One foot, 0.3048 meters
There’s a single number doing all the work here, and it’s exact: one foot equals 0.3048 meters. That’s not a rounded convenience figure. It comes straight from the inch being defined as 2.54 cm (twelve of those make a foot, which lands on 0.3048 m precisely).
Enter a value in feet and the meters appear as you type. The whole calculation runs in your browser, so there’s no server round trip and nothing leaves your device.
Height, the everyday case
Most of the world records height in meters and centimeters, but plenty of people think in feet and inches. If you’re 5 feet 11 inches and a form wants meters, convert the full height to feet first. 5’11” is 5.9167 feet, which comes to 1.80 m. That’s why so many adults land right around the 1.8 m mark.
A door is typically 6.67 feet tall, or 2.03 m. A basketball hoop sits at 10 feet, exactly 3.048 m. Once you see a few of these, the scale starts to make sense.
Rooms and buildings
Real estate listings flip between systems depending on the country. A room described as 12 feet by 15 feet is 3.66 m by 4.57 m. Ceiling heights, hallway widths, the dimensions of a garage: builders in metric countries want meters, while older plans and US listings stick with feet.
Altitude is another classic. Aviation runs on feet worldwide, so a plane cruising at 35,000 feet is at 10,668 m, just shy of 11 km up. Mountain heights get quoted both ways too. Denver, the “mile-high city,” sits at 5,280 feet, which is 1,609 m.
Quick conversions to keep handy:
- 1 ft = 0.3048 m
- 3 ft = 0.9144 m (a yard, almost a meter)
- 6 ft = 1.8288 m
- 10 ft = 3.048 m
- 100 ft = 30.48 m
Working the converter
Type feet into the input and the meter value updates live, no button required. The dropdown swaps the source and target units, so going meters to feet or jumping to another length unit stays on the same page. Beneath the field there’s a reference table for the values people convert most.
The display rounds to a practical precision. The core multiply by 0.3048 is exact, so when you need more decimals you can scale that ratio directly without introducing error.
FAQ
How many meters is a foot?
0.3048 meters, exactly. Just over 30 centimeters. To estimate quickly, take feet and multiply by 0.3.
What’s 6 feet in meters?
1.8288 m. Round it to 1.83 m for most purposes. That’s a common adult height, which is why it shows up so often.
How do I convert feet and inches to meters?
Turn the height into total feet first, counting inches as twelfths. 5’6” is 5.5 feet, and 5.5 times 0.3048 gives 1.68 m. Then you only do one multiplication.
Is 0.3048 exact or rounded?
Exact. The international foot is defined as 0.3048 m, derived from the inch’s exact 2.54 cm definition. No measurement fuzz in that number.
What is 100 feet in meters?
30.48 m. Handy benchmark: 100 feet is just over 30 meters, and 1,000 feet is 304.8 m.
Does it send my numbers anywhere?
It doesn’t. The math is browser-side JavaScript. Load the page once and it’ll convert offline, with nothing transmitted to a server.