Feet to Metres

Convert feet to metres instantly, right here.

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Converts feet to metres in this tab, with nothing sent anywhere.

Feet

Runs entirely on your deviceThe conversion happens in this browser tab. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored, which is worth knowing for anything you would not paste into a search box.

Metres

Type or paste, then run.

The result will appear here.

An eight-foot ceiling is 2.4384 metres, commonly written as 2.44 m on a plan. This handles decimal feet; a measurement written as 8 ft 6 in must first become 8.5 feet or be converted in two parts.

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About Feet to Metres

Feet describe heights, room sizes and land in the US and in trades everywhere, but a metric plan, a European form or a science calculation needs metres. Converting feet to metres turns those imperial lengths into the metric unit most of the world designs in. One foot is 0.3048 metres, so a 10-foot room is 3.048 metres - the figure an architect working in metric would use. Property listings, ceiling heights and fabric lengths from US sources come in feet, and a metric renovation or tailoring job needs them in metres before any material can be ordered. Boat lengths and mooring sizes listed in feet convert to metres for a European marina booking, where every berth is measured on the metric scale. For a feet-and-inches measurement, divide the inches by 12 and add them to the feet before converting.

Using Feet to Metres

Type a number of ft. You can paste a value with its unit; the tool reads the number.
The exact factor is applied and the result is shown as m, updating live as you type.
Copy the answer, or switch to the reverse converter to go from m back to ft.

Where feet to metres helps

A ceiling height in metric

An 8-foot ceiling is about 2.44 metres.

Both directions

Need the opposite? The m-to-ft converter is linked below and uses the exact inverse factor.

Enter mixed measurements as decimal feet

For 6 feet 3 inches, first convert the inches to 3/12 = 0.25 feet. Enter 6.25 to obtain 1.905 metres. Entering 6.3 instead describes 6 feet 3.6 inches. Keep the metre result to enough decimal places for the job, and distinguish a linear measurement from square feet or cubic feet, which require different conversion factors.

Before you use the result

The result is rounded for readability, so a value converted and then converted back may differ in the last decimal place. The underlying factor is exact.
Units in your input are ignored - only the number is read - so make sure the figure you type is really in ft.

Questions about Feet to Metres

How many metres is a foot?

One foot is 0.3048 metres, by definition. Three feet - a yard - comes to about 0.914 metres, just under one.

Is my data uploaded?

No. Feet to Metres does the arithmetic in this browser tab; the value is calculated on your device and is not sent to a server.