Convert Feet to Meters
Convert feet to meters instantly — exact factors, common-value table, nothing uploaded.
Common conversions
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Feet to meters, aviation altitudes to apartment floors
Altitude in aviation, court dimensions in sports, property listings in the US — feet show up in plenty of places that the rest of the world reads in meters. The conversion is exact: multiply by 0.3048, so 10 ft = 3.048 m and 100 ft = 30.48 m.
This page presets the converter to feet → meters. Type 6.5 and you get 1.9812 m — close enough to a standard door height to check at a glance whether something will fit through it.
The quick table below anchors the common values; everything else is computed as you type, locally in your browser, with no upload and no limits on how many conversions you run.
Quick conversion table
Common values at a glance — computed locally with exact standard factors.
| Value (ft) | Converted (m) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.3048 |
| 2 | 0.6096 |
| 5 | 1.524 |
| 10 | 3.048 |
| 25 | 7.62 |
| 50 | 15.24 |
| 100 | 30.48 |
How to convert feet to meters
Enter the value in feet
Decimal feet, e.g. 5.9 for five-foot-nine.
Read meters directly
Exact multiplication by 0.3048, shown to six significant digits.
Add inches if needed
Convert the inch remainder separately: 5 ft 9 in = 5.75 ft = 1.7526 m.
FAQs about this conversion
How many meters is 6 feet?
6 ft = 1.8288 m exactly. A quick anchor: six feet is just shy of 1.83 m.
Why do pilots use feet?
Historical convention plus international standardization — flight levels are defined in hundreds of feet, which is separate from the unit conversion on this page.
Is 30 cm the same as a foot?
Not exactly. A foot is 30.48 cm, so “about 30 cm” is fine for estimates but drifts by nearly 5 mm per foot.
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