Grams of Butter to Cups Converter (g to cups)

European, British and Australian recipes weigh butter, usually cutting it from a 250 g or 500 g block, while American recipes count sticks and cups. To bake a metric recipe with US tools, or to decide how many sticks to buy, divide the grams by the weight of a US cup of butter. Here that is 226.796185 g: half a pound, because a cup is two quarter-pound sticks.

The answer often lands between neat fractions. A 250 g block is about 1.1 cups, or 2.2 sticks, and 100 g is a little under half a cup. Since US sticks carry tablespoon lines, the easiest way to measure a gram amount without a scale is to work out the tablespoons: each is about 14.2 g, so 100 g is about 7 tablespoons. For whipped butter or spreads, which have a different makeup, use the weight on the pack instead.

How to use this tool

1. Type a value in the Gram of Butter box to see it in cups, or type in the Cup box to convert the other way.
2. Press ⇄ to swap the two units, or Load example for a typical value.
3. Check the charts below for common values; for other units, open the Cooking Measure converter.

Formula

cups = grams of butter ÷ 226.796185 (1 cup = ½ lb)

grams of butter = cups × 226.796185 (1 cup = ½ lb)

Both factors come from the converter's own definitions: 1 cup = 226.796185 grams of butter and 1 gram of butter = 0.0044092452437 cups (shown to 12 significant digits).

Example

Two conversions worked with the same factors the converter uses:

250 g butter ≈ 1.10231 cup

0.5 cup ≈ 113.398 g butter

Gram of Butter to Cup chart

Common values from grams of butter to cups, rounded to four decimal places.

Cup to Gram of Butter chart

The reverse direction for values people often look up.

Butter packs around the world

Quick mental estimate

Count about 113 g per stick and two sticks per cup: 340 g → 3 sticks → 1½ cups. Treating a stick as 113 g rather than 113.398 g makes the stick count about 0.35% high, a fraction of a gram per stick.

Use the converter or the charts when the exact figure matters.

The two units

Gram of Butter (g butter): Grams of butter, converted at 1 US cup = ½ lb = 226.8 g (about 0.959 g/mL), the ratio on US butter packs where 2 sticks make a cup; USDA lists 227 g per cup. A tablespoon of butter weighs about 14.2 g.

Cup (cup): The US customary cup used in American recipes holds 8 US fluid ounces or 16 tablespoons, exactly 236.5882365 mL. US nutrition labels round it to 240 mL, and the metric cup used in Australia and many other countries is 250 mL.