Feet to Metres Converter

Need to convert feet to metres? This free online feet to metres converter does it in your browser: type a value in ft and the m answer appears as you type, alongside the same figure in every other length & distance unit. Foot and Metre describe the same quantity on two different scales, so the feet to metres conversion is a single arithmetic step once you know the exact factor. Nothing is uploaded and there is no sign-up — the answer is computed on your device as fast as you can type.

The feet to metres formula

One ft is 0.3048 m:

m = ft × 0.3048
ft = m × 3.2808

That is the whole feet to metres formula: multiply to go one way, divide — or multiply by the inverse — to come back. The factor is a defined constant rather than a measurement, so a feet to metres conversion done this way carries no uncertainty of its own; the only open question is how many decimal places to display, which is covered further down.

Worked example

10 ft = 3.048 m. Enter 10 in the box above and you will see exactly that, plus the value carried across the rest of the length scale so you can sanity-check it against a unit you already recognise. It is the quickest way to convert feet to metres when the answer has to be exact rather than estimated.

How to convert feet to metres by hand

1. Write the value down in ft — 25 ft is used here.
2. Multiply it by 0.3048, because 1 ft = 0.3048 m.
3. Read the answer: 25 ft = 7.62 m.
4. To come back, divide by 0.3048, or multiply by 3.2808 instead — 1 m = 3.2808 ft.

Feet to Metres conversion table

Every figure below comes from the same engine as the box at the top of this page, shown at its Automatic precision, so each row is exactly what you would see after typing that value in. Treat it as a ready-made feet to metres chart for the values people reach for most.

Why convert feet to metres?

feet to metres questions rarely arrive alone: they show up when metric drawings meet imperial hardware — screen sizes, sewing patterns, furniture dimensions and tool settings. In each case a ft reading has to become m — or be checked against one — before it can be used, and a guessed conversion is how the wrong size gets ordered, the wrong setting gets dialled in or the wrong amount gets poured. This free length converter exists for that moment: the feet to metres answer is exact, the full length table sits one glance away, and everything runs locally in the browser — no sign-up, and none of the values you type are uploaded anywhere.

One ft in every length unit

The 0.3048 m figure the converter shows for 1 ft is one row of this table — the row it defaults to. The others are here so a single reading can be checked against any further length & distance unit without running the conversion twice.

Estimating feet to metres without a calculator

One habit worth keeping is to memorise two anchor points on the feet-to-metres line: 10 ft is 3.048 m, and 100 ft is 30.48 m — both computed by the same engine as the converter above, not rounded by hand. With those anchors in mind, a mental feet to metres estimate becomes a matter of proportion: a value between the anchors has an answer between them too, and a mental conversion that lands far outside them is a sign that the factor has almost certainly been inverted. The converter above is there for every time an estimate is not good enough.

Which direction the numbers move

Because 1 ft = 0.3048 m, converting feet to metres reduces the size of the number: 100 ft becomes 30.48 m, while 100 m becomes 328.084 ft. If a result moves the other way, the factor has been inverted — the two directions are reciprocals and never the same number.

How many decimals to keep

One ft comes out at 0.3048 m — a figure that ends after 4 decimal places — so Automatic already shows all of it as 0.3048, with no digit held back. The menu (Automatic, whole numbers, or 2, 4, 6 and 8 decimal places) is there for when a drawing, a recipe or a specification wants the figure padded to a fixed number of places anyway.

feet to metres in the real world

One foot equals exactly 0.3048 m, and a single US survey inch differs from the international inch by about two parts per million — a drift that only matters across state-scale land surveys. Aviation still flies in feet while airframes are engineered in metres: flight level 350 means 35,000 ft, which is 10,668 m. Everest's jointly surveyed 8,849 m is the same mountain as the 29,032 ft figure.

When people actually need feet to metres

Height forms produce the heaviest traffic: 5 ft 9 is 1.75 m, and immigration, medical and sports registration paperwork all want the metric answer. The imperially measured world's buildings hide the same problem — a ceiling noted as 12 ft is 3.66 m, which decides whether a van fits in the garage before the van arrives.

About these units

Length conversions are fixed by international agreement: the inch has been exactly 2.54 centimetres since 1959, which makes every imperial-to-metric distance conversion an exact arithmetic step rather than a measurement.

Converting the other way

Press Swap to turn this into a m-to-ft converter in place. The inverse factor, 1 m = 3.2808 ft, is shown in the arithmetic panel so you can check the reverse calculation independently.

More length & distance converters

The same engine also powers Km to Miles (1 km = 0.621371 mi), Miles to Km (1 mi = 1.6093 km), Mm to Inches (1 mm = 0.03937 in) and every other length pair on this site, so the arithmetic is identical whichever two units you end up needing.