How to convert feet to meters
Multiply the number of feet by 0.3048. A foot is exactly 0.3048 meters, which is 12 inches of 25.4 millimeters each.
Worked example: a room is 14 ft long. 14 × 0.3048 = 4.2672 m. A 6 ft person is 1.8288 m tall. Add inches by converting them to a decimal part of a foot: 6 ft 3 in is 6.25 ft, which is 1.905 m.
Because 0.3048 has four decimal places, a whole number of feet always gives an exact answer with at most four decimals.
Common lengths in feet and meters
- Door height: 7 ft is 2.1336 m.
- Ceiling height: 8 ft is 2.4384 m and 9 ft is 2.7432 m.
- A basketball hoop is 10 ft high, which is 3.048 m.
- An American football field is 100 yards, or 300 ft, between the goal lines, which is 91.44 m.
- Cruising altitude: flight level 350 means 35,000 ft, which is 10,668 m. Altitude in aviation is given in feet in most countries, so this conversion often comes up with flight information.
Which foot? International and survey
There are two feet in the US. The international foot is 0.3048 m exactly and is the one used for almost everything. The US survey foot is 1200/3937 m, which is about 0.30480061 m, roughly 2 parts per million longer. Over a mile the gap is roughly 3 mm. It matters for state plane coordinates and old land records.
The US phased out the survey foot at the end of 2022, so new data is in international feet. If a document says "survey feet" or "US survey feet", pick that unit from the From menu and the converter will use it.
The length converter has all the other units, such as yards, miles and nautical miles.