Meters to Feet Converter

Multiply by 3.280840.

The reverse factor is the tidier one, and that is no accident: since the 1959 international yard and pound agreement, one foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 metres. The forward factor 3.280839895… is just 1 divided by that, which is why it never terminates.

Convert a 1.75 m person's height:

To read that as feet and inches, keep the 5 feet and turn the remainder into inches:

So 1.75 m is 5 ft 8.9 in — near enough 5 ft 9 in.

A decimal result like 5.741 ft is rarely what you want. Split it in two steps:

1. The whole number is the feet — 5.
2. Multiply the decimal part by 12 for the inches — 0.741 × 12 = 8.9 in.

Common heights, converted:

• 1.60 m = 5 ft 3.0 in
• 1.65 m = 5 ft 5.0 in
• 1.70 m = 5 ft 6.9 in
• 1.75 m = 5 ft 8.9 in
• 1.80 m = 5 ft 10.9 in
• 1.85 m = 6 ft 0.8 in
• 1.90 m = 6 ft 2.8 in

• Standard door height — 2.0 m = 6.56 ft
• Basketball hoop — 3.05 m = 10 ft exactly
• Olympic pool length — 50 m = 164.0 ft
• Football pitch length — 105 m = 344.5 ft
• Statue of Liberty, torch to base — 46 m = 151.0 ft
• Eiffel Tower — 330 m = 1,083 ft
• Burj Khalifa — 828 m = 2,717 ft

How many feet is 1 meter? 3.280840 ft, or 3 ft 3.37 in.

How many meters is 1 foot? Exactly 0.3048 m.

Is there a quick mental estimate? Multiply by 3 and add a tenth: 20 m → 60 + 6 = 66 ft, against a true 65.6 ft.

What about the US survey foot? It was a hair longer — 1200/3937 m, differing by about 2 parts per million. The United States retired it at the end of 2022, so all current work uses the international foot of 0.3048 m.

Why is the factor not a round number? Because the metre and the foot come from unrelated traditions. The 1959 agreement chose to define the foot exactly in metres, which makes one direction exact and the other a repeating decimal.