Length Converters

How long or tall something is — feet, centimeters and meters.

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Feet to Centimeters ft → cm

What length units measure

Length units measure distance in a straight line. The foot has been defined as exactly 0.3048 meters since 1959, so feet and centimeters convert with no rounding in the factor itself.

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Each unit expressed in meters, the base unit these converters calculate through.
Unit	Symbol	Equals in meters
Meters	m	1 (base unit)
Centimeters	cm	0.01
Feet	ft	0.3048

Every converter here calculates through meters, so a pair and its reverse always agree. The full list of factors and the standards behind them is on the methodology page.