Feet to Meters Converter
Convert Feet (ft) to Meters (m) instantly, or use the conversion table below to look up common values.
Feet to Meters conversion table
| Feet (ft) | Meters (m) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.3048 |
| 2 | 0.6096 |
| 3 | 0.9144 |
| 4 | 1.2192 |
| 5 | 1.524 |
| 10 | 3.048 |
| 25 | 7.62 |
| 50 | 15.24 |
| 100 | 30.48 |
How to convert Feet to Meters
1 ft equals 0.3048 m. Use the converter above for any value, or read the table for common conversions.
m = ft × 0.3048 · ft = m × 3.280839895013123Multiply a feet figure by 0.3048 to get meters, or divide it by 3.28084 to go the other way.
Worked examples
- 1 ft= 0.3048 m
- 5 ft= 1.524 m
- 10 ft= 3.048 m
- 25 ft= 7.62 m
- 100 ft= 30.48 m
What these units are
Feet (ft). A foot is exactly 0.3048 meters, or 12 inches. It is used for height, altitude in aviation and room dimensions wherever imperial measurements are standard.
Meters (m). The meter is the SI base unit of length, defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. It is used for room sizes, heights, fabric and track distances.
Metric-to-metric conversions are exact. Imperial figures are exact by definition but are rounded for display, so a value converted back and forth can differ in the final digit.
Converting Feet to Meters in practice
Working in feet
The foot is exactly 0.3048 meters, or twelve inches. United States survey work has used a separate survey foot, defined as 1200/3937 meters and equal to about 0.3048006 meters.
Aviation uses feet for altitude and flight levels worldwide, even in countries that measure road distance in kilometers. Building heights, room dimensions, timber and, in some places, body height are also quoted in feet.
The metric conversion is exact, since the foot is defined as 0.3048 meters, and the reverse is exact too. A displayed result is rounded to six decimal places at most, so a round trip can differ in the final digit.
The common slip is assuming a foot is close to a third of a meter when it is slightly longer, so rough mental division undershoots. Feet also belong to length, while square feet measure area and cubic feet measure volume.
The foot competes with the meter for height and building dimensions and with the inch for small spans. Because one meter is a little over three feet, treating a meter figure as feet overstates a dimension more than threefold.
Reading the result in meters
The meter is the base unit of length in the International System, defined by the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
It measures room dimensions, fabric sold by the metre, athletic tracks, water depth and building heights. Scientific work uses meters and its decimal multiples, from nanometers to gigameters, almost everywhere outside everyday imperial trade.
The meter is exact by definition, so a conversion to feet uses the exact factor 0.3048 and a conversion to inches the exact factor 0.0254. Displayed answers stop at six decimals.
The mistake to avoid is adding or dropping zeros when moving between meters, centimeters and millimeters; each step is a factor of ten. Square and cubic meters take the square and cube of that step.
Meters sit between millimeters and centimeters below and kilometers above. Engineering drawings use millimeters, clothing uses centimeters, and regional travel uses kilometers, so a meter value filed under the wrong unit is off by a factor of ten or a thousand.
Checking a feet to meters conversion
Inside the metric units every length conversion is a shift of the decimal point, so millimeters to centimeters, meters to kilometers and the rest can be done by moving it. Which way, and how far, follows from the prefix alone.
Converting between metric and imperial is not a shift but a single exact multiplication, and the factor is the same one for that pair however large or small the value. The trap is mixing the two systems halfway, as when a distance is stated in meters and inches in the same sentence.
To check a length conversion, run it backwards, or convert through a familiar middle value such as a meter or a foot. The one thing to keep straight is pairs that differ by a thousand rather than by ten, since those are where a misplaced decimal point survives unnoticed.
Tanzania reference points
Real quantities, converted into the units on this page.
Uhuru Peak on Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa
5,895 m = 19,340.551181 ft
The datasheet also records Kilimanjaro as rising 4,877 m above the surrounding plains.
Source: UNEP-WCMC World Heritage datasheet — Kilimanjaro National Park · verified 2026-09-14
Marangu Gate, the main road entrance to Kilimanjaro National Park
1,830 m = 6,003.937008 ft
Source: UNEP-WCMC World Heritage datasheet — Kilimanjaro National Park · verified 2026-09-14
How far Mount Kilimanjaro rises above the plains around it
4,877 m = 16,000.656168 ft
Source: UNEP-WCMC World Heritage datasheet — Kilimanjaro National Park · verified 2026-09-14
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