Teaspoons to Cups Converter

This table covers common teaspoon totals from small recipes and dosing instructions.

To convert teaspoons to cups, divide the teaspoon value by 48. For example, 72 teaspoons divided by 48 equals 1.5 cups.

To go the other way, use the Cups to Teaspoons converter below instead, which multiplies by 48 for you. For example, 1.5 cups times 48 equals 72 teaspoons.

A US cup holds exactly 48 teaspoons: 16 tablespoons, each equal to exactly 3 teaspoons. Because this chain of definitions is exact, converting a large teaspoon count all the way up to cups never introduces rounding error, unlike a metric-to-US volume conversion.

A Faster Two-Step Conversion for Large Teaspoon Totals

For a large teaspoon count, it is often easier to divide by 3 first to get tablespoons, then divide by 16 to get cups, rather than dividing by 48 directly. Both methods give the identical result, since 3 times 16 equals 48, and the Tablespoons to Cups converter below handles that middle step directly.

For small amounts of a dry or sticky ingredient, the Teaspoons to Grams Converter gives the weight of a teaspoon of water, milk, flour, sugar, honey, or butter. Baking recipes often give flour or sugar by weight, and the Cups to Grams Converter turns a cup measure into grams for common baking ingredients. When a recipe mixes several units, the Cooking Unit Converter converts teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, fluid ounces, and milliliters from one box.

Every volume converter that shares a unit with this page, teaspoons or cups, starting with the reverse conversion, one page per pair of units, then the converters that show many units at once.

The Reverse Conversion

• Cups to Teaspoons Converter: 1 cup = 48 teaspoons

Milliliters and Liters

• Cups to Liters Converter: 1 liter is about 4.226753 cups
• Cups to Milliliters Converter: 1 cup = 236.5882365 milliliters
• Milliliters to Teaspoons Converter: 1 teaspoon = 4.92892159375 milliliters

Spoons, Fluid Ounces and Cups

• Cups to Pints Converter: 1 pint = 2 cups
• Cups to Quarts Converter: 1 quart = 4 cups
• Cups to Tablespoons Converter: 1 cup = 16 tablespoons
• Cups to Gallons Converter: 1 gallon = 16 cups
• Cups to Fluid Ounces Converter: 1 cup = 8 fluid ounces
• Fluid Ounces to Teaspoons Converter: 1 fluid ounce = 6 teaspoons
• Tablespoons to Teaspoons Converter: 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons
• Cups to Deciliters Converter: 1 cup = 2.365882365 deciliters

Multi-Unit Converters

• Gallon Converter: gallons to quarts, pints, cups, fluid ounces, liters and cubic feet at once
• Volume Converter: any volume in every unit at once, from milliliters to cubic yards, including UK imperial units