cm to feet converter

About centimetres and feet and inches

An inch is defined as exactly 2.54 centimetres, and a foot is 12 inches. So one foot is 30.48 cm.

Divide your centimetres by 2.54 to get total inches, then divide by 12. The whole number is your feet and the remainder is your inches. 170 cm is 66.9 inches, which is 5 feet 7 inches.

The conversion

The table below is generated from the same conversion used by the tool above, so the two always agree.

A note on rounding

Conversions are shown rounded for readability, weights to a tenth of a unit, heights to the nearest inch or centimetre. The underlying arithmetic uses the full precision of the internationally defined factors, so repeatedly converting back and forth will not drift.

Bathroom scales themselves are usually accurate to within a few hundred grams at best, and body weight varies by a kilogram or more across a single day. That variation is far larger than any rounding here.

Every height, worked out

The chart above steps in twos. Each of these has the whole foot either side and what the NHS weight ranges come to at that height.

• 140 cm4 ft 7 in
• 141 cm4 ft 8 in
• 142 cm4 ft 8 in
• 143 cm4 ft 8 in
• 144 cm4 ft 9 in
• 145 cm4 ft 9 in
• 146 cm4 ft 9 in
• 147 cm4 ft 10 in
• 148 cm4 ft 10 in
• 149 cm4 ft 11 in
• 150 cm4 ft 11 in
• 151 cm4 ft 11 in
• 152 cm5 ft 0 in
• 153 cm5 ft 0 in
• 154 cm5 ft 1 in
• 155 cm5 ft 1 in
• 156 cm5 ft 1 in
• 157 cm5 ft 2 in
• 158 cm5 ft 2 in
• 159 cm5 ft 3 in
• 160 cm5 ft 3 in
• 161 cm5 ft 3 in
• 162 cm5 ft 4 in
• 163 cm5 ft 4 in
• 164 cm5 ft 5 in
• 165 cm5 ft 5 in
• 166 cm5 ft 5 in
• 167 cm5 ft 6 in
• 168 cm5 ft 6 in
• 169 cm5 ft 7 in
• 170 cm5 ft 7 in
• 171 cm5 ft 7 in
• 172 cm5 ft 8 in
• 173 cm5 ft 8 in
• 174 cm5 ft 9 in
• 175 cm5 ft 9 in
• 176 cm5 ft 9 in
• 177 cm5 ft 10 in
• 178 cm5 ft 10 in
• 179 cm5 ft 10 in
• 180 cm5 ft 11 in
• 181 cm5 ft 11 in
• 182 cm6 ft 0 in
• 183 cm6 ft 0 in
• 184 cm6 ft 0 in
• 185 cm6 ft 1 in
• 186 cm6 ft 1 in
• 187 cm6 ft 2 in
• 188 cm6 ft 2 in
• 189 cm6 ft 2 in
• 190 cm6 ft 3 in
• 191 cm6 ft 3 in
• 192 cm6 ft 4 in
• 193 cm6 ft 4 in
• 194 cm6 ft 4 in
• 195 cm6 ft 5 in
• 196 cm6 ft 5 in
• 197 cm6 ft 6 in
• 198 cm6 ft 6 in
• 199 cm6 ft 6 in
• 200 cm6 ft 7 in

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