Feet to Meters Converter

meters = feet x 0.3048. The factor comes from the inch: since 1959 an inch has been exactly 25.4 millimeters, so a foot of 12 inches is 304.8 millimeters, which is 0.3048 meters.

How many meters is 6 feet?

1.8288 meters. That is 6 x 0.3048, and it is exact rather than rounded, which is why the digits stop where they do.

What is the quick way to estimate feet to meters?

Divide by three and take off ten percent. For 30 feet: 10 minus 1 is 9 meters, against a true 9.14. Going the other way, multiply meters by three and add ten percent.

Is a US survey foot different?

Slightly. The survey foot was 1200/3937 of a meter, about two parts per million longer than the international foot. It was retired for new work at the end of 2022, but it still appears in older US land records, where the difference matters over the length of a county and nowhere else.