By Tim King · Updated 19 September 2026

Metres to Yards and Yards to Metres Converter

Yards in a Metre and Metres in a Yard, Exact Factor and Tables

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metres to yards formula

yards = metres ÷ 0.9144

1 metre = 1.093613298 yards, so multiply metres by 1.093613298. Going the other way, 1 yard = 0.9144 metres.

metres to yards table

metres (m)	yards (yd)
1	1.09361
2	2.18723
3	3.28084
4	4.37445
5	5.46807
10	10.9361
15	16.4042
20	21.8723
25	27.3403
30	32.8084
40	43.7445
50	54.6807
60	65.6168
70	76.5529
80	87.4891
90	98.4252
100	109.361
120	131.234
150	164.042
200	218.723
250	273.403
300	328.084
400	437.445
500	546.807
800	874.891
1,000	1,093.61
1,500	1,640.42

How many yards in metres?

1 m = 1.09361 yd. There are 1.09361 yards in 1 metres.

10 m = 10.9361 yd. There are 10.9361 yards in 10 metres.

100 m = 109.361 yd. There are 109.361 yards in 100 metres.

400 m = 437.445 yd. There are 437.445 yards in 400 metres.

1,000 m = 1,093.61 yd. There are 1,093.61 yards in 1,000 metres.

yards to metres formula

metres = yards × 0.9144

1 yard = 0.9144 metres, so multiply yards by 0.9144, or divide by 1.093613298.

yards to metres table

yards (yd)	metres (m)
1	0.9144
2	1.8288
3	2.7432
4	3.6576
5	4.572
10	9.144
15	13.716
20	18.288
25	22.86
30	27.432
40	36.576
50	45.72
60	54.864
70	64.008
80	73.152
90	82.296
100	91.44
110	100.584
120	109.728
150	137.16
200	182.88
220	201.168
250	228.6
300	274.32
400	365.76
440	402.336
500	457.2
1,000	914.4
1,760	1,609.34

How many metres in yards?

1 yd = 0.9144 m. There are 0.9144 metres in 1 yards.

10 yd = 9.144 m. There are 9.144 metres in 10 yards.

100 yd = 91.44 m. There are 91.44 metres in 100 yards.

440 yd = 402.336 m. There are 402.336 metres in 440 yards.

1,760 yd = 1,609.34 m. There are 1,609.34 metres in 1,760 yards.

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How the Metres To Yards works

This metres to yards converter uses the exact international yard. Type a length in metres and get yards as you type. A metre is 1.0936 yards — a yard and about three and a third inches — from dividing by the exact 0.9144 m yard. The table covers athletics distances, golf and the round-number lengths that come up in gardens and building work. Press the swap button to go the other way.

Metres to yards: nearly one to one, but not quite

The 9.36% difference between a metre and a yard is small enough to ignore for a rough sense of scale and large enough to matter for anything measured. A 100 m sprint is 109.4 yards; a 400 m lap is 437.4 yards. Over a garden fence of 30 m the gap is nearly three yards of timber, which is either a wasted panel or one short.

Worked example: a 400 m track

400 ÷ 0.9144 = 437.45 yards. The old imperial quarter-mile was 440 yards, so a metric lap is 2.55 yards, or 2.34 m, shorter. When athletics converted in the 1970s, times for 440 yards were roughly 0.3 seconds slower than for 400 m at the same pace, and the two are still listed as different events in historical tables.

Worked example: a 135 m golf hole

135 ÷ 0.9144 = 147.6 yards. A golfer who knows they hit an 8-iron 150 yards will be a yard or two over the green on a 135 m hole if they read the metres as yards — the other way round, reading yards as metres, leaves them 13 m short. Continental European courses mark in metres and British and American ones in yards, so the conversion matters every time you play abroad.

Fabric widths and lengths

European fabric is sold by the metre, typically 140 or 150 cm wide; American fabric by the yard, typically 44 or 60 inches wide. A pattern asking for 2 yards of 60-inch fabric needs 1.83 m of 150 cm fabric, which most shops will cut as 1.9 m. Go the other way to compare prices: a price per metre divided by 1.0936 is the price per yard.

Area and volume

Square metres to square yards uses the factor squared, 1.196: a 20 m² room is 23.9 square yards. Cubic metres to cubic yards uses it cubed, 1.308: a cubic metre of topsoil is 1.31 cubic yards. Landscaping suppliers in the US price bulk material by the cubic yard, and a bulk bag of about 0.7 m³ is a little under a cubic yard.

The quick way

Add ten percent, then take a little off: 50 m is 55 less half a yard, 54.7 yards. Or add a yard for every eleven metres — 33 m is 33 + 3 = 36 yards, and the exact figure is 36.1. For a fence, a run of hose or a length of cable, "metres plus ten percent" is the number to remember.

Worked example: a 100-yard dash and a 100 m sprint

100 yards is 91.44 m, so a 100-yard time is over a shorter course than a 100 m time by 8.56 m. Before athletics went fully metric, American and British schools ran 100 yards and 220 yards (201.17 m) and 440 yards (402.34 m), which is why the 200 m and 400 m are the modern equivalents — close, but not equal, so old records were never simply converted.

Worked example: a 150-yard golf shot

150 yards is 137.2 m. Golf course markers in the UK and US are in yards; in most of Europe they are in metres. A golfer used to yards will find a 150 m marker plays like 164 yards, which is a club longer. Rangefinders switch units in the settings, and the difference between the two is large enough that leaving it on the wrong one will cost strokes.

Metre to yards formula and table

The formula on this page is yards = metres ÷ 0.9144, applied exactly before rounding for display.

How many yards in 1 metre? 1 m is 1.0936 yd. Likewise 10 m is 10.94 yd, 100 m is 109.36 yd, 400 m is 437.45 yd.

Metre to yard conversion table

Metres (m)	Yards (yd)
1	1.0936
2	2.1872
3	3.2808
4	4.3745
5	5.4681
10	10.94
15	16.4
20	21.87
25	27.34
30	32.81
40	43.74
50	54.68
60	65.62
70	76.55
80	87.49
90	98.43
100	109.36
120	131.23
150	164.04
200	218.72
250	273.4
300	328.08
400	437.45
500	546.81
800	874.89
1,000	1,094
1,500	1,640

FAQ

How many yards are in a metre?

One metre is 1.0936 yards, which is exactly 1 ÷ 0.9144. In feet and inches, a metre is 3 feet 3.37 inches, so about three and a third inches longer than a yard.

Is a metre longer than a yard?

Yes. A metre is 100 cm and a yard is 91.44 cm, so a metre is 8.56 cm longer. Ten metres is very nearly eleven yards, which is the easiest way to keep the ratio in mind.

How do I convert square metres to square yards?

Multiply by 1.196, which is 1.0936 squared. A 50 m² floor is 59.8 square yards. Carpet and turf priced by the square yard in the US convert this way; multiply again by 1.0936 for cubic yards from cubic metres, a factor of 1.308.

Why is 400 m not the same as 440 yards?

440 yards is exactly 402.336 m, so the imperial quarter-mile lap was 2.336 m longer than a metric 400 m lap. Times for the two events are close but not interchangeable, and record books list them separately.

How many metres are in a yard?

Exactly 0.9144 metres. The figure was fixed by international agreement in 1959 and the foot and inch are defined from it, as one-third and one-thirty-sixth of a yard respectively.