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Height Converter

Feet/inches to cm and meters

By Guga — BrowserTools maintainer, Tbilisi, Georgia Updated 2026-09-25
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What is Height Converter?

Height is one of the few everyday conversions defined exactly rather than approximately, and this tool uses those definitions: one inch is 2.54 centimetres and one foot is 30.48. The panel is split so you can work from either side. Enter centimetres on the left and the tiles underneath give you feet and inches, plain metres and total inches at once. Enter a feet-and-inches pair on the right and the same tiles report centimetres, metres and inches. Inches are shown to one decimal, because that is the precision a tape measure or a passport form actually asks for. A reference chart of eleven common heights runs from 4′8″ to 6′4″, and every row loads into the converter when clicked. One catch to know: the copy-to-left button rounds to whole centimetres, so 5′9″ lands on 175 rather than 175.26.

Convert height between feet + inches and centimeters or meters with a dedicated feet-and-inches input. Includes a handy reference table of common heights.

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Height Converter is processed locally with client-side JavaScript. Your files never touch a server, and there is no queue to wait in.

Step-by-Step

How to use Height Converter

1

Type a centimetre value into the Metric box — enter metres as their centimetre equivalent, so 1.75 m is typed as 175.

2

Read the Feet + inches, Meters and Inches tiles, each rounded to a sensible display precision.

3

Alternatively, fill the Feet and Inches boxes on the right, with the inches field stepping in halves.

4

Use Copy to left to push the imperial value across, accepting that it is rounded to the nearest whole centimetre.

Key Capabilities
  • Bidirectional panels: type centimetres, or type feet and inches
  • Exact definitions of 1 inch = 2.54 cm and 1 foot = 30.48 cm
  • Eleven-row reference chart from 4′8″ to 6′4″ that loads into the converter on click
  • Feet and inches reported to one decimal place rather than rounded to a whole inch
Common Use Cases
  • A parent checking a child's height against the centimetre ranges printed on a growth chart.
  • An applicant filling in a form that wants height in feet and inches while every clinic records centimetres.
  • A tailor converting a client's measurements from a metric pattern to imperial before cutting.
Clear Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does 175 cm come back as 5 foot 8.9 rather than 5 foot 9?
Because 175 cm is 68.8976 inches, which is 5 feet and 8.8976 inches. The tool reports the leftover inch to one decimal place instead of rounding to 9, because rounding to 9 would misrepresent 175 cm as 175.26 cm. A clinic form asking for whole inches still wants 5′9″, so convert the last digit yourself when that matters.
How many cm is 5 feet 10 inches?
Exactly 177.8 cm: five feet is 5 x 30.48 = 152.4 cm and ten inches adds 10 x 2.54 = 25.4 cm. Entering 5 ft and 10 in on the imperial side shows 177.8 cm, 1.78 m and 70 total inches. The reference chart lists the same height as 178 cm because its rows load whole centimetres.
Can I type 1.75 to get metres?
No. The Metric box is centimetres, so 1.75 would be read as 1.75 cm, not 1.75 m. The field hint tells you to enter metres as their centimetre equivalent — 1.75 m goes in as 175.
Does this use the US survey foot?
It uses the international foot of exactly 0.3048 m, which is what medical, aviation and everyday measurement uses. The US survey foot of 1200/3937 m still used in old land surveys differs by about 0.6 mm per foot, which is irrelevant to height and only matters to surveyors reconciling deeds written before 1866.

Related Guides

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unitsFeet and Inches to Centimeters: Height ExplainedA height like 5′10″ is a pair of numbers, not a decimal: five feet plus ten inches, with the feet converting at 30.48 centimeters and the inches at 2.54. The arithmetic, the four mistakes that corrupt height records, and the settings where precision actually matters are below; to convert one height in either direction, the height converter linked from this guide gives the exact pair instantly.