Feet to Yards Converter

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Convert feet to yards using the imperial relation 3 ft = 1 yd, so 1 ft ≈ 0.3333 yd. American football fans use this constantly: a 30-foot run equals 10 yards, a first down. Also useful for landscape mulch and fabric retailers where the bulk price is per yard but the cut measurement is taken in feet. Browser-local.

Foot (ft)
Yard (yd)

Foot (ft) → Yard (yd)

Quick reference table

Foot (ft)Yard (yd)
1 ft0.3333 yard
2 ft0.6667 yard
5 ft1.6667 yard
10 ft3.3333 yard
25 ft8.3333 yard
50 ft16.6667 yard
100 ft33.3333 yard

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.

Yard (yd)

A yard is three feet or 0.9144 m. It is used in American football fields, fabric and carpet sales, gardening hose lengths and golf course distances. The yard is close to one meter (1 yd = 0.9144 m) but not equal — a fact that matters for sports records and engineering drawings.

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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