Honey: Grams to Tablespoons & Cups Conversion

Convert honey between grams, tablespoons, cups, and ounces. Plus tips for measuring sticky ingredients.

Honey is one of the trickiest ingredients to measure because it's dense and sticky. Here's your complete conversion guide.

Honey Conversion Table

Measurement — Grams

1 teaspoon — 7g

1 tablespoon — 21g

¼ cup — 85g

½ cup — 170g

1 cup — 340g

Why Honey is Different

Honey is 1.42× denser than water. One cup of water weighs 237g, but one cup of honey weighs 340g. This means you can't use the "grams ≈ mL" shortcut that works for water.

Tips for Measuring Honey

Spray your measuring tool with cooking oil — the honey slides right out instead of sticking

Use a kitchen scale — by far the easiest and most accurate method

Warm the honey slightly — warm honey is less viscous and pours more easily

Measure oil first — if your recipe uses both oil and honey, measure the oil in the same cup first, then the honey

Honey Substitution

If substituting honey for sugar:

Use ¾ cup honey for every 1 cup sugar

Reduce other liquid in the recipe by ¼ cup

Lower oven temperature by 25°F (honey browns faster)

Add ¼ tsp baking soda per cup of honey (to neutralize acidity)