CM to Feet
Convert centimetres to feet and inches — 170 cm is 5 ft 7 in. Built for height, with a 150–200 cm table.
Fast, easy and free — your answer appears as you type, and whatever you enter stays on your device.
One centimetre is 0.0328 feet — but almost everyone asking this question means height, where the useful answer is feet AND inches: 170 cm is 5 ft 7 in, 180 cm is 5 ft 11 in. The table below covers the whole human range; the converter gives decimal feet for everything else.
How to use it
- Type the centimetre valueThe foot answer appears as you type — no button to press.
- Or go the other waySwap flips the direction to foot → centimetre in one tap.
- Check the workingThe exact factor or formula used is shown beneath the answer, so the result is checkable, not just asserted.
Heights in feet and inches
| cm | ft |
|---|---|
| 150 cm | 4 ft 11.1 in |
| 155 cm | 5 ft 1 in |
| 160 cm | 5 ft 3 in |
| 165 cm | 5 ft 5 in |
| 170 cm | 5 ft 6.9 in |
| 175 cm | 5 ft 8.9 in |
| 180 cm | 5 ft 10.9 in |
| 185 cm | 6 ft 0.8 in |
| 190 cm | 6 ft 2.8 in |
| 200 cm | 6 ft 6.7 in |
The quick rule for your head
For height, anchor on two easy landmarks: 152 cm is exactly 5 feet, and every 2.54 cm above it adds an inch. So 165 cm is 152 + 13 cm ≈ 5 inches over ≈ 5 ft 5 in. Going the other way, 6 feet is 183 cm — remember 152 and 183 and you can place any height between them by feel.
Where this conversion shows up
Height is the whole story here: dating profiles, sports rosters, medical forms and airline seat charts mix the two systems freely, and 175 cm means nothing to someone who thinks in feet (it is 5 ft 9 in). The decimal-feet output also serves construction, where US drawings quote feet against European metric surveys.
Need other units too? The fulllength converter handles every pair and shows the exact factor behind each answer. For the opposite direction, use Feet to CM.
Questions people ask
What is 170 cm in feet?
5 ft 6.9 in — call it 5 ft 7. In decimal feet it is 5.58, which is the form engineering drawings use; heights are always spoken as feet and inches.
What is 180 cm in feet?
5 ft 10.9 in — effectively 5 ft 11. The often-quoted 'six feet' threshold is 183 cm.
Why do the feet and inches not look like the decimal?
Because 5.58 feet is not 5 ft 58 — the decimal part is tenths of a foot, and a foot has 12 inches. 0.58 ft × 12 ≈ 7 inches. This trips nearly everyone once; the table sidesteps it by showing feet and inches directly.
Is 152.4 cm exactly 5 feet?
Yes, exactly — 5 × 30.48 cm. All these conversions are exact by definition, only display-rounded.