How many cups is 200 g of sugar?

Exactly 1 cup of granulated sugar, at 200 g per US cup. The round figure is why sugar conversions come out so cleanly: 100 g is 1/2 cup, 150 g is 3/4 cup, 300 g is 1 1/2 cups and 400 g is 2 cups. The converter above starts on 200 g; change the amount or the ingredient to go on from there.

How many grams are in 1 cup of sugar?

200 g for granulated sugar. Caster (superfine) sugar is finer and settles to 225 g a cup, packed brown sugar is 220 g, loose brown sugar 145 g, powdered (icing) sugar 120 g and coconut sugar 154 g. Pick the one the recipe names, because the gap between packed brown and powdered is nearly double.

How do I convert any amount of sugar to cups?

For granulated sugar, divide the grams by 200. 80 g is 0.4 cups, about 3/8 cup; 120 g is 0.6 cups, about 5/8 cup; 60 g is 0.3 cups, about 1/4 cup. Going the other way, multiply the cups by 200, so 3/4 cup is 150 g and 4 cups is 800 g. The shortcut only holds for granulated sugar: powdered sugar is 120 g a cup and packed brown sugar 220 g, so they need their own figures.

Does packed brown sugar really weigh more than loose?

Yes, by a lot. Pressing brown sugar firmly into the cup, which is what a recipe means by packed, gets 220 g into a US cup. Dropped in loose it comes to about 145 g. Both are separate entries in the ingredient list above so the tool never averages them, and the density it used is printed under every result.

Is a metric cup of sugar a different weight?

Slightly. A metric cup is 250 mL against the US cup's 236.588 mL, so a metric cup of granulated sugar holds 211.3 g rather than 200 g. The tool has a switch for the metric cup, and it moves the tablespoon to 15 mL and the teaspoon to 5 mL at the same time. The table on this page is for the US cup.

Sugar Grams to Cups

Convert grams of sugar to cups and cups of sugar to grams, starting from 200 g of granulated sugar, which is exactly one US cup. Granulated sugar is the easy case because it does not pack: 200 g a cup from USDA FoodData Central, and the table below follows from that one number. Caster, brown and powdered sugar weigh differently and are in the ingredient list below with their own figures.

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Ingredient

Cup size

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Granulated sugar: 200 g in one US cup, a density of 0.8454 g per mL. Source: USDA FoodData Central.

200 g of granulated sugar, in every unit

Cupscup · 1
1
Tablespoonstbsp
16
Teaspoonstsp
48
MillilitresmL
236.6
Fluid ounces (US)fl oz
8
Ounces (weight)oz
7.055
Kilogramskg
0.2
Poundslb
0.4409

Common ingredients

What one US cup of each weighs, and what your amount comes to in each. Pick a row to convert it.

Grams per cup	200 g in cup	Source
236.6	0.8453	1 g/mL
125	1.6	Spooned
140	1.429	Scooped
127	1.575	Spooned
114	1.754	Spooned
120	1.667	Spooned
200	1	USDA
220	0.9091	Packed
120	1.667	Spooned
227	0.8811	USDA
245	0.8163	USDA
238	0.8403	USDA
218	0.9174	USDA
340	0.5882	USDA
322	0.6211	USDA
85	2.353	Spooned
128	1.563	USDA
90	2.222	Spooned
185	1.081	USDA
170	1.176	USDA

There is no single answer to “how many grams in a cup”. A cup of cocoa powder is 85 g, a cup of honey is 340 g, and both are correct, which is why the ingredient is a required choice here rather than an optional refinement. Accuracy. Cups measure volume and grams measure mass, so the answer depends on the ingredient; the density used is shown beside every result with its source. Flour differs by about 12 percent between spooned and scooped, and both are listed.

Granulated sugar: grams to cups and cups to grams

Computed with the tool's own figure for granulated sugar: 200 g per US cup of 236.588 mL, a density of 0.8454 g per mL, from USDA FoodData Central. Round gram amounts come first, then round cup amounts. Because a cup is 200 g, the cups are simply the grams divided by 200.

Grams	Cups	To the nearest 1/8 cup
50 g	0.25 cups	exactly 1/4 cup
60 g	0.3 cups	about 1/4 cup
70 g	0.35 cups	about 3/8 cup
75 g	0.375 cups	exactly 3/8 cup
80 g	0.4 cups	about 3/8 cup
90 g	0.45 cups	about 1/2 cup
100 g	0.5 cups	exactly 1/2 cup
120 g	0.6 cups	about 5/8 cup
125 g	0.625 cups	exactly 5/8 cup
150 g	0.75 cups	exactly 3/4 cup
180 g	0.9 cups	about 7/8 cup
200 g	1 cup	exactly 1 cup
250 g	1.25 cups	exactly 1 1/4 cups
300 g	1.5 cups	exactly 1 1/2 cups
350 g	1.75 cups	exactly 1 3/4 cups
400 g	2 cups	exactly 2 cups
450 g	2.25 cups	exactly 2 1/4 cups
500 g	2.5 cups	exactly 2 1/2 cups
66.67 g	1/3 cup	about 3/8 cup
133.3 g	2/3 cup	about 5/8 cup
600 g	3 cups	exactly 3 cups
800 g	4 cups	exactly 4 cups

Common questions

How many cups is 200 g of sugar?: Exactly 1 cup of granulated sugar, at 200 g per US cup. The round figure is why sugar conversions come out so cleanly: 100 g is 1/2 cup, 150 g is 3/4 cup, 300 g is 1 1/2 cups and 400 g is 2 cups. The converter above starts on 200 g; change the amount or the ingredient to go on from there.
How many grams are in 1 cup of sugar?: 200 g for granulated sugar. Caster (superfine) sugar is finer and settles to 225 g a cup, packed brown sugar is 220 g, loose brown sugar 145 g, powdered (icing) sugar 120 g and coconut sugar 154 g. Pick the one the recipe names, because the gap between packed brown and powdered is nearly double.
How do I convert any amount of sugar to cups?: For granulated sugar, divide the grams by 200. 80 g is 0.4 cups, about 3/8 cup; 120 g is 0.6 cups, about 5/8 cup; 60 g is 0.3 cups, about 1/4 cup. Going the other way, multiply the cups by 200, so 3/4 cup is 150 g and 4 cups is 800 g. The shortcut only holds for granulated sugar: powdered sugar is 120 g a cup and packed brown sugar 220 g, so they need their own figures.
Does packed brown sugar really weigh more than loose?: Yes, by a lot. Pressing brown sugar firmly into the cup, which is what a recipe means by packed, gets 220 g into a US cup. Dropped in loose it comes to about 145 g. Both are separate entries in the ingredient list above so the tool never averages them, and the density it used is printed under every result.
Is a metric cup of sugar a different weight?: Slightly. A metric cup is 250 mL against the US cup's 236.588 mL, so a metric cup of granulated sugar holds 211.3 g rather than 200 g. The tool has a switch for the metric cup, and it moves the tablespoon to 15 mL and the teaspoon to 5 mL at the same time. The table on this page is for the US cup.

Cups measure volume and grams measure mass, so the answer depends on the ingredient; the density used is shown beside every result with its source. Flour differs by about 12 percent between spooned and scooped, and both are listed.