About this feet to meters converter
Heights, room sizes, and ceiling heights are often given in feet and inches in the United States and the UK, while most forms and specifications elsewhere need meters. A foot is exactly 0.3048 meters and an inch is one twelfth of a foot, so 5 feet 10 inches is 70 inches, or 1.778 meters. This converter accepts feet and an optional number of inches, adds them correctly, and shows the result in meters, centimeters, and millimeters with up to eight decimal places, along with a bar compared with a 10-foot basketball hoop.
How to convert feet to meters
- Enter feet and inches. Type the feet, and the inches if any, or press a common height such as 5′10″. Decimal feet such as 5.5 work too.
- Choose the decimals. Pick how many Decimal places to show, from 0 to 8.
- Press Convert to meters. Read the length in meters, centimeters, and millimeters, and the steps of the calculation.
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert feet to meters?
Multiply feet by 0.3048. If you also have inches, divide them by 12 and add them to the feet first. 6 ft is 1.8288 m.
What is 5 foot 10 in meters?
Five feet ten inches is 70 inches, which is 1.778 meters or 177.8 centimeters.
Is 5.5 feet the same as 5 feet 5 inches?
No. 5.5 feet means five and a half feet, which is 5 feet 6 inches. Enter 5 and 5 in the two boxes for 5 feet 5 inches.
Is the conversion exact?
Yes. The international foot has been defined as exactly 0.3048 m since 1959, so the result is exact before rounding to the decimal places you chose.