Cups to quarts
1 US cup = 1/4 US liquid quart. 4 US cups = 1 US liquid quart.
4 US cups
1 US liquid quart
Volume stays the same whichever ingredient fills the cup.
Cup scale: 4 US cups
Turning a weight into cups? Choose the ingredient in the grams-to-cups tool.
Cups to quarts chart
| US cups | US liquid quarts |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1/4 (0.25) |
| 2 | 1/2 (0.5) |
| 3 | 3/4 (0.75) |
| 4 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 1/2 (1.5) |
| 8 | 2 |
| 10 | 2 1/2 (2.5) |
| 12 | 3 |
| 16 | 4 |
| 24 | 6 |
Good to know
Use this to check whether a recipe fits your pot: add up the liquid and the food in cups, then leave room above it.
The figures follow the US definitions in NIST Handbook 44: 3 teaspoons to a tablespoon, 16 tablespoons to a cup, 2 cups to a pint, 4 quarts to a gallon and 28.349523125 grams to an ounce by weight.
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