Feet to Meters
One foot is 0.3048 meters. This ft to m page has the formula, a conversion table, three worked examples and answers to common questions.
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Formula for converting feet into meters
Between feet and meters there is one constant ratio, 0.3048. Type any amount of feet into the widget and it multiplies that amount by 0.3048 to produce meters.
Reading the formula backwards gives ft = m ÷ 0.3048. Dividing by 0.3048 undoes the multiplication, and 1 m equals 3.280839895 ft.
Feet to meters reference table
This lookup list shows 12 ft values and what they become in m. The step from one row to the next is not constant, but the ratio of 0.3048 between the columns is.
| Feet (ft) | Meters (m) |
|---|---|
| 0.5 | 0.1524 |
| 1 | 0.3048 |
| 2 | 0.6096 |
| 5 | 1.524 |
| 10 | 3.048 |
| 20 | 6.096 |
| 25 | 7.62 |
| 50 | 15.24 |
| 100 | 30.48 |
| 250 | 76.2 |
| 500 | 152.4 |
| 1,000 | 304.8 |
Every row comes from the same function as the widget and keeps its rounding, so a figure copied from this table matches what the converter returns for that input.
Examples: turning feet into meters
With 950 ft, the multiplication by 0.3048 produces 289.56 m once rounded the way the widget rounds.
Try 8,500 ft as well. Multiplying by 0.3048 gives 2,590.8 m, which the reverse ratio 3.280839895 maps back to 8,500 ft.
Example 3. Starting from the other unit, 75 m is 246.0629921 ft, since 1 m = 3.280839895 ft.
Going from meters to feet
A dedicated page covers the opposite direction: Meters to Feet. In that case 1 m = 3.280839895 ft.
Units outside this pair can be selected in the main Length Converter, which uses the same unit table.
More length converter pairs
Pages for conversions that share a unit with this one, or sit in the same list:
Frequently asked questions
How many meters are in one foot?
The widget shows 0.3048 meters for each foot. Scaled up, that makes 3.048 m for 10 ft.
One meter equals how many feet?
There are 3.280839895 feet in one meter. That is the inverse of 0.3048, and 10 meters come to 32.80839895 feet.
What does 1,900 ft come to in m?
Multiply 1,900 by 0.3048 and the answer is 579.12 m.
What precision does the ft to m result use?
Yes, the displayed m value is trimmed. The converter prints at most 10 significant digits at or above 1, at most 8 below 1, and at most 6 decimals from 1,000 up, using exponent notation for extreme sizes. Two samples from this pair: 0.123456789 ft becomes 0.037629629 m, and 1,234.5678 ft becomes 376.2962654 m.
How does the widget get from feet to meters?
Every unit in this converter stores a factor relative to one shared reference unit. The widget multiplies the input by the factor of feet, then divides by the factor of meters; for this pair that nets out to 0.3048.
Can this converter go from m to ft too?
Yes. The page titled "Meters to Feet" covers it, or you can press the swap button in the widget above. The arithmetic is m × 3.280839895, so 25 m is 82.02099738 ft.
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