Meters to Feet Converter

Convert meters to decimal feet and feet-and-inches format.

Meters

Feet (decimal)

5.90551

Feet + Inches

5 ft 10.87 in

Quick reference (m → ft)

1 m3.28084 ft

1.5 m4.92126 ft

1.7 m5.57743 ft

1.8 m5.90551 ft

2 m6.56168 ft

5 m16.4042 ft

10 m32.8084 ft

100 m328.084 ft

How to convert meters to feet

One meter equals approximately 3.28084 feet(or exactly 1 m = 100/2.54/12 ft). To get feet-and-inches, take the whole number part as feet and multiply the decimal remainder by 12 to get inches. For example, 1.8 m ≈ 5 ft 10.9 in. This is the standard height conversion used in the US and UK. Need the reverse? Use the feet to meters converter.

Built and maintained by Meet Shah · Last updated 13 August 2026

What this tool is used for

Converting a metric height or distance for an audience that uses feet and inches.
Reading a metric building dimension against an imperial drawing.
Converting an altitude given in metres into the feet aviation uses.
Checking a metric clearance against an imperial-rated limit.
Converting a metric length for a US supplier's specification.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is 3.28084 an exact factor?: No — it is 1/0.3048 rounded to six figures. The international foot is defined as exactly 0.3048 m, so the true factor is 3.2808398950131…, which never terminates in decimal. The rounding shown costs about 0.1 mm per kilometre.
How is the feet-and-inches figure built?: Whole feet first, then the leftover fraction times 12. So 1.8 m is 5.90551 ft, and 0.90551 × 12 = 10.87 in. The inches are rounded before being compared against 12, so a value a hair under a whole foot reads 6 ft 0 in rather than the impossible 5 ft 12 in.
Does it handle negative values?: Yes, and correctly. The sign is applied once at the front and the feet-and-inches pair is built from the magnitude, so −1.8 m is −5 ft 10.87 in. Taking the floor of a negative number instead rounds away from zero and yields −6 ft 1.13 in, a different length from the decimal figure beside it.
What about the US survey foot?: It was 2 ppm longer than the international foot and was officially retired at the end of 2022. Two parts per million is invisible at human scale but reaches about 3 cm over 10 km, so it still matters when reading historical US land surveys and plats.
Why is no common height round in both systems?: Because the two scales share no round unit. 5 ft 11 in is exactly 1.8034 m, and 1.8 m is 5 ft 10.87 in — neither is tidy in the other. Metric heights land on 5 cm steps and imperial ones on whole inches of 2.54 cm, so the grids never line up.

Common errors and gotchas

Reporting a decimal foot where the context wants feet and inches, so 1.5 metres is 4 ft 11 in and not 4.92 ft.
Using 3.3 as the factor rather than 3.28084, which drifts noticeably over long distances.
Rounding the metres before splitting into feet and inches, which can shift the inches by one.
Confusing a survey foot with an international foot, which matters in geodetic contexts.
Converting a height and comparing it against a length measured differently, such as a diagonal.