Metric Cups to Cubic Feet (cup to ft³)

1 metric cup equals 0.00882866668 cubic feet (rounded).

1 metric cup = 0.00882866668 cubic feet

How to convert metric cups to cubic feet

To convert metric cups to cubic feet, multiply the number of metric cups by 0.00882866668. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply cubic feet by 113.2673864 (rounded).

cubic feet = metric cups × 0.00882866668

Example: 10 metric cups = 0.0882866668 cubic feet.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

Metric Cup (cup)

Cooking & barCurrent unit

Exactly 250 mL. The cup used in Australia, New Zealand and most Commonwealth recipes.

A metric cup is a cup tamed by decimal thinking. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and some other former British colonies that metricated use a round 250 milliliters, exactly a quarter of a liter. Canada's older cup had been eight imperial fluid ounces, about 227.3 mL, so the metric version is noticeably larger, and Canadian recipes now usually use the 250 mL cup.

The metric cup is not an SI unit, only a practical convention, and it differs from the US cups in useful ways. It is about 6 percent larger than the US customary cup at 236.6 mL and about 4 percent larger than the 240 mL US label cup. Its arithmetic is simple: four cups make a liter, and a cup holds 50 metric teaspoons or 16 and two thirds tablespoons of 15 mL. Many recipes outside the US skip cups entirely and give dry ingredients in grams, because volume is a rough proxy for flour.

1 metric cup = 0.25 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Metric cup; Wikipedia: Cup (unit)

Cubic Foot (ft³)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

Exactly 28.316846592 liters (1,728 cubic inches). Used for refrigerator capacity, gas volume and shipping.

Cubic foot grew from the foot itself, a length unit with ancient origins, cubed into a volume of 1,728 cubic inches. Since the international foot was fixed at exactly 0.3048 meters, it equals exactly 28.316846592 liters. It sits at the center of the Anglo-American cubic system, a cube you could build from twelve-inch rulers, and it is about 7.48 US gallons or 6.23 imperial gallons.

In practice the cubic foot is the language of capacity and flow. Natural gas and household water are often billed per hundred cubic feet, written CCF, while gas reserves are reported in thousands and trillions of cubic feet. Rivers are measured in cubic feet per second, called cusecs, and fans and air compressors are rated in cubic feet per minute. To picture one, imagine a box a foot on each side holding a bit under seven and a half gallon jugs of water.

1 cubic foot = 28.31684659 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Cubic foot; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume

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