Feet to centimeters converter
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Convert feet to centimeters instantly: 1 foot is exactly 30.48 cm. The official math, every other unit still on screen, and one-click copying.
Six feet is 182.88 cm — the height where dating profiles start rounding up.
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pro tips
Mental shortcut: multiply by 30, then nudge up. 5 ft ≈ 153 cm; the real answer is 152.4.
6 ft = 182.88 cm — call it 183 and nobody at the basketball court will audit you.
A standard US interior door is 6'8" ≈ 203 cm tall, which is why European visitors duck out of habit anyway.
what it does
One foot is exactly 30.48 centimeters — the cleanest number the imperial and metric systems ever agreed to share. Multiply feet by 30.48 and the centimeters appear with treaty-level confidence.
Where it shows up: every height written as 5'7" by someone whose doctor thinks in centimeters, door frames built on two continents, furniture listings that assume you know your ceiling, and ski lengths that switch units halfway down the product page.
The rough version is almost too easy: multiply feet by 30 and add a little extra. Five feet becomes "about 152 or 153" (the exact answer is 152.4), six feet becomes "roughly 183" (exact: 182.88). For heights, doors and couches, that's plenty.
Type any number and the widget answers in centimeters on the spot, with the math in the hint where you can check it. Click the result to copy, and hit swap when someone quotes their height the other way round — the centimeters-to-feet version is always one click away.
quick answers
How many centimeters is 5 feet?
152.4 cm exactly. Roughly 153 for conversation, 152.4 for anything that gets measured twice.
How many centimeters is one foot?
Exactly 30.48 cm — locked in by international agreement since 1959, which makes this one of the few conversions with zero rounding gossip.
How tall is 5'7" in centimeters?
170.18 cm. That's five feet plus seven inches: 152.4 + 17.78. The widget above handles the feet part; the inches are just 2.54 each.
Why is a foot exactly 30.48 cm?
Because in 1959 the yard was pinned to 0.9144 meters and a foot is a third of that. The number looks awkward only until you realize it was negotiated once so nobody would have to negotiate again.