Feet to Inches Converter

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Convert feet to inches using the imperial relation 1 ft = 12 in. A 6-foot person is 72 inches tall; an 8-foot ceiling is 96 inches; a 16-foot lumber length is 192 inches. Useful when you need to take a high-level architectural figure in feet and break it down into inch-precise hardware fittings. Browser-local conversion.

Foot (ft)
Inch (in)

Foot (ft) → Inch (in)

Quick reference table

Foot (ft)Inch (in)
1 ft12 inch
2 ft24 inch
5 ft60 inch
10 ft120 inch
25 ft300 inch
50 ft600 inch
100 ft1200 inch

Glossary

Foot (ft)

A foot is twelve inches, defined as exactly 0.3048 m. It is the dominant length unit in US construction, aviation altitude, ceiling heights and human height in many English-speaking countries. Three feet make one yard; 5,280 feet make one statute mile.

Inch (in)

An inch is the base small unit of the imperial and US customary systems, defined as exactly 25.4 mm since 1959. It appears on screen sizes, tire diameters, pipe fittings, lumber dimensions and DIY tape measures. Twelve inches make one foot; thirty-six make one yard.

Metric system (SI)

The metric system is a decimal system of measurement built around the meter for length, the kilogram for mass and the second for time, with multiples and submultiples expressed as powers of ten (millimeter, centimeter, kilometer). Adopted in France in 1799 and codified internationally as the International System of Units (SI) in 1960, it is now the official measurement system in nearly every country and the standard in science and engineering worldwide.

Imperial / US Customary system

The imperial system is the historical English system of weights and measures whose length units are the inch, foot, yard and mile (12 in = 1 ft, 3 ft = 1 yd, 1,760 yd = 1 mi). Codified by the British Weights and Measures Act of 1824 and aligned with US Customary by the international yard-and-pound agreement of 1959 (1 inch = 25.4 mm exactly), it is still used in the United States, the United Kingdom and a handful of other countries for everyday distances.

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