About the Feet to Meters Converter
A foot is exactly 0.3048 metres, and converting between the two comes up when you read room sizes, building heights, flight altitudes, swimming pool lengths and sports measurements from different countries. This converter changes feet into metres, or metres into feet, in one step, and also gives centimetres, feet and inches and yards. A small table lists common lengths. Note that this tool converts lengths; if you need area, such as square feet to square metres, multiply by 0.0929, or use the Unit Converter or the Area Calculator, which handle area units correctly.
Updated October 2026
How to use the Feet to Meters Converter
- 1Choose feet to metres or metres to feet.
- 2Enter the length.
- 3Read the converted length in the large result.
- 4Check centimetres, feet and inches and yards.
- 5Use the table for common distances.
Common distances
- 3 ft = 0.914 m (one yard).
- 6 ft = 1.829 m.
- 10 ft = 3.048 m.
- 50 ft = 15.24 m.
- 100 ft = 30.48 m.
- 1,000 ft = 304.8 m.
Where you see feet
Aviation uses feet for altitude almost everywhere, so pilots and air traffic controllers talk in thousands of feet. The US and UK quote room dimensions, garden lengths and building heights in feet. Football (soccer) goals are 8 feet high, a basketball hoop is 10 feet, and a standard American football field is 300 feet long between the goal lines.
Real-estate listings in the US give room sizes as 12 × 14 feet, which is 3.66 × 4.27 metres, and flats in the UK are advertised in square feet too, although the rest of the world uses square metres. When you compare, convert the length of each side and multiply, or convert the final area once. A 12 × 14 foot room has 168 square feet, which is 15.6 square metres. Use the area factor, not the length factor, for the total.
Heights of people, mountains and buildings appear in both units. Mount Everest is 8,849 metres or 29,032 feet, the Eiffel Tower 330 metres or 1,083 feet, and a basketball hoop 10 feet or 3.05 metres. Swimming pools are 25 metres or 82 feet long, and a US football field is 100 yards or 91.44 metres between the goal lines. Having both units side by side helps you grasp the scale, and the table gives common lengths to compare.
Accuracy
For everyday purposes, three decimal places in metres is more than enough, which means millimetre accuracy. Builders usually round to the nearest centimetre and add a small allowance. When ordering materials in metres from drawings in feet, convert each dimension separately and round up at the end rather than rounding as you go.
Related tools
The Inches to CM Converter and MM to Inches Converter handle shorter lengths, the CM to Feet and Inches Converter is for heights, the Area Calculator works out square footage and the Miles to KM Converter covers long distances.
Features
- Both directions
- Exact 0.3048 factor
- Centimetres, feet and inches, yards
- Table of common lengths
- Mental-maths tip
- Free and private
Frequently asked questions
How do I convert feet to metres?
Multiply the feet by 0.3048. For 6.5 feet: 6.5 × 0.3048 = 1.98 metres. A quick estimate is to divide by 3 and subtract a tenth of the result: 30 feet is 10 minus 1, so about 9 m (exact 9.14).
How do I convert metres to feet?
Multiply the metres by 3.28084, or divide by 0.3048. A 2 metre ceiling is 6.56 feet, or 6 ft 6.7 in.
How many feet are in a metre?
3.28084 feet, which is 3 ft 3 3/8 in. A metre is a little longer than a yard (3 feet) by about 3 3/8 inches.
How high is 35,000 feet in metres?
10,668 metres, or about 10.7 km. That is a typical cruising altitude for airliners.
How do I convert square feet to square metres?
Multiply by 0.092903. A 1,000 square foot flat is 92.9 square metres. Don't use the length factor for areas, because it applies to each dimension.
What is the US survey foot?
A slightly different foot, 1200/3937 metres, used in some US land surveys until 2023. It differs from the international foot by about 2 parts per million, which only matters over long distances.