Convert metres to feet and inches
Metres to feet with a proper feet-and-inches answer, not just decimal feet: 1.75 m is 5 ft 8.9 in. Includes a height reference table.
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feet = metres ÷ 0.3048 = 1.75 ÷ 0.3048 = 5.7415 ft 1 m = 3.28084 ft
| metres | feet | Feet and inches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 m | 3.2808 ft | 3 ft 3.4 in |
| 1.5 m | 4.9213 ft | 4 ft 11.1 in |
| 1.6 m | 5.2493 ft | 5 ft 3.0 in |
| 1.65 m | 5.4134 ft | 5 ft 5.0 in |
| 1.7 m | 5.5774 ft | 5 ft 6.9 in |
| 1.75 m | 5.7415 ft | 5 ft 8.9 in |
| 1.8 m | 5.9055 ft | 5 ft 10.9 in |
| 1.85 m | 6.0696 ft | 6 ft 0.8 in |
| 1.9 m | 6.2336 ft | 6 ft 2.8 in |
| 2 m | 6.5617 ft | 6 ft 6.7 in |
| 2.4 m | 7.8740 ft | 7 ft 10.5 in |
| 3 m | 9.8425 ft | 9 ft 10.1 in |
| 5 m | 16.4042 ft | 16 ft 4.9 in |
| 10 m | 32.8084 ft | 32 ft 9.7 in |
| 20 m | 65.6168 ft | 65 ft 7.4 in |
| 50 m | 164.0420 ft | 164 ft 0.5 in |
| 100 m | 328.0840 ft | 328 ft 1.0 in |
Decimal feet is the wrong answer to the question
Almost every metres-to-feet converter hands back a number like 5.7415 and stops. That is correct and almost never useful. Nobody describes a person as five point seven four feet tall, and no builder marks out 0.74 of a foot. What you want is 5 ft 8.9 in, and producing it means converting the fractional part separately.
This page shows both. The decimal feet figure is there for spreadsheets and CAD; the composite feet-and-inches figure is there for everything else. The remainder is carried properly, so a value that rounds up to twelve inches rolls into the next foot rather than printing the impossible "5 ft 12 in".
The arithmetic
A foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 m, so metres to feet is a division by 0.3048, or equivalently a multiplication by 3.280839895. To split the result:
- Take the whole number of feet — for 1.75 m, 5.7415 ft gives 5 ft.
- Take what is left, 0.7415 ft, and multiply by 12 to get inches: 8.898 in.
- Round the inches to the precision you need: 8.9 in, or 9 in to the nearest whole inch.
Human heights in both systems
| Metres | Centimetres | Feet and inches |
|---|---|---|
| 1.524 | 152.4 | 5 ft 0 in |
| 1.60 | 160 | 5 ft 3 in |
| 1.65 | 165 | 5 ft 5 in |
| 1.70 | 170 | 5 ft 6.9 in |
| 1.75 | 175 | 5 ft 8.9 in |
| 1.80 | 180 | 5 ft 10.9 in |
| 1.83 | 183 | 6 ft 0 in |
| 1.90 | 190 | 6 ft 2.8 in |
| 2.00 | 200 | 6 ft 6.7 in |
Six foot is 1.8288 m — which is why "1.83 m" is the standard way to write it and why 1.80 m is five eleven, not six foot.
Building dimensions worth knowing
A standard UK or European ceiling at 2.4 m is 7 ft 10.5 in; the American 8 ft equivalent is 2.44 m. A 2.1 m internal door is 6 ft 10.7 in against the US 6 ft 8 in (2.032 m) standard, which is why imported doors rarely drop into an existing frame. Scaffold boards, worktops and plasterboard all come in metric lengths that are deliberately close to, and never equal to, their imperial ancestors.
The survey foot footnote
Until 2023, US land surveying used a slightly different foot: 1200/3937 m, about two parts per million longer than the international foot. Over a metre that is 0.002 mm and irrelevant; over a state plane coordinate of several hundred thousand feet it is metres. The survey foot has now been officially retired, and this page uses the international foot throughout.
Questions
What is 1.75 m in feet and inches?
5 ft 8.9 in. In decimal feet it is 5.7415 ft, which is the number most converters give and almost nobody wants — 0.74 of a foot means nothing to anyone reading a height out loud.
How many feet is a metre?
3.280839895 feet, because a foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 m. Three metres is a shade under 10 feet (9.84 ft).
Why is my height 5 ft 9 in on one site and 5 ft 8.9 in here?
Rounding. 1.75 m is 68.898 inches; some converters round to the nearest whole inch. Use the precision control if you want the whole-inch answer rather than the tenth.
Is a US survey foot different?
It was, very slightly — 1200/3937 m rather than 0.3048 m, a difference of about 2 parts per million. The US retired the survey foot at the end of 2022, so unless you are reading old land records the international foot is the one you want.