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Granulated Sugar: Cups to Grams

One US cup of granulated sugar weighs about 200 grams (7.1 oz). Use the converter or the chart below for any amount.

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Granulated Sugar cups to grams chart

Amount Grams Ounces
1/8 cup granulated sugar 25 g 0.9 oz
1/4 cup granulated sugar 50 g 1.8 oz
1/3 cup granulated sugar 66.7 g 2.4 oz
1/2 cup granulated sugar 100 g 3.5 oz
2/3 cup granulated sugar 133 g 4.7 oz
3/4 cup granulated sugar 150 g 5.3 oz
1 cup granulated sugar 200 g 7.1 oz
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar 250 g 8.8 oz
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 300 g 10.6 oz
2 cups granulated sugar 400 g 14.1 oz
2 1/2 cups granulated sugar 500 g 17.6 oz
3 cups granulated sugar 600 g 21.2 oz
4 cups granulated sugar 800 g 28.2 oz
1 tablespoon granulated sugar 12.5 g 0.4 oz
1 teaspoon granulated sugar 4.2 g 0.1 oz

Granulated Sugar grams to cups

Working the other way? Since 1 cup of granulated sugar is about 200 g, here is how common gram weights convert back to cups.

Grams Cups (approx)
25 g granulated sugar 0.13 cups
50 g granulated sugar 0.25 cups
75 g granulated sugar 0.38 cups
100 g granulated sugar 0.5 cups
125 g granulated sugar 0.63 cups
150 g granulated sugar 0.75 cups
200 g granulated sugar 1 cup
250 g granulated sugar 1.25 cups
300 g granulated sugar 1.5 cups
500 g granulated sugar 2.5 cups
1000 g granulated sugar 5 cups
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Measuring granulated sugar accurately

Granulated white sugar is one of the few dry ingredients that measures reliably by cup. Its hard, uniform crystals don't compress the way flour or brown sugar do, so a cup stays close to 200 g however you scoop it — which makes it a safe one to measure by volume when you have no scale. Beyond sweetness, sugar does real structural work: creamed with butter it whips in air for lift, it holds moisture so cakes stay soft for days, and it drives the browning and crisp edges on cookies. Swapping in a different sugar changes all of that at once, so when a recipe specifies granulated, the weight above is the amount it's built around.

Standard white table sugar. Because a cup measures volume rather than weight, the most reliable way to get the same result every time is to weigh granulated sugar on a kitchen scale and aim for the gram figure above. The conversions on this page are based on the US cup of about 236.6 ml.

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FAQ

How many grams is 1 cup of granulated sugar?
One US cup of granulated sugar weighs about 200 grams (7.1 oz). Standard white table sugar.
How many grams is 3/4 cup of granulated sugar?
Three quarters of a US cup of granulated sugar is about 150 grams (5.3 oz).
How many grams is 2/3 cup of granulated sugar?
Two thirds of a US cup of granulated sugar is about 133 grams.
How many grams is 1/2 cup of granulated sugar?
Half a US cup of granulated sugar is about 100 grams (3.5 oz).
How many grams is 1/3 cup of granulated sugar?
One third of a US cup of granulated sugar is about 66.7 grams.
How many grams is 1/4 cup of granulated sugar?
A quarter of a US cup of granulated sugar is about 50 grams.
How many grams is 1 tablespoon of granulated sugar?
One tablespoon of granulated sugar is about 12.5 grams, since a tablespoon is one sixteenth of a cup.
How many cups is 100 grams of granulated sugar?
100 grams of granulated sugar is about 0.5 cups.

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