How to convert feet to meters
To convert feet to meters, multiply each value by the exact factor in the box: 1 foot = 0.3048 meters exactly (12 inches × 2.54 cm). There is no rounding anywhere in the chain — the display trims the final answer to six decimal places, and converting the result back with the inverse page returns your starting number.
The foot is twelve inches, and because the inch is exactly 2.54 cm, the foot is exactly 0.3048 m — a definition, not a measurement. It remains the unit of heights, buildings, room sizes and altitude in the United States (and of aviation altitude almost everywhere), while the meter is the base length unit of the metric system used by science and most of the world. This conversion therefore shows up wherever an American dimension meets a metric drawing, listing or form.
Heights are the everyday case: this page's default, 6 ft, is 1.8288 m, the threshold height in every “six-foot” conversation. Rooms cross over too — a 12 ft ceiling is 3.6576 m, a 20 ft container is 6.096 m (sold worldwide as the 6 m class), and a 100 ft building is 30.48 m. Depths and lengths follow the same factor: a 10 ft dive is 3.048 m, and a US football field's 100 yards is 300 ft, or 91.44 m.
The common mistake is mixing feet with feet-and-inches: 5 ft 9 in is 5.75 decimal feet (69 inches), not 5.9 ft, and converting 5.9 gives 1.79832 m — nearly 3 cm too tall. Convert the inches to a fraction of a foot first (divide by 12), or convert via total inches and the Inches to Cm page. The other trap is the ×0.3 shortcut, fine for a glance and 1.6% short over any real distance: across 100 ft it loses almost half a meter.
Worked example
6 feet is 1.8288 meters: 6 × 0.3048 = 1.8288 — the metric height of the classic six-footer, exact to the last digit because both units are defined through the same inch.
How to use this converter
- Enter your value in feet in the box above — the result updates as you type.
- Read the converted value in meters in the headline panel.
- Check the factor, the formula and the inverse result (your answer converted back) in the stats if you need to show your working.
- Use the Feet to Meters conversion table below for other common values without typing each one.