1 meter = 3.2808399 ft
1 m = 3.28084 ft · type math like (12*4)+6.5
Meters to feet matters wherever metric plans meet American or aviation habits. People use it to picture building heights, ceiling clearances, diving depths and mountain elevations, and pilots everywhere need it because altitude is still reported in feet even in fully metric countries.
Building codes are a common place where meters and feet meet. International building codes give stair headroom, guard heights and minimum room sizes in millimeters or meters, while American contractors measure the same items in feet and inches. A minimum headroom of 2.0 m, for example, is 6 ft 6.7 in. The US code minimum is 6 ft 8 in, which is 2.03 m.
ft = m × 3.280839895
Reverse: 1 ft = 0.3048 m.
A European apartment lists a ceiling height of 2.4 m. What is that in feet and inches?
Answer: 2.4 m = 7.874 ft = 7 ft 10.5 in.
| m | ft |
|---|---|
| ¼ m | 0.82020997 ft |
| ½ m | 1.6404199 ft |
| ¾ m | 2.4606299 ft |
| 1 m | 3.2808399 ft |
| 2 m | 6.5616798 ft |
| 3 m | 9.8425197 ft |
| 4 m | 13.12336 ft |
| 5 m | 16.404199 ft |
| 6 m | 19.685039 ft |
| 7 m | 22.965879 ft |
| 8 m | 26.246719 ft |
| 9 m | 29.527559 ft |
| 10 m | 32.808399 ft |
| 11 m | 36.089239 ft |
| 12 m | 39.370079 ft |
| 13 m | 42.650919 ft |
| m | ft |
|---|---|
| 14 m | 45.931759 ft |
| 15 m | 49.212598 ft |
| 16 m | 52.493438 ft |
| 17 m | 55.774278 ft |
| 18 m | 59.055118 ft |
| 19 m | 62.335958 ft |
| 20 m | 65.616798 ft |
| 25 m | 82.020997 ft |
| 30 m | 98.425197 ft |
| 40 m | 131.2336 ft |
| 50 m | 164.04199 ft |
| 75 m | 246.06299 ft |
| 100 m | 328.08399 ft |
| 250 m | 820.20997 ft |
| 500 m | 1 640.4199 ft |
| 1 000 m | 3 280.8399 ft |
The official 2020 height of 8,848.86 m converts to 29,031.7 feet.
A 2.4 m ceiling, common in new European homes, is 7.87 feet, just under the 8 foot ceilings typical in US houses.
The 10 m platform is 32.8 feet above the water, the height of a three-story building.
A meter is 3.28 feet. Using 3 undercounts by almost 9%, so a 100 m building becomes 300 ft instead of 328 ft.
The decimal is a fraction of a foot. Multiply 0.87 by 12 to get the inches: 7.87 ft is 7 ft 10.4 in.
Older US land surveys used the survey foot, about 2 parts per million longer. Over a few meters the difference is invisible, but over 100 km it adds up to about 20 cm.
The meter is the SI base unit of length, defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in exactly 1/299,792,458 of a second.
Origin. In 1791 the French Academy of Sciences defined the meter as one ten-millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator through Paris. A platinum bar became the standard in 1799, replaced by light-based definitions in 1960 and 1983.
Used today. The meter is the legal unit of length in nearly every country. It is used for room dimensions, track and swimming events, building heights, property lines and almost all scientific work.
The international foot is exactly 0.3048 meters, which equals 12 inches or one third of a yard.
Origin. Feet based loosely on the human foot were used by Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. The modern value was fixed in 1959; the slightly longer US survey foot (1200/3937 m) was officially retired at the end of 2022.
Used today. Feet are standard in the US and UK for personal height, and worldwide for aircraft altitude and flight levels. US real estate, ceilings and lumber also use feet.
Aviation standardised on US equipment after the Second World War, and ICAO allows feet for altitude. Only a few regions, such as China and Russia historically, assigned flight levels in meters.
1.75 × 3.2808 = 5.741 ft, which is 5 ft 8.9 in.
100 m is 328.08 feet, about 109.4 yards.
Yes. A meter is 1.0936 yards, about 3.37 inches longer than a yard.
Multiply by 3 and add 10%: 20 m × 3 = 60, plus 6 = 66 ft. The exact answer is 65.6 ft.