Height Calculator
Convert height between feet and inches, centimeters, and meters.
Convert height from feet and inches into centimeters and meters instantly — useful for medical forms, travel documents, or international size charts.
How Height Calculator Works
The calculator converts your feet and inches into total inches (feet × 12 + inches), then multiplies by 2.54 — the exact number of centimeters in one inch — to get the metric equivalent, also shown in meters.
See It In Action
Who Uses Height Calculator and Why
- Converting a height from feet and inches to centimeters for an international visa, immigration, or medical form that requires metric units.
- Filling out an online profile, dating app, or international clothing size chart that only accepts height in centimeters.
- Double-checking a doctor's office or school nurse's metric height reading against the imperial figure you're more used to.
- Converting a child's height measurement for comparison against a metric growth chart used outside the US.
Mistakes to Avoid
- Entering total inches into the "inches" field instead of just the remainder past whole feet (e.g., entering 68 instead of 5 feet + 8 inches) — this double-counts the feet portion and produces a wrong result.
- Rounding your feet-and-inches measurement before entering it, then expecting a precise centimeter figure — since the conversion itself is exact, any imprecision in the result actually comes from imprecision in the original measurement.
- Mixing up meters and centimeters when copying the result into a form — a height of 172.72 cm is 1.7272 m, not 17.272 m or 0.17272 m.
Tips for Best Results
- If your height was measured to a fraction of an inch, enter that as a decimal (e.g., 8.5 for eight and a half inches) for a more precise centimeter conversion.
- Keep both the centimeter and meter figures handy — most European medical and official forms specifically expect centimeters, not meters.
Fixing Common Problems
The centimeter result looks slightly off from what I expected. — Double check you entered feet and remainder inches separately rather than total inches in one field — that's the most common source of an unexpectedly large or small result.
Terms Explained
Metric equivalent: A measurement re-expressed in the metric system (centimeters, meters) from an imperial measurement (feet, inches), here using the exact conversion factor of 2.54 cm per inch.