Inches to Yards Converter

Common questions

How many inches are in a yard?

Exactly 36, which is also exactly 3 feet. Nothing is rounded inside that number: the international yard is 0.9144 m by definition and the inch is 25.4 mm, so one divides into the other 36 times with nothing left over. Type 36 into the From box and the answer reads 1, with nothing trailing after the decimal point. The fractions come out just as clean: 27 in is 0.75 yd, 18 in is 0.5 yd and 9 in is 0.25 yd. One inch on its own is 0.0277777777778 yd.

How do you convert inches to yards?

Divide the inches by 36. That is the whole conversion: 45 in is 1.25 yd, 60 in is 1.66666666667 yd and 1,000 in is 27.7777777778 yd. Multiplying by 0.0277777777778, which is what one inch is worth in yards, gives the same digits shown here, but the division is the one to do by hand, because 36 is the exact number and the decimal is not.

What is 100 inches in yards?

2.77777777778 yards, which is 2 yd 2 ft 4 in. Cancel the fraction and you can see why the decimal never ends: 100 / 36 is 25/9, and ninths repeat for ever. The converter prints twelve significant digits and stops there instead of pretending the digits run out. Two neighbours people look up beside it: 90 in is 2.5 yd exactly and 108 in is 3.

How do I read a decimal yard as feet and inches?

Multiply the part after the point by 3 to get feet, then multiply what is left by 12 to get inches. The converter prints 100 in as 2.77777777778 yd, so 0.77777777778 times 3 is 2.33333333333, which is 2 whole feet, and 0.33333333333 times 12 is 4 in: 2 yd 2 ft 4 in. The quarter marks are worth knowing by heart: 0.25 yd is 9 in, 0.5 yd is 18 in and 0.75 yd is 27 in. The headline stays in decimal yards because that is the number a spreadsheet or an order form wants, and the chart at the foot of this page prints both forms together.

Is a US yard the same as an imperial yard?

Yes, and that is unusual for a US against imperial pair. Since the international agreement of 1959 both are exactly 0.9144 metres, and the inch is exactly 25.4 millimetres in both, so there is no ambiguity in this conversion at all. Volume is where the two systems really part company: a US gallon is 3.785 litres and an imperial gallon is 4.546. The one length exception is the US survey yard of 3600/3937 m, used in land surveying and retired at the end of 2022. It is longer by two parts in a million, about 3 mm over a whole mile. Every figure on this page uses the international yard and inch.

How many inches is a yard of fabric?

Thirty-six inches measured along the roll, whatever the roll is wide, which is 0.9144 m or 91.44 cm where the shop sells by the metre. The usual cuts fall out of the same division: half a yard is 18 in, a third of a yard is 12 in and a quarter yard is 9 in. Type any of those into the From box and the yard figure comes straight back, and the centimetre row under the answer gives the metric equivalent at the same time.

How do I convert yards back to inches?

Press Swap units, the button between the two boxes, and the pair reverses without reloading the page: 1 yd gives 36 in, 2.5 yd gives 90 in, and 100 yd, the distance between the goal lines on an American football field, gives 3,600 in. Going that way the division becomes a multiplication by 36. Both unit menus stay open as well, so the same measurement will go from inches to millimetres, metres, feet or miles without leaving this page, and the Uncommon units switch adds seven more, from nanometres and thous to light years and parsecs.

Why does this page open on inches and yards when I last converted something else?

Because a page that names a pair should show that pair. This one sets Inch and Yard on arrival, ahead of whatever the converter last remembered, and it leaves the main unit converter's own memory alone: go back there and it is still on the pair you left it on. The number you last typed does travel with you, since it is usually the one you are still working on.

How precise is the answer, and can I copy it?

The conversion is a single division carried out in double precision, and the result is printed to twelve significant digits with trailing zeros dropped, so 36 in reads 1 and 54 in reads 1.5, while 1,000 in reads 27.7777777778 rather than the 27.777777777777775 the raw arithmetic holds. Twelve digits sits well inside what a double carries and absorbs the floating-point residue a chained conversion leaves behind. Copy result puts the headline on your clipboard exactly as printed but without the thousands separators, and every row in the list below has its own Copy button. Nothing you type is sent anywhere: the conversion is arithmetic against a table of factors that ships with the page, so it keeps working with no network connection once the page has loaded.