feet to cm converter

How to convert feet to centimeters

One international foot is exactly 30.48 centimetres, twelve inches of 2.54 cm. Multiply feet by 30.48. Six feet is 182.88 cm, the height people round to 183. Five feet is 152.4 cm. The metre page is the same foot divided by 100: 0.3048 m. Using 30 cm per foot is a sketch. It is short by 1.6 percent, almost an inch on a six-foot person, which is enough to matter for a door or a garment.

Height charts, TV mounts specified in inches and centimetres, and room lengths taken with a US tape that have to be written in centimetres. A 10 foot ceiling is 304.8 cm. If you need feet and inches in the other direction, convert centimetres to feet and multiply the fraction by 12.

Exact formula

Formulacentimeters = feet × 30.48

centimeters = feet × 30.48 One ft is 30.48 cm. Ten ft is 304.8 cm. The worked example below uses that same conversion.

Conversion table

The feet column runs from 1 ft (30.48 cm) through 200 ft (6096 cm).

Worked example: Feet to Centimeters

Six feet of height is 182.88 cm. The foot is exactly 30.48 cm, not 30. Using 30 drops almost an inch on a six-foot person, which is enough to miss a door or a garment. Five and a half feet is 167.64 cm. That input is decimal feet. Someone who is 5 foot 10 is 5.833 feet, not 5.10, because 10 inches is 10/12 of a foot. A 10 ft ceiling is 304.8 cm. The survey foot is about 30.48006 cm and does not matter for a person's height.

Pitfalls for feet to centimeters

• 30 cm per foot is the rough cut. The defined foot is 30.48 cm.
• The US survey foot is about 30.48006 cm. For a person's height it does not matter. For a long survey it did.
• Feet-and-inches input is not a decimal foot. 5 feet 10 inches is 5.833 feet, not 5.10.
• Square feet do not use 30.48. They use 0.09290304 square metres.