Miles to Feet Converter

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Convert miles to feet using the imperial relation 1 statute mile = 5,280 feet. A quarter-mile drag strip is 1,320 ft; a 0.6-mile dash is 3,168 ft. Useful for race-track design, drone flight ranges (FAA hobby altitude limit is 400 ft above ground), and translating US road distances into the foot-precise scale of small surveys. Browser-local.

Mile (mi)
Foot (ft)

Mile (mi) → Foot (ft)

Quick reference table

Mile (mi)Foot (ft)
1 mi5280 ft
2 mi10560 ft
5 mi26400 ft
10 mi52800 ft
25 mi132000 ft
50 mi264000 ft
100 mi528000 ft

Glossary

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.

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.

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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