- How many meters are in a foot?
- Exactly 0.3048. Since 1959 the foot has been defined as 12 inches and the inch as 25.4 mm, so 12 × 25.4 mm = 304.8 mm = 0.3048 m. That makes 10 ft exactly 3.048 m and 100 ft exactly 30.48 m, with no rounding anywhere.
- How do I convert feet and inches to meters?
- Turn everything into inches first, then multiply by 0.0254. 5 ft 10 in is 5 × 12 + 10 = 70 in, and 70 × 0.0254 = 1.778 m. Going through inches avoids the repeating decimal you get from 10 ÷ 12 = 0.8333… ft. Or type 5' 10" into the box above and skip the arithmetic.
- What's a quick way to estimate feet to meters in my head?
- Multiply by 3, then divide by 10. 30 ft → 90 → 9 m (exact: 9.144 m). That shortcut comes in about 1.6% low, which is fine for 'is that a big room?'. The other common habit, dividing by 3, is 9% high: a 20 ft run you called 6.7 m is really 6.096 m, and 60 cm is a real gap when you're ordering materials.
- Why is 3.28 feet in a meter and 0.3048 meters in a foot?
- They're the same relationship from opposite sides. 1 ÷ 0.3048 = 3.28084 ft per meter. The 0.3048 is exact; the 3.28084 is rounded, because the division never ends. That's why converting feet to meters (multiply by 0.3048) gives a clean answer and meters to feet usually doesn't.
- Is a US survey foot different from a regular foot?
- Slightly, and it's now retired. The US survey foot was 1200/3937 m, about 0.3048006 m — two parts per million longer than the international foot. Over a mile that's about 3 mm; over a state-wide coordinate grid it added up, which is why surveyors kept it. The US officially retired it at the end of 2022. For anything outside legacy land records, 1 ft = 0.3048 m is the one to use, and it's the one this converter uses.
- How tall is 6 feet in meters?
- 6 ft is 1.8288 m, which most forms round to 1.83 m. A few more common heights: 5 ft 4 in is 1.6256 m, 5 ft 8 in is 1.7272 m, 5 ft 10 in is 1.778 m, and 6 ft 2 in is 1.8796 m. Type any height as feet and inches, like 5' 7", to get the exact figure.
- How precise should the meter answer be?
- Match the job. Heights and room sizes are usually given to the centimeter, so two decimals in meters is plenty (1.78 m). Construction and engineering drawings often work in millimeters, which is three decimals. The converter shows up to four decimals so an exact result like 1.8796 m isn't cut short; Copy formula gives you the full calculation if you need to show your work.
- Is what I type saved or sent anywhere?
- No. The conversion runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server or stored, and closing the tab clears it.
