1 foot = 0.3048 m
1 ft = 0.3048 m · type math like (12*4)+6.5
Feet to meters is needed when American plans, US property listings or aviation altitudes have to be understood in metric. Architects working with overseas clients, travellers reading airline seat maps and anyone sharing their height on a metric form all hit this conversion.
Real estate is a frequent use too. A US listing may describe a lot frontage of 50 feet, which is 15.24 m, or a ceiling of 9 feet, which is 2.74 m. For someone used to metric apartments, that 9 foot ceiling is noticeably taller than the 2.5 m common in European new builds. Swimming pool depths in US hotels are often painted on the deck in feet, so a 4 ft shallow end is 1.22 m and a 9 ft deep end is 2.74 m.
m = ft × 0.3048
Reverse: 1 m = 3.2808399 ft.
Convert a height of 5 ft 10 in to meters.
Answer: 5 ft 10 in = 1.778 m, often written 1.78 m.
| ft | m |
|---|---|
| ¼ ft | 0.0762 m |
| ½ ft | 0.1524 m |
| ¾ ft | 0.2286 m |
| 1 ft | 0.3048 m |
| 2 ft | 0.6096 m |
| 3 ft | 0.9144 m |
| 4 ft | 1.2192 m |
| 5 ft | 1.524 m |
| 6 ft | 1.8288 m |
| 7 ft | 2.1336 m |
| 8 ft | 2.4384 m |
| 9 ft | 2.7432 m |
| 10 ft | 3.048 m |
| 11 ft | 3.3528 m |
| 12 ft | 3.6576 m |
| 13 ft | 3.9624 m |
| ft | m |
|---|---|
| 14 ft | 4.2672 m |
| 15 ft | 4.572 m |
| 16 ft | 4.8768 m |
| 17 ft | 5.1816 m |
| 18 ft | 5.4864 m |
| 19 ft | 5.7912 m |
| 20 ft | 6.096 m |
| 25 ft | 7.62 m |
| 30 ft | 9.144 m |
| 40 ft | 12.192 m |
| 50 ft | 15.24 m |
| 75 ft | 22.86 m |
| 100 ft | 30.48 m |
| 250 ft | 76.2 m |
| 500 ft | 152.4 m |
| 1 000 ft | 304.8 m |
A typical cruise at 35,000 ft is 35,000 × 0.3048 = 10,668 m, or about 10.7 km above sea level.
A standard 40 foot container is 12.192 m long on paper; its real exterior length is 12.19 m.
The rim sits at 10 feet, which is exactly 3.048 m, the same height in the NBA and FIBA rules.
5 ft 10 in is 5.833 feet, not 5.10. Convert to inches (70) first, or divide the inches by 12.
Dividing by 3.28 is close, but multiplying by 0.3048 is exact. On 30,000 ft the shortcut gives 9,146 m instead of 9,144 m.
Flight level 350 means 35,000 feet on a standard pressure setting, not 350 feet or 350 meters.
One international foot equals exactly 0.3048 m. It is divided into 12 inches, and three feet make a yard.
Origin. The Roman pes was about 29.6 cm. England's foot varied for centuries until it was tied to the imperial yard in 1824 and finally to the meter in 1959.
Used today. Feet measure height, short distances and building dimensions in the US, flight altitude worldwide, and house prices per square foot in American and Canadian real estate.
The meter is the SI unit of length, fixed by the speed of light. A meter is 3.2808 feet.
Origin. First proposed in 1791 as a fraction of the Earth's meridian, the meter was adopted internationally through the 1875 Treaty of the Metre.
Used today. The meter is the base unit for length in science, engineering, sport and law in nearly every country, including in US scientific and military work.
6 × 0.3048 = 1.8288 m.
Exactly 304.8 m, roughly the height of the Eiffel Tower without its antennas.
The 1959 agreement defined the yard as 0.9144 m, and a foot is one third of a yard, so 0.9144 ÷ 3 = 0.3048 exactly.
NIST and NOAA deprecated it from 1 January 2023. New US surveying work uses the international foot of 0.3048 m.
Square the factor: 1 ft² = 0.3048² = 0.09290304 m². Use the square feet to square meters converter for areas.