Decilitres to US cups – and US cups to decilitres
1 dl = 0.42267528 cup
All units in this category
- 100ml
- 10cl
- 1dl
- 0.1l
- 0.0001m³
- 20tsp
- 6.6666667tbsp
- 0.42267528cup
- 3.3814023fl oz
- 3.519508fl oz (UK)
- 0.21133764pt
- 0.1759754pt (UK)
- 0.026417205gal
- 0.021996925gal (UK)
Formula
Multiply the value in decilitres by 0.42267528 to get US cups.cup = dl × 0.42267528
Multiply the value in US cups by 2.3658824 to get decilitres.dl = cup × 2.3658824
How to convert decilitres to US cups
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Doing it in your head
A rough conversion for when the calculator is not to hand. The error comes last, and it holds in both directions at that order of magnitude.
- Decilitres to US cups: ÷ 2 − 15%. That gives 0.425 instead of 0.422675, an error of 0.55%.
Decilitres to US cups – common values
| Decilitres (dl) | US cups (cup) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.422675 |
| 2 | 0.845351 |
| 3 | 1.26803 |
| 5 | 2.11338 |
| 10 | 4.22675 |
| 20 | 8.45351 |
| 50 | 21.1338 |
| 100 | 42.2675 |
| 500 | 211.338 |
| 1,000 | 422.675 |
US cups to decilitres – common values
| US cups (cup) | Decilitres (dl) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2.36588 |
| 2 | 4.73176 |
| 3 | 7.09765 |
| 5 | 11.8294 |
| 10 | 23.6588 |
| 20 | 47.3176 |
| 50 | 118.294 |
| 100 | 236.588 |
| 500 | 1,182.94 |
| 1,000 | 2,365.88 |
About the units
Decilitres. A decilitre is one tenth of a litre, 100 millilitres, and as a decimal submultiple of the litre a legal unit across the EU. It is the standard recipe measure in the Nordic countries and Switzerland, while British and American recipes do not use it at all, working in millilitres and cups instead. A decilitre is just under half a US cup, which holds 236.6 millilitres. The easy slip is deci against deca: one tenth against ten, a factor of a hundred apart.
US cups. A US cup is eight fluid ounces, one sixteenth of a gallon, which works out at exactly 236.5882365 millilitres. US nutrition labelling rules instead use a rounded statutory figure of 240 millilitres. The cup is the American recipe measure, and in the EU it may appear only as a supplementary indication. A cup is just under 2.4 decilitres, not 2.5, which is the commonest mistranslation in recipes. Two figures are therefore in circulation for the same measure, 236.6 and 240 millilitres.