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cm to feet Converter
Enter centimetres and press Convert to get feet. One foot is 30.48 cm, so 175 cm is 5 ft 8.9 in.
Cm to Feet Chart
Every height from 140 to 200 cm, in feet and inches and in decimal feet. This is the range that covers adult heights, so a figure from a medical form, a passport or a sports roster can be read directly.
About the Cm to Feet Chart
Heights are quoted in centimetres on most of the world's forms and in feet and inches in Britain, Ireland and the United States, so a chart spanning 140 to 200 cm covers nearly every adult measurement in one table.
The inches column is the useful one: 180 cm is 5 ft 10.9 in rather than a tidy 5 ft 11 in, and rounding it up changes the stated height by a millimetre-scale amount that some forms care about. Read the decimal rather than the whole inch when the figure matters.
Decimal feet serve a different purpose: aviation, surveying and some property listings want a single number rather than feet and inches. 180 cm is 5.906 ft, and 5.91 ft is close enough for a listing and not for a survey.
Below 150 cm the table still works but the figures describe children or very short adults, so check which population you are comparing against before concluding that a height is unusual.
How the calculation works
- total inches = centimetres ÷ 2.54
- feet = total inches ÷ 12, remainder in inches
- decimal feet = centimetres ÷ 30.48
Reference values
| Centimetres | Feet and inches | Decimal feet |
|---|---|---|
| 140 cm | 4 ft 7.1 in | 4.593 ft |
| 141 cm | 4 ft 7.5 in | 4.626 ft |
| 142 cm | 4 ft 7.9 in | 4.659 ft |
| 143 cm | 4 ft 8.3 in | 4.692 ft |
| 144 cm | 4 ft 8.7 in | 4.724 ft |
| 145 cm | 4 ft 9.1 in | 4.757 ft |
| 146 cm | 4 ft 9.5 in | 4.790 ft |
| 147 cm | 4 ft 9.9 in | 4.823 ft |
| 148 cm | 4 ft 10.3 in | 4.856 ft |
| 149 cm | 4 ft 10.7 in | 4.888 ft |
| 150 cm | 4 ft 11.1 in | 4.921 ft |
| 151 cm | 4 ft 11.4 in | 4.954 ft |
| 152 cm | 4 ft 11.8 in | 4.987 ft |
| 153 cm | 5 ft 0.2 in | 5.020 ft |
| 154 cm | 5 ft 0.6 in | 5.052 ft |
| 155 cm | 5 ft 1 in | 5.085 ft |
| 156 cm | 5 ft 1.4 in | 5.118 ft |
| 157 cm | 5 ft 1.8 in | 5.151 ft |
| 158 cm | 5 ft 2.2 in | 5.184 ft |
| 159 cm | 5 ft 2.6 in | 5.217 ft |
| 160 cm | 5 ft 3 in | 5.249 ft |
| 161 cm | 5 ft 3.4 in | 5.282 ft |
| 162 cm | 5 ft 3.8 in | 5.315 ft |
| 163 cm | 5 ft 4.2 in | 5.348 ft |
| 164 cm | 5 ft 4.6 in | 5.381 ft |
| 165 cm | 5 ft 5 in | 5.413 ft |
| 166 cm | 5 ft 5.4 in | 5.446 ft |
| 167 cm | 5 ft 5.7 in | 5.479 ft |
| 168 cm | 5 ft 6.1 in | 5.512 ft |
| 169 cm | 5 ft 6.5 in | 5.545 ft |
| 170 cm | 5 ft 6.9 in | 5.577 ft |
| 171 cm | 5 ft 7.3 in | 5.610 ft |
| 172 cm | 5 ft 7.7 in | 5.643 ft |
| 173 cm | 5 ft 8.1 in | 5.676 ft |
| 174 cm | 5 ft 8.5 in | 5.709 ft |
| 175 cm | 5 ft 8.9 in | 5.741 ft |
| 176 cm | 5 ft 9.3 in | 5.774 ft |
| 177 cm | 5 ft 9.7 in | 5.807 ft |
| 178 cm | 5 ft 10.1 in | 5.840 ft |
| 179 cm | 5 ft 10.5 in | 5.873 ft |
| 180 cm | 5 ft 10.9 in | 5.906 ft |
| 181 cm | 5 ft 11.3 in | 5.938 ft |
| 182 cm | 5 ft 11.7 in | 5.971 ft |
| 183 cm | 6 ft 0 in | 6.004 ft |
| 184 cm | 6 ft 0.4 in | 6.037 ft |
| 185 cm | 6 ft 0.8 in | 6.070 ft |
| 186 cm | 6 ft 1.2 in | 6.102 ft |
| 187 cm | 6 ft 1.6 in | 6.135 ft |
| 188 cm | 6 ft 2 in | 6.168 ft |
| 189 cm | 6 ft 2.4 in | 6.201 ft |
| 190 cm | 6 ft 2.8 in | 6.234 ft |
| 191 cm | 6 ft 3.2 in | 6.266 ft |
| 192 cm | 6 ft 3.6 in | 6.299 ft |
| 193 cm | 6 ft 4 in | 6.332 ft |
| 194 cm | 6 ft 4.4 in | 6.365 ft |
| 195 cm | 6 ft 4.8 in | 6.398 ft |
| 196 cm | 6 ft 5.2 in | 6.430 ft |
| 197 cm | 6 ft 5.6 in | 6.463 ft |
| 198 cm | 6 ft 6 in | 6.496 ft |
| 199 cm | 6 ft 6.3 in | 6.529 ft |
| 200 cm | 6 ft 6.7 in | 6.562 ft |
Frequently asked questions
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About the cm to feet Converter
Height is the one place where feet and inches are almost always used together: nobody says 5.74 feet. Divide centimetres by 30.48 for the decimal feet, then take the fraction and multiply by 12 to get the inches part. This converter reports the decimal feet and the site's tables show both.
The conversion is exact because a foot is 0.3048 m by definition, but heights quoted in feet and inches are usually rounded to the nearest inch, which is a 2.54 cm jump — larger than the rounding error of the conversion itself.
How the calculation works
- Feet = centimetres ÷ 30.48
- Centimetres = feet × 30.48
- Inches part = (decimal feet − whole feet) × 12
Reference values
| Centimetres | Feet (decimal) | Feet and inches |
|---|---|---|
| 150 cm | 4.921 ft | 4 ft 11.1 in |
| 160 cm | 5.249 ft | 5 ft 3.0 in |
| 165 cm | 5.413 ft | 5 ft 5.0 in |
| 170 cm | 5.577 ft | 5 ft 6.9 in |
| 175 cm | 5.741 ft | 5 ft 8.9 in |
| 180 cm | 5.906 ft | 5 ft 10.9 in |
| 190 cm | 6.234 ft | 6 ft 2.8 in |
| 200 cm | 6.562 ft | 6 ft 6.7 in |
Worked examples
- 163 cm ÷ 30.48 = 5.348 ft, which is 5 ft 4.2 in.
- 178 cm is 5.840 ft, or 5 ft 10.1 in.
- 193 cm is 6.332 ft, or 6 ft 4.0 in — a common basketball guard height.
Converting the inches part
Divide by 30.48 to get decimal feet, keep the whole number, then multiply the remainder by 12. For 178 cm the decimal is 5.840: the 5 is the feet, and 0.840 × 12 = 10.1 in. Rounding 5.840 to 5.8 before that step loses almost half an inch.
Common mistakes
- Writing 5.84 feet as "5 ft 84 in". The fraction must be multiplied by 12 first.
- Reporting 5 ft 12 in instead of rounding up to 6 ft 0 in.
- Assuming a foot is 30 cm. The 0.48 cm difference is 1.6%, which is 2.8 cm on a 1.8 m person.
Test one value by hand: 180 cm divided by 30.48 is 5.9055 ft, and the 0.9055 remainder times 12 gives 10.87 in — the 5 ft 10.9 in the tall column shows. A figure that reads 5 ft 12 in means the inches part was not carried into the feet.