Feet to Meters Calculator

Meters = Feet × 0.3048. The conversion factor 0.3048 is exact by international definition — the foot was redefined in 1959 by an international agreement to equal exactly 0.3048 meters, ending the minor discrepancy that had existed between US and British survey feet. Because the factor is exact, no rounding occurs during the conversion itself; only the final display is rounded to four decimal places. Multiplying by 0.3048 is mathematically equivalent to multiplying by 3.048 and then dividing by 10, or multiplying by 12 to get inches and then multiplying by 0.0254. For very large values like building heights or mountain elevations, the result remains precise because floating-point arithmetic handles the full range without overflow. Decimal foot inputs like 5.75 or 10.333 are fully supported.