Cm to Feet and Inches

Converting Centimeters (cm) to Feet and inches

Converting between centimeters and feet and inches is useful if you're working with different units for things like height, length, and distance.

To convert from centimeters to feet and inches you divide your centimeters by 30.48. For example, imagine your need to convert 158 cm to feet and inches:

That example gave the result in decimal format, however, it's common that you might want the conversion result in a more human friendly format such as 5 feet, 2.2 inches (5' 2"). This can be done with additional calculations, first converting the 158 centimeters to 62.2 inches via the formula: centimeters / 2.54, since there are 2.54 centimeters in 1 inch.

Now we can take our total inches and divide by 12, since there are 12 inches in a foot: 62.2 / 12 = 5.18. However, we'll round down and be left with the whole number of 5 feet.

Then we'll use the module operator to get the remaining inches via the formula: inches % 12 or:

And so this finally leaves us with the more human friendly version of 5 feet and 2 inches (rounding) or 5' 2".

What is 160 centimeters to feet?

160 centimeters to feet is 5.25 feet or 5 feet 3 inches.

What is 170 centimeters to feet?

170 centimeters to feet (170 cm to ft) is 5.58 feet or 5 feet 6.9 inches.

What is 175 centimeters to feet?

175 centimeters to feet (175 cm to feet) is 5.74 feet or 5 feet 8.9 inches.

What is 180 centimeters to feet?

180 centimeters to feet (180 cm to feet) is 5.91 feet or 5 feet 10.9 inches.

Centimeters (cm) to Feet and Inches conversion table