Meters to Feet Converter

Convert meters to feet instantly, with a reference table for heights, rooms, and elevations.

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1 m = 3.2808 ft

Multiply meters by 3.2808399 to get feet.

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Meters to feet reference table

The conversions people look up most often, rounded to 4 decimal places.

Common meters to feet conversions
Meter (m)	Foot (ft)
1 m	3.2808 ft
1.5 m	4.9213 ft
1.7 m	5.5774 ft
1.8 m	5.9055 ft
2 m	6.5617 ft
3 m	9.8425 ft
5 m	16.4042 ft
10 m	32.8084 ft
15 m	49.2126 ft
20 m	65.6168 ft
50 m	164.042 ft
100 m	328.084 ft
1,000 m	3,280.8399 ft

The meters people look up most

1.8 m = 5.9055 ft: 5 ft 10.9 in. The decimal trap again: 5.9 feet is tenths of a foot, not 9 inches.
2.4 m = 7.874 ft: A standard sheet of plasterboard, and what a UK joiner still calls an eight-footer.
10 m = 32.8084 ft: A useful anchor for room and garden dimensions, where metric plans meet imperial habits.
100 m = 328.084 ft: A sprint straight, and 328 feet - noticeably longer than an American football field without its end zones.

How the meters to feet calculation works

One meter equals 3.28084 feet, so:

feet = meters × 3.28084

The factor falls out of the foot's legal definition — exactly 0.3048 meters — set by the same 1959 agreement that fixed the inch and the pound. One divided by 0.3048 gives 3.280839895.

A worked example most people can check against themselves: a person 1.8 m tall is 1.8 × 3.28084 = 5.906 feet. Feet-and-inches is usually what you actually want, so take the 0.906 remainder and multiply by 12 to get 10.9 inches — 5 feet 10.9 inches. A 3 m ceiling is 9.84 feet, just under the 10-foot mark.

Two notes:

Multiply by 3.3 for mental math. A 10 m room becomes 33 feet against a true 32.8 — an error of half a percent.
Never convert to decimal feet and stop. "5.9 feet" is not "5 feet 9 inches"; it is 5 feet 10.8 inches. The decimal part is tenths of a foot, and a foot has twelve inches, not ten. This trips people up constantly.

Where metres and feet coexist. Construction in the UK is metric on paper and imperial on site: drawings are in millimetres, but a joiner will still call a 2.4 m board an eight-footer. Aviation is the reverse — altitudes are in feet worldwide even in fully metric countries, so a 10,000 m cruise is quoted as 32,808 ft and rounded to a flight level of 330.

Swimming and athletics kept metres, which is why records are not comparable across the switch. A 100 m pool length is 328.08 ft, and the old 110-yard pool was 100.58 m — close enough that times looked similar and far enough that they were not.

Depth and diving use both: recreational limits are given as 40 m or 131.2 ft, and American tables are built around 130 ft, which is 39.6 m. The two limits are the same rule expressed twice, so following the deeper of them is not a safety margin, it is rounding.

Reverse the conversion by multiplying feet by 0.3048, or use the feet to meters converter.

Frequently asked questions

Why do UK building drawings say 2400 rather than 2.4 m?

Construction drawings are dimensioned in millimetres precisely so that no decimal point appears, because a misread decimal is the expensive mistake on a site. A 2.4 m board is written 2400 and a 12 m span 12000. The convention is near-universal in British and European practice, and that 2400 mm works out at 7 ft 10.5 in - which is why the trade still calls it an eight-footer.

Is the metre still defined by a bar kept in Paris?

Not since 1960. The metre was defined by a platinum-iridium bar until then, briefly by a krypton wavelength after it, and since 1983 as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second. The foot rides on that definition too, because the international foot is fixed at exactly 0.3048 metres - so both units now come from the speed of light.

How tall is a storey in metres and feet?

There is no standard, but the working figures are about 3 m floor to floor in housing, or 9.8 ft, and 3.5 to 4 m in offices where services run above the ceiling. Building heights quoted in storeys therefore convert badly: a twenty-storey office is meaningfully taller than a twenty-storey block of flats, whatever multiplying the count suggests.

Meters to Feet Converter