1 US cup of granulated sugar = 200 grams. Sugar packs more predictably than flour and is less sensitive to measurement method.
Ingredient: Granulated sugar — 200 g per US cup
This calculator uses the US recipe cup (240 ml); the precise customary cup is 236.6 ml.
| Cups | Grams |
|---|---|
| ¼ cup | 50 g |
| ⅓ cup | 67 g |
| ½ cup | 100 g |
| ⅔ cup | 133 g |
| ¾ cup | 150 g |
| 1 cup | 200 g |
| 1½ cup | 300 g |
| 2 cup | 400 g |
| Grams | Cups |
|---|---|
| 25 g | 0.13 cup |
| 50 g | 0.25 cup |
| 100 g | 0.5 cup |
| 150 g | 0.75 cup |
| 200 g | 1 cup |
| 250 g | 1.25 cup |
Granulated sugar packs consistently and is much less sensitive to scooping technique than flour. Whether you spoon it in or scoop directly, 1 cup of granulated sugar reliably gives about 200 g. This makes sugar one of the easier baking ingredients to measure by volume.
Caster sugar (superfine sugar) and granulated sugar have similar densities and are interchangeable at 200 g/cup. Raw or demerara sugar is slightly denser and may give 210–220 g per cup. In Nordic recipes, 1 dl granulated sugar = about 83 g — a useful number for adapting Scandinavian recipes to US measurements.
For large quantities (more than 2 cups), weighing becomes more convenient and reliable. 200 g per cup is a clean enough number that multiplying by whole cups is easy: 3 cups = 600 g, 4 cups = 800 g, 5 cups = 1 kg.
For baking precision, always weigh ingredients in grams rather than measuring by volume. Ingredient figures are culinary approximations based on King Arthur Baking and USDA references.
1 US cup of granulated sugar equals 200 grams.
200 grams of granulated sugar equals exactly 1 US cup.
1 dl of granulated sugar equals approximately 83 grams (100 ml × 200 g ÷ 240 ml).
100 grams of granulated sugar equals 0.5 cups — exactly half a cup.