Metres to Feet and Feet to Metres Converter

metres to feet formula

feet = metres ÷ 0.3048

1 metre = 3.280839895 feet, so multiply metres by 3.280839895. Going the other way, 1 foot = 0.3048 metres.

metres to feet table

How many feet in metres?

1 m = 3.28084 ft. There are 3.28084 feet in 1 metres.

2 m = 6.56168 ft. There are 6.56168 feet in 2 metres.

10 m = 32.8084 ft. There are 32.8084 feet in 10 metres.

100 m = 328.084 ft. There are 328.084 feet in 100 metres.

1,000 m = 3,280.84 ft. There are 3,280.84 feet in 1,000 metres.

feet to metres formula

metres = feet × 0.3048

1 foot = 0.3048 metres, so multiply feet by 0.3048, or divide by 3.280839895.

feet to metres table

How many metres in feet?

1 ft = 0.3048 m. There are 0.3048 metres in 1 feet.

6 ft = 1.8288 m. There are 1.8288 metres in 6 feet.

10 ft = 3.048 m. There are 3.048 metres in 10 feet.

100 ft = 30.48 m. There are 30.48 metres in 100 feet.

1,000 ft = 304.8 m. There are 304.8 metres in 1,000 feet.

How the Metres To Feet works

Metres to feet: decimal feet to feet and inches

The converter gives feet as a decimal. To express the fraction in inches, multiply the part after the decimal point by 12. 1.75 m is 5.741 feet; 0.741 × 12 = 8.9 inches, so 5'9". Do the multiplication before rounding: 5.74 feet is not 5 feet 7 inches, a mistake that is easy to make when the decimal happens to look like a number of inches.

Worked example: a 1.65 m height

1.65 ÷ 0.3048 = 5.4134 feet. The decimal part 0.4134 × 12 = 4.96 inches, so 5'5". A height of 1.70 m is 5.577 feet, 0.577 × 12 = 6.9 inches, so 5'7". Because a centimetre is less than half an inch, heights one centimetre apart can round to the same feet-and-inches figure, and heights two centimetres apart can round to figures an inch apart.

Worked example: a 25 m swimming pool

25 ÷ 0.3048 = 82.02 feet. American short-course pools are 25 yards, which is 75 feet or 22.86 m, so a metric 25 m pool is 9.3% longer per length — which is why times in yards pools and metres pools are never directly comparable and swimming keeps separate records for each.

Heights of buildings and mountains

Mountains are the classic case for this conversion. Mont Blanc at 4,808 m is 15,774 feet; Ben Nevis at 1,345 m is 4,413 feet; Everest at 8,849 m is 29,032 feet. Aviation goes the other way — altitude is quoted in feet even in metric countries — so a 3,000 m cloud base is about 9,840 feet, which pilots would call flight level 100 once corrected to standard pressure.

Room and furniture sizes

Furniture listed in metres or centimetres from European retailers needs converting to check against rooms measured in feet. A 2 m sofa is 6.56 feet, or 6'7". A 1.2 m desk is 3.94 feet, just under four. A 2.4 m ceiling — the metric standard — is 7.87 feet, a hair under the 8-foot imperial standard, which is why old plasterboard sheets and new ones do not quite line up.

Estimating in your head

A metre is about three and a quarter feet. Triple the metres and add a quarter of the metres again: 20 m is 60 plus 5, so 65 feet, against the exact 65.6. For rough purposes three feet to the metre — a metre is a long yard — is usually good enough.

Worked example: a 6-foot person

6 × 0.3048 = 1.8288 m, which is 1.83 m to the nearest centimetre. Add two inches for 6'2": 74 inches is 6.1667 feet, times 0.3048 is 1.8796 m, or 1.88 m. The difference between 6'0" and 6'2" is about 5 cm, which matches the 2.54 cm per inch you would expect.

Worked example: a 30-foot boat

30 × 0.3048 = 9.144 m. Marina berths in Europe are priced by length overall in metres, usually in whole-metre or half-metre bands, so a 30-foot boat sits in the 9–10 m band. The same boat's 10-foot beam is 3.048 m.

Metre to feet formula and table

The formula on this page is feet = metres ÷ 0.3048, applied exactly before rounding for display.

How many feet in 1 metre? 1 m is 3.2808 ft. Likewise 2 m is 6.5617 ft, 10 m is 32.81 ft, 100 m is 328.08 ft.

Metre to foot conversion table

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