Granulated sugar: grams to cups

One cup of granulated sugar weighs 200 grams. So 100 g is about 0.50 cup, 250 g is about 1.25 cups, and 500 g is about 2.50 cups.

1 ¼ cups
1.25 cups · 8.8 oz

Worth knowing. King Arthur lists 198 g. Two hundred is the rounding used by nearly every UK and US chart and is well inside the tolerance of any recipe.

Density reference: King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart

Granulated sugar conversion chart

GramsCupsOunces
50 g¼1.8 oz
100 g½3.5 oz
125 g4.4 oz
150 g¾5.3 oz
200 g17.1 oz
250 g1 ¼8.8 oz
300 g1 ½10.6 oz
375 g1 ⅞13.2 oz
500 g2 ½17.6 oz
1000 g535.3 oz

Worth knowing. King Arthur lists 198 g. Two hundred is the rounding used by nearly every UK and US chart and is well inside the tolerance of any recipe.

Density reference: King Arthur Baking ingredient weight chart

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