Feet to Meters Converter
Convert feet to meters instantly. 1 foot = 0.3048 m exactly. Formula, table and the one basketball measurement that converts cleanly.
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Quick answer
One foot equals exactly 0.3048 meters. Multiply feet by 0.3048 to get meters, so a regulation 10-foot basketball hoop is exactly 3.048 metres, a rare case where the imperial figure is the round number.
| Metre (m) | 0.3048 |
| Kilometre (km) | 0.0003048 |
| Decimetre (dm) | 3.048 |
| Centimetre (cm) | 30.48 |
| Millimetre (mm) | 304.8 |
| Micrometre (µm) | 304800 |
| Nanometre (nm) | 304800000 |
| Mile (mi) | 0.0001893939394 |
| Yard (yd) | 0.3333333333 |
| Foot (ft) | 1 |
| Inch (in) | 12 |
| Nautical mile (nmi) | 0.0001645788337 |
| Light year (ly) | 3.221739e-17 |
ft to m conversion table
| ft | m |
|---|---|
| 1 ft | 0.3048 m |
| 2 ft | 0.6096 m |
| 3 ft | 0.9144 m |
| 4 ft | 1.2192 m |
| 5 ft | 1.524 m |
| 6 ft | 1.8288 m |
| 7 ft | 2.1336 m |
| 8 ft | 2.4384 m |
| 9 ft | 2.7432 m |
| 10 ft | 3.048 m |
| 20 ft | 6.096 m |
| 30 ft | 9.144 m |
| 40 ft | 12.192 m |
| 50 ft | 15.24 m |
| 60 ft | 18.288 m |
| 70 ft | 21.336 m |
| 80 ft | 24.384 m |
| 90 ft | 27.432 m |
| 100 ft | 30.48 m |
| 250 ft | 76.2 m |
| 500 ft | 152.4 m |
| 1000 ft | 304.8 m |
How to convert ft to m
A basketball hoop is fixed at exactly 10 feet by the rules of the sport, which converts to 3.048 metres, not a round metric figure at all, because the sport standardised in feet long before most of the world adopted it and international federations kept the original imperial specification rather than rounding it off.
The exactness of 0.3048 comes from the same 1959 international agreement that fixed the inch (12 inches to a foot, each inch exactly 2.54 cm, so 12 × 2.54 = 30.48 cm = 0.3048 m). Every foot-to-metre conversion is therefore exact in principle; any rounding in a displayed answer is purely a display choice, not a limit of the underlying figure, unlike an area conversion, where squaring a rounded length factor really does lose a small amount of precision.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many meters is 6 feet?
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6 feet is exactly 1.8288 metres.