How do you convert meters to feet?

Divide by exactly 0.3048 under the international-foot definition. Multiplying by the rounded reciprocal 3.280839895013 only approximates that division. To four decimal places, 1 m is 3.2808 ft and 5 m 16.4042 ft; 100 m is about 328.084 ft. Decimal-rational arithmetic preserves the written input and factor, displaying 10 m as 32.8083989501 ft. In reverse, 6 ft is exactly 1.8288 m. Swap units reverses the pair while retaining the typed scalar.

Is a foot exactly 0.3048 meters?

Yes. The 1959 international yard and pound agreement defines an inch as exactly 2.54 cm, and a foot is 12 inches, so a foot is exactly 30.48 cm or 0.3048 m. There is no rounding inside the definition, which is why the converter returns 0.3048 m as 1 ft with nothing after the decimal point, and 1,609.344 m, one statute mile, as exactly 5,280 ft. The factor stored for a foot is 0.3048, so only the printed digits are rounded.

What is 1.8 m in feet and inches?

About 5 ft 10.9 in. Derive the split from the original 1.8 m: take 5 whole international feet, subtract exactly 5 × 0.3048 m, and divide the remaining 0.276 m by exactly 0.0254 m per inch. The remainder is about 10.8661 in, rounding to 10.9 in. The decimal-foot headline displays 5.90551181102 ft and the total Inch row 70.8661417323 in. Chaining either rounded readout is only an approximation. The interactive headline stays in decimal feet; the static chart separately lists both forms.

How many feet is 100 meters?

328.083989501 ft, which is 328 ft 1.0 in. The distances people usually ask about follow from the same division: 25 m is 82.021 ft, 50 m is 164.042 ft, 200 m is 656.168 ft and 400 m, one lap of an outdoor track, is 1,312.336 ft. A 5,000 m race is 16,404.1995 ft, and the mile at 1,609.344 m is its 5,280 ft by definition.

How do I convert feet back to meters?

Press the Swap units button between the two boxes and the pair reverses without reloading the page: type 6 and the answer is 1.8288 m, and 10 ft reads 3.048 m. Both unit menus stay open as well, so the same measurement will go from metres into inches, yards, miles or nautical miles without leaving this page, and the uncommon units switch adds seven more, from nanometres and thous to light years and parsecs.

Why does the answer have so many decimal places?

The unit factor repeats, but an input can cancel its denominator: 0.3048 m is exactly 1 ft. A finite decimal result can also need rounding if it has more than twelve significant digits. Decimal-rational arithmetic preserves the original scalar before rounding the display. Copy result copies the displayed headline without digit-grouping commas; each visible conversion row has its own Copy button. Displayed and copied values round to twelve significant digits. If native copying fails, a complete selectable summary identifies the input, selected pair and conventions and includes every unit in the category, including uncommon units.

Are metre and meter the same unit?

Yes. Metre and meter are spellings of the same SI length unit with symbol m. The menus here use Meter and Foot, with Centimeter and Kilometer for those metric units. Foot means the international foot of exactly 0.3048 m; a separate survey-foot convention is not in this menu.

Why does this page open on metres and feet when I last converted something else?

This focused page opens on Meter and Foot, while preserving the main converter’s saved unit pair. When storage is usable, a saved value and uncommon-unit preference can travel between pages. Its suffix must still match From. Valid deliberate scalar edits can save those fields after a short delay; invalid or incomplete drafts preserve the saved record. Unusable or conflicting records remain until you use Forget saved settings, which keeps the current conversion on screen. Your input and converted values are calculated in the browser and are not uploaded by the converter. The definitions arrive with the page, so conversion needs no external data lookup and keeps working offline after the page has loaded. The core conversion needs no account.

Meters to Feet Converter

Meters to feet is one division: ft = m / 0.3048, because the 1959 international agreement fixed a foot at exactly 0.3048 metres. One metre is therefore 3.280839895013... feet, a decimal that never ends, and the converter above prints it as 3.28083989501, twelve significant digits with trailing zeros dropped. It opens with Meter in the From box and Foot in the To box whatever pair you converted last, and it answers as you type: 1.8 m reads 5.90551181102 ft, 2 m reads 6.56167979003 ft and 100 m reads 328.083989501 ft. Under the headline the same length is listed in millimetres, centimetres, kilometres, inches, feet, yards, miles and nautical miles, and a separate feet-and-inches split must be derived from the original meters: take whole feet from m / 0.3048 and convert the remaining original length to inches, rather than chaining rounded displayed values. The Swap units button between the two boxes turns the page into a feet to metres converter, where the division becomes a multiplication by 0.3048.

From

To3.28083989501

Category: Length

Base unit: meter

Uncommon units: Show 7 more

Feet, yards and miles use international definitions. A light year uses a 365.25-day Julian year; the parsec coefficient is approximate.

Results round to 12 significant digits using the listed unit definitions. Input must have a finite numeric magnitude and at most 512 significant digits. Type a single decimal or scientific number; a matching From unit suffix is accepted. Commas and grouped spaces separate thousands; decimal commas, fractions and compound measurements are refused.

1 m in every length unit

Millimetermm
1,000
Centimetercm
100
Kilometerkm
0.001
Inchin
39.3700787402
Footft
3.28083989501
Yardyd
1.09361329834
Milemi
0.000621371192237
Nautical milenmi
0.000539956803456

Selectable complete conversion

Unit Converter — Length
Input: 1 (Meter, m)
Result: 3.28083989501 ft (Foot)
Displayed values round to 12 significant digits.
Feet, yards and miles use international definitions. A light year uses a 365.25-day Julian year; the parsec coefficient is approximate.
All other units:
Nanometer (nm): 1000000000
Micrometer (µm): 1000000
Millimeter (mm): 1000
Centimeter (cm): 100
Kilometer (km): 0.001
Inch (in): 39.3700787402
Foot (ft): 3.28083989501
Yard (yd): 1.09361329834
Mile (mi): 0.000621371192237
Nautical mile (nmi): 0.000539956803456
Thou (mil): 39370.0787402
Furlong (fur): 0.0049709695379
Astronomical unit (AU): 6.68458712227e-12
Light year (ly): 1.05700083402e-16
Parsec (pc): 3.24077928944e-17

Metres to feet at the lengths people look up

Each numeric cell is calculated directly from its original meters using the international foot and inch. Decimal feet round to four places and total inches to two; the mixed split uses whole feet and the original remaining length, with inches rounded to a tenth. The 0.3048 m and 1,609.344 m anchors have exact whole-foot outputs. The interactive readout uses twelve significant digits.

Metres	Feet	Feet and inches	Inches
0.3048 m	1	1 ft 0.0 in	12.00 in
1 m	3.2808	3 ft 3.4 in	39.37 in
1.5 m	4.9213	4 ft 11.1 in	59.06 in
1.6 m	5.2493	5 ft 3.0 in	62.99 in
1.7 m	5.5774	5 ft 6.9 in	66.93 in
1.75 m	5.7415	5 ft 8.9 in	68.90 in
1.8 m	5.9055	5 ft 10.9 in	70.87 in
1.83 m	6.0039	6 ft 0.0 in	72.05 in
1.9 m	6.2336	6 ft 2.8 in	74.80 in
2 m	6.5617	6 ft 6.7 in	78.74 in
3 m	9.8425	9 ft 10.1 in	118.11 in
5 m	16.4042	16 ft 4.9 in	196.85 in
10 m	32.8084	32 ft 9.7 in	393.70 in
25 m	82.0210	82 ft 0.3 in	984.25 in
50 m	164.0420	164 ft 0.5 in	1,968.50 in
100 m	328.0840	328 ft 1.0 in	3,937.01 in
200 m	656.1680	656 ft 2.0 in	7,874.02 in
400 m	1,312.3360	1,312 ft 4.0 in	15,748.03 in
1,000 m	3,280.8399	3,280 ft 10.1 in	39,370.08 in
1,609.344 m	5,280	5,280 ft 0.0 in	63,360.00 in
5,000 m	16,404.1995	16,404 ft 2.4 in	196,850.39 in

Common questions

How do you convert meters to feet?: Divide by exactly 0.3048 under the international-foot definition. Multiplying by the rounded reciprocal 3.280839895013 only approximates that division. To four decimal places, 1 m is 3.2808 ft and 5 m 16.4042 ft; 100 m is about 328.084 ft. Decimal-rational arithmetic preserves the written input and factor, displaying 10 m as 32.8083989501 ft. In reverse, 6 ft is exactly 1.8288 m. Swap units reverses the pair while retaining the typed scalar.
Is a foot exactly 0.3048 meters?: Yes. The 1959 international yard and pound agreement defines an inch as exactly 2.54 cm, and a foot is 12 inches, so a foot is exactly 30.48 cm or 0.3048 m. There is no rounding inside the definition, which is why the converter returns 0.3048 m as 1 ft with nothing after the decimal point, and 1,609.344 m, one statute mile, as exactly 5,280 ft. The factor stored for a foot is 0.3048, so only the printed digits are rounded.
What is 1.8 m in feet and inches?: About 5 ft 10.9 in. Derive the split from the original 1.8 m: take 5 whole international feet, subtract exactly 5 × 0.3048 m, and divide the remaining 0.276 m by exactly 0.0254 m per inch. The remainder is about 10.8661 in, rounding to 10.9 in. The decimal-foot headline displays 5.90551181102 ft and the total Inch row 70.8661417323 in. Chaining either rounded readout is only an approximation. The interactive headline stays in decimal feet; the static chart separately lists both forms.
How many feet is 100 meters?: 328.083989501 ft, which is 328 ft 1.0 in. The distances people usually ask about follow from the same division: 25 m is 82.021 ft, 50 m is 164.042 ft, 200 m is 656.168 ft and 400 m, one lap of an outdoor track, is 1,312.336 ft. A 5,000 m race is 16,404.1995 ft, and the mile at 1,609.344 m is its 5,280 ft by definition.
How do I convert feet back to meters?: Press the Swap units button between the two boxes and the pair reverses without reloading the page: type 6 and the answer is 1.8288 m, and 10 ft reads 3.048 m. Both unit menus stay open as well, so the same measurement will go from metres into inches, yards, miles or nautical miles without leaving this page, and the uncommon units switch adds seven more, from nanometres and thous to light years and parsecs.
Why does the answer have so many decimal places?: The unit factor repeats, but an input can cancel its denominator: 0.3048 m is exactly 1 ft. A finite decimal result can also need rounding if it has more than twelve significant digits. Decimal-rational arithmetic preserves the original scalar before rounding the display. Copy result copies the displayed headline without digit-grouping commas; each visible conversion row has its own Copy button. Displayed and copied values round to twelve significant digits. If native copying fails, a complete selectable summary identifies the input, selected pair and conventions and includes every unit in the category, including uncommon units.
Are metre and meter the same unit?: Yes. Metre and meter are spellings of the same SI length unit with symbol m. The menus here use Meter and Foot, with Centimeter and Kilometer for those metric units. Foot means the international foot of exactly 0.3048 m; a separate survey-foot convention is not in this menu.
Why does this page open on metres and feet when I last converted something else?: This focused page opens on Meter and Foot, while preserving the main converter’s saved unit pair. When storage is usable, a saved value and uncommon-unit preference can travel between pages. Its suffix must still match From. Valid deliberate scalar edits can save those fields after a short delay; invalid or incomplete drafts preserve the saved record. Unusable or conflicting records remain until you use Forget saved settings, which keeps the current conversion on screen. Your input and converted values are calculated in the browser and are not uploaded by the converter. The definitions arrive with the page, so conversion needs no external data lookup and keeps working offline after the page has loaded. The core conversion needs no account.

Results round to 12 significant digits using the listed unit conventions. Many factors are exact definitions; psi and parsec use rounded coefficients. Temperature includes scale offsets. Days and weeks are fixed-duration units, and unit conversion does not determine calendar dates, ambient pressure or a software label’s convention.