How do you convert ft to meters?

Use this conversion tool and chart to convert between feet and meters and feet, inches and meters.

Common feet to meters conversions

• 5 feet 1 inches = 1.5494 m
• 5 feet 2 inches = 1.5748 m
• 5 feet 3 inches = 1.6002 m
• 5 feet 4 inches = 1.6256 m
• 5 feet 5 inches = 1.651 m
• 5 feet 6 inches = 1.6764 m
• 5 feet 7 inches = 1.7018 m
• 5 feet 8 inches = 1.7272 m
• 5 feet 9 inches = 1.7526 m
• 5 feet 10 inches = 1.778 m
• 5 feet 11 inches = 1.8034 m
• 6 feet 0 inches = 1.8288 m
• 6 feet 1 inches = 1.8542 m
• 6 feet 2 inches = 1.8796 m

Feet to meters chart

Feet & InchesFeetMeters4 feet 0 inches4 feet1.22 m4 feet 1 inches4.08 feet1.24 m4 feet 2 inches4.17 feet1.27 m4 feet 3 inches4.25 feet1.3 m4 feet 4 inches4.33 feet1.32 m4 feet 5 inches4.42 feet1.35 m4 feet 6 inches4.5 feet1.37 m4 feet 7 inches4.58 feet1.4 m4 feet 8 inches4.67 feet1.42 m4 feet 9 inches4.75 feet1.45 m4 feet 10 inches4.83 feet1.47 m4 feet 11 inches4.92 feet1.5 m5 feet 0 inches5 feet1.52 m5 feet 1 inches5.08 feet1.55 m5 feet 2 inches5.17 feet1.57 m5 feet 3 inches5.25 feet1.6 m5 feet 4 inches5.33 feet1.63 m5 feet 5 inches5.42 feet1.65 m5 feet 6 inches5.5 feet1.68 m5 feet 7 inches5.58 feet1.7 m5 feet 8 inches5.67 feet1.73 m5 feet 9 inches5.75 feet1.75 m5 feet 10 inches5.83 feet1.78 m5 feet 11 inches5.92 feet1.8 m6 feet 0 inches6 feet1.83 m6 feet 1 inches6.08 feet1.85 m6 feet 2 inches6.17 feet1.88 m6 feet 3 inches6.25 feet1.91 m6 feet 4 inches6.33 feet1.93 m6 feet 5 inches6.42 feet1.96 m6 feet 6 inches6.5 feet1.98 m6 feet 7 inches6.58 feet2.01 m6 feet 8 inches6.67 feet2.03 m6 feet 9 inches6.75 feet2.06 m6 feet 10 inches6.83 feet2.08 m6 feet 11 inches6.92 feet2.11 mNote: conversions are rounded to max 2 decimals places

How to convert feet to meters

To convert feet to meters, multiply your figure by 0.3048. Should you wish to convert from feet to meters in your head, divide your figure by 3 for a very rough approximation.

Foot (mentioned as feet in plural) is one of the very common Imperial and Customary Systems of measuring length. It is commonly expressed as ft. 12 inches make one foot. 

This was a local measuring unit that most ancient civilizations made their own. Like how most measurements were derived from body parts, this was a common measure of the size of one 'foot' of an adult man. 

As a result, feet had slightly different lengths in different systems like British, American, Greek, Roman, and French. Take the ancient UK measurement, for instance. At that time, one feet measurement was derived based on the foot size of King Henry I, whose foot size measured about 12 inches!

During the Egyptian periods, one foot was measured as the length of four palms or 16 fingers. This was calculated to be about 11.8 inches.

One foot was measured as one-six hundredth of a stadion in Greek times. One stadion was a standard unit of measurement in Greece and was about 594 ft in length. So, 1 foot was measured to be close to 11.9 inches. Over time, 1 foot was standardised to be 12 inches, and this holds true till date. One inch is equal to 2.54 cm.

Definition: A foot (symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the imperial and US customary systems of measurement. A foot was defined as exactly 0.3048 meters in 1959. One foot contains 12 inches, and one yard is comprised of three feet.

History/origin: Prior to standardization of units of measurement, and the definition of the foot currently in use, the measurement of the foot was used in many different systems including the Greek, Roman, English, Chinese, and French systems, varying in length between each. The various lengths were due to parts of the human body historically being used as a basis for units of length (such as the cubit, hand, span, digit, and many others, sometimes referred to as anthropic units). This resulted in the measurement of a foot varying between 250 mm and 335 mm in the past compared to the current definition of 304.8 mm. While the United States is one of the few, if not only, countries in which the foot is still widely used, many countries used their own version of the foot prior to metrication, as evidenced by a fairly large list of obsolete feet measurements.

Current use: The foot is primarily used in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for many everyday applications. In the US, feet and inches are commonly used to measure height, shorter distances, field length (sometimes in the form of yards), etc. Feet are also commonly used to measure altitude (aviation) as well as elevation (such as that of a mountain). The international foot corresponds to human feet with shoe size 13 (UK), 14 (US male), 15.5 (US female), or 46 (EU).

Meter

Definition: A meter, or metre (symbol: m), is the base unit of length and distance in the International System of Units (SI). The meter is defined as the distance traveled by light in 1/299 792 458 of a second. This definition was slightly modified in 2019 to reflect changes in the definition of the second.

History/origin: Originally, in 1793, the meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole. This changed in 1889, when the International prototype metre was established as the length of a prototype meter bar (made of an alloy of 90% platinum and 10% iridium) measured at the melting point of ice. In 1960, the meter was again redefined, this time in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. The current definition of the meter is effectively the same as the definition that was adopted in 1983, with slight modifications due to the change in definition of the second.

Current use: Being the SI unit of length, the meter is used worldwide in many applications such as measuring distance, height, length, width, etc. The United States is one notable exception in that it largely uses US customary units such as yards, inches, feet, and miles instead of meters in everyday use.

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