Unit Converter — Length Converter
Convert length and distance between metric and imperial units — millimetres, centimetres, metres, and kilometres alongside inches, feet, yards, and miles. Every pair runs through the metre as the shared base using exact definitions, so a mile is precisely 1609.344 metres and a foot is precisely 0.3048 metres. This page opens on feet-to-metres, the most common everyday length conversion.
Unit conversion
Result
0.3048
1 Feet = 0.3048 Meters
Conversions use standard SI/customary factors (e.g. 1 in = 0.0254 m). Temperature is converted through Celsius to handle its offset. A deterministic conversion, computed in your browser.
Metric and imperial length, side by side
Length is where metric and imperial meet most often — heights in feet, running distances in kilometres, screen sizes in inches. Each unit here has an exact ratio to the metre, so the converter never approximates: one yard is three feet is 0.9144 metres by definition, and a mile is exactly 1609.344 metres. Enter any value and it scales linearly.
A useful sanity check: a metre is a little longer than a yard, and a kilometre is roughly 0.62 miles. If a converted distance looks far off from those rough anchors, the from and to units are probably swapped.
Questions
- How many metres are in a mile?
- Exactly 1609.344 metres, or about 1.609 kilometres. The mile is defined relative to the metre, so the conversion is exact rather than rounded.
- Is a metre longer than a yard?
- Yes, slightly. One metre is about 1.094 yards, or roughly 3.28 feet, so a metre is a little over three inches longer than a yard.