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Feet to Miles Converter

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Convert feet to miles with the imperial relation 5,280 ft = 1 statute mile. A 1,000-foot stretch comes out to 0.189 miles; a 30,000-foot cruising altitude is 5.68 miles above sea level. Useful for hike altitude conversions, building heights expressed in miles for headline numbers, and any tape-measure log that needs to roll up into miles. Browser-local.

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From (Imperial, Foot)

Foot (ft)

To (Imperial, Mile)

Mile (mi)

Foot (ft) → Mile (mi)

Quick reference table

Foot (ft)	Mile (mi)
1 ft	0.0002 mi
2 ft	0.0004 mi
5 ft	0.0009 mi
10 ft	0.0019 mi
25 ft	0.0047 mi
50 ft	0.0095 mi
100 ft	0.0189 mi

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.

Mile (mi)

A statute mile is 5,280 feet or exactly 1,609.344 m. It is the road-distance unit in the United States, the United Kingdom and a few other countries; speed limits there are posted in miles per hour. Do not confuse with the nautical mile, which is longer and based on Earth's arc.

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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