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Feet to Meters Converter

One foot is exactly 0.3048 metres — another defined value, not a measurement.

feet (ft)

metres (m)

feet → metres

6 ft = 1.829 m

Type in either box — the other updates to match.

feet to metres conversion table

Room dimensions, ceiling heights, and building measurements.

feet (ft)	metres (m)
1 ft	0.305 m
2 ft	0.61 m
3 ft	0.914 m
5 ft	1.524 m
6 ft	1.829 m
8 ft	2.438 m
10 ft	3.048 m
12 ft	3.658 m
15 ft	4.572 m
20 ft	6.096 m
25 ft	7.62 m
30 ft	9.144 m
50 ft	15.24 m
100 ft	30.48 m
500 ft	152.4 m
1,000 ft	304.8 m

What you entered

feet: 6 ft

1
Conversion factor
1 ft = 0.3048 m= × 0.3048
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Multiply by the value
6 × 0.3048= 1.8288 m

Result

metres: 1.829 m

6 ft equals 1.829 m, because one feet is 0.305 m.

Common heights and lengths in feet and metres

One foot is exactly 0.3048 metres. These rows cover building dimensions and familiar landmarks.

What it is	ft	m
Tennis net height	3	0.914
Average adult male height	5.75	1.753
Standard ceiling height	8	2.438
Basketball hoop height	10	3.048
Shipping container length	20	6.096
Two-storey house height	20	6.096
Olympic pool length	164	49.987
Eiffel Tower height	1,083	330.098

The factor is exact by definition, so a foot is precisely 0.3048 m and nothing is rounded in the conversion itself. A useful approximation is that 3 feet is a little under a metre - 0.914 - so dividing feet by 3.28 gets you close mentally. Note the Olympic pool row: 164 feet converts to 49.987 m rather than exactly 50, because the pool is defined in metric and the imperial figure is the rounded one.

Converting feet to metres uses the factor 0.3048, which like the inch-to-centimetre relationship is an exact definition rather than an approximation. The international foot was fixed at exactly 0.3048 metres in the 1959 agreement, derived directly from defining the inch as 2.54 centimetres. Multiply any number of feet by 0.3048 and the result is exact to as many decimal places as you care to carry.

This conversion dominates construction, architecture, and property listings, where the United States works almost entirely in feet while most of the world works in metres. A ceiling height of 8 feet is 2.4384 metres; a 30-foot room is 9.144 metres long. Because building dimensions frequently need to satisfy codes expressed in one system while being built with materials sized in the other, small conversion errors compound into real problems — which is why the table on this page is built around dimensions that actually appear in plans rather than a neutral sequence of numbers.

A specific trap in this area is the US survey foot. Until it was officially retired at the end of 2022, American land surveying used a slightly different foot — longer than the international foot by about two parts per million. Over a doorway that difference is invisible; over the length of a state boundary or a large parcel of land it amounts to metres. Any legal description, deed, or survey drawn before 2023 may be using the survey foot, and converting it with the international factor introduces a small but genuine error. For ordinary construction and everyday measurement the international foot used here is correct.

One more habit worth adopting: when a plan mixes systems, convert once at the start and work entirely in one system rather than converting back and forth at each step. Repeated rounding through a chain of conversions accumulates error in a way a single conversion does not.

The retired US survey foot

US land surveying used a foot about two parts per million longer than the international foot until it was retired at the end of 2022. Irrelevant for a doorway, but over a large parcel or a state boundary the difference reaches metres. Older deeds and surveys may still be expressed in it.

Convert once, then stay in one system

When a project mixes feet and metres, convert everything once at the start and do the remaining work in a single system. Converting back and forth at each step compounds rounding error in a way one clean conversion never does.

Frequently asked questions

How many metres are in a foot?

Exactly 0.3048 metres. The international foot was defined this way in 1959, derived from the inch being exactly 2.54 cm, so the conversion is exact rather than measured.

What is 6 feet in metres?

6 × 0.3048 = 1.8288 metres, usually written as about 1.83 m. That's a common height conversion, since 6 foot is a familiar benchmark in imperial countries.

How do I convert a room measured in feet and inches?

Convert the inches to a decimal fraction of a foot first by dividing by 12, then multiply the total by 0.3048. A room 12 foot 6 is 12.5 feet, which is 12.5 × 0.3048 = 3.81 metres.

Why do property listings differ between countries?

The United States lists floor area and dimensions in feet, while most other markets use metres. Since neither system is being phased out, cross-border comparisons of property or building plans almost always require this conversion.