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Length Converter
Convert length and distance between metric units (micrometres to kilometres) and imperial and nautical units (inches, feet, yards, miles, nautical miles), using the exact international definitions.
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1 Meter =
3.280839895 Feet
1 Meter = 3.280839895 Feet
- Micrometers
- 1,000,000
- Millimeters
- 1,000
- Centimeters
- 100
- Kilometers
- 0.001
- Inches
- 39.37007874
- Yards
- 1.093613298
- Miles
- 0.0006213711922
- Nautical Miles
- 0.0005399568035
How this is calculated
Result = Value × (metres per 'from' unit) ÷ (metres per 'to' unit)
- 1 inch
- 0.0254 m exactly (so 1 foot = 0.3048 m, 1 mile = 1,609.344 m)
- 1 nautical mile
- 1,852 m exactly
Every unit is defined as an exact number of metres — since the 1959 international yard and pound agreement, an inch is exactly 2.54 cm — so conversions are exact; results are shown to 10 significant figures so very small or very large values keep their precision.
Assumptions & sources
- International (not US survey) feet and miles; the US survey foot was retired at the end of 2022.
- 1The International System of Units (SI Brochure) — the metre — BIPM
- 2NIST Handbook 44, Appendix C — General Tables of Units of Measurement — National Institute of Standards and Technology
Calculator ID UNIT-LENGTH-001 · version 2.0.0
Common questions
How many feet are in a metre?
1 metre = 3.280839895 feet, because a foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 m.
How long is a mile in kilometres?
Exactly 1.609344 km. A nautical mile, used at sea and in the air, is 1.852 km.