is specific to butter and does not transfer to any other ingredient: the same cup holds 125 grams of all-purpose flour and 340 grams of honey.
- 1/4 cup of butter is about 57 grams
- 1/3 cup of butter is about 76 grams
- 1/2 cup of butter is about 114 grams
- 2/3 cup of butter is about 151 grams
- 3/4 cup of butter is about 170 grams
- 1 1/2 cups of butter is about 341 grams
- 2 cups of butter is about 454 grams
- 3 cups of butter is about 681 grams
Working the other way round, 100 grams of butter is about 0.441 cups, and 500 grams is about 2.2 cups.
Does it matter which cup my recipe means?
It does, though less than the ingredient itself. This page uses the US legal cup of 240 ml. An Australian metric cup is 250 ml, so a metric cup of butter comes to about 236 grams, and the old British imperial cup of 284.1 ml holds about 269 grams. See cup sizes by country for every standard side by side.
Frequently asked questions
How many grams is 1 cup of butter?
One US cup of butter is 227 grams. That is also two standard US sticks or half a pound, which makes it an easy conversion to remember.
How many grams is one stick of butter?
One US stick of butter is about 113 grams, or half a cup. Two sticks make up the full 227 gram cup.
How many tablespoons are in a cup of butter?
Sixteen tablespoons, so each tablespoon of butter is about 14 grams. US butter wrappers are usually marked in tablespoons for easy slicing.
Where this figure comes from
We have not yet found a published reference that states a weight for a cup of butter. The 227 grams on this page follows the calibration the rest of the site is built on, with butter at 227 grams per cup, water at 240, all-purpose flour at 125 and granulated sugar at 200. Treat it as a good working figure rather than a cited one. If you have a better source, tell us and we will check it and credit you.
Published figures for the same ingredient vary between references anyway, because how an ingredient is packed changes what a cup of it weighs. Treat any cup figure as accurate to within a few percent, and weigh on a scale when a recipe is sensitive. Our full approach is on the methodology page.
Figures last verified . Compiled by the CupsToGrams editorial team at FusionStudios. Spotted a value that looks off? Tell us.