Feet to Meters Converter
Type feet to get meters. A foot is exactly 0.3048 m, so 10 feet is just over 3 meters.
10 ft =
3.048m
10 feet is 3.048 meters.
- 1 ft
- 0.3048 m
- 1 m
- 3.2808 ft
How to convert feet to meters
Multiply the feet by 0.3048. That factor is exact: since 1959 one foot has been 0.3048 m in every country that uses it, so an 8-foot ceiling is 8 × 0.3048 = 2.4384 m.
For feet and inches together, turn the inches into a fraction of a foot first. 12 ft 6 in is 12.5 ft, and 12.5 × 0.3048 = 3.81 m.
Altitudes convert the same way. An airliner cruising at 35,000 feet is 10,668 m up, a little over 10.6 km.
meters = feet × 0.3048
- Some US land surveys used the US survey foot, 1200/3937 m (0.3048006 m), until NIST and NOAA retired it from 1 January 2023. It differs from the international foot by 2 parts per million, about 3 mm in a mile. Source: NIST, The U.S. survey foot (deprecated from 1 January 2023).
How to estimate feet to meters in your head
Take 30% of the feet: multiply by 3 and divide by 10. Twenty feet becomes 6 m, against an exact 6.096. The shortcut is about 1.6% low, which is roughly 1 cm for every 2 feet.
Or keep three landmarks in mind: 3 feet is 0.91 m, 6 feet is 1.83 m and 100 feet is 30.5 m.
Feet to meters chart
From one foot to cruising altitude, with the meter value to four decimals.
| Feet (ft) | Meters (m) | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.3048 | |
| 2 | 0.6096 | |
| 3 | 0.9144 | |
| 4 | 1.2192 | |
| 5 | 1.524 | |
| 6 | 1.8288 | |
| 7 | 2.1336 | |
| 8 | 2.4384 | a typical US ceiling |
| 9 | 2.7432 | |
| 10 | 3.048 |
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| 12 | 3.6576 | |
| 15 | 4.572 | |
| 20 | 6.096 | |
| 25 | 7.62 | |
| 30 | 9.144 | |
| 40 | 12.192 | |
| 50 | 15.24 | |
| 75 | 22.86 | |
| 100 | 30.48 | |
| 250 | 76.2 | |
| 500 | 152.4 | |
| 1,000 | 304.8 | |
| 5,280 | 1,609.344 | one mile |
| 10,000 | 3,048 | |
| 35,000 | 10,668 | airliner cruising altitude |
Frequently Asked Questions
How many meters is 6 feet?
6 feet is 1.8288 m, usually written as 1.83 m. It is a common height for a tall adult and the length of many single beds.
Why isn’t a foot just 0.3 meters?
The foot comes from the older English system and was fitted to the meter afterwards, not designed around it. The fit settled at exactly 0.3048 m, so a foot is 30.48 cm, 4.8 mm more than 30 cm.
How many feet are in a meter?
About 3.28084. Going the other way is simpler, because 0.3048 is exact: divide meters by 0.3048 to get feet.